Resultados para "Marilyn" en Biografías y memorias

Marilyn Monroe. Un juguete sexual con triste final narra la historia de la actriz, modelo y cantante estadounidense que se convirtió en uno de los símbolos sexuales más populares de la década de los cincuenta y un emblema de la revolución sexual de la época. Rubia, diva, espectacular, pero a la vez frágil y vulnerable, luchó por ganarse un lugar en el mundo. Su belleza, simpatía, ingenio e inteligencia, sumados a su trágico final, la convirtieron en leyenda y en una figura de la cultura popular.

Io sono Marilyn, sembra dire ogni parola di questo racconto struggente fatto di bellezza extraterrestre e sprecata, di amore infinito e sfinito, della donna più bella mai esistita, della donna più triste mai vissuta. Marilyn è un viaggio tra le lenzuola profumate di un’anima fragile in un corpo da bomba atomica. Marilyn icona, Marilyn desiderata dagli uomini di potere perché ambita e inarrivabile, Marilyn amante e mai moglie, Marilyn puttana e santa, Marilyn sopravvissuta a sua madre. Marilyn, la vita come un sogno a occhi aperti.

Marilyn Monroe era una actriz en ascenso que murió joven. Y fue el símbolo de la sensualidad para buena parte del mundo, pasando la mitad del siglo XX. Había saltado a la fama por su carisma y sus expresiones fotogénicas. Sin embargo, el sueño de Marilyn era consagrarse en la actuación. Participó en varias películas y dedicó mucho esfuerzo a perfeccionarse.

Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order.

Marilyn, un'audiobiografia ricostruisce la vita di Marilyn Monroe, la più grande icona femminile del ventesimo secolo, a partire dall'infanzia, trascorsa tra famiglie...

Marilyn: A Woman In Charge shows how Marilyn Laurie, a self-described "little Jewish girl from the Bronx" rose from helping launch Earth Day to become the first female policy-making officer of a Fortune 10 company. One of the world's top public relations advisors, she faced days of heady highs and humbling lows with grace and resilience.

Marilyn Laurie—“a little Jewish girl from the Bronx”—rose from volunteer environmental organizer to become AT&T’s first female Chief Communications Officer and the first woman to sit on the executive committee of a Fortune10 company. After organizing New York’s first Earth Day in 1970 and producing a New York Times supplement for its second anniversary, she was hired by AT&T in 1971 to spark employee recycling—initially in HR but soon moved into PR based on her initiative. AT&T then handled over 90% of U.S. phone calls, and Laurie believed public trust depended more on action than words.

In this book, you will learn a lot about Norma Jeane (a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe) and what a horrible childhood she had, in and out of foster homes, and why she married at such a young age. You will find how she was "discovered" as a movie star and how hard she worked to climb her way up a glass wall in the Hollywood scene. You will also find what an insecure person she was and how she turned to alcohol and drugs to bolster her insecurities.

Step into the past and explore the lives of remarkable people of faith who made a lasting impact for Christ! This engaging series brings to life the Early Church Fathers, Famous Preachers and Evangelists, Missionaries for Christ, and Famous Hymnwriters — each with a story that continues to encourage us today.

Introduce your middle and high school students to the bold believers who helped shape the foundation of the Christian faith. Early Church Fathers, part of the inspiring Legends of Faith series by homeschool author Marilyn Boyer, brings Christian history to life through captivating stories of real men who stood firm for Christ in the face of persecution, heresy, and cultural opposition.

No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy, yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, Marilyn Monroe was no ordinary screen goddess. But few really knew her. On June 1, 1962—Marilyn's 36th birthday—famed photographer and reporter George Barris visited Marilyn on the set of what would be her final, unfinished, film. For the next six weeks, Barris photographed and interviewed the actress. "Don't believe anything you read about me except this...." she told Barris.

Marilyn Monroe has been gone for over sixty years, and yet people are still talking about her. What, exactly, is the spell she casts on so many? Stunning, exciting to watch, incredibly famous, Monroe lived a very public life and died young, with a sad suddenness. All of this is true, and yet there is so much more to her story. On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide looks past the sensation to the real legacy—her richly varied body of work.

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.

Marilyn Johnson's Lives in Ruins is an absorbing and entertaining look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, and chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu. Her subjects share stories about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, and mummies.

This is the story of the making of a missionary to America. Dr. Tesfai Tesema was born in Ethiopia, grew up as an agnostic, became a Christian in Saudi Arabia, started a church planting movement in Sudan, and became a missionary in San Jose, California.

For Alan and Marilyn Bergman, being married and working together as songwriters had many perks. The two found that their relationship allowed them to be uninhibited in sharing ideas while crafting a song. In this interview recorded with Wink Martindale in the 1980s, they discussed their lives, lyrics, and careers as songwriters. The couple provides an intimate and detailed look at the songwriting process, along with sharing interesting stories about some of the songs they've written.

Few things illustrate the magnetism of the Kennedy era like Marilyn Monroe co-headlining the President's massive birthday fundraiser, and suggestively crooning "Happy Birthday." But only a privileged few know what happened months earlier, when the two icons spent a weekend at a private summit hosted by Bing Crosby, and later, after the New York extravaganza, at the top secret, invitation-only midnight affair at a millionaire's Manhattan town house.

"Stemmen. Det første, han mødte, var hendes stemme. Og det første, han tænkte, var: det er ikke hendes rigtige stemme, nu og her, i hendes lejlighed, Eastside, New york, en halvlys eftermiddag. Det må være en plade, nogen spiller, en afspilning fra en af hendes film, stemmen som alle kender og som sang om diamanter og 'Bye, bye, baby' og 'Somebody loves me', blondine-lillepige-stemmen - der har næppe været magen til stemme før."

Two years after Marilyn loses her fiancé to cancer, she becomes a Christian and marries Henry, joining him in a worldwide ministry that leaves little time for family or personal reflection. When her old grief resurfaces, she’s shocked by the tsunami that rips through their lives. Intensive counselling fails to bring healing, and when Henry writes a public letter that decimates their churches and spins them out of fellowship—and lifelong employment—she faces an emotional and spiritual reckoning that challenges her to the core.

Höfundur Kvennaklósettsins sendir hér frá sér ógleymanlegar endurminningar um lygilegan sigur sinn á krabbameini í vélinda. Raunar sigraðist Marilyn French þrisvar á dauðanum. Eftir nokkrar rangar sjúkdómsgreiningar var hún loks árið 1992 greind með krabbamein í vélinda. Í þessum endurminningum leiðir hún lesendur í gegnum skelfilega reynslu sína af geisla- og lyfjameðferð og dáinu sem fylgdi í kjölfarið. Enginn bjóst við að hún kæmi aftur til meðvitundar og þvi síður að hún næði bata.