Marilyn Monroe: In Her Own Words (R)

by Frank Outlet

Marilyn Monroe: In Her Own Words This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517061031
• ISBN13: 9780517061039
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Crescent
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.5" x 12.8"

Customer Reviews

this is one of the best marily pic books i have

if you like picture books. this is great!!! not too great on bio, but great for collecting pictures. and people who collect pic books. many nice pics.

A nice coffee table book for serious Marilyn fans

Marilyn In Her Own Words is short on substance but not on quality, making it a great coffee table book for Monroe fans. Large but skinny, it consists of 64 pages of biographical material, quotes, and photographs compiled by Neil Grant. If you aren't fascinated with Marilyn, this book has little to offer you. Despite the title, this is in no way an autobiographical account of Marilyn's life; what you get are a number of Marilyn quotes interspersed throughout the pages, words spoken to reporters and friends alongside a few notes from Marilyn's journal. Many of these are interesting, as they deal mainly with her childhood, youth, career, and loves, but there is nothing groundbreaking here. The book is broken up into five sections, addressing Marilyn's childhood, her evolution from Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe, and her progression through the three phases of her movie career; each section features two or three pages of biographical material in addition to scattered Marilyn quotes. Fifty-eight photographs, black-and-white as well as color, serve as the major attraction of the book; many of these are quite familiar (and none are by any means exclusive to this one book), but the photos of young Norma Jean are particularly nice. If you crave anything having to do with Marilyn Monroe, this book makes a great addition to your collection, but there is little here in terms of meaningful content.