![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book that wound up teaching me a great deal about Hollywood, the social history of California, the movie business, the trials of female actors in American show business and the life of a woman who has been so mythologized that often the real woman is obscured from actual view. As I read Donald Spoto's Marilyn Monroe, I was gradually seduced into utter fascination by his fairness, his accuracy, his lack of hysteria, his willingness to probe behind the myths, his empathy, his feminism, his extraordinary humanity. It's what the French call biographie a l'americaine - a densely packed heap of facts that details more than anyone needs to know, the minutiae of Marilyn's life.īut my initial reaction was wrong. ![]() $25ĪNOTHER BOOK about the lost waif with the heart of gold? My initial reaction was who cares? How can there be more to say about Marilyn after Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Lauren Bacall, Norman Rosten, Susan Strasberg, Simone Signoret, David Brown, Anthony Summers and countless other commentators and biographers - responsible and irresponsible - have already checked in with conflicting accounts? Nor is this the kind of biography I usually like. MARILYN MONROE The Biography By Donald Spoto HarperCollins. ![]()
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