She actually lived and breathed, laughed and cried, and went through a lot of difficulties and hardship, from her childhood to the scary world of Hollywood. Too often, people forget that Marilyn was a real person. She was a strong, hard working, humble, inspirational woman that of course had her problems, just like everyone else. It shows how kind and witty of a person she was and what her real personality was like, not the Dumb Blonde persona she played so well on the screen. It gives insight to the woman behind the legend the human begin the myth. This is a great book on Marilyn, one of the best-my favorite, and as a huge MM fan, I have read a lot. Now, decades later, as he approaches his own final years, he believes it is time to share Marilyn's legacy with the world. For over thirty years, he kept from publication her complete story as she told it to him, and most of the photographs taken during that enchanting summer. The tragic news of Marilyn's death shocked the nation.and George Barris. It is Barris's belief that she did not die by her own hand, intentionally or accidentally but was, in fact, murdered.
She was found dead on Saturday, August 4, less than twenty-four hours after Marilyn had phoned him. During the days and nights that Barris saw her, she was exuberant, carefree, and eager to get on with her life. George Barris talked to Marilyn Monroe one more time, on Friday afternoon, August 3. During these sessions, she told him the story of her life. For the next six weeks, George Barris photographed Marilyn on the beach at Santa Monica and in a house in North Hollywood where she was unencumbered by makeup and artifice. Now the time had come for them to carry out Marilyn's dream. They got on famously then and agreed to someday produce a picture book and autobiography together. Eight years earlier, Barris first met Marilyn while she was filming The Seven Year Itch in New York. It was Marilyn's thirty-sixth birthday and George Barris was assigned by a national magazine to photograph and interview her.
On June 1, 1962, George Barris, internationally renowned photographer and journalist, arrived at the Hollywood movie set where Marilyn Monroe was making her last film, Something's Got to Give.
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