The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H. Wolfe

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

Donald H. Wolfe

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

About this book

“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 & Homicide65%
Lives in Entertainment43%
Film & Cinema31%

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
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  • 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