Biographies & Memoirs

Notes

Materials from the Milton Greene Papers are from two separate collections, designated MG and MG2, and have been in each group classified according to folder, file and page numbers. Thus, MG X,3, p. 24, references file number 10, folder 3, page 24 from the first group. Where there are unpaginated sheets, a page number is not provided. RT refers to the genealogical and ancestral papers of the family of Marilyn Monroe and materials related to her first sixteen years. These were collected over almost a decade by the archivist Roy Turner, and the number following the designation RT refers to an assigned folder number for these papers.

Magazine editor Jane Wilkie conducted important interviews with both James Dougherty and Natasha Lytess. There remain two versions of the Dougherty interview: JWP I refers to the unedited, complete notes of Wilkie’s interviews with Dougherty in 1952;JWP II refers to the final version, ghostwritten by Wilkie and published as: James Dougherty, “Marilyn Monroe Was My Wife,” Photoplay, March 1953, pp. 47–85.

On several occasions from 1958 to 1960, Wilkie also interviewed Marilyn’s drama coach Natasha Lytess, from which an important cache of papers emerged. This material also exists in two forms: extensive transcribed, unedited notes and a completed, polished memoir. Both remain unpublished and were subsequently acquired by DS from Wilkie. In these notes, JWP/NL I refers to the unedited transcript, JWP/NL II to the edited version.

BH refers to the notes and manuscripts prepared by Ben Hecht as the original ghostwriter suggested by columnist and Monroe confidant Sidney Skolsky to write her autobiography, which was eventually reworked by Milton Greene for publication as My Story(New York: Stein & Day, 1974). Hecht’s notations are preserved in his Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and are so identified.

IMP refers to the Inez Melson Papers, a box of Marilyn’s personal documents and letters kept by Inez Melson, her business manager from 1952 to 1962. Melson died in 1986, and the collection was acquired by DS in 1991.

For interviews that occurred on only one occasion, the author has, for reasons of space economy, generally mentioned the details of his interview only on their first citation; subsequent citations from the same source refer to the same interview unless otherwise noted.

	Chapter One: To June 1926
3	neat as a pin: MG X,3.
5	to pray for: Quoted by Gladys Monroe in a letter to MM: MG2 III, 2; cf. also RT 16.
5	Mama liked men: MG2 X, 3.
5	failure to provide: Divorce petition of Della Monroe Graves vs. Lyle Arthur Graves, Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Petition #B-8426.
8	extreme cruelty: Divorce petition, Baker vs. Baker: Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Petition #D-10379.
10	She was a birdlike: Olin G. Stanley to RT, Oct. 12, 1982.
12	For the Martin Mortensen—Gladys Baker marriage, see California State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, register no. 13794.
12	wilfully and without: Divorce claim of Mortensen vs. Baker, File #053720, in and for the County of Los Angeles in the Superior Court of the State of California.
12	I sure would like: Olin G. Stanley to RT, no date.
13	shamelessly boasted: Gifford vs. Gifford, Divorce Petition #D-24788, Superior Court of the State of California.
	Chapter Two: June 1926–June 1934
16n2	were themselves children: See A. J. Simon, The Nervous Child (1944), vol. 3, p. 119; and W. H. Newell in The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, vol. 4 (1934), p. 387, and vol. 6 (1936), p. 576.
17	I was probably: Quoted in MG2 IV, 8, p. 12; cf. also Guus Luitjers, In Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe (London: Omnibus, 1991), p. 28.
18	for no reason: Ida Bolender, in the David L. Wolper Productions, Inc., film documentary, The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1964). Hereinafter indicated as Wolper, Legend.
18–19	Medical files of Della M. Monroe: Norwalk State Hospital, Nowalk, California: Record #5093; Death Certificate #4081, Registry No. 132.
18	contributory manic depressive: Ibid.
19	Despite all the: James E. Dougherty, The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976), p. 9; also, Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.
20	Her mother paid: Quoted in Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), p. 225.
20	One morning: MM, quoted in Wolper, Legend. Also to MG2 II, 6, p. 4.
20	she discussed her father: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 17, 1992.
20	She didn’t come: Georges Belmont, interview with MM originally conducted for the French magazine Marie Claire, published in 1960 and reprinted in Marilyn and the Camera Eye (Boston: Bulfinch/Little, Brown, 1989), p. 14. Hereinafter cited as Belmont.
