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Summary: This book shows the real Marilyn
Review: 'Niagra' is known for the movie that made Marilyn Monroe a star, and this book shows every moment of her life during the filming. As a true Monroe fan, I'm more interested in the casual candid photos of her more so than the made-up studio photography. My favorite photos of her in the book are the pictures taken of her while she was learning how to smoke a cigarette for the film. She had never smoked before and had to look like a natural within a few hours. These are photos you wouldn't see on a billboard or in a magazine. They show her true nature. They show her being a real person, vulnerable and timid.
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Summary: Falling for Marilyn The Lost Niagara Collection
Review: A "must have" book for every Marilyn Monroe fan. Jock Carroll's pictures captured the very essence of Marilyn---sexy, beautiful, innocent!
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Summary: Cross-Check on Marilyn Monroe's My Story and Casual Glimpses
Review: At 26, Marilyn Monroe was on the brink of stardom as she filmed her first leading role in Niagara. Canadian photojournalist Jock Carroll spent weeks with her at Niagara Falls during the on location shooting, and took almost 400 photographs. He also interviewed her throughout these weeks, and captured a lot of her activities on and off the set. He was preparing for an article called "Marilyn's Not So Menacing" that appeared in an August 1952 issue of Weekend Magazine, Canada's largest periodical at the time. You will see more candid photographs in this book than in any other source. Mr. Carroll died in 1995, and these photographs were located then. The photographs are well reproduced in this book, and bring her to life in both her glamorous and nonglamorous roles.I was attracted to this book when I realized that it contained extensive interviews of Marilyn Monroe when she was 26, just before she reportedly drafted My Story. That autobiographical book has come in for many challenges concerning its authenticity and the strong stories contained in it. Reading the interviews in Falling for Marilyn provides a useful contrast in terms of what she says about herself and how she says it. I was surprised to see that the stories she tells are almost identical in both books. That similarity argues for either for her being the author of My Story, or Mr. Carroll being the author. Interestingly, she tells a story here of having been recognized in school for her fiction as a child, and wanting to become an author. The most significant difference between the books was that here she claims to have needed the $50 she got for shooting the famous nude photographs to pay rent while in My Story, the money is used to retrieve her repossessed car. A minor discrepency comes in her asking Mr. Carroll a lot about Korea because she was thinking about doing a USO tour there. In My Story, she claims that this came up for the first time after she and Joe DiMaggio were in Japan on their honeymoon. There could be truth in both versions of these two stories. There is a Zsa Zsa Gabor story here that is almost word-for-word the same as in My Story. This is true, as well, for one about being molested as a little girl by a boarder who paid her a nickel to keep quiet. To me, the most telling comparison was in what Mr. Carroll observed about her. Even though she was making a fine salary at this point, she was always short of clothes while he was with her. This is something that she talks about a lot as being a function of her poverty in My Story. She also was always studying scripts or reading intellectual books, which is consistent with My Story also. She also made self-destructive comments about sleeping pills to Mr. Carroll as she does in My Story. What was a pleasant surprise for me was Mr. Carroll's descriptions of his reactions to her. Those are missing from most books about Ms. Monroe. He had just come back from his own honeymoon a month before. He found himself strongly attracted to her, despite this. "The effect on me was cataclysmic." " . . . [W]hen she looked directly at you, it made you feel as though . . . you were sharing some naughty secret." The photographs themselves are certainly sexy, but not revealing in the sense that we think of revealing today. They were daring, however, for 1952 in showing a little cleavage, a loose blouse, and sometimes erect nipples through her clothes. She consciously worked on achieving this effect for these photographs. During a tour of a silverware factory, "Marilyn brightened [these] . . . photos by loosening the straps of her blouse, leaning over . . . to give . . . a good view of her breasts . . . ." On the other hand, she was very protective of her relationship with Joe DiMaggio who did not want any publicity. She refused an interview where the interviewer was trying to worm in questions about the Yankee slugger. My favorite photographs in the book include: Reading script in bed (two page spread), located in the book's very beginning Posing in front of the falls, p. 19 Visiting the silverware factory, p. 33 Combing her hair, p. 48 Arranging her hair, pp. 52-53 Laughing, pp. 84-85 Looking at Jean Peters' suit, p. 87 Smiling, p. 102 Seeing the vibrancy of this woman makes the sadness of her life all the more poignant. Be sure to read My Story to pick up on that contrast. Regardless of who wrote it, that is how Ms. Monroe saw herself and her life. Consider how you can lift someone's spirits every day. Look for the hurting heart behind the naughty or haughty eyes . . . or any other strongly affecting mannerisms you notice. They are just part of the cover up.
