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Marilyn was one of Hollywood's smartest dumb blondes!! Some ridiculed Marilyn saying they didn't believe she could spell let alone read – but Marilyn DID read (and she could spell too)!! Friends let Marilyn borrow books from them on a regular basis, and when she returned them she would discuss them at length with the friend in question. Some reporters and other visitors to her homes were seen looking at the array of books that were on the shelves – though some still thought it was somthing that she had picked up when moving to New York and marrying Arthur Miller. |
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The facts tell a different story, in 1945 Norma Jeane was a member of Westwood Public Library. She opened her first charge account at a book store in 1946-1947. In 1951 Marilyn even took a night course at UCLA which was “Backgrounds in Literature”. So please find below a small selection of the many, many books that it is said Marilyn Monroe read, I am hoping that over time I will find out about more books and then these will be added to the below list too: Psychology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang Goodnight Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler The Course of My Life by Rudolph Steiner Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton How Stanislavsky Directs by Michael Gorchakov |
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Lust for Life by Irving Stone To the Actor by Michael Chekhov The Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd The Web and the Rock by Thomas Wolfe An Actor Prepares by Kostantin Stanislavsky The Bible Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Biography of Eleanora Duse by William Weaver Your Key to Happiness by Harold Sherman |
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