Fountaindale Public Library

The American way, a true story of Nazi escape, Superman and Marilyn Monroe, Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler

eng

Includes bibliographical references

collective biography

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

The American way

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Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler

a true story of Nazi escape, Superman and Marilyn Monroe

Family lore had it that Bonnie Siegler's grandfather crossed paths in Midtown Manhattan late one night in 1954 with Marilyn Monroe, her white dress flying up around her as she filmed a scene for The Seven Year Itch. An amateur filmmaker, Jules Schulback had his camera with him, capturing what would become the only surviving footage of that legendary night. Bonnie wans't sure she quite believed her grandfather's story . . . until, cleaning out his apartment, she found the film reel. The discovery would prompt her to reconsider all of her grandfather's seemingly tall tales - and lead her in pursuit of a remarkable piece of forgotten history that reads like fiction but is all true. This book follows two very different men - Jules Schulback and his unlikely benefactor, DC Comics publisher (and sometimes pornographer) Harry Donenfeld - on an exuberant true-life adventure linking glamorous old Hollywood, the birth of the comic book, and one family's desperate attempts to flee 1930s Berlin and the Holocaust. It's a vivacious, captivating story of two strivers living through an extraordinary moment in American history, their lives intersecting with a glittering array of twentieth-century icons in a kaleidoscopic tale of hope and reinvention, of daring escapes and fake identities, of big dreams and the magic of movies, and what it means to be a real-life Superman

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True story of Nazi escape, Superman and Marilyn Monroe