Much of the stuff in “The American Way” is secondhand, yet the authors keep putting that jejune material into some striking and revealing sentences.

“The American Way” is a loose-hinged book, throwing together the moving story of Jules Schulback, who survived the Holocaust, with the often comical American sense of truth and justice reduced to malarky about superheroes.

“But not Jules.” He was there to take it all in with his camera in film that was lost and then found again, thus vindicating what his family thought was just a tall tale. She “laughed, bent over, and pulled out the shoe and put it back on. Siegler say, “there was more to it than that, something primitive and sacrificial.”Įven as skirt-blown, billboarded Monroe towered stories high on a skyscraper facade in Times Square, she felt devoured by the American desire to consume her: “At one point her strappy high heel got stuck in the subway grate,” on what was supposed to be a hot summer night as a rush of air cooled her undies. Schulback, an amateur filmmaker and Bonnie Siegler’s grandfather, happened upon the scene of Billy Wilder shooting Marilyn Monroe in that famous skirt that flew up heavenward in take after take in an exploitation scene that revolted Joe DiMaggio and humiliated the movie star.Īs Monroe posed and glowed in freezing weather, Schulback began to film her, later telling his family about the footage no one else had, since Billy Wilder evidently destroyed his and reshot a much more sedate take in Hollywood. So how does Marilyn Monroe figure in a tale about Nazis, Superman, and the American Way? She comes into the picture by way of Jules Schulback, who escaped Nazi Germany with the assistance of Harry Donenfeld, publisher of DC Comics, in which the adventures of Superman appeared. ‘My Maril: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, and Me’ ‘On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide’ ‘The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe’

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