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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe Paperback – July 17, 2012

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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!...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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William Morrow Paperbacks
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July 17, 2012
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1 x 14 x 8.9 inches
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0062206494
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978-0062206497
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“Donald Wolfe has far surpassed my exhaustive work and even Anthony Summer’s tour de force in 1985. It is the most astonishing work ever to emerge in the literary Monroe sweepstakes.” — Peter H. Brown, coauthor of Marilyn: The Last Take

“Donald Wolfe has written one of the most absorbing accounts of Marilyn’s life to date.” — Fred Lawrence Guiles, author of Norma Jean

“Admirable! You do not need to agree with all his conclusions to see that 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

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Marilyn Monroe's death has been shrouded in decades of deception, conspiracy, and lies. Donald H. Wolfe has written a startling portrait of the twentieth century's greatest film star that not only redefines her place in entertainment history but also reveals the secret conspiracy that surrounded her last days.

In The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, Wolfe confirms that the tragic actress was a homicide victim. He documents the mode of death, and names those involved and those who participated in the cover-up. Filled with documented revelations, eye-opening information about the dark secret in Marilyn's relationship with John and Robert Kennedy, and shocking details about the many bizarre events that took place at Marilyn's home the day she died, Donald H. Wolfe's remarkable book is the culmination of more than seven years of research. It will change forever the way we view the life—and death—of this great star.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (July 17, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062206494
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062206497
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1 x 14 x 8.9 inches

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Donald H. Wolfe worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter and film editor for twenty-five years. His fascination with Marilyn Monroe began when he met her in 1958 during the filming of Some Like It Hot at Samuel Goldwyn Studios. Wolfe was working there as a film editor on The Loretta Young Show. He also studied cinema at the University of Southern California, and made an award-winning short subject film in France with director Jean Renoir. In 1975, he was a post-production supervisor on All the President’s Men and work as a screen writer with Steven Spielberg. He is the best-selling author of The Black Dahlia Files (2006) and has contributed to the New York Times and Paris-Match. Wolfe now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.

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Plato Closeted

Excellent, New Revelations

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2022

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I've read three or four biographies of Marilyn Monroe. This one is the best. Many details never before disclosed. Very sketchy death. Strange secrets. Over the top behavior by the Kennedys. I highly recommend this one.
The only reason for not giving all five stars is that the end of the book is kind if a cut off, no segue into The End.

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Catherine P. LaViolette

Prepare to Be Totally Immersed in the Book's Main Question: Who Really Murdered Marilyn Monroe--and Why?

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2016

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I haven't read many books on Marilyn Monroe's life or death, bought this book on a whim--and I'm very glad I did! I will never again believe MM committed suicide or was the victim of an accidental overdose and it takes a great deal of compelling information to convince me of anything! The writer, Donald Wolfe, expertly explores the last few days of MM's life and reviews verbatim and w/o prejudice any and all statements made, interviews given, photos taken, lab evidence procured to see if they hold water. Wolfe's search for truth is impeded by lies made both to him and previous authors and investigators, secret files still held in confidence by the L.A.P.D., and multiple timelines of what happened when which overlap and simply don't make sense. As a result the author spends a lot of time disproving many of the stories accepted as factual accounts over the years since Marilyn's death. What impressed me was that his writing about his researching and investigating kept my interest. In fact, I couldn't put this book down once I'd started.

Wolfe also provides a psychological profile of Marilyn Monroe aka Norma Jeane Baker through a well-researched, informative, riveting and credible account of her life which actually begins with the story of her mother's life and the two children she had prior to Norma Jeane. He relies heavily on interviews with those who knew MM well during each phase of her life--from infancy to icon. Some of the interviews were conducted by other writers with friends and family who are no longer with us; others were done with people who are stepping forward for the first time. Either way, what they say about MM's life and death will stay with you long after the book is read. With regard to Marilyn's death, it's fascinating to compare how people's stories changed over time; clearly, a cover-up was orchestrated and Wolfe makes a strong case that the death, cover up, all of it comes right back to Jack and Bobby Kennedy. For Kennedy loyalists--and I've long been one--it's important to point out Wolfe doesn't indicate in any manner, way, shape or form he has some sort of agenda or vendetta or was hoping the Kennedys were involved. One interviewee who'd been giving differing versions of MM's death for years sums the situation up well with her frustrated "WHY do I have to lie anymore? It's been so long and they're all dead." Why indeed L.A.P.D.??! Fifty years later, release the files--the entire files not just the 54 page summary!

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Margaret Grace Beers

Author failed to fill in blanks; that means Ladies' Home Journal overpowers the male theorists.

