Marilyn Revealed

What made Norma Jean special was the quality she discovered when bored with being a teenage bride with a husband in the Merchant Marine during World War II she took her first and most enduring lover-the camera. So posits author Ted Schwarz in the first comprehensive look at the life of Marilyn Monroe to appear in years a biography that benefits from interviews with many of the actress's friends and acquaintances who have remained silent until now. Putting together the pieces of Marilyn's final days spent in the company of Peter Lawford and his brother-in-law Attorney General Robert Kennedy Schwarz also speculates on the causes of her death which he describes as a Hollywood version of natural causes.