Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GODDESS...
...actress took an overdose of barbiturates and died in her sleep. Twenty-three years later, the inquest still goes on. Did Marilyn Monroe kill herself? Was she murdered? British Journalist Anthony Summers provides some sensational theories, but he is obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
MARILYN MONROE is a goddess. Albert Einstein is a genius. Joe DiMaggio is a hero. Joseph McCarthy is a villain...
...industry's mantle spread around the world, new immigrant stars filled important character niches. The Latin lover: Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman...
...They only saw," Co-captain briefly," Co-Captain Joan Cunningham, explains. "It was probably a goddess-like figure, and it probably had blonde hair." Rowning (a blonde) concedes, "I couldn't do much about...