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My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe |  | Author: Mona Miracle
Publisher: IUniverse
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 906154
Media: Paperback
Pages: 280
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0595276717
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780595276714
ASIN: 0595276717
Publication Date: April 23, 2003
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Challenging sensational falsehoods, Berniece and Mona present the only authorized book about Marilyn Monroe on the shelves. “Berniece Miracle finally opens up her family album — and translates an American legend into flesh and blood...MY SISTER MARILYN is a big hug across the decades to a sweet, talented, loving girl.” —Life Magazine “...a highly literate, readable account.” —The Bookwatch “MY SISTER MARILYN tells an unfamiliar story...this book is really different.” —Time Out
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 Short and Sincere December 12, 2009
Loves the View (Hawaii)
The picture on the cover is worth a thousand words. The two women could be fraternal twins. They look strikingly modern despite their 1950's bikinis and hair dos. Your eye goes right to Marilyn. Her head is up. She is striving to be taller, as she actually is, on a less than level beach. Marilyn looks up and right at you through the camera. Bernice tilts her head slightly down, shyly looking slightly off camera. Both are fresh and young. They appear open and naïve and represent the energy, innocence and can-do attitude of post-war America.
It took a long time for Bernice to emerge from the shadows and tell her sister's story. The Miracle family never made a secondary career or hobby off Marilyn's fame. It is true to form that Bernice chose her daughter to write this and not a highly stylized ghost writer. This seems to be the Miracle's first and only foray into that world.
Reading between the lines of this and other sources, you can see how Marilyn loved Bernice as her only living and reachable kin. Bernice has so successfully dodged the spotlight that in searching the internet, I could find no hint of whether she is still living or not. I did find Mona Rae, who seems to be enjoying her life as a school librarian.
There are no great revelations here, maybe there were in 1994 when it was written. Some of the family photos are great - I love the grandmother's hat! This is a simple telling of the Marilyn story from her sister and niece who loved her very deeply. It is an enjoyable read although it's a sad story.
Wonderful item to own June 15, 2008
Jennifer H. Wallette (Georgia USA)
I am so pleased about my purchase. The service was excellent and the book was in excellent condition. Thank you for this wonderful addition to my collection.
great April 28, 2007
AMS (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book. I never knew Marilyn wrote a autobiography. I couldn't put it down! Highly recommended.
 A Truthful Tribute March 19, 2007
dreambattery (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I'm not a diehard fan of Marilyn Monroe, My Sister Marilyn has surely convinced me to watch more of her films. Since her death in the 1960's, numerous reports have surfaced on how she died. The book doesn't surround that particular subject; instead, it shows us the relationship between Marilyn and her sister Berniece. Their bond as sisters was nice to read and they continued to keep in contact up to her death. I highly recommend this memoir to any fan of Marilyn's, or just for the curious reader looking for truth on one of Hollywood's greatest beauties.
Wonderful Important Book on Marilyn November 2, 2005
"Tee" (LA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This memoir of Berniece Baker Miracle of her half-sister Marilyn Monroe (they had the same mother) is among the most important works ever written on this great star, if only for the insights and information about the young pre-stardom Norma Jeane Baker. Berniece avoided the press for almost 50 years and finally tells her story here and Marilyn fans around the world owe her a debt of thanks for her inside information on Marilyn's early years. And the early photos of Marilyn are so precious. This is a book I am certain will be turned to again and again by Monroe fans, historians, and scholars for many years.
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