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Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduring icon of America sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual,... read more
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“You pick a situation three to five minutes before the actual height of the experience, and you try to remember not what you experience, not what you felt, but what you saw, what you heard what you touched, what you tasted, what you smelled, what you experienced kinetically. You try to see the person. You try to hear the voice. You try to touch the fabric. You try to feel the heat.”
Lee Strasberg -
“My weight goes up and down like everyone else's, but I'll be in good shape in two weeks because I intend to do lots of walking and exercising.”
Marilyn Monroe -
“Well, it wasn't a big thing as far as he was concerned like a lot of the pretty girls who had fallen very much in love with the Kennedys just by being around him a little bit.”
Senator George Smathers
First Sentence edit
On January 16, 1951, a black Lincoln convertible pulled into the driveway at 2000 Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Barbara Leaming (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 791.43028092
Subjects edit
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( M ) › Monroe, Marilyn
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Actors & Actresses
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Entertainers
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › United States
- Books › Entertainment
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