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Author Banner, Lois W.

Title Marilyn : the passion and the paradox / Lois Banner.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY MONROE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B MONROE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B MONROE, MARILYN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B MONROE, MARILYN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B MONROE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-MONROE BAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 MONROE, MAR    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B MONROE    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B MONROE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B MONROE MARILYN B    Check Shelf

Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 515 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-496) and index.
Contents Part I. Let us now praise famous women -- The matrix, 1926-1946. Mothers, 1926-1933 -- Trauma, 1933-1938 -- Transcendence : Ana and Jim, 1938-1944 -- Photographers and producers, 1944-1946 -- Part II. Hollywood, 1946-1955. Storming the citadel, 1946-1951 -- Marilyn ascending, 1951-1954 -- Breakaway, 1954-1955 -- Part III. Entr'acte : a woman for all seasons. The meaning of Marilyn -- Part IV. New York, 1955-1960. New York, 1955-1956 -- Arthur, 1956-1959 -- The Misfits, 1959-1960 -- Part V. Return to Hollywood, 1961-1962. Denouement, 1961-1962 -- Defiance and death.
Summary Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognized -- much less attempted to analyze -- most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. Since Marilyn's death in August of 1962, the appetite for information about her has been insatiable. Biographies of Marilyn abound, and whether these books are sensational or flawed, Marilyn's fans have always come out in bestselling numbers. This time, with Lois Banner's Revelations, the fans won't be disappointed. This is no retread of recycled material. As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Banner will reveal Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. In researching Revelations, Banner's credentials opened doors. She gained access to Marilyn intimates who hadn't spoken to other biographers, and to private material unseen, ignored, or misinterpreted by her predecessors. With new details about Marilyn's childhood foster homes, her sexual abuse, her multiple marriages, her affairs, and her untimely death at the age of thirty-six, Revelations is, at last, the nuanced biography Marilyn fans have been waiting for.-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9781608195312 hardback $30.00
1608195317 hardback
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