Dimensions
130 x 197 x 17mm
Many of us think we know all there is to know about Marilyn Monroe. This touching and emotionally honest appraisal of the woman born Norma Jeane Baker proves that the Marilyn loved by generations of movie goers and fans was more than just the screen siren of modern myth.
Gloria Steinem's portrait of Marilyn is built around the last pictures of the star, taken three weeks before her death by her friend George Barris. Marilyn had planned to tell her own story, in her own words, but died too soon. The photographs were just the start . . . She was full of hopes and fears - to be recognised as an actress, to play character parts after her looks had faded, to make a home for herself, maybe even to have children she could love in a way she had never been loved herself.
At the heart of the Marilyn Steinem describes, and at the heart of this book, stands Norma Jeane, clutching the key to the secret of Marilyn Monroe's hold on the imaginations of millions more than thirty years after her last act.
