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eBook Category: People
eBook Description: The story of Marilyn Monroe has been told countless times. And here we have once again, a retelling of the sometimes tragic and sometimes magnificent experience of Norma Jean Baker's climb from a nobody to the famous international Sex Symbol, which was in the end partly responsible for her tragic ending. The author once said: "I had mixed feelings about the Monroe story before writing about her; it was then that I fell in love with the image and learned to care deeply about the human being behind it." And now Fictionwise offers an updated version of "The Rise and Fall of Marilyn Monroe". Originally published in 1965 and later in 1969.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Hollywood Mysteries, 1965
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [517 KB], eReader (PDB) [92 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [75 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [66 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [198 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [129 KB], hiebook (KML) [276 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [180 KB], iSilo (PDB) [62 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [76 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [159 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [98 KB]
Words: 22935
Reading time: 65-91 min.
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"I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me."

The mystery of Marilyn Monroe's death will never be truly solved. Even in life her story was so confused and distorted by writers as to lend a veil forever over her legend. Much of the mystery was partly Marilyn's fault.

Louella Parsons felt that Marilyn had gotten to the point where she found it hard to tell the difference between fact and fantasy. It is almost understandable, considering the actress' early, lonely life, living in foster homes, where only through her active imagination was she able to find any form of escape.

Another reason for the confusion surrounding Marilyn Monroe is suggested in her own comment about the authors who wrote about her.

Nonetheless, it is a fact that in the twelve years Marilyn worked in films she appeared in 24 motion pictures, which reportedly made $200,000,000 from the box office. She was the sex symbol of the American public and was loved by the entire world, yet considering her own personal life, this was a cruel irony, which helped push her towards the edge of self-destruction.