My Story

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A legendary actress, comedienne, and sex symbol, she has been one of Hollywood’s most talked-about performers ever since she first crossed the silver screen.

It answers all the questions about Marilyn's youth and takes you up until she starts touring with the troops. Supposedly written in her own words and published 10 years after her death in 1962, this is an unfinished account of some of the transitions Norma Jean Mortensen , who spent her childhood in a procession of foster homes and unyielding poverty made to become the Marilyn Monroe of legends. It has officially been classified as a probable suicide while the possibility of an accidental overdose or even homicide have not been ruled out. The Marilyn on these pages is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was far more complex than the unwitting sex siren she portrayed on screen. Secondly, you don't have to sit around with a wolf and listen to a lot of double talk about income taxes and what's wrong with the situation in India while he gets up enough courage to get into action.Three nights ago, for the umpteenth time, I watched Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and for the first time in many viewings I took my eyes off Jane Russell (my favorite, the sex symbol a man could have a beer with) and gazed steadily at the perfectly-crafted image of Marilyn Monroe. Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.

A couple of years after he scripted one of her best early comic performances ( Monkey Business), he was hired to get her story down on paper, based on personal interviews and taped conversations. My Story is an unfinished autobiography, written by actress and starlet Marilyn Monroe, describes her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

You’d think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they’re together. She taught me a very important lesson: not to judge people, and to know that when I judge people I actually judge myself! Based on what amounts to little more than a coffee table book, My Story definitely made me hungry for more details about Norma Jean Baker/ Marilyn Monroe.