More about Marilyn
Michael Church, 20 February 1986
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
by Anthony Summers.
Gollancz, 414 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 575 03641 9 Show More
by Anthony Summers.
Gollancz, 414 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
Norma Jeane: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe
by Fred Lawrence Guiles.
Granada, 377 pp., £12.95, June 1985,0 246 12307 9 Show More
by Fred Lawrence Guiles.
Granada, 377 pp., £12.95, June 1985,
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton
by C. David Heymann.
Hutchinson, 390 pp., £12.95, March 1985,0 09 146010 7 Show More
by C. David Heymann.
Hutchinson, 390 pp., £12.95, March 1985,
Deams that money can buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman
by Jon Bradshaw.
Cape, 431 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 224 02846 4 Show More
by Jon Bradshaw.
Cape, 431 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
by Florence King.
Joseph, 278 pp., £8.95, August 1985,0 7181 2611 4 Show More
by Florence King.
Joseph, 278 pp., £8.95, August 1985,
“... knew she couldn’t help herself, and that hope, not calculation, lay behind each new throw. C. David Heymann did manage to interview his subject, and he draws heavily on her notebooks and on the findings of an army of researchers. Poor Little Rich Girl is dense with facts, figures and, above all, names, and is marred by a clumsily novelettish ... ”