28,85 €
Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon.
Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, Andrew Wilson's biography of Marilyn Monroe presents the actress in a startling new light.
Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she had an uncertain and unforgiving upbringing. She grew up in Los Angeles and would dream about Hollywood, believing that acting would be her one-way ticket to happiness. Her dream was so powerful that she transformed herself into the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, and her image has been branded into the collective consciousness. Men lusted after her, and women wanted to be her. All her life, she just wanted to be loved.
Told through 100 captivating snapshots, we are thrown into the glamorous but dangerous worldof old Hollywood. We see a young Marilyn navigating the highs and lows of the studio systemas she attempts to free herself from the constraints of Twentieth Century-Fox. We also go behind the scenes of her marriages to teenage sweetheart Jim Dougherty, baseball star Joe DiMaggio and famous playwright Arthur Miller. We hear the voices of friends, lovers - and enemies.
We hear of the friendships she formed with poets, philosophers, playwrights and political activists, and the years spent training with Lee Strasberg at theActors Studio.
In the concluding chapters, Andrew Wilson unpicks what happened on the night Marilyn died after a suspected drug overdose. Were the Kennedys involved, or was she just let down by those closest to her?
I Wanna Be Loved By You is a revealing and nuanced portrait of the life, death and afterlife of an icon who still fascinates us today.
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon.
Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, Andrew Wilson's biography of Marilyn Monroe presents the actress in a startling new light.
Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she had an uncertain and unforgiving upbringing. She grew up in Los Angeles and would dream about Hollywood, believing that acting would be her one-way ticket to happiness. Her dream was so powerful that she transformed herself into the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, and her image has been branded into the collective consciousness. Men lusted after her, and women wanted to be her. All her life, she just wanted to be loved.
Told through 100 captivating snapshots, we are thrown into the glamorous but dangerous worldof old Hollywood. We see a young Marilyn navigating the highs and lows of the studio systemas she attempts to free herself from the constraints of Twentieth Century-Fox. We also go behind the scenes of her marriages to teenage sweetheart Jim Dougherty, baseball star Joe DiMaggio and famous playwright Arthur Miller. We hear the voices of friends, lovers - and enemies.
We hear of the friendships she formed with poets, philosophers, playwrights and political activists, and the years spent training with Lee Strasberg at theActors Studio.
In the concluding chapters, Andrew Wilson unpicks what happened on the night Marilyn died after a suspected drug overdose. Were the Kennedys involved, or was she just let down by those closest to her?
I Wanna Be Loved By You is a revealing and nuanced portrait of the life, death and afterlife of an icon who still fascinates us today.
His 2007 psychological thriller The Lying Tongue was shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel award. In 2017, he published A Talent for Murder (Simon & Schuster), the first book in a series of crime novels featuring Agatha Christie as sleuth. The other novels in the series are A Different Kind of Evil (2018), Death in a Desert Land (2019) and I Saw Him Die (2020). The novels are published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and US, and in numerous territories around the world. Andrew is also the author of the psychological thrillers Five Strangers and Murder Grove (HarperFiction),which he wrote under the name E. V. Adamson. He is a tutor on the Faber Academy crime course and a mentor on the Gold Dust creative writing scheme. He is also a judge for the 2021 Costa Biography Prize.
His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Tatler, Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Smithsonian and the Washington Post. He is a frequent broadcaster and has appeared on BBC Front Row, Great Lives, Woman’s Hour, the Today programme and Sky News.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Theater & Film |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781398513440 |
| ISBN-10: | 139851344X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Wilson, Andrew |
| Hersteller: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 242 x 166 x 39 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Andrew Wilson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 26.02.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,718 kg |
Ähnliche Produkte
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage
Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage
Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage
Lieferzeit 4-7 Werktage
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen