She is astonishingly white, so radically pale that in her presence you can look at others about as easily as you can explore the darkness around the moon. For example, this highly magical and romantic description of seeing Marilyn in person came from Alice McIntyre of Esquire magazine: '.like nothing human you have ever seen or dreamed. I also enjoyed the inclusion of various different impressions people had of Marilyn Monroe when they met her in person. Summers' works to show each different facet of Marilyn's complex personality in this book - the result is intriguing and tragic. Yet she was so supersensitive that any hint of criticism was enough to grievously hurt her, and she was capable of discarding loyal friends and lovers in pursuit of her own interests. She adored children and animals, and cared deeply about poverty and civil rights. Marilyn Monroe was far from a 'dumb blonde' - she was constantly struggling to improve her skills and her mind, and devoured literature, history, philosophy and poetry.

And despite an encyclopedic knowledge of health and the human body, she poisoned herself with drugs. And yet I couldn't dislike Marilyn, she had no meanness in her.'(p.118) But she could be a bitchy prima donna, being chronically late, inventing reasons not to work and frustrating her co-stars. She was sometimes a shy little girl, Lauren Bacall described her as '.frightened, insecure.During our scenes she'd look at my forehead instead of my eyes.Not easy, often irritating. Summers' voice is very professional - he is neither overly sympathetic nor overly critical of his subject, and the result paints a complex portrait of a woman who seemed to be a living mess of contradictions: she was obsessed with becoming a famous actress, but terrified of performing on set, she had an overwhelming need to be loved, but could not make any of her relationships last, she was famous as a sex goddess and yet, while she had many lovers, she rarely experienced orgasm. The amount of research which went into this book is readily apparent, as Summers frequently provides quotations from articles and interviews that were conducted during Marilyn's life, and even includes reproductions of some letters and telegrams that she sent. Summers conducted hundreds of interviews with Marilyn's friends and colleagues, and is careful to compare their various perspectives and to weigh each statement against other claims and known facts. Anthony Summers provides an incredibly detailed biography of Marilyn Monroe's life and the mysteries surrounding her death.

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