Marilyn Among Friends

Sam Shaw, Norman Rosten

ISBN 10: 0747500126 / ISBN 13: 9780747500124

Published by Magna Books, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Marilyn Among Friends
• Publisher: Magna Books
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747500126
• ISBN 13: 9780747500124
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: vgc
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Movies
  • Non Fiction

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Synopsis

A tribute to Marilyn Monroe, this work is written by two of her closest friends. Norman Rosten, poet, playwright and novelist, was introduced to Marilyn Monroe in 1955 by his friend, photographer Sam Shaw. Their relationship was to become so close that Rosten was described as Marilyn's closest friend. For the rest of her life Marilyn saw a great deal of the Brooklyn writer and his wife Hedda. Something in the gentle, humorous family man appealed to Marilyn and inspired her trust. For Rosten, Marilyn was different things at different times; an attractive and sophisticated woman, an innocent child and sometimes just a dear friend, badly in need of help. Sam Shaw met Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" in 1953. He was to take many famous photographs of her, including the skirt-blowing shots for "The Seven-Year Itch". He too became her friend and took many photographs of her revealing the other sides of her personality that only her true friends knew.

From Publishers Weekly

Photographer Shaw, a friend of Marilyn Monroe, took many photos of her, including the famous billowing-skirt shots for the film The Seven-Year Itch . Two hundred of his pictures, most of them never before published, are shown here: Marilyn at the makeup table, on the phone, on the beach, on the set, on the streetMarilyn with Bogart, with Gable, with DiMaggio, with Miller, with her basset hound Hugo. The text is affectionate but pretentious , with descriptions of the times Rosten (poet/playwright/novelist) spent with her, stories of her friends, husbands and admirers, and imagined conversations with the star. It is pleasant to note that there are no tales of CIA murder plots, Kennedy trysts and the likebut describing Marilyn as "the ethereal, virginal nymph dancing innocently among trees" is rather like calling William Howard Taft "puckish." Avid fans will love this book.
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