![]() ![]() Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words is a candid memoir enhanced by 150 black-and-white and color photos, many never before published. ![]() Barris firmly believes that murder, not suicide, caused Marilyn's untimely end and he could not bring himself to publish her thoughts or the haunting photos of that summer-until now. "e I feel I'm just getting started,"e she said. At their last meeting, she was effervescent and eager to embrace life. Barris last talked to Marilyn on August 3, less than twenty-four hours before she was found dead in her apartment. And so she began to confide the truth about herself. "e Don't believe anything you read about me except this."e she told Barris. For the next six weeks Barris photographed and interviewed the actress. They had met eight years earlier, became friends, and planned to do a picture book and autobiography. Famed photographer and reporter George Barris had come to see Marilyn on the set of what would be her final, unfinished, film. It was June 1, 1962, her thirty-sixth birthday. ![]() What others wrote, she called "e Lies! Lies! Lies!"e Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. I'll Tell You All."e No one looked like her. "e You Are The First One I'm Telling This To. ![]()
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