
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · July 17, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A close look at Marilyn Monroe’s final weeks, where Hollywood history meets a provocative homicide claim.
- Themes
- Marilyn Monroe’s final weeks, Alleged suicide investigated as homicide, Hollywood and John F. Kennedy’s Camelot
- Genres
- Lives in Entertainment, Murder & Homicide, Film & Cinema
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“Donald Wolfe has written one of the most absorbing accounts of Marilyn’s life to date.” —Fred Lawrence Guiles, author of Norma Jean “Admirable!...
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Wolfe takes us very close indeed to the dark truth about Monroe, the Kennedys, and that lonely death in the California night.” —Anthony Summers, author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe Fifty years after her death, the Marilyn Monroe mystique remains as strong and alluring as ever—as evidenced by Michelle Williams’ Golden Globe-winning performance in the critically acclaimed film, My Week with Marilyn, and NBC TV’s drama Smash about the creation of a Marilyn-themed Broadway musical. In The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, author Donald H. Wolfe, a former Hollywood screenwriter and film editor, examines the tragic starlet’s final weeks and offers startling evidence to support his provocative claim that Marilyn’s alleged suicide was, in fact, a homicide. A powerful and intimate look into the dark side of Hollywood and John F. Kennedy’s Camelot, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a must-read for movie buffs, true crime aficionados, and the many still enchanted by the Monroe magic.
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A close look at Marilyn Monroe’s final weeks, where Hollywood history meets a provocative homicide claim.
Come here for
- The uneasy overlap of celebrity, Hollywood, and political power
- A true-crime question bound up with Monroe’s enduring mystique
Expect
- An intimate account of her final weeks
- A challenge to the official story of her death
Where it sits
| Murder & Homicide | 65% |
|---|---|
| Lives in Entertainment | 43% |
| Film & Cinema | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art History
- American Art
- Art & Politics
- Biography & Memoir
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- Lives in Entertainment
- Lives in History
- Political Lives
- Women's Lives
- Authors
- Donald H. Wolfe
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- July 17, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Marilyn Monroe’s final weeks · Alleged suicide investigated as homicide · Hollywood and John F. Kennedy’s Camelot
- Reading lane
- Art History