Purchase this paperback & get the video-enhanced Kindle eBook free (it has 45 minutes of Marilyn's greatest movie scenes ) Originally she was Norma Jean Mortenson and bounced from foster homes and an orphanage until she was 16 and married a man who soon would be shipped off to military service in World War Two. While her first husband fought the War, she assembled military drones in a factory near Los Angeles. But something happened at the factory that would soon change Postwar America and the world, too. It was here that photographer David Conover recognized her photogenic sex appeal, taking picture after picture. Soon he got her on various magazine covers. With that as ammunition, David persuaded the U.S. Army Air Forces' Motion Picture Unit to come to the factory to shoot morale-boosting films of female War workers, but none of Marilyn's scenes were actually used. By 1947, she broke into Hollywood movies, but all her scenes were dropped or minimized to a one-line bit part. Marilyn just wasn't making it in movies, not until she auditioned for a part that perfectly fit her-a role as a burlesque star in the 1949 movie Ladies of the Chorus, her first successful role. This remarkable book not only details every movie she starred in-complete with 100s of film stills-it also includes a free eBook, the Kindle edition with video enhancements that show her onscreen as the character Peggy Martin, a stripper careening across the stage, taking off her clothes to music. There are over 50 more of Marilyn's movie scenes you can view with the free video-enhanced Kindle eBook that comes with this coffee-table size print book. Both the books and the videos start with her first movie and end with her last one from 1961. Read about and watch her on screen with her favorite, and very last costar, Clark Gable. Don't miss this book and the accompanying videos that lovingly portray her entire movie career that includes 45 minutes of dazzling movie scenes. Among them are Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Bus Stop (1956), Some Like it Hot (1959), and a dozen more of her in films. Get it now, two books for the price of one: the print edition plus the video-enhanced eBook for the "complete picture" of Marilyn Monroe in every way
These are all of my poems. Combined from other publications into one book. Some modification for clarity purposes. It is all of my thoughts and moods of the day.
Marilyn Rabetz is a colored pencil painter and long time drawing instructor. She is a national known exhibiting artist whose work has been featured in American Artist several times and in other national magazines. She taught for four decades at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor Connecticut where she also served as Director of the Richmond Art Center and Associate Director of the Mercy Gallery. Rabetz's distictive method for drawing called Object Lessons, How to Draw Absolutely Anything, is available at Amazon.com.
This is a compilation of original poetry and song lyrics by Marilyn Gilbert Komechak. Ms. Komechak is an award-winning, published poet and songwriter. Michael Baldwin, President of the Fort Worth Poetry Society and winner of two state-level poetry manuscript contests, said of this book, "Are you missing the duende, the deep passion in poetry that is haunted by reminders of mortality? You will find it in abundance in these wonderful poems by Marilyn Komechak, but also her exuberant love of life and her uncanny evocation of sun-washed Southwest Texas, New Mexico, and even more exotic imaginary venues. There is something to astonish in almost every poem: tear-catchers from the Civil War, ancient Indian petroglyphs, Russian holy icons on barn steps, meditations on pentimenti. Each poem is extraordinary in extraordinary ways. Then come the song lyrics. Willie and Waylon need not apply. These are story songs of sly insouciance amid deceptively simple tales. I've loved and been nourished by Marilyn's writing for many years; I think you will too if you are sufficiently adventurous."Marilyn Gilbert Komechak is a licensed psychologist who has served as a consultant to schools, businesses, and corporations. While maintaining a private practice, she wrote numerous articles and a book, Getting Yourself Together. She continued writing after she retired and has now included an award-winning children's book, Paisano Pete: Snake-killer Bird, a children's historical narrative about Deborah Sampson, a true hero of the American Revolutionary War, entitled The Girl Who Went to War; and she collaborated with her talented artist daughter, Kim Komechak, on an illustrated collection of poetry and paintings, titled Painted Poems: Interior Scapes. Now, she offers this beautiful collection of poetry and song lyrics which take the reader on a moonlit waltz through a world filled with laughter, tears, song, and wisdom. Come glide along the Pecos, find yourself in the reflection of a painting or dusty petroglyph, or learn Sacajawea's nickname.
It all started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean" ...
"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." An unwanted child who had been passed around among her mother, her mother's friends, foster homes, and orphanages, the long record of rejection prompted Marilyn to lie about her childhood in her autobiography and become pathologically insecure in her relationships with men. Married five times, there was often no line of distinction as she moved from one affair to another: as Schwarz notes almost matter-of-factly, for example, Marilyn celebrated her engagement to baseball great Joe DiMaggio by going to bed with film director Elia Kazan. Upon returning from her honeymoon with DiMaggio, she immediately announced to friends her intention to marry playwright Arthur Miller-much to the surprise of Miller and his wife. "Still," Schwarz writes, "it was only to the camera that she did not look ahead to the next lover…all it asked of her was to allow it to transform Norma Jean Mortenson Dougherty…into a movie star and one of the most desired women in the world."
