The Miracle family never made a secondary career or hobby off Marilyn's fame. It took a long time for Bernice to emerge from the shadows and tell her sister's story. They appear open and naive and represent the energy, innocence and can-do attitude of post-war America. Bernice tilts her head slightly down, shyly looking slightly off camera. Marilyn looks up and right at you through the camera. She is striving to be taller, as she actually is, on a less than level beach.
They look strikingly modern despite their 1950's bikinis and hair dos. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.The picture on the cover is worth a thousand words. To be illustrated with photographs from the Miracles' personal collection. Both through her own letters, and in her sister's reminiscences, Monroe emerges not merely as a troubled star but as a woman concerned throughout her life with family, a warm and vulnerable woman eager to maintain a relationship with those who care about her. Without disclosing a lot of dirty laundry, this is a deeply intimate book, one that makes Monroe come alive more fully than the earlier tell-alls that focused on her acting career.
But once each did discover the existence of the other, they stayed in close contact-both before and after Norma Jeane became MM-writing letters (many of which are reproduced here), visiting, and just being family. The girls did not learn of each other until Berniece was 19 and Norma Jeane 12. At her father's insistence, Berniece lived with him from age four Gladys' mental breakdown necessitated Norma Jeane's stay with several foster families. Berniece and Norma Jeane were half-sisters, born seven years apart to their mother, Gladys, who eventually would be diagnosed as schizophrenic.
No, it's a biography of Norma Jeane Baker, and there turns out to be plenty we don't know about her. One can hardly blame the cynical reader for eying a new biography of Marilyn Monroe and thinking, "Right, I'm sure there are some things we don't know about her." In fact, this biography, written by Monroe's half-sister, Berniece Baker Miracle, and Miracle's daughter, isn't really a biography of Marilyn Monroe at all.
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