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Title: My Sister Marilyn : A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe by Mona Rae Miracle, Bernice Baker Miracle ISBN: 0-595-27671-7 Publisher: Backinprint.Com Pub. Date: 23 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally the truth about Marilyn Monroe's family
Comment: This is a very enjoyable book. I'm so glad Berniece Miracle finally came out with the book with help from daughter Mona. The photos are wonderful, as you watch the transition from Norma Jeane to Marilyn, get to see her wedding photo to Jim Dougherty and hear words of Joe DiMaggio and learn some of the insides of Hollywood as Marilyn shared them with her sister.
Sadly, the book also describes how Berniece was hounded by the press and had a hard time leading a "normal" life. No privacy. I was hoping the book would give more insight into Marilyn's death, but Berniece and Mona are as much in the dark as anyone. Interesting is the denial of any relationship with President John F. Kennedy or brother Bobby. That seems to be a given in most books about Marilyn. However, if you read between the lines here, Marilyn doesn't deny a relationship, she just smiles when Berniece asks and says "they're just boys." There could be a lot Marilyn doesn't share with her sister!
But what comes shining through in this book is how loving and lovable Marilyn was, and how much she was loved by her sister. The idea of a mentally ill mother explains a lot of things, like Marilyn's obvious depression. The sisters not even knowing about each other until Marilyn was 12 and Berniece 19 is sad, but at least they had each other through the rest of Marilyn's life.
This is a lovely book, beautifully written, tragic as it must have been. It shows Marilyn as more of the earthy woman her family knew, which is a refreshing perspective from other Marilyn Monroe biographies!
Rating: 4
Summary: Not at My sister Marilyn's house today,I have a modem again
Comment: Ok I admit it Im weird...now onto the review...
So many biographies have been written about MARILYN but if you are interested in reading one by a person who knew and loved her,I'd suggest this one.Written by marilyn's half-sister and neice(Berniece and Mona Rae),this doco-with never-seen-before photos of Norma Jeane,reveals a nice young girl who loved children and dogs.Anyone who likes dogs is ok with me.It also appears that the belief that Marilyn was promiscuous may be debatable.Although,Berniece did seem determined to keep her beloved sister on a pedastal,even going so far as to say that MArilyn was always pleasant on set whereas we know that isn't true.
Berniece revealed also that Marilyn was never in an orphanage(except as a baby)and was never in foster care.She lived with a few different families,all of whom were related to her or knew her mother.Her life WAS sad and disturbing,but she wasn't shuttled around even close to as much as has been believed.According to Berniece,and I don't see the reason why Berniece would lie in this instance.However it is true that her mother was severely ill with schizophrenia and that Marilyn was fatherless.The book is written a little like a novel,Berniece and Mona Rae exercising just one of the talents that abound in the bloodline they share with Marilyn.I wish Marilyn had written even one book of her own,a novel,an autobiography,it wouldn't matter.But I know she could write and it would be cool if there was something.Overall it is a very interesting book and the photos reveal that,at least in my opinion,Marilyn was more stunning with dark hair than with blonde.It also tells us about a sweet girl with a good heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well written and insightful
Comment: I recommend this book to anyone vaguely interested in Marilyn Monroe, not merely the die-hard fan. I do not fall into that category, , but am aware of her enduring presence as an icon. This book lived up to its intriguing promise of providing ANOTHER viewpoint about Marilyn – other than the myriad biographies which have been about Marilyn by ‘outsiders’ and those enriching themselves on the proceeds.
This is very much the biography of Norma Jean Baker as she came to be known by her sister.
The picture of ‘private Marilyn’ depicted here does an enormous amount to restore Marilyn’s humanity, her connection with her family and peers, the person behind the impenetrable Goddess Icon that she has become in the decades since her death. This is the uncommodified, unexploited Marilyn, a person who loved and was loved. It’s a great corrective to the hagiographic or shallow tendencies of most Marilyn-abilia and I thoroughly recommend it.
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Title: My Story by Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht, Andrea Dworkin ISBN: 0815411022 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends by Susan Strasberg ISBN: 0446515922 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs by George Barris, Marilyn Monroe ISBN: 0806524537 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Marilyn Monroe: Photographs 1945-1962 (Schirmer's Visual Library) by Truman Capote ISBN: 039330938X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto ISBN: 0815411839 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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