21	To go to: “Hollywood’s Topic A-Plus,” Life, vol. 32, no. 14 (April 7, 1952): 104.
21	no one ever: Quoted in People, vol. 18, no. 6 (Aug. 9, 1982): 44. This statement recurs frequently in MM’s notes in MG2, I and II.
21	We took her: Ida Bolender, in Wolper, Legend.
21	Every night: Robert L. Heilbroner, “Marilyn Monroe,” Cosmopolitan, vol. 153, no. 5 (May 1953): 40.
21	I always felt: Maurice Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe (reprint of the 1960 original, New York: Harper/Perennial, 1990), p. 21. Hereinafter cited as Zolotow.
22	They were terribly: Belmont, p. 14.
23	It was hard: Quoted by MM in MG2 II, 6, p. 5.
24	I dreamed: Often attributed to MM—e.g., “To Aristophanes & Back,” Time, vol. 67, no. 20 (May 14, 1956): 74.
24	You could have: Quoted by MM in MG2 II, 6, p. 6.
25	We all had: Robert Cahn, “The 1951 Model Blonde,” Collier’s, Sept. 8, 1951, p. 50.
25	I loved playing: Margaret Parton, “A Revealing Last Interview with Marilyn Monroe,” first published in Look, Feb. 19, 1979, p. 26.
27	a people well: Christopher Rand, Los Angeles: The Ultimate City (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 135.
28	Life became: Belmont, p. 14.
29	Aunt Ida: Belmont, p. 14. Cf. also Time, art. cit., p. 76.
30	There’s a movie star: Quoted by MM in MG2 II, 5, p. 7.
30	Jean Harlow: See Belmont, pp. 14, 17.
30	There I’d sit: MM in Life, vol. 53, no. 5 (Aug. 3, 1962): 33.
31	For an account of Tilford Marion Hogan’s death, see the Laclede (Missouri) Blade, June 2, 1933; cf. also File #17075, Missouri State Board of Health, for the death certificate.
32	This doctor prescribed: Eleanor Goddard to DS, Feb. 21, 1992.
33	reality: Gladys Monroe, medical report from Los Angeles General Hospital dated October 1934: “Mrs. Monroe [sic] visited her family four days, returning of her own will in an agitated state. Referred by Dr. Fellowes to Dr. . . .” This is the only decipherable portion of the record, torn and yellowed, and was preserved by MM in MG2 VIII, 4, p. 1.
34	Grace loved: Zolotow, p. 18.
34–35	Grace Goddard was nice: James Dougherty to RT, in RT 47.
35	We workers: Olin Stanley to RT, 1982.
36	It was just: Charlotte Engleburg to RT, n.d.
36	Grace was captivated: MG2 IV, 4, p. 25.
	Chapter Three: June 1934–November 1937
38	there wasn’t anyone: Quoted in Eve Golden, Platinum Girl: The Life and Legends of Jean Harlow (New York: Abbeville Press, 1991), p. 230. O’Sullivan repeated identical remarks on the 1992 Turner Network Television miniseries When the Lion Roars, a history of MGM. MGM film editor Margaret Booth was among several who enthusiastically agreed.
38	There’s no reason: Quoted by MM in MG2 XII, 2, p. 24.
40	Her illnesses: File of Gladys Monroe Baker from Los Angeles General Hospital, 1935; IMP.
40	I was sorry: “To Aristophanes & Back” (art. cit. in Time), p. 76.
41	You can imagine: MG2 III, 3.
43	Norma Jeane was: Jody Lawrance, quoted in Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), p. 227.
44	Doc had a: James Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.
44	slept in: Belmont, p. 15.
44	a normal, healthy: Portion of a record of the Los Angeles Orphans Home retained by MM, filed in MG2 IV, 3 (undated, unpaginated).
44–45	MM’s many dramatic accounts of the orphanage persisted to days before her death: cf. Life, vol. 53, no. 5 (Aug. 3, 1962): 38.
45	the man: Many times from 1949 to 1962, e.g., to her publicist Rupert Allan, among others.
45	fix things: MG2 XI, 2, p. 8.
45	trying to fit: MM, in Wolper, Legend.
46	made their appearance: New York Times, June 8, 1937, pp. 1 and 30.
