Marilyn Monroe Confidential: An Intimate Personal Account by Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem

Marilyn Monroe Confidential:  An Intimate Personal Account by Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem  is a 251-page hardcover published in 1979 by Simon and Schuster.  Th dust jacket has shelf wear and surface rubbing.  Inside, the book is in good condition. Book Summary Marilyn. More than a decade after her death, she still lingers in our minds as the brightest, blondest, most sensual movie star of our time. She should have had a life happily different. In this truly remarkable book, you will see her as she really was and understand why, perhaps, for Marilyn Monroe life could have gone no other way why things had to happen as they did right up to the tragic end. Lena Pepitone began as Marilyn's personal maid and wardrobe mistress, and became her close friend and trusted confidant. She was with her for the last six years of her life when Marilyn was disastrously married to Arthur Miller made her greatest film, Some Like It Hot; starred with Sir Laurence Olivier and carried on a notorious affair with Yves Montand and a totally discreet affair with another superstar. She was with Marilyn Monroe through the last unhappy year, a year full of drugs, alcohol, and depression, when she rarely went out and almost no one called her. Because they became so close, Maryilyn confessed things to her that she had told no one before--things that happened in her childhood and in the years before she met Lena. For Marilyn Monroe Confidential is more than an account of six years it is a full-scale life story, when it clears up many of the myths about Marilyn Monroe even as it at Starling new facts. In Marilyn Monroe Confidential, you'll discover for the first time the intimate details of her personal feelings what she thought of herself as an actress, as a woman, and as a sex symbol what she thought of her celebrated body and what she thought of the famous men in her life. There were many men in her life-- some famous, some not; some she used and some who used her. But despite everything, she desperately needed one man's love and attention, and when at last she was willing to accept this, it was too late. With all those revelations about sex, drugs, drink, a breakdowns, failed marriages and disastrous love affairs, here is the real Marilyn as seen through the eyes of someone who truly loved her. It is a compelling account of one of the world's most famous stars which will leave you deeply touched and caring passionately for the gifted but tragic woman who won the love the whole world but died utterly alone.