Présentation de l'éditeur
Acclaimed writer and former actor John Gilmore details his experiences with the most celebrated movie star of the 20th century—Marilyn Monroe. From Hollywood to New York and back, spanning over a decade, Monroe’s role in Gilmore’s life climaxed when they were about to star in a movie together before tragedy struck in Marilyn's life. This haunting, highly personal memoir reveals a treasure-trove of facets of Marilyn's life previously unknown: an unloved, lonely and desperate goddess, ricocheting in a make-believe realm fueled by alcohol and pills, emotionally tortured and in constant physical and psychologial pain, imprisoned by an industry that discounts and disparages her ambitions.
Gilmore’s background as a fellow emotionally-deprived Hollywood native, and an actor, gave him a powerful connection to the inner Marilyn which this memoir explores with emotionally gripping results as we are at last introduced to the human being hidden beneath the most iconic image of our times. This new e-book edition includes an extended, revealing interview with John Gilmore on his friendship with Marilyn Monroe and many photographs made public for the first time.
“This is the crème de la crème of Marilyn Monroe biographies. It's more than the ultimate Marilyn Monroe experience—it’s an awakening!”—Ian Ayres, French Connection Press
“John Gilmore is one of America’s natural-born gifts to literature. His books aren’t just inspiring and wicked by-products of genius: they’re miracles. . . . He’s the best ever.” — Gary Indiana
Gilmore’s background as a fellow emotionally-deprived Hollywood native, and an actor, gave him a powerful connection to the inner Marilyn which this memoir explores with emotionally gripping results as we are at last introduced to the human being hidden beneath the most iconic image of our times. This new e-book edition includes an extended, revealing interview with John Gilmore on his friendship with Marilyn Monroe and many photographs made public for the first time.
“This is the crème de la crème of Marilyn Monroe biographies. It's more than the ultimate Marilyn Monroe experience—it’s an awakening!”—Ian Ayres, French Connection Press
“John Gilmore is one of America’s natural-born gifts to literature. His books aren’t just inspiring and wicked by-products of genius: they’re miracles. . . . He’s the best ever.” — Gary Indiana
Book Description
This riveting, internal journey explores Marilyn Monroe’s personal and professional world as never before. Evolving from a decade-long friendship with her, John Gilmore’s penetrating memoir unseals the closed world of the casting couches, the 'modeling' agencies and escort services, and pulls aside the glittered mantled over Marilyn Monroe. These first-hand portraits, etched with the razor clarity familiar to Gilmore fans, unfold Marilyn’s tragic detour from happiness. Gilmore’s revelations paint an indelible picture of the real Marilyn, an emotionally tortured, unloved, lonely and desperate goddess, ricocheting in a make-believe realm fueled by alcohol and pills, and imprisoned by an industry that disparaged her ambitions as she blossomed into the most important movie star in the world.
