Marilyn
by Peter H. Brown, Patte B. Barham
1992Death and burialRelations with menBiographyMotion picture actors and actressesMotion picture actors and actr
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At last, the true and complete story of Marilyn Monroe's final days can be told. This riveting, headline-making, myth-shattering book, based on thousands of newly discovered documents, hours of newly available footage from her final film, and over 300 revealing new interviews, is a detailed and astonishing account of what really happened during the last fourteen weeks in the life of Hollywood's legendary sex goddess. Recreating the drama of a bygone era of glamour and. Intrigue, it presents compelling evidence that Marilyn Monroe was the victim of two conspiracies that, together, brought about her professional and personal downfall: an elaborate scheme on the part of a once-mighty film studio teetering on the brink of bankruptcy; and an even more sinister plot masterminded by America's First Family. Among the shattering, totally authenticated revelations: the searing details of Marilyn's affairs with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Includes her famous birthday song to JFK and her final series of rendezvous with RFK; how Marilyn was sabotaged by executives of 20th Century-Fox and psychologically shredded on the set by a predatory pack led by vengeful director George Cukor; how the cruel competition between Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor sealed Marilyn's fate with the studio bosses; the role the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service played in blanketing the scene of her death and in the disposal of her. Private papers and personal effects; and why the accidental overdose theory cannot stand. Just as affecting as these and other eyeopening new facts is the way that Marilyn her…
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Death and burialRelations with menBiographyMotion picture actors and actressesMotion picture actors and actrUnited States
First published 1992Characters & people
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United States
About the author
Peter H. Brown
16 Nov 1939
Peter Harry Brown is a journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Marilyn: The Last Take. He and veteran entertainment reporter Pat H. Broeske are also the coauthors of Howard Hughes: The Untold Story and Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley.-Penguin
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