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Summary: Cross-Check on Marilyn Monroe's My Story and Casual Glimpses
Review: At 26, Marilyn Monroe was on the brink of stardom as she filmed her first leading role in Niagara. Canadian photojournalist Jock Carroll spent weeks with her at Niagara Falls during the on location shooting, and took almost 400 photographs. He also interviewed her throughout these weeks, and captured a lot of her activities on and off the set. He was preparing for an article called "Marilyn's Not So Menacing" that appeared in an August 1952 issue of Weekend Magazine, Canada's largest periodical at the time. You will see more candid photographs in this book than in any other source. Mr. Carroll died in 1995, and these photographs were located then. The photographs are well reproduced in this book, and bring her to life in both her glamorous and nonglamorous roles. I was attracted to this book when I realized that it contained extensive interviews of Marilyn Monroe when she was 26, just before she reportedly drafted My Story. That autobiographical book has come in for many challenges concerning its authenticity and the strong stories contained in it. Reading the interviews in Falling for Marilyn provides a useful contrast in terms of what she says about herself and how she says it. I was surprised to see that the stories she tells are almost identical in both books. That similarity argues for either for her being the author of My Story, or Mr. Carroll being the author. Interestingly, she tells a story here of having been recognized in school for her fiction as a child, and wanting to become an author. The most significant difference between the books was that here she claims to have needed the $50 she got for shooting the famous nude photographs to pay rent while in My Story, the money is used to retrieve her repossessed car. A minor discrepency comes in her asking Mr. Carroll a lot about Korea because she was thinking about doing a USO tour there. In My Story, she claims that this came up for the first time after she and Joe DiMaggio were in Japan on their honeymoon. There could be truth in both versions of these two stories. There is a Zsa Zsa Gabor story here that is almost word-for-word the same as in My Story. This is true, as well, for one about being molested as a little girl by a boarder who paid her a nickel to keep quiet. To me, the most telling comparison was in what Mr. Carroll observed about her. Even though she was making a fine salary at this point, she was always short of clothes while he was with her. This is something that she talks about a lot as being a function of her poverty in My Story. She also was always studying scripts or reading intellectual books, which is consistent with My Story also. She also made self-destructive comments about sleeping pills to Mr. Carroll as she does in My Story. What was a pleasant surprise for me was Mr. Carroll's descriptions of his reactions to her. Those are missing from most books about Ms. Monroe. He had just come back from his own honeymoon a month before. He found himself strongly attracted to her, despite this. "The effect on me was cataclysmic." " . . . [W]hen she looked directly at you, it made you feel as though . . . you were sharing some naughty secret." The photographs themselves are certainly sexy, but not revealing in the sense that we think of revealing today. They were daring, however, for 1952 in showing a little cleavage, a loose blouse, and sometimes erect nipples through her clothes. She consciously worked on achieving this effect for these photographs. During a tour of a silverware factory, "Marilyn brightened [these] . . . photos by loosening the straps of her blouse, leaning over . . . to give . . . a good view of her breasts . . . ." On the other hand, she was very protective of her relationship with Joe DiMaggio who did not want any publicity. She refused an interview where the interviewer was trying to worm in questions about the Yankee slugger. My favorite photographs in the book include: Reading script in bed (two page spread), located in the book's very beginning Posing in front of the falls, p. 19 Visiting the silverware factory, p. 33 Combing her hair, p. 48 Arranging her hair, pp. 52-53 Laughing, pp. 84-85 Looking at Jean Peters' suit, p. 87 Smiling, p. 102 Seeing the vibrancy of this woman makes the sadness of her life all the more poignant. Be sure to read My Story to pick up on that contrast. Regardless of who wrote it, that is how Ms. Monroe saw herself and her life. Consider how you can lift someone's spirits every day. Look for the hurting heart behind the naughty or haughty eyes . . . or any other strongly affecting mannerisms you notice. They are just part of the cover up.
