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Marilyn Monroe : the private life of a public icon  Cover Image Book Book

Marilyn Monroe : the private life of a public icon / Charles Casillo.

Casillo, Charles, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250096869 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: viii, 360 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mama -- Struggle for survival -- Be a good girl -- The world becomes friendly -- A stray little kitten -- Rising -- Important meetings -- The talk of Hollywood -- Melting the screen -- Dissatisfactions -- Elegant vulgarity -- Marilyn Incorporated -- New York actress -- A different suit -- Innocent monster -- Marriage -- Marilyn gets hot -- Truth -- Making love -- An unfit misfit -- A woman alone -- Nightmare -- Manic depressive -- Age three five -- Doctor-patient relations -- Compartmentalization -- Negated sex symbol -- Starting something -- Mass seduction -- Is Marilyn finished? -- Elizabeth and Marilyn -- Last sittings -- Sleepwalking -- Anger and despair -- Miscommunications -- We've lost her -- Epilogue: Lingering radiance.
Subject: Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch 791.43028092 Monro-C 31681010113975 NONFIC Available -

Charles Casillo is the author of The Marilyn Diaries, The Fame Game, Boys, Lost & Found, and Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others. His movies include "Let Me Die Quietly" and "Fetish."


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