46	Time after time: MM to BH, folder 12.
46–47	Grace’s expense records were preserved by MM and were later discovered by RT, from whom DS received them.
47	she was able: Arthur Miller, Timebends (New York: Grove Press, 1987), p. 9.
47	I was never used: Life, art. cit., p. 38.
47	anxious and withdrawn: Los Angeles Orphans Home: February 20, 1937, report in the file of Norma Jeane Baker, retained in MG2 IV, 2. The signature is illegible.
47	I sometimes told: MM in MG2 IX, 22, p. 4.
48	went up: Ibid.
48	I suddenly stopped: MG2 III, 6, unpaginated.
49	You have: Ibid. MM recited this anecdote with variations: in some citations (e.g., Belmont, p. 15) the cosmetic job that day was Mrs. Dewey’s idea.
49	This girl: New York Times, art. cit., p. 30
49	She added little: Ibid.
49	The incident of Doc’s molestation was recounted to DS by Dougherty, April 22, 1992.
49	I can’t trust: MM in MG2 III, 5, p. 39.
50	At first: MG2 II, 3, p. 17.
	Chapter Four: November 1937–June 1942
52	destitute and in need: Olive Brunings Monroe, Petition No. 434981 submitted to the State of California in accordance with Sections 1570–1573 of the State Welfare and Institutions Code.
52	I remember: Ida Mae Monroe Masciello to RT, 1984.
53	The world: MG2 II, 4, 34.
54	Later, I thought: MG2 XI, 4, unpaginated.
55	sexually assaulted: Sam Shaw and Norman Rosten, Marilyn among friends (London: Bloomsbury, 1987), p. 95.
57	She was very: Eleanor Goddard to DS, Feb. 21, 1992.
57	She changed: Quoted in Zolotow, p. 34.
58	Talk about marriage: MG2 VI, 2, 40.
58n3	The controversy about: B. R. Wilson, “Christian Science,” in the Encyclopœdia Britannica, 15th ed., 1983: vol. 4, p. 564; and the same author’s monograph, “The Origins of Christian Science: A Survey,” Hibbert Journal, vol. 57 (1959): 161–170.
60	but nothing did: MG2 VIII, 3, p. 46.
60	Los Angeles was: Gladys Phillips Wilson to DS, Feb. 14, 1992.
61	She was very much: Mabel Ella Campbell, in Wolper, Legend.
62	I was very: MG2 VI, 3, p. 3.
62	She was neat: Ron Underwood to RT, Dec. 2, 1986.
62	she always seemed: Marian Losman Zaich to RT, Dec. 16, 1986.
62	You used to have: MM to BH, 3.
63	Suddenly, everything: Life, art. cit., p. 33.
66	We danced: MG2 XII, 4, p. 37.
67	the smiling and beaming: The Emersonian, vol. 5, no. 15 (June 20, 1941): n.p.
68	After tabulating: “What Is Your Favorite Type of Girl?” in The Emersonian, vol. 5, no. 15 (June 20, 1941): n.p.
69	and I’d say: Often—e.g., Belmont, p. 15.
69	A for Ambitious: The Emersonian, as above.
70	You couldn’t support: James E. Dougherty, The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976), p. 18.
70	a dreamboat: MG2 XII, 61, unpaginated.
70	she was: Quoted in Robert L. Heilbroner, “Marilyn Monroe,” Cosmopolitan, vol. 134, no. 5 (May 1953): 42.
70	What a daddy: Quoted by Eleanor Goddard to DS; similarly in MG XII, 61.
70	I noticed: James Dougherty, in the unedited, unpublished portion of the interview for Photoplay, preserved in a transcription: Jane Wilkie Papers (hereinafter JWP I), pp. 1–2.
71	expertly maneuvering: Dougherty, op. cit., pp. 19–20.
71	extra close: Ibid., p. 22.
71	She very neatly: Ibid., p. 24.
72	her respect: James Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.
73	she was loud: Tom Ishii to RT, 1985.
73	The dialogue is from JWP I, p. 2; cf. also Wolper, Legend.
73	so that she wouldn’t: Elia Kazan, A Life (New York: Knopf, 1988), p. 404.
74	Grace McKee arranged: Belmont, p. 16.
74	but not have: JWP I, p. 2.
76	liked the winding: Ibid., p. 9.