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2013

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I wish author Wolfe had focused more on declassified FBI documents and interviews with surviving FBI officials like G. Gordon Liddy. Wolfe promoted his book by appearing on Liddy's nationally broadcast radio show in 1998. Liddy said on-air he recalled hearing talk at his federal agency of employment -- talk of the Kennedys passing Monroe back and forth. She was alive when Liddy heard that in his office in Washington, DC. So put a recording of it on You Tube, Mr. Wolfe! Liddy's name isn't in the book.

The federal prison sentence he served for his Watergate misdeeds doesn't disqualify his statements about 1962 any more than Sophia Loren's prison sentence for tax evasion undermines her published recollections of Marilyn looking lonely at a Hollywood party, year unknown. "I wish I had read poetry to her," said Ms. Loren (I'm paraphrasing) in the 1970s. She never mentioned Norman Mailer's hints of a Kennedy connection. She didn't witness what happened in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles on August 4-5, 1962, and neither did Mr. Liddy. Let's hear from him for a change.

The declassification of Monroe's FBI documents started many years before Wolfe started working on his book. He should have focused on them, not the evils of the Communist Party. He never explains what connection there was, if any, between the Kennedys' political damage control and the Communist Party-inspired surveillance of Monroe by Dr. Ralph Greenson, Dr. Hyman Engelberg and Eunice Murray.

Maybe there wasn't a connection. Then say there wasn't! Wolfe's theory is (unless his jumble of doctors, Murray and public relations liars have confused me hopelessly) that Dr. Greenson happened to inject his psychiatric patient with the wrong resuscitation medicine between her ribs without his knowing that approximately two hours earlier LAPD intelligence operative James Hamilton had given her a sedative with instructions from Robert Kennedy who accompanied him to her house.

Alright then, please say Dr. Greenson made a medical mistake and was ignorant of the sedative that was already in her bloodstream. Go ahead and say it. And please explain what the Communist Party memberships of Dr. Greenson, Dr. Engelberg, Eunice Murray, her husband who died in 1958, Lee Strasberg and Paula Strasberg had to do with the doctor's needle "accidentally" hitting the wrong place in her ribcage.

Unless you fill in those blanks, then a writer inspired by the Ladies' Home Journal is going to repeat the same fifty-year-old propaganda: "Marilyn gazed admiringly at every new man who entered the room where she was emoting. She gazed admiringly because she was hoping her father would do this or that ... Hollywood used her then killed her. ... Every paunchy producer fantasized about her more often than he lit a new cigar. ... Then came the unhappily married White House couple who avoided mentioning 'the other woman.' ... Marilyn stayed up all night wondering where to find her metaphorical father. ... The pills offered a respite from her endless searching ... Focus on the White House prince and princess ... Forget about men who worked for other federal agencies. They were boring. Some were known as bores and eggheads. The Ladies' Home Journal doesn't want them. Maybe talk about their wives who were soccer moms before the SUV was invented ... They had Country Squire station wagons... June Cleaver was the anti-Marilyn ... Want to live to be 94 years old as did Barbara Billingsley? Then aspire to be a soccer mom, not a Hollywood starlet searching for a father ..."

You don't like that stuff from the Ladies' Home Journal? Then fill in the blanks in the masculine conspiracy theory. Author Donald Wolfe must do that. He has participated in several TV documentaries, doing some of them many years after the 1998 publication of his book in hardback. He never mentions the FBI documents or G. Gordon Liddy. Wolfe turned 81 recently. Liddy is 82. Get to it.

Otherwise, say hello again to the paunchy Hollywood producer (Lester Cowan?) lighting his cigar and glaring at the starlet who can satisfy his needs both professional and personal. Say hello again to the Hollywood "them," represented by him. They killed her. He wants excitement now that his wife has become a boring soccer mom. They killed her. He wants excitement now that his wife has become a boring soccer mom. They killed her. ... Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? Pay attention to the Hollywood "them," not the "Hollywood Ten."

All of this is enough to make you watch hundreds of reruns of Goodson-Todman game shows so you can look for sanity in midtown Manhattan back in the day. Then those reruns become monotonous and not necessarily 100 percent genuine. Did John Daly walk out on his wife and kids or was that Garry Moore? You can see it in his eyes. Who died from cigarette smoking? Bloggers love that stuff, but it becomes monotonous and one-dimensional. Oh well, live in the present. We have surveillance video. Nobody can destroy cell phone surveillance as somebody did to Marilyn's private conversations.

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Good information

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2022

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This was a well written book about what happened to Marilyn. It is truly sad that she was used like that by people in power. Definitely would recommend this book.

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A highly detailed and thoroughly researched account of Marilyn's life from her sad childhood, her rise to fame and how she was murdered. It was by far the best and most detailed book I've ever read about Marilyn.....it truly broke my heart to learn the details of her death but more so that those responsible were never held accountable due to a concerted effort to cover up this murder.

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