‘It stirs up envy, fame does,’ Marilyn Monroe said in her last published interview. ‘People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won’t hurt your feelings — like it’s happening to your clothes, not you.’

Ted Schwarz’s full-scale biography has been almost a decade in the making. The cover blurb describes Marilyn Revealed as ‘the first comprehensive look at the life of Marilyn Monroe’. Continue reading →