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My Week With Marilyn (2001)

by Colin Clark(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0006531792 (ISBN13: 9780006531791)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

review 1: No surprises here! A story of a naive, spoiled, insecure, 50's sex goddess, surrounded by sychophants. The author was a third producer of a film starring Marilyn Monroe and Sir Lawrence Olivier which was one of the most bizzarre costar pairings of modern cinema. The author obviously fell for her beauty, body and helplessness in a major league way and had to tell the world of his minor exploits. The book is most delightful in giving insight to both characters, but of also giving life to Vivian Leigh, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn and a few others. It also provided some unusual insight to the procedures of movie making, London and it's surroundings and to the English uppercrust. I will always use from this point on the saying of a boys night out as "A Pub Cr... moreawl."
review 2: I would give this 2.5I am a huge fan of Monroe's, and I collect books written about her. Enter 'My Week with Marilyn,' a book I really had high hopes for.First, this is a memoir - a memoir means only elements of it have to be fact. With that said, I have to say that I was not wowed by the writing, the pacing, nor the events in the novel.I read it because I am a Monroe fan, but overall I felt very underwhelmed by it. I mostly wanted to read it because I was curious to see how he was going to characterize her marriage with Arthur Miller; I teach 'The Crucible' and enjoy making the pop culture connection between his writing and his marriage to Monroe. There was no unique insight. As a matter of fact, the characterization of their relationship was pretty textbook. less

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