The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

by Sarah Churchwell

"Marilyn Monroe was without doubt the most famous woman of the twentieth century, a screen idol, sex symbol, and cultural goddess without parallel. She has been written about endlessly since she first became a celebrity in the early 1950s, yet even after dozens of biographies which promise to tease apart the 'real woman' and the image, these many accounts display an astonishing degree of disagreement about nearly all of the sensational aspects of her life: from the circumstances of her birth and

ISBN: 9780805078183