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I Wanna Be Loved By You
Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes
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- On Sale
- Jun 2, 2026
- Page Count
- 368 pages
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9781538723500
Price
$32.00Price
$42.00 CADFormat
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- Hardcover $32.00 $42.00 CAD
- ebook $14.99 $19.99 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99
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Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon. Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, I Wanna Be Loved By You presents Marilyn in a startling new light. It draws upon unpublished letters from Marilyn, Arthur Miller, and Joe DiMaggio; case notes and private letters from Monroe’s psychoanalyst, Dr. Ralph Greenson; and unpublished audio recordings from the likes of Jane Russell, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Amy and Milton Greene, housekeeper Eunice Murray (the last person to see Marilyn alive), and many more.
We go behind the scenes of her marriages to teenage sweetheart Jim Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller. We see Marilyn train with Lee Strasberg at the Actros Studio, working to dismantle the common perception that she was merely a dumb blonde. And in the concluding chapters, Wilson dissects what happened on the night Marilyn died after a suspected drug overdose. Were the Kennedys involved, or was she just let down by those closest to her? With a dazzling and unique blend of reportage, archival investigation, interviews, and oral history, I Wanna Be Loved By You is a revealing and nuanced portrait of the life, death and afterlife of an icon who still fascinates us today.
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"Wilson's storytelling is crisp."Boston Globe
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