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{{Big|''Of Women and Their Elegance''. Photographs by Milton Greene. New York: Simon and Schuster, 26 November; London: Hodder and Stoughton. Novel, 288 pp., $29.95.}} | |||
No dedication. In a concluding “Author’s Note,” [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] calls the book “an imaginary memoir.” Discarded title: ''Of Women and Their Elegance: by Marilyn Monroe as Told to Norman Mailer''. Of the 124 photographs, 34 are of Marilyn Monroe and illustrate, in part, Mailer’s text. The remaining photographs are of other show business and/or fashion figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Amy Greene, Suzy Parker, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and many others. The individuals or scenes in 23 of the photographs are unidentified. | No dedication. In a concluding “Author’s Note,” [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] calls the book “an imaginary memoir.” Discarded title: ''Of Women and Their Elegance: by Marilyn Monroe as Told to Norman Mailer''. Of the 124 photographs, 34 are of Marilyn Monroe and illustrate, in part, Mailer’s text. The remaining photographs are of other show business and/or fashion figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Amy Greene, Suzy Parker, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and many others. The individuals or scenes in 23 of the photographs are unidentified. | ||
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{{cquote|I wanted the reader to be jarred into a comprehension of the size and spectrum of a movie star’s soul. There is more to a movie star than we think, not less. I wanted to deepen the legend of Marilyn Monroe, not sweeten it.”|author=Mailer|source=80.14}} | {{cquote|I wanted the reader to be jarred into a comprehension of the size and spectrum of a movie star’s soul. There is more to a movie star than we think, not less. I wanted to deepen the legend of Marilyn Monroe, not sweeten it.”|author=Mailer|source=80.14}} | ||
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