"You Are The First One Im Telling This To. Ill Tell You All. . ." No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable; and unexpectedly talented; she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote; she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!" Here; at last; is Marilyn Monroes account; in her own singular voice. It was June 1; 1962; her thirty-sixth birthday. Famed photographer and reporter George Barris had come to see Marilyn on the set of what would be her final; unfinished; film. They had met eight years earlier; became friends; and planned to do a picture book and autobiography. Now the time was right. For the next six weeks Barris photographed and interviewed the actress. "Dont believe anything you read about me except this. . ." she told Barris. And so she began to confide the truth about herself. Barris last talked to Marilyn on August 3; less than twenty-four hours before she was found dead in her apartment. At their last meeting; she was effervescent and eager to embrace life. "I feel Im just getting started;" she said. Barris firmly believes that murder; not suicide; caused Marilyns untimely end and he could not bring himself to publish her thoughts or the haunting photos of that summer--until now. Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words is a candid memoir enhanced by 150 black-and-white and color photos; many never before published. A highlight is "The Last Photo Shoot" where Marilyn appears luminous without makeup on the beach at Santa Monica and in a North Hollywood house. This moving book brings Marilyn Monroe back--beautiful; flirtatious; and sweet as a first kiss--for one rare and radiant farewell.George Barris has worked as a photojournalist for many of the countrys major magazines; from Life to Cosmopolitan. He is the co-author (with Gloria Steinem) of Marilyn-Norma Jean; and contributed to Norman Mailers book; Marilyn. He lives in California.
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