Donald Spoto is the author of Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich, Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Diana: The Last Year, The Hidden Jesus: A New Life, and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life.
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.
*The Instrumentalist*
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.
*The Daily Telegraph*
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