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John Gilmore was born in the Charity Ward of the Los Angeles General Hosptial, the same as Marilyn Monroe. A child actor, later a young leading man, Gilmore has worked with major stars in pictures, television and on the stage. He has been invovled in the motion picture industry most of his life, is now one of today's most controversial literary figures. Author Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder; L.A. Despair; Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip; Cold-Blooded; Crazy Streak; Manson: The Unholy Trail, and other books, his following spans the globe.
Fans of John Gilmore's work will delight in this fantastic new book on Marilyn Monroe. John brings to the reader a raw, yet vulnerable look at Marilyn, and of himself, in this intimate read. And those unfamiliar with Mr. Gilmore's work (difficult as it would be to believe) will find themselves instant fans.
This book flows easily in the readers hands and brings to life a new Marilyn, one long lost in the Hollywood shuffle of glamour and glitz. Gilmore takes you back to the time and days of Marilyn's early years with personal experience into her life both in reflection of his own and from personal encounters over a 10 year span. Filled with rare photos and even rarer interviews this book will keep you captivated from beginning to end.
Long gone has the real person behind Marilyn Monroe been, but now John Gilmore, with all his talents as one of the most gifted writers of the 21st Century, brings back to us, the readers and the fans, Marilyn Monroe the person, the woman, the human being.
I highly recommend this read to those who are a fan of Marilyn Monroe or those who are a fan of Mr. Gilmore's work. Neither will be disappointed.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
John Gilmore's genius is at its peak in this penetrating biography. Because of a fascination with Marilyn Monroe that began before puberty, I have read every single book ever written about her. I love her. But I'd long been frustrated that none of the books I read gave actual breath to the real human being that Marilyn/Norma Jeane was. Not until now. At long last the book I'd been searching for all my life has been written. Even better, it's been written by one of my favorite authors. And the prose is breathtaking: "Trying to reach Gladys [Marilyn's mother] was like stirring the air, floating her further away." Finally, I can experience what it truly was like to be inside the skin of Marilyn Monroe. Opening John Gilmore's book on Marilyn means stepping into a time machine that has the capacity for mingling and merging energies to the point where the reader becomes one with Marilyn/Norma Jeane. It's more than the ultimate Marilyn Monroe experience. Reading INSIDE MARILYN MONROE illuminates the mind to a greater compassion and understanding of the human condition. To my loved ones, friends and family, there is no other book about life that I'd more strongly recommend than this one. It is an awakening. Through Marilyn Monroe, Gilmore takes us on a journey to greater enlightenment. He does so with integrity. Every phrase he writes reverberates with truth.
John Gilmore knows that no matter how hard some people try to twist reality to their vision, for whatever reasons, the truth remains.Read more ›
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
I was hesitant to buy this , as the title of this book about one of the most continuously exploited beings who ever lived seemed faintly suggestive of vulgar possibilities, but bought it I did. I started out not liking it, then I kind of liked it, I really wanted to.... but then I decided that overall I wasn't at all crazy about it. I know little about John Gilmore except that his name is unknown to most, he wrote a fairly successful book about the famous Black Dahlia murder, and he was seemingly on the periphery of old 1950's Hollywood. He may very well have known James Dean intimately and he may very well be one of those kooks who has repeated his stories so many times that now he himself believes them. At the most, he is a man who admittedly met Marilyn Monroe half a dozen times and therefore wrote a book about her. There are things in this book that even I as an avid and lifelong M.M. student hadn't heard before, and rare photos that I have never seen. And his quotes re: M.M. from other people who knew her in New York and Hollywood are sometimes interesting and insightful, if being second hand rememberences. But, though this rememberance is overall a sympathetic portrait, my problem with this book, other than that he didn't really "know" Marilyn at all, is that it presents only a Marilyn so inarticulate and intellectually crippled as to being rendered almost mute. It has been established that M.M. was an extremely insecure person who spent her short life trying to overcome the emotional scars of her early life.Read more ›
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
John Gilmore's Inside Marilyn Monroe not only delivers on the state
of the human condition but takes us inside our own beautiful ugly hearts by respectfully exploring Marylin Monroe's. Inside takes us on a journey
of the wounds birthed in youth, sutured by loss, and tempered by fantasy and escapism; self-preservation by way of barricading one-self from the
world outside. There is no other book like this on Marilyn;compassionately written by one who knew her and one who has survived to offer this candid, remarkable portrait of a kindered soul. I highly recommend this book to every Marilyn fan who has every wondered "What was Marilyn really like?"
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