Ergebnis für "Marilyn" in Kunst & Literatur

Fünf große Leben - fünf packende Biographien! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Heinrich Heine, Nostradamus, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marilyn Monroe...

This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist.

In 1992, Marilyn French was told she had one year to live. A smoker of 48 years she was diagnosed as having cancer of the oesophagus, a cancer which is almost always fatal. Five years on, having battled with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a heart attack and her back breaking, she is very much alive. And - astonishingly - her body shows no sign of cancer.

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the early hours of August 5, 1962, lying face down in her bed, naked and with her hands by her side. Autopsy reports stated that the popular Hollywood star had died of barbiturate overdose. This book is an attempt to look at Monroe's death, how it happened, and the many conspiracy theories floating around even 50 years after her death.