On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Hollywood icon — an candid biography of Marilyn Monroe, written by the renowned biographer Andrew Wilson. It’s time to learn the truth about the woman who became a legend!
The author Andrew Wilson created a portrait of the Hollywood icon based on unique materials: unpublished letters, audio recordings of conversations with close ones, medical documents, and eyewitness testimonies.
These include personal letters from Marilyn and her husbands, audio interviews with Jane Russell, Billy Wilder, and other contemporaries, recorded sessions from psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson.
Detailed testimonies from Marilyn’s contemporaries, personal memories, hypotheses about her parents, possible children, life and death and their refutation. Also included: Marilyn’s diet, her favorite dishes, fashion from Marilyn, contents of her makeup bag, Marilyn’s advice on love and relationships with men, and much, much more.
In this book you will:
— understand what the real Marilyn was like -smart, sensitive, progressive,
— trace the journey from Norma Jeane to Hollywood icon;
— get a glimpse behind the scenes of her marriages and creative pursuits;
— hear the voice of Marilyn herself through her words and letters;
— discover new, sensational details about the last days of her life and theories about her death.