This is a delightful look at Marilyn’s brief life and film work, through photographic images from her pin-up years to her movies, which is the main focus of the book.Each film appearance is covered from Dangerous Years to Something’s Got To Give and has a brief synopsis along with some background details.
While the text is sparse on detail, it presents her story in an easy to tell manor, focusing on her achievements along her road to stardom and touching on some of the difficulties she would endure at the peak of her career. There are some errors in the text, for example it states that Some Like It Hot, was her third film with Billy Wilder.
There’s over 80 photographs and they are selected from The Kobal Collection, the leading film photo archive which boasts to owning over 1,000,000 images from the earliest days of cinema to the latest releases. Here presented in colour and black and white is a taste of their Marilyn related stills.This is a nice hardcover book to add to your collection.
By Fraser Penney
