Marilyn and Me - Sisters Rivals Friends by Susan Strasberg copyright 1992 1st edition - this hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition - There are no torn or missing pages nor writing dustjacket in very good condition with minor wear.....
Signed Paper attached to title page "Susan Strasberg"
Marilyn Monroe was 29 when she became acting coach Lee Strasberg's
favorite student and protegee in New York City. Over the next eight
years the screen goddess was a sisterly friend and household rival of
actress Susan Strasberg, just 17 when they met. Susan for a time shared
her bedroom with this envied intruder, object of the paternal adulation
of her famous father, who was impersonal and critical with his own
children, by this account. The author swings between admiration and
disillusionment with Monroe, who sketched, wrote poetry and sympathized
with underdogs when she wasn't floundering in depressed insomnia or
drug-induced paranoia. This wise, intimate, affecting portrait reveals
hidden facets of Monroe's quicksilver personality. A convert to Judaism
after her marriage to Arthur Miller, she peppered her conversation with
Yiddishisms. The book includes two self-portraits drawn by Monroe plus
16 pages of photos. Strasberg candidly recreates a tense household in
which everything revolved around her father's neuroses while her mother
Paula, a vibrant actress, eavesdropped and threatened suicide
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