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,
“... with mysterious chasms opening up whenever the records are sparse. No male narrator comes between Mai Zetterling or Florence King and their readers. Each tells her tale in her own way. Mai’s way is to spill it out higgledy-piggledy as though at a diagnostic session with a psychiatrist. She chooses, somewhat ... ”