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Catherine Deneuve has co-authored a book dedicated to the late icon, \u201cMarilyn ch\u00e9rie,\u201d which will come out in May to mark the centenary of her birth.<\/p>\n
In the book, which she wrote with collector S\u00e9bastien Cauchon, Deneuve delivers a personal look at photographs of Monroe, including set photos, costume fittings, portraits by leading photographers, press images and amateur shots. The curated stills, many of which have never been published before, come from Cauchon\u2019s private collection, among others.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Deneuve, herself a cinema icon, is a longtime Monroe devotee and has been influenced by her work. She previously participated in the documentary, \u201cMarilyn, dite Norma Jean,\u201d which aired on television in 1987. Deneuve also starred with Monroe\u2019s partner in \u201cSome Like It Hot,\u201d Jack Lemmon, in his first American film, \u201cThe April Fools,\u201d in 1968; and with Yves Montand \u2014 who had starred opposite Monroe in \u201cLet\u2019s Make Love\u201d \u2014 in Jean-Paul Rappeneau\u2019s \u201cLe Sauvage\u201d in 1975.<\/p>\n \u201cSo beautiful, so open, almost unknown. So generous with her body, her face tilted back, something childlike too \u2014 which never makes her seem indecent. The actress whose films I have seen all, never known, the most precious to me,\u201d Deneuve writes in \u201cMarilyn ch\u00e9rie.\u201d<\/p>\n The 224-page book is set to be published by Flammarion, which holds the worldwide publishing rights. Deneuve and Cauchon retain the adaptation rights.<\/p>\n Cauchon, who currently works as an awards strategist, previously wrote the book \u201cMarilyn 1962,\u201d which was published by Stock in 2016 and was optioned for a miniseries project. His Marilyn Monroe photo archive collection was presented at an exhibition hosted by Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Fr\u00e9maux during the 2022 edition of the Lumi\u00e8re Festival.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Catherine Deneuve has co-authored a book dedicated to the late icon, \u201cMarilyn ch\u00e9rie,\u201d which will come out in May to mark the centenary of her birth. In the book, which she wrote with collector S\u00e9bastien Cauchon, Deneuve delivers a personal look at photographs of Monroe, including set photos, costume fittings, portraits by leading photographers, press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[390514,314148,433870,445820],"class_list":["post-2300944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-catherine-deneuve","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-norma-jean","tag-sebastien-cauchon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Catherine-Deneuve-Co-Authors-\u2018Marilyn-Cherie-Timed-to-Marilyn-Monroes-100th.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300946,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300944\/revisions\/2300946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}