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Summary: The ultimate Monroe
Review: I adore this picture book on Marilyn Monroe. She was at the peak of her lustrous and seductive beauty-- she can conquer anyone! I just couldn't take my eyes off her-- a breathtakingly beautiful, innocent little girl. I feel privileged to see her read the scripts at her bedside.
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Summary: Many of the photographs are quite sexy and sensual.
Review: I think Marilyn was at her peak physically at the time Jock Carroll was photographing Marilyn Monroe, thus my interest in this book. The photos are very good. A nice collection to anyone's Marilyn Monroe archive
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Summary: Beautiful never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe.
Review: In 1952, photojournalist Jock Carroll was given the assignment of a lifetime. He was sent to write a story and take pictures of one of the most seductive actresses of the day, Marilyn Monroe, on the set of her movie Niagara, which was shooting in Niagara Falls. Over the course of several days, Jock followed Marilyn on and off the set, shooting her at work, at play, and at rest.
Just twenty-six years old, Marilyn was on the brink of stardom; not yet disillusioned, she spoke openly to Jock of her dreams, hopes, and even fears.
The camera loved Marilyn, and Jock's photographs showcase her breathtaking beauty. They also reveal the deeper Marilyn, capturing the star in moments of seriousness and anxiety as well as laughter and teasing. In the accompanying text, Jock relates the thoughts and feelings that Marilyn confided to him during the time they spent together. This extraordinary combination of words and pictures serves to show us both the image that Marilyn knew so well how to deliver and the complex nature of the woman behind the public persona.
Jock's story appeared in Canada's Weekend Magazine in August 1952, titled Marilyn's Not So Menacing. The photographs that he had taken were then filed away. Now, more than forty years later, these pictures have been rediscovered and many published for the first time in this magnificent book.
This stunning collection shows Marilyn carefully applying make-up, playfully practicing how to smoke a cigarette, taking direction on the set--always exuding the natural sensuality that made her one of the most compelling stars of this century. Jock's remarkable photographs capture the essential contradiction of Marilyn--her quality of being at once knowing yet vulnerable--in a way that will make you, too, fall for Marilyn.
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Summary: FALLING FOR MARILYN: THE LOST NIAGARA COLLECTION
Review: THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY COLLECTED PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF MISS MONROE AT HER VERY EARLY CAREER. A TIME WHERE IT WAS PRIOR TO HER "HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE" AND "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" SUCCESS, WHICH LAUNCHED HER TO ETERNAL STARDOM. THIS IS A "MUST" FOR ALL MARILYN MONROE AFFICIONADOS. IT IS TRULY A BEAUTIFUL BOOK THAT I ENJOY READING AND REVIEWING MANY TIMES OVER.
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Summary: FALLING FOR MARILYN: THE LOST NIAGARA COLLECTION
Review: THIS IS TRULY A TREASURE TROVE OF BEAUTIFULLY TAKEN (POSED AND CANDID) MARILYN MONROE PHOTOS DURING HER EARLY "PRE" "GENTLEMEN PREFER "BLONDES" SUCCESS. YOU CAN REALLY APPRECIATE HER "RADIANT BEAUTY". I TRULY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ANY MARILYN MONROE FAN / AFFICIONADO.
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Summary: If u love MARILYN..get this BOOK!
Review: Wonderful, oversized hardcover book with lots of black and white images of Marilyn while at Niagara Falls, shooting her first mayor movie "Niagara" in '52. I enjoy all the photographs, my favorites are where Marilyn practices smoking. There are also pictures of her with Joe Dimaggio before they were married, pictures of Marilyn without her make-up on and her face covered with vaseline as she liked to do. Reading her script while relaxing in bed. These are priceless photographs, showing Marilyn at the very brink of superstardom.
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