Impossibly Blonde

The Genesis of a Play in the Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe

by Maggy Anthony & Photographs by Gene Anthony


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 8/17/2004

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 92
ISBN : 9780595325962
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 92
ISBN : 9780595774036

About the Book

Hollywood icon, sex goddess, glamour queen, complex, scared and vulnerable young woman, Marilyn Monroe offered a variety of faces to the world before she died. To imagine how Marilyn might have matured into wise, graceful and gorgeous old age, author and playwright Maggy Anthony wrote Impossibly Blonde.

"Just as her life had cast its spell over my life, her death and the subsequent surrealism of her funeral, which I attended, and the aftermath of conspiracy theories, hints of murder and intrigue in high places, cast its shadow.

"I am attempting to show how even an event of the utmost tragedy can give birth to a creative project and perhaps offer some understanding of this complex woman who has become a symbol of the Eternal Feminine, and who was also very much a woman of her time.

"My play is my prose poem to her, of love, appreciation and regret."
-Maggy Anthony, playwright and author


About the Author

Maggy Anthony was born in Hollywood and is a playwright now residing in Northern Nevada. A lifelong fan of Marilyn Monroe, she was at Monroe?s home on assignment for an international magazine with her photojournalist husband Gene Anthony, the day after Monroe?s death. Anthony has written a one-woman play, Impossibly Blonde, in which she portrays an older Monroe. She studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and is the author of several books, including JUNG?S CIRCLE OF WOMEN, and LANDSCAPE OF DESIRE.