Marilyn Monroe Ordre des livres

Auch 60 Jahre nach ihrem frühen Tod bleibt Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) unvergessen: Mit ihren ikonischen Bildern und Filmauftritten wie in Some Like it Hot und How to Marry a Millionaire avanciert das legendäre Pop-Idol bereits zu Lebzeiten zum Inbegriff eines neuen weiblichen Archetyps in Hollywood. Als Marilyn Monroe am 4. August 1962 mit gerade einmal 36 Jahren stirbt, steht sie auf dem Höhepunkt ihres Weltruhms: Erst wenige Wochen zuvor singt sie ihr berühmtes Geburtstagsständchen für den amerikanischen Präsidenten John F. Kennedy. Im Juni 1962 trifft sie unter größter Geheimhaltung (Deckname: „Old Lady“) den Photographen Bert Stern für einen ihrer letzten Phototermine im Bel-Air-Hotel in Los Angeles, er soll Marilyn Monroe für eine sensationelle Story in der Vogue fast nackt ablichten. Der Tod der Ikone kommt überraschend: Aus der Sensations-Story der Vogue wird ein stilvoller Nachruf mit erlesenen Modeaufnahmen. Nicholas Haslam (geb. 1939), damals Gestalter für die Vogue, erzählt von seiner Begegnung mit Marilyn Monroe, der er die Photos von Bert Stern zur Freigabe vorlegt. Ein intimes Bekenntnis über die Entglorifizierung eines persönlichen Idols und ein erhellender Blick hinter die Kulissen des berühmten Modemagazins.

"I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me!" --Marilyn Monroe Nearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon whom everyone loves but no one really knows. The conversations gathered here--spanning her emergence on the Hollywood scene to just days before her death at age 36--show Monroe at her sharpest and most insightful on the thorny topics of ambition, fame, femininity, desire, and more. Together with an introduction by Sady Doyle, these pieces reveal yet another Marilyn: not the tragic heroine she's become in the popular imagination, but a righteously and justifiably angry figure breaking free of the limitations the world forced on her.

Fragments offers an intimate glimpse into Marilyn Monroe's life through unpublished letters, diaries, and rare photographs, revealing the private thoughts of one of Hollywood's most iconic and tragic figures.

Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity.Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety—and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.Beyond the headlines—and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to herself, letters, even poems—in Marilyn's own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances indelible emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so affecting.

A compilation of both well-known and lesser-known quotes from Marilyn Monroe on youth, men, sex, stardom, Hollywood, marriage and more.

Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, she tells of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance with the Yankee Clipper, and her prescient vision of herself as "the kind of girl they found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand." The Marilyn in these pages is a revelation: a gifted, intelligent, vulnerable woman who was far more complex than the unwitting sex siren she portrayed on screen. Lavishly illustrated with photos of Marilyn, this special book celebrates the life and career of an American icon—-from the unique perspective of the icon herself.