Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon: Hollywood Icon

by Lisa Owings

This informative title highlights the life of Marilyn Monroe. Readers will learn about Monroe's background from her birth as Norma Jean through her unstable childhood in foster homes and orphanages to her marriage to James Dougherty at age 16. Monroe's early work is discussed, from her beginnings as a model with Blue Book Modeling Agency to her signing with Twentieth Century Fox Studios, and her becoming Marilyn Monroe, through early films such as...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617834815
• ISBN13: 9781617834813
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Essential Library
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12