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Available
Publication
Running Press Adult (2018), Edition: Illustrated, 320 pages
Description
A look at how landing her role in "The Seven Year Itch," empowered Marilyn Monroe to embark on an adventure of self discovery, that transformed her from controlled wife to rebellious businesswoman and feminist.
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LibraryThing member Andy4Marilyn
Enjoyable read, a good start but flimsy ending, The author does well to bring out the wonderful elements of Marilyn with constant praising throughout from friends and other sources, It was clever the way small details were brought out and other drug and affair rumours generally omitted, I know they
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were all part of the whole picture but it made for a refreshing feel. There was some interesting feminist discussion going on and maybe a little too much made of this and the last two years really didn’t needed to be detailed as it planed away from the relevance of the book. Show Less
LibraryThing member AdonisGuilfoyle
Although not really a fan of Marilyn Monroe - and probably guilty of judging the actress by her screen persona - I felt I had to learn more about her after reading an unnecessarily cruel characterisation in a trashy novel about Jackie Kennedy. And now I feel drawn to Marilyn, the brave and
Covering the height of Marilyn's career in the 1950s, from The Seven Year Itch to The Prince and the Showgirl and her divorce from Joe DiMaggio and marriage to Arthur Miller, author Michelle Morgan, who has written many books about Marilyn, suggests that Marilyn's desire to control her own career by forming Marilyn Monroe Productions with photographer Milton Greene and divorcing Joe DiMaggio to concentrate on perfecting her craft makes her an 'unlikely feminist'. Proud of her femininity and far from ashamed of her body - she posed nude before her acting career took off and weathered the publicity storm when the photographs resurfaced years later - Marilyn was physically the ideal woman of the 1950s, keen to care for her husband(s) and start a family, but she remains a role model for twenty-first century women by owning her image and her controlling her business.
Morgan might be slightly biased but by the end of the book, I could understand why (and I haven't even watched Marilyn's whole back catalogue yet!) Marilyn was a beautiful woman inside and out, but her legacy seems to focus on her mental health issues - 'She was particularly vulnerable, easily hurt, and often brought to tears or anger through perceived rejection or betrayal' - and tragic death.
I am definitely now one of the 'many want to learn what Marilyn was really like', from biographies and of course her luminous presence on screen that no amount of rumours and misconceptions can ever tarnish.
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ambitious screen idol who fought the movie industry for her independence but could never escape her insecurities.Covering the height of Marilyn's career in the 1950s, from The Seven Year Itch to The Prince and the Showgirl and her divorce from Joe DiMaggio and marriage to Arthur Miller, author Michelle Morgan, who has written many books about Marilyn, suggests that Marilyn's desire to control her own career by forming Marilyn Monroe Productions with photographer Milton Greene and divorcing Joe DiMaggio to concentrate on perfecting her craft makes her an 'unlikely feminist'. Proud of her femininity and far from ashamed of her body - she posed nude before her acting career took off and weathered the publicity storm when the photographs resurfaced years later - Marilyn was physically the ideal woman of the 1950s, keen to care for her husband(s) and start a family, but she remains a role model for twenty-first century women by owning her image and her controlling her business.
Morgan might be slightly biased but by the end of the book, I could understand why (and I haven't even watched Marilyn's whole back catalogue yet!) Marilyn was a beautiful woman inside and out, but her legacy seems to focus on her mental health issues - 'She was particularly vulnerable, easily hurt, and often brought to tears or anger through perceived rejection or betrayal' - and tragic death.
I am definitely now one of the 'many want to learn what Marilyn was really like', from biographies and of course her luminous presence on screen that no amount of rumours and misconceptions can ever tarnish.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
320 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
0762490594 / 9780762490592