76	never let go: Dougherty, p. 30.
	Chapter Five: June 1942–November 1945
77	I’m the captain: James Dougherty, “Marilyn Monroe Was My Wife,” Photoplay, March 1953, pp. 47–85.
78	there were never: Dougherty, Secret Happiness, p. 37; see also Dennis Rowe, “Shattered: The Myth of Frigid Marilyn,” in the Sunday Mirror (London), May 30, 1976.
78	I wouldn’t: Rowe, art. cit.
78	My marriage didn’t: MG2 XII, 4, p. 12.
78	I really didn’t: MG2 IX, 3, p. 34.
78	She was so sensitive: JWP I, p. 5.
79	She called me: Ibid., p. 13.
79	She loved them all: Eleanor Goddard to DS, Feb. 20, 1992.
79	she couldn’t cook: JWP I, p. 4.
80	You ought to: Ibid., p. 5.
80	Our life was: The Listener (U.K.), Aug. 30, 1979, p. 272; see also People, vol. 5, no. 21 (May 31, 1976): 38.
80	“Pull off the road” Dougherty, Secret Happiness, p. 46.
80	anything Jim did: Quoted in Kazan.
80	Of course I: MG2 XII, 10, p. 22.
81	I used to stay out: Dougherty, p. 46.
81	Her mentality: JWP I, p. 8.
81	an enchanting idea: In Wolper, Legend.
81	terrified: MG2 XII, 10, p. 23.
81	I insisted: James Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.
82	Your old lady: Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows (Chicago: Cowles Book Co., 1971), p. 281.
82	very shy and sweet: Robert Mitchum in Feldman/Winters documentary Marilyn: Beyond the Legend.
82	She was just: Nelson, art. cit., p. 62.
82	because she wore: Rowe, art. cit.
83	She was a perfectionist: JWP I, p. 4.
83	Just her presence: Dougherty, Secret Happiness, p. 53.
84	We got along: JWP I, p. 1.
84	There was a scarcity: Quoted in the Sunday Express (London), Aug. 9, 1987.
85	I’ll admit: Ibid. Same source for the ensuing dialogue between the Doughertys.
86	She begged me: James Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.
88	she had developed: Eleanor Goddard to DS, Feb. 21, 1992.
90	In her rational: Dougherty, Secret Happiness, p. 80.
92	There was a luminous: David Conover, Finding Marilyn (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1981), p. 12.
92	What happened: Ibid.
92	Mom froze: JWP I, p. 6.
92–93	a white bathing: Robert Stack, with Mark Evans, Straight Shooting (New York: Macmillan, 1980), p. 84.
93	all this business: Quoted by Dougherty in JWP I, p. 7.
93	As far as: MG2 XII, 3, p. 25.
94	too curly: Emmeline Snively in the Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 4, 1954, p. 14.
94	perfect teeth: from the Blue Book application card filled in by an unknown staff member for “Norma Jean [sic] Dougherty,” dated August 2, 1945.
94	dance a little: Ibid.
95	I don’t think: Quoted in Ted Thackrey in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 7, 1962; Snively also spoke on camera for Wolper.
95	The problem: MG2 III, 2, p. 20.
95–96	When you stop: MG2 III, 2, p. 22.
96	very serious: Lydia Bodrero Reed to DS, June 19, 1992.
	Chapter Six: December 1945–August 1946
98	We got along: JWP I, p. 1.
98	She was: JWP II, p. 7.
99	she still seemed: Quoted in Thackrey, art. cit.
99	naive but disturbing: André de Dienes, Marilyn Mon Amour (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), p. 27.
99	So far: JWP I, pp. 7–8.
100	The truth is: MG2 VII, 4, unpaginated.
100	I longed to: de Dienes, p. 51.
100	The plain truth is: Alex D’Arcy to DS, June 18, 1992.
100	She needed: de Dienes, p. 71.
100	Come to me: Ibid., p. 67.
101	I’d like to come: MG2 XII, 23, pp. 11–12.
102	In my dreams: de Dienes, p. 70.
102	Isn’t this better: Golden, p. 178.
103	nearly went berserk: JWP I, p. 8.
104	the lost look: William Burnside, “My life with young Marilyn,” The Observer magazine, May 11, 1975; see also Kate Wharton, “Photos that echo a sad story of love,” Today (U.K.), April 23, 1986.
