![]() ![]() My Story was published in 1974, 12 years after Monroe’s death in 1962, but it only covers her life up to 1954. Marilyn Monroe | Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Monroe’s unfinished autobiography was published posthumously In one heartbreaking passage of My Story, Monroe even seems to evoke images of what ultimately became her real tragic ending. These include her experiences in the foster care system as a child, her struggles to make it as an actress, the tumult in her love life, and her symptoms of depression. In My Story – her posthumous, unfinished autobiography, which Monroe wrote with the help of her friend, famed ghostwriter and screenwriter Ben Hecht – Monroe reflects on many aspects of her often troubled off-camera life. But the reality of the celebrity’s private life was often far darker than the stories of the campy seductresses and women-about-town she often played on-screen. Pop culture icon and Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe often played bubbly blonde bombshell characters in her top-grossing films of the 1950s. ![]()
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