4 STARS"hirty-six years after Marilyn Monroe's death (at the age of 36), Leaming, prolific celebrity biographer, picks through the bones and neuroses of the ultimate Hollywood icon. More than 200 books have been written on the subject; only a few biographies (namely, Donald Spoto's revisionist Ma...
Barbara Leaming certainly scoured the primary sources for her information on screen legend Bette Davis. She went through Davis' personal scrapbooks, letters, diaries and business documents for a fuller picture of the life of one of the premiere actresses of cinema's golden age. The biography is v...