Marilyn Monroe

The Biography

De: Donald Spoto

Narrado por: Anna Fields

Fifty years after her death, Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe still beguiles the world, her image enthralling millions. Many books have attempted to explain her allure and tell her story, but none has succeeded as well as this work by acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto.

Spoto’s exhaustive research uncovers a conspiracy of silence, allowing him to present the facts, free from often-repeated myths and speculation. Granted access to more than thirty-five thousand pages of formerly sealed files containing letters, diaries, appointment books, and other intimate papers, he also interviewed nearly two hundred people who had never before spoken on record. From the papers of Marilyn’s psychiatrist and her medical files to recently declassified government documents, the truth emerges and provides a moving, often shocking picture of the real Marilyn Monroe - including her connection to the Kennedys and the bizarre, horrifying truth about how she really died.

©1993 Donald Spoto (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This is a book that wound up teaching me a great deal about Hollywood, the social history of California, the movie business, the trials of female actors in American show business, and the life of a woman who has been so mythologized that often the real woman is obscured from actual view." (Erica Jong for Washington Post Book World)

"Spoto has given Monroe the treatment she deserves. At last she emerges not as a goddess but as a human being in this extraordinary volume." ( Daily Telegraph)

"Provocative!" ( Entertainment Weekly)

This is the definitive bio you’re looking for

Thorough and engaging. Impressed with the level of detail and implementation of sources. A must listen.

One the best written on her

They put a lot of research into this one. I think the house keeper did it after reading this one

Anna Fields is Greatly Missed

Great Narrator!!! So sorry she is gone. She was a great reader, wonderful voice. The book itself was good too.

A heart-wrenching tale about needing to be loved

This biography is nothing short of utterly tragic. It's the classic ideal that someone receives them self is never good enough when if that was true then we wouldn't be talking about her for so long. Although sad and short life was, it's obvious people did love her and still do.

great bio on this icon

Would you consider the audio edition of Marilyn Monroe to be better than the print version?

I do not have the print version so I cannot compare.

What did you like best about this story?

The author did a lot of research and it shows. Also I liked that he spoke about well known rumors and told which ones had no fact behind them and put them to rest. I am glad I chose this as my first Monroe listen.

What does Anna Fields bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Emotion.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes.