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Marilyn Monroe: The Pocket Essential Guide eBooks
by Paul Donnelley
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Marilyn Monroe: The Pocket Essential Guide Summary
| For the past fifteen years or so the name of Marilyn Monroe has been linked more to the various conspiracy theories surrounding her death and less on her movie career. It is probably true to say that more books have been written about her than any other show-business celebrity. According to The Guinness Book Of Film Facts & Feats, she is the actress with the most biographies (Charlie Chaplin is the most writtenabout actor). Yet Marilyn has been dead for nearly forty years and her best films were made almost fifty years ago. But her image is still used by advertising agencies, record companies, movie studios, television companies and radio stations to promote their products. What is it about this woman that continues to fascinate and intrigue people who, like the present author, were not even born when Marilyn died? Other women have been more beautiful. Other actresses have been more talented. Yet when we look back at the screen goddesses of the golden age of Hollywood, sure we remember Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, Joan Crawford and her great rival Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Ann Sheridan et al, but it is Marilyn who stands head and shoulders above the rest. Ask almost any young person about the ladies mentioned above and, more often than not, you will probably be greeted with a blank stare but mention Marilyn Monroe and the recognition is instantaneous. Despite the often morbid preoccupation with her death, Marilyn Monroe remains the most potent sex symbol of the 20th century. She began life in the Los Angeles General Hospital at 9.30am on Tuesday 1 June 1926. Her father is listed as Edward Mortenson, a 29- year-old baker from California, present whereabouts unknown. (Some believe that Mortenson was not Norma Jeane's real father and bolted when his wife became pregnant by one of her colleagues, Charles Stanley Gifford. In 1981 Mortenson died aged 83 in Riverside, California, from a heart attack.) Her Mexican-born mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe... |
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