104	Her lyric was reprinted in The Observer magazine of May 6, 1984, p. 23; a copy is also in MG III, 3, unpaginated.
104	She liked: Earl Moran, in “A Marilyn for All Seasons,” Life, vol. 6, no. 7 (July 1983): 15.
105	a shy girl: Joseph Jasgur to DS, Feb. 7, 1992.
105	When she saw: Laszlo Willinger in Feldman/Winters documentary, Marilyn: Beyond the Legend.
106	where a female: Ken DuMain to DS, Aug. 26, 1992.
106	She wandered: Eleanor Goddard to DS, Feb. 21, 1992.
107	calculating: Dougherty, p. 105.
107	a woman without: JWP I, p. 11.
107	Regarding MM’s financial support of her mother: “Marilyn never shirked a responsibility she legally did not have,” according to Inez Melson, her business manager in later years. “No matter how little she made, she contributed to her mother’s care, and her will ensured that the care continued after Marilyn’s death.” See Inez Melson, quoted in The Listener (London), Aug. 30, 1979.
108	First she thought: JWP I, p. 8.
108	The dialogue between the Doughertys was told by Dougherty to Jane Wilkie: JWP II, pp. 1 and 11.
108	She thought we: Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.
108	extreme mental cruelty: Complaint, “Norma Jeane Dougherty, Plaintiff, vs. James Edward Dougherty, Defendant,” Case no. 31146 in the Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, Clark County, filed July 5, 1946.
109	I married and: Philip K. Scheuer, “Wolves Howl for ‘Niece’ Just Like Marilyn Monroe,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 1950.
111	She’d been: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992. Snyder also provided the subsequent quotation from Shamroy.
111	When I first: Leon Shamroy, quoted in Robert Cahn, “The 1951 Model Blonde,” Collier’s, Sept. 8, 1951, p. 51. See also Zolotow, pp. 60–61.
114	I know who you are: Ben Lyon to Earl Wilson, quoted in the Los Angeles Daily News, June 13, 1953, p. 10.
115	The dialogue is cited by MM in MG2 X, 8, pp. 22–23.
	Chapter Seven: September 1946–February 1948
116ff	For a succinct history of 20th Century–Fox, see Joel W. Finler, The Hollywood Story (London: Octopus, and New York: Crown, 1988), pp. 88–113. A fair treatment of Darryl F. Zanuck may be found in Marlys J. Harris, The Zanucks of Hollywood (New York: Crown, 1989).
117	Zanuck had an aide: Ernest Lehman to DS, Aug. 29, 1992.
118	an energetic and: Philip Dunne, “Darryl from A to Z,” American Film, vol. ix, no. 9 (July–August 1984): 50.
119	She was very: Lipton in Wolper, Legend.
119	Desperate to absorb: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
121	When I told: Harry Lipton, in Wolper, Legend.
122	It was as: MG2 XVI, 4, p. 12.
124	crazy, destroyed: MG2 XVI, 4, p. 17.
124	She asked us: Ibid.
125	All I could think of: MG2 XVI, 4, p. 19.
125	she did all: Phoebe Brand, quoted in Zolotow, p. 72.
126	Movie stars were paid: MG2 XII, 3.
127	the look of: Lucille Ryman Carroll to DS, Feb. 20, 1992.
128	Marilyn was: Lee Strasberg, quoted in Cindy Adams, Lee Strasberg: The Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio (New York: Doubleday, 1980), p. 153.
129	MM’s comments on Glamour Preferred are recorded in MG2 II, 5, p. 26.
132	I was invited: MG VIII, 4, unpaginated; cf. also Meryman, 33; and the later expanded version of Meryman in Life, vol. 15, no. 8 (August 1992): 75.
132	If four or five: quoted in Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Crown, 1988), p. 113.
133	Marilyn spoke: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
	Chapter Eight: February 1948–May 1949
135	She was like: Jane Wilkie to DS, Oct. 20, 1992.
137	Not very much: MG2 XIV, 3, p. 2.
137	Marilyn was inhibited: JWP/NL I, p. 5.
137	There were days: MG2 II, 8, p. 12.
138	I took her: JWP/NL I, p. 5 and II, p. 9.
138	She was in love: MG2 II, 8, p. 2.
139	the one human: Ibid., p. 3.
