![]() ![]() Lavishly illustrated with photos of Marilyn, this special book celebrates the life and career of an American icon-from the unique perspective of the icon herself. ![]() her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her. In this intimate account of a very public life, she tells of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance with the Yankee Clipper, and her prescient vision of herself as "the kind of girl they found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand." The Marilyn in these pages is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was far more complex than the unwitting sex siren she portrayed on screen. My Story (Hardback, Illustrated Edition). Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed. ![]() Journalist, novelist, and 'scar-winning screenwriter of Underworld, Ben Hecht (1893-1964) assisted Marilyn in the creation of My Story. Famous for playing 'dumb blonde' characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. After she was mysteriously found dead of a drug overdose at the age of 36, the movie star became a beloved pop icon. ![]() player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, J August 5, 1962) was an American actress and model. Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit. ![]()
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