But then the image began to slip a bit, with stories of her various mishaps—her unreliability, her marital discords, her futile attempts to have a baby. I don’t see how that woman could say things like "I bought woolen suits because I remembered that New York and Chicago were in the North. None of us growing up in the fifties will ever forget Marilyn, and her story lives on in the various books out there. As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches than mean nothing.

Sure, she consciously dressed in a revealing sweater, and practiced a new “languorous” walk, but still she continued to be bemused and surprised at her effect on the men around her.The final years of her life were marked by illness, personal problems and a reputation for being difficult to work with. No entanto esta personalidade é uma das personalidades que mais me tem inspirado ao longo da minha curta vida. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibility of an accidental overdose, as well as of homicide, have not been ruled out. You’d think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they’re together.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.She spent much of her childhood in foster homes and later began a career as a model which lead to a film contract in 1946. 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 circumstances of her death from an overdose of barbiturates have been the subject of conjecture. She states that she never realized her “magic friend” was causing sexual feelings in the boys in her math class, because she, at this stage in her life, had no sexual feelings at all.

As her story continues to be reevaluated and retold, including in the forthcoming Netflix biopic Blonde, starring Ana de Armas, this book is the key to separating fact from fiction. The story behind My Story, the only book credited to Marilyn Monroe, is beguiling as almost everything that has orbited the screen sex goddess since her death in 1962 at the age of 36. Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.

Her first marriage (at age 16 to James Doughtery) and second marriage (to Joe DiMaggio at age 28) are covered briefly, as is her sexual abuse as a foster child and failed romances, to lovers who are named or remain unnamed. Having listened to this and watched the first hour of the film, I wonder what planet the film makers are on. It answers all the questions about Marilyn's youth and takes you up until she starts touring with the troops. She didn't know her father, and her mother was sent to a mental institution when Marilyn was little!As if reading her diary- the reviews complaining of an abrupt ending should remember she died before her story was finished. How could the image of one woman, dead for fifty years, still channel so powerfully the archetype of The Goddess? Still, I guess whoever wrote it, whether Monroe herself or a friend, at least it provides some sense of her and her life.