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Sue Greenwood’s instinct was to follow her nose and say ‘YES!’ to everything, shortly followed by, “Oh S*%t! How am I going to get myself out of this one!” Raised in war-torn London in the early '40s in a spiritually rich but penniless bohemian Quaker family, Sue navigated through marriage and motherhood in the '60s before setting off alone to work in Singapore, aged 42. You might call it a fight for survival: she calls it one-helluva serendipitous adventure.

No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy, yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, Marilyn Monroe was no ordinary screen goddess. But few really knew her. On June 1, 1962—Marilyn's 36th birthday—famed photographer and reporter George Barris visited Marilyn on the set of what would be her final, unfinished, film. For the next six weeks, Barris photographed and interviewed the actress. "Don't believe anything you read about me except this...." she told Barris.