Norma Jean: My Secret Life with Marilyn Monroe

by Ted Jordan

Book Overview

Norma Jean: My Secret Life With Marilyn Monroe, by Jordan, Ted This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688091180
• ISBN13: 9780688091187
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Ted Jordan must have stepped on the wrong toes.

It has been several years since I read this book--well, 10 to be honest. Recently I looked it up again, and was appalled to see all of the smearing now on the net and directed at Ted Jordan. Among the most outrageous allegations is that he claimed to have fathered a child with MM. Certainly this claim is nowhere in this book. A more moderate allegation is that she aborted the child. I dont remember this incident either in the book, though I may be wrong here. What is saddest, however, is the claim Ted wrote the book just to capitalize. If this were true, he would have thrown fuel on the conspiracy fire, not done a very effective job of dousing it. This is the one book I have ever read about anything that made me forget any conspiracy theory in this American culture. I remember the book as being amazingly well crafted for a work apparently written without a ghost helper. I remember being impressed that Ted took the time to write this book more than 20 years after Marilyn's death. I remember its giving the warm, fuzzy feeling that I really was there--not just a voyeur. I remember having the same feeling as Ted when the news of Marilyn's suicide came over my car radio one quiet Sunday morning. Most of all, the book was written with real feeling--a rare commodity in American literature. Even if the whole book is a lie, THIS MAN REALLY CARED. If you want to come away thinking you really understood anyone, this is one of the most satisfying, matter of fact, biographies ever written. Perhaps that is why mainstream Hollywood is so determined to rub it out. Jordan's quiet narration is more compelling than a whole room full of media caterwauling. Some of Jordan's pictures are almost naive in their simplicity. Do not expect to be unreasonably titillated, one brief passage where a 17 year old Marilyn asks Ted for sex on their first date excepted. Thank, Ted Jordan, you for a job extraordinarily well done. Marilyn, "As long as there are men that read and eyes that see--so long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

Truth and Love

I was deeply moved by this book and would like to thank the author somehow for 'putting it all out there'. Behind every great man is a great woman. Thanks Ted!

Norma Jean: MySecret Life With Marilyn Monroe

I have read this book when it first came out. As I know Ted Jordan (Eddie Friedman) He was a great guy, his father was the brother of Ted Lewis. Knowing he was acting in Hollywood during the period of time in the book, I do not doubt the verasity of the book. I think it is well written, and my wife and I both enjoyed it. We feel that the wild "goings on" back in those Hollywood days are well documented in Ted's book.