A well-researched, somewhat bonkers account of Marilyn Monroe’s life and the conspiracy surrounding her death. Four stars for getting under my skin and making me ache for this vulnerable, lonely goddess. (For the record, I believe Marilyn may have been murdered, but I don’t believe she had a secret daughter. Marilyn yearned to have a child and would have insisted on seeking out and adopting any secret child she had as a teen. She wouldn’t have visited the child once or twice and called it a day.)

A beautiful quote, from one of Marilyn’s interviews:

“I stood and stared at the ocean for a long time. It always had sort of a hypnotic effect on me. It was like something in a dream, full of gold and lavender colors, blue and foaming white.”