GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet exciting fact. Marilyn's tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than almost any other. Summers describes his subject as a ‘fugitive’ from a deprived and traumatic childhood. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world. Her life was a contrast of public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark questions - about her relations with President John F. Miscommunications poor little girl that had died: Anthony Summers, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Macmillan, 1985). More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. Anthony Summers is the author of the bestselling biographies Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of. 'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will' Guardian Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic stars death - now a major Netflix film. Netflix's The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe will cement this work as the definitive biography of the unforgettable woman.Also available on eBook for £4.99. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages' ( The New York Times ). Written and updated by a Pulitzer Prize nominee who has authored works on JFK, J.Edgar Hoover, and the 9/11 attacks, this investigation of an iconic star's brief life and early death is 'remarkable.

He establishes, after years of mere rumor, that President Kennedy and his brother Robert were both intimately involved with Monroe in life-and in covering up the circumstances of her death. The first to gain access to the files of Monroe's last psychiatrist, Summers uses the documents to explain her tangled psyche and her dangerous addiction to medications. Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people, laying bare the truths-sometimes funny, often sad-about this brilliant, troubled woman.

By Michael Ochs Archives/20th Century-Fox/Getty. But her tragic death at a young age, under suspicious circumstances, left behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. By Anthony Summers MaMarilyn Monroe with her ear to a telephone receiver at a payphone in a scene from the film 'Niagara', 1952. Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous men from Joe DiMaggio to Arthur Miller to John F.Kennedy. The updated bestselling biography-based on over six hundred interviews-and the inspiration for the Netflix documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe.

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