Summary of Anthony Summers's Goddess

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#1 The death of Marilyn Monroe was the event that triggered the events of August 4, 1962. The press at the time preferred the easy wallow in pathos to serious reporting.

#2 Marilyn Monroe was a famous actress who turned herself into Marilyn Monroe. She was a symbol of love, but she was also lonely. She died famously at the age of 36, but in folly. She had a disturbed psyche.

#3 Marilyn’s mother, Gladys, was a film cutter who had a relationship with Stanley Gifford, who was Marilyn’s supposed father. When Marilyn was seven, Gladys suffered a period of deep depression, then an explosion of rage and frustration. She was committed to the same hospital in which her own mother had died.

#4 After Marilyn’s death, Gladys would remain confined until after Marilyn’s mother died. Inez Melson, Marilyn’s former business manager, was eventually appointed Gladys’ guardian. She spent more time with her than anyone else.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822527652

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The death of Marilyn Monroe was the event that triggered the events of August 4, 1962. The press at the time preferred the easy wallow in pathos to serious reporting.

#2

Marilyn Monroe was a famous actress who turned herself into Marilyn Monroe. She was a symbol of love, but she was also lonely. She died famously at the age of 36, but in folly. She had a disturbed psyche.

#3

Marilyn’s mother, Gladys, was a film cutter who had a relationship with Stanley Gifford, who was Marilyn’s supposed father. When Marilyn was seven, Gladys suffered a period of deep depression, then an explosion of rage and frustration. She was committed to the same hospital in which her own mother had died.

#4

After Marilyn’s death, Gladys would remain confined until after Marilyn’s mother died. Inez Melson, Marilyn’s former business manager, was eventually appointed Gladys’ guardian. She spent more time with her than anyone else.

#5

Marilyn was not definitely doomed to psychiatric illness, but she was born at risk. She was emotionally unstable, excessively impulsive, and she showed the world a mood that appeared expansive and active. She depended on constant external approval, and she loved applause.

#6

Marilyn Monroe’s life was a mix of fact and fantasy. She exercised a common human license of fantasy, and it was part of her image. Her first marriage was arranged, but her life was defiantly of her own making.

#7

Norma Jeane was married to Jim Dougherty in 1942, when she was just sixteen years old. She had no idea how to cook, but she learned over time. She and Dougherty had a strange relationship, as she didn’t like grownups and he liked boys and girls younger than her.

#8

The war was kind to Mr and Mrs Dougherty. He was merely posted to Catalina Island, just across the water from Los Angeles County, and Norma Jeane joined him there. They spent an idyllic year together. However, in 1944, with the war in its closing months, life changed for them.

#9

Norma Jeane had a successful modeling career, and she was soon appearing in girlie magazines with names like Swank, Sir, and Peek. She had pale skin, and her pale skin helped her keep pale during the sun bleaching in summer.

#10

Marilyn Monroe once said that she would like her epitaph to read, Here lies Marilyn Monroe, 35-22-35. She was referring to her dress size, which was 35-22-35.

#11

Marilyn Monroe, the actress, died in 1962. Norma Jeane, the woman, died in 1962. The death certificate would only refer to the passing of a Hollywood invention called Marilyn Monroe. Norma Jeane had spent most of her life presenting herself to the world and herself through a filter of untruth.

#12

Norma Jeane called long-distance, in tears, while Jim Dougherty was eating his Christmas dinner. She said she wished she could be home but now felt obliged to stay with de Dienes.

#13

There was also the man, André de Dienes, who had a love affair with Marilyn back in the 1940s. He sent her money to help pay for the divorce from Jim Dougherty, but when it came time for her to get married, she canceled it on the phone while he was driving to meet her in Vegas.

#14

The real-life sexuality of the world’s sex symbol can be glimpsed through a mass of recollection, sometimes droll, more often sad. Marilyn told her maid, Lena Pepitone, that she had sold herself to a man shortly before the end of her marriage to Dougherty.

#15

The first recorded reference to the violation of Norma Jeane was in 1947, when she offered it to Lloyd Shearer, a journalist who interviewed her for the Twentieth Century-Fox publicity office. He listened to a horrific package story, and his reaction was that