Provides new information--gathered from research and conversations with the screen star's first husband--about Marilyn Monroe's affairs with the Kennedys, the night of her death, and her own feelings about men and sex.
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From Publishers Weekly
With its tacky style--Howard Hughes is said to be "obsessed with big breasts," Arthur Miller is Monroe's "knight in shining armor," Jacqueline Kennedy was "livid" upon learning about JFK's affair with Monroe--this is by far the most titillating Marilyn Monroe biography to date. In its exhaustive catalogue of Monroe lore--much of it unsubstantiated gossip--we're told that Monroe is rumored to have been a call girl in her early days, possibly had 14 abortions and several lesbian affairs, and may have had sex with every male on the planet except Harry S. Truman. Wayne ( Ava's Men ) contends that "baseball hero Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller were the dullest chapters in Marilyn's life story." Most of the material here derives from the author's interviews with Robert Slatzer, who was briefly married to Monroe in 1952. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Marilyn's love life, or sex life, following in the trashy tradition of Wayne's Ava's Men, Grace Kelly's Men, Crawford's Men, etc. This is a book that should have been printed on bedsheet linen instead of paper. As ever, Wayne focuses on the men Marilyn knew, loved, and/or married on the Hollywood carousel, starting with Marilyn's stories of child abuse and rape--although her first husband, Jim Dougherty, whom she married at 16 to avoid being returned to an orphanage, swore she was a virgin in the bridal bed. Marilyn had several versions of premarital sex. Wayne adds as topping: ``Yet another version is that she became pregnant at fourteen and put the baby boy up for adoption when it was a few days old, but this is untrue.'' Dougherty ships out with the Merchant Marine, and Marilyn, working in a defense plant, is discovered by photographer David Conover. Soon, she's the cover girl for Laff, Peek and See, U.S. Camera, and dozens of other mags, and then is servicing impotent, elderly Joe Schenck of 20th Century-Fox, falling in love with older vocal-coach Freddy Karger, and caught up in dozens of illicit affairs. Wayne posits Monroe's abortions--not counting miscarriages--at 13 or 14, tells of her early days as a bar girl, suggests that she never had an orgasm despite the attentions of sophisticated lovers such as Orson Welles, Yves Montand, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Brando, Sinatra, and others. The author recycles endlessly, pastes together familiar materials about Marilyn's last days and the possibility that she died in a hospital, then was returned to her bed, etc., but this second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-hand account carries almost no weight. Stick with Arthur Miller's Timebends. (Eight-page photo insert--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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By Linda Maree Rowe (my place where there are a hundred teddybears) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marilyn's Men: The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe (Hardcover)
There are many wonderful and interesting books on Marilyn Monroe out there,including in ( ),so why pick this one?It is not particularly good at all.It talks about Marilyn's many relationships,affairs,marriages and stripping in a bar for 20 dollars.There is not much of interest and even the writing is not particularly fantastic.I read it because I like marilyn,but really this one is just pages of uninteresting drivel.
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This review is from: Marilyn's Men: The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe (Paperback)
I bought this cheap on ebay. When I saw it was dedicated to Bob Slatzer I knew it wouldn't be good. It relies heavily on his stories about diaries and press conferences about the Kennedys. Author tells about Marilyn sitting in a particular bar and going to hotel rooms with strangers, making 15 bucks to strip for them. I don't think anyone knows if she did this or not, so why print it as fact? Slatzer claims his evidence of murder was that there was glass on the outside of her bedroom window when the glass was supposedly broken from the outside. I promise that if I were to break a window, there would be some glass on my side. Marilyn probably died from an accidental overdose. She may have been moved after death and no doubt Fox raided her place. For those unfamiliar, Slatzer claims he married her while she was dating DiMaggio, and the studios made her annull it, and conveniently the marriage/divorce was in Mexico and records destroyed. Most people don't take him seriously. I would not recommend this as reliable, esp if you're not familiar with MM.
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