Keith Badman has written commended biographies on The Beatles and other music legends and his take on Marilyn Monroe is a surprisingly frank and original one. Is there call for another biography on Hollywood’s golden girl? Well, yes there is.
With so much written and with so much still unknown there’s always room for more as people continue to search through the days of her life cut so tragically short in a way to find out why. In recent times there’s been so much of Marilyn’s personal papers released and sold at auction that there’s a wealth of knowledge on the actress that the public were not privy to before.
Keith Badman has meticulously investigated these items and sourced the previous books to write a definitive account of Marilyn’s last eighteen months in a surprisingly well written book. There’s a couple of things I wasn’t familiar with and question but as with every book there’s always something you learn that you never knew before & I will have to do research a little to learn more about these things he writes.I think this is a great time for Marilyn books.
The past few years we’ve been lucky in the quality of writing and investigative work authors have put into their biographies which have brought us entertaining and enlightening works on Marilyn, and I would say this one ranks alongside Michelle Morgan’s Private And Undisclosed and J. Randy Taraborrelli’s Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe. They’re all different but all have their own uniqueness.
Badman dictates that history was dutifully respectful to the legacies of certain individuals involved during those last eighteen months of her life, whereas there’s been alot of malicious, unfounded and fabricated allegations about Marilyn, concocted to protect the guilty, line the pockets of money hungry glory seekers which in turn may actually tarnish her legacy. He dismisses the suicide theory, with a slightly different take on her death this time, dismissing the suicide theory to accident.
And calls for her cause of death to be changed from ‘probable suicide’ to simply ‘accident’.
By Fraser Penney
