1956 1st DJ WILL ACTING SPOIL MARILYN MONROE? Pete Martin -100th Birthday June 1

by Pete Martin

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Title: Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe? Author: Pete Martin Publisher: Doubleday Description: Scarce and valuable in dust jacket. On June 1, 1926 Marilyn Monroe was born. This year marks what would have been her 100th birthday. This is a chance to get one of the scarcest and more collectible books about the legend. Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe? is the second book written about Marilyn Monroe. The first was Joe Franklin's biography in 1953. Pete Martin interviewed Marilyn for the Saturday Evening Post magazine and the interview appeared over the course of three issues. These interviews were then turned into a book. Illustrated with 43 photos. Of the over 200 books written about Monroe less than a half dozen were written while she was alive. This book remains out-of-print book and can be difficult to find. A MUST-OWN for any Marilyn fan or the casual movie fan. From the book: Will leaning spoil the Tower of Pisa? Does whirling spoil dervishes? Did hanging spoil the Gardens of Babylon? Is hanging good enough for anybody who’d ask such a question in the first place? Pete Martin, author of this delightful tract, craftily side-steps any responsibility implied in its title, and concentrates instead on giving usa fresh and un-hoked-up look at Marilyn, the All-Girl Girl. Don't expect any "hello from Hollywood" stuff here; that department has already been amply taken care of by a phalanx of press agents and burbling lady columnists. What Mr. Martin provides is a new idea of what m

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Year: 1956
• Condition: Very Good

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