Many shades of Monroe: writer anyone?
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April 29, 2010, Thursday
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BLONDE icon. Sex goddess. Glamour queen. Marilyn Monroe was many things to many people, but one thing she was rarely taken for was a writer.
Now French and American publishers have compiled a collection of previously unseen diary entries, jottings and poems which were inherited by Anna Strasberg, widow of Lee Strasberg, Monroe's friend and acting instructor.
To be published by Editions du Seuil in France and US publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux in October, the book - "Fragments" - reveals Monroe's intellectual side and her frustration with being cast as a sex object.
At a dinner in late 2008, French publisher Bernard Comment learned of the existence of the collection of writings by Monroe which date from 1943 until her death in 1962. The impression given by Monroe's writing is that of a delicate, introspective person whose train of thought could veer all over the page.
"There is a certain melancholy tone throughout the book, and what is very beautiful in some of the notes is the way you see the association between ideas, even if they are quite scattered all over the page," said Comment, editor at Editions du Seuil.
"They go in all directions and it can be sometimes quite difficult to find order within the fragments," he said.
Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortensen, personified 1950s glamour and went through a string of high-profile relationships - including a marriage to playwright Arthur Miller and rumored affairs with Robert and John F. Kennedy.
Among her best-known movies are "The Seven Year Itch," "Some Like It Hot" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
The final years of Monroe's life were marred by illness and personal problems. The circumstances of her death, at 36, are still unclear.
Now French and American publishers have compiled a collection of previously unseen diary entries, jottings and poems which were inherited by Anna Strasberg, widow of Lee Strasberg, Monroe's friend and acting instructor.
To be published by Editions du Seuil in France and US publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux in October, the book - "Fragments" - reveals Monroe's intellectual side and her frustration with being cast as a sex object.
At a dinner in late 2008, French publisher Bernard Comment learned of the existence of the collection of writings by Monroe which date from 1943 until her death in 1962. The impression given by Monroe's writing is that of a delicate, introspective person whose train of thought could veer all over the page.
"There is a certain melancholy tone throughout the book, and what is very beautiful in some of the notes is the way you see the association between ideas, even if they are quite scattered all over the page," said Comment, editor at Editions du Seuil.
"They go in all directions and it can be sometimes quite difficult to find order within the fragments," he said.
Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortensen, personified 1950s glamour and went through a string of high-profile relationships - including a marriage to playwright Arthur Miller and rumored affairs with Robert and John F. Kennedy.
Among her best-known movies are "The Seven Year Itch," "Some Like It Hot" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
The final years of Monroe's life were marred by illness and personal problems. The circumstances of her death, at 36, are still unclear.
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