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Marilyn's last words : her secret tapes and mysterious death / Matthew Smith.
LIBRA - Special PN2287.M69 S57 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962.
- Monroe, Marilyn.
- Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962--Death and burial.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 327 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First Carroll and Graf edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers : [Distributed by Publishers Group West], [2004]
- Summary:
- Looking back at thousands of documents, many never before published, and interviewing dozens of sources, Smith argues strongly for a startling new version of events surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Donald O'Connor
- Introduction / by Robert F. Slatzer
- Collision course
- Busy days
- Curious behavior
- Feverish activity
- Murderers! Murderers!
- Ambulances, motives, and hush money
- The autopsy
- The miner memorandum
- The media machine
- Blanket of secrecy
- Not to be opened
- Definitely not
- The testimony of Mrs. Murray
- The listeners
- Dalliances
- Too many questions
- The last days
- No damn way
- No touch of silk, no hint of finesse
- Lawford and "Mr. O"
- The secret tapes of Marilyn Monroe
- The secret tapes: sex, literature, and daddy's little girl
- The secret tapes: the Olivier impact
- The secret tapes: husbands, friends, and others
- The secret tapes: Jack and Bobby
- The secret tapes: hidden implications
- Two-act tragedy
- Big Joe D
- The shadow
- Montage
- In search of a family
- The patient
- Marilyn and the mob
- Marilyn and the FBI
- Knocks and hard knocks
- The red diary
- Consequences
- Reactions
- Persona non grata
- Cursum perficio.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-315) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0786713801 :
- 9780786713806
- 0786715596
- 9780786715596
- OCLC:
- 55804428
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