George Barris (1) (1922–2016)
Auteur de Marilyn
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A propos de l'auteur
George Barris was born in Manhattan, New York on June 14, 1922. During World War II, he served in the Army as a photographer. One of his last assignments was to cover General Dwight D. Eisenhower's homecoming victory parade in New York in June 1945. After the war, he worked for Parade and other afficher plus publications. He also photographed Hollywood's biggest stars. He took the last professional photographs of Marilyn Monroe, just weeks before her death in 1962. His photographs have appeared in several books including Marilyn written by Gloria Steinem and Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs. He died on September 30, 2016 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de George Barris
Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words : Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs (1995) 118 exemplaires
Candid photography with hi-speed flash 1 exemplaire
Bonhams Chelsea 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1922-06-14
- Date de décès
- 2016-09-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Thousand Oaks, California, USA
- Professions
- photographer
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Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 407
- Popularité
- #59,758
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 38
- Langues
- 4
Steinem pulled from several sources to write this book of essays written more than 25 years ago. In it, she tries to uncover who was the real Marilyn Monroe. She uses a lot of detail that had been gathered in interviews that Monroe had with photographer George Barris not long before her death. She also uses Marilyn's own words culled from an autobiography that Monroe was in the process of writing.
Marilyn Monroe started life as Norma Jean. Her mother was institutionalized from the time she was a little girl, and she was moved from one family friend to foster families to an orphanage, and back to friends, until at the age of sixteen her mother's friend arranged for Marilyn to marry a neighbor's son, Jim Dougherty. Jim enlisted in the merchant marines in 1944. During his absence, Norma Jean was discovered, and the rest is history. Monroe never got over her fear of being alone. She craved love and friendship. She wanted to educate herself as she was embarrassed at her lack of education. But when she tried to improve herself, she was often laughed at. She didn't want to be known as a dumb blonde, and disliked that most of the acting parts she was offered depicted her that way. In the movie "Some Like It Hot", she "resisted playing a blonde so out of it that she couldn't tell Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag from real women....."I've been dumb, but not that dumb." " She did the movie, however, and it had more success than her previous movies.
When she found friendship, she was loyal and she was protective of those she liked. Steinem relates a story, "When the Mocambo, an important Los Angeles nightclub, was reluctant to hire a black singer named Ella Fitzgerald, Marilyn "personally called the owner," as Ella Fitzgerald remembers gratefully, "and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him.... that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night.... And after that, I never had to play a small jazz club again.""
She had many affairs, and her marriages and divorces with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller are well known, as are speculations about affairs with the Kennedy brothers. Her reliance on pills to help her sleep, help her wake up, help her stay awake, all led to her untimely suicide, the last of many attempts. Steinem has handled Marilyn's story with delicacy, and through it all portrays the story of this sad woman who loved children, and wanted love and stability more than anything.… (plus d'informations)