These latest extracts from Maurice Zolotow’s 1960 biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror, reveal how Marilyn’s 1954 marriage to Joe DiMaggio was overshadowed by her burgeoning career.
Zolotow’s Marilyn: Mrs DiMaggio
Zolotow’s Marilyn: A Star Is Born
The latest extract from Maurice Zolotow’s Marilyn Monroe: An Uncensored Biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror in December 1960, focus on Marilyn’s role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and her romance with Joe DiMaggio.
Zolotow’s Marilyn: Past Imperfect
The latest extract from Maurice Zolotow’s 1960 biography covers Marilyn’s life and career in 1951 and early ’52. While her career was soaring, Marilyn endured further public scrutiny when it was revealed that she was not an orphan, and that her mother Gladys an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital.
Zolotow’s Marilyn: ‘Should I Tell the Truth?’
The latest extract from Maurice Zolotow’s biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror on this day in 1960, covers the filming of Clash by Night (1952) and the scandal of Marilyn’s nude calendar. (Click on the image below to enlarge.)
Zolotow’s Marilyn: ‘Zanuck Didn’t Like Me’
This latest extract from Maurice Zolotow’s Marilyn Monroe: The Uncensored Biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror on November 28, 1960, covers Marilyn’s rocky road to fame and her complex relationship with Darryl F. Zanuck, head of Twentieth Century Fox.
Zolotow’s Marilyn: ‘A Serious Dame’
These extracts from Maurice Zolotow’s Marilyn Monroe: The Uncensored Biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror on November 25-26, explore Marilyn’s relationship with agent Johnny Hyde, and her breakthrough role in The Asphalt Jungle (1950.)
More From Zolotow’s ‘Marilyn’
These extracts from Maurice Zolotow’s Marilyn Monroe: The Uncensored Biography, published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror on this week in 1960, cover Marilyn’s early career, including her modelling work with David Conover and Tom Kelley, her romance with Fred Karger, and her scene with Groucho Marx in Love Happy (1949.)
Zolotow’s Marilyn: From Model to Starlet
Another extract from Maurice Zolotow’s book, Marilyn Monroe: The Uncensored Biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror on November 21, 1960.
Zolotow’s Marilyn: An ‘Almost Perfect’ Marriage
This extract from Maurice Zolotow‘s Marilyn Monroe (the first full-scale biography of the star) was published in the Los Angeles Mirror on November 18, 1960, to promote the book’s release.
50 Years Ago: Zolotow’s Marilyn in the Mirror
This was the front page of the Los Angeles Mirror fifty years ago, on November 14, 1960. The other two clippings were extracts from Maurice Zolotow‘s just-published Marilyn Monroe, ranging from her difficult childhood to the scandal of her affair with Yves Montand.