139	I began to feed: JWP/NL II, pp. 8–9.
140	I felt like: MG2 XIV, 3, 24.
140	Please don’t do: JWP/NL II, p. 5.
141	but first of all: Milton Berle to DS, April 2, 1992.
141	She told me: Adele Jergens to DS, April 9, 1992.
142	the only security: JWP/NL I, p. 10.
142	Under Marilyn’s: Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), p. 234.
143	He said that: MG2 III, 7, p. 24.
145	Marilyn was beginning: JWP/NL II, p. 10.
146	I’m not going: Ibid., p. 11; see also MG2 III, 4, p. 15; and similar remarks cited to DS by Rupert Allan, Lucille Ryman Carroll and Amy Greene.
146	Johnny Hyde knew: Peter Leonardi to Earl Wilson, quoted in Wilson’s Show Business Laid Bare (New York: Putnam’s, 1974), p. 67.
146	She never had: Leon Krohn, M.D., spoke to producer Ted Landreth in 1984 for his BBC-TV documentary Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President.
147	He was willing: MM, quoted in Jane Corwin, “Orphan in Ermine,” Photoplay, vol. 45, no. 3 (March 1954): 109.
147	I knew nobody: JWP/NL I, p. 4.
147	chump: Elia Kazan, A Life (New York: Knopf, 1988), p. 403.
147	tramps and pushovers: Ibid., p. 406.
148	It’s amazing: Quoted in Roger G. Taylor, Marilyn In Art (Salem, N.H.: Salem House, 1984), n.p.
149	I began to see hope: JWP/NL II, p. 8.
149	Natasha was jealous: MG2 VIII, 2, p. 1.
151	I think I: Tom Kelley, quoted in “Marilyn: The Naked Truth!” Los Angeles Magazine, vol. 36, no. 6 (June 1991): 90.
151ff	Whenever the topic of the calendars arose, Marilyn claimed she was “broke and behind in the rent,” or “hungry and behind in my rent.” See, e.g., Belmont, p. 18, et alibi.
152	I’m only comfortable: Wilson, Show Business Laid Bare, p. 67.
	Chapter Nine: June 1949–December 1950
154	I bought: MG VI, 3, p. 25.
155	Her shrewdness: JWP/NL I, p. 9.
156	It was the: Ibid., VI, 3, p. 29.
156	She had the: de Dienes, p. 91.
156	so they just: Earl Wilson’s syndicated column (e.g., in the Los Angeles Daily News) for July 30, 1949.
156	a pretty dull: Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows (Chicago: Cowles, 1971), p. 288.
157	You know: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column in the Los Angeles Citizen-News, Sept. 30, 1952.
158	They showed me: “The Men Who Interest Me . . . By Mrs. Joe DiMaggio,” Pageant, vol. 9, no. 10 (April 1954): 53.
158	Why, you’re: This little dialogue has been attributed to their meeting in 1953, which Milton and Marilyn put forth as the official time of their meeting and which most people accepted—including Amy Greene (who married Milton that year). But Rupert Allan heard it in his home in 1949.
158	painting with the: Often in MG: e.g., I, 4, p. 31; see also Al Morch, “The photographer who captured Marilyn Monroe,” San Francisco Examiner, July 13, 1981, p. D5.
159	Telegram to MG from MM preserved in MG I, 1.
159	sad to see Milton: Rupert Allan to DS, June 17, 1991.
160	voluptuously made: Quoted in Lawrence Grobel, The Hustons (New York: Avon, 1989), p. 334.
160	When she finished: John Huston, An Open Book (New York: Knopf, 1980), pp. 286–287. With minor variations, this is the account reported also by Grobel; by Axel Madsen; and by Gerald Pratley (see Bibliography).
160	But she was: Quoted in the The Daily Mirror (London), April 1, 1980.
161	For the better: JWP/NL II, p. 9.
161	She impressed me: John Huston in Wolper, Legend.
161	It was the first: JWP/NL II, p. 10.
162	I don’t know: Ibid., p. 9.
163	Body control: Quoted by George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.
163	For the reminiscences of Agnes Flanagan, see Crivello, p. 250.
166	eager young hustlers: Nunnally Johnson, quoted in Rollyson, p. 33.
166	Almost everybody thought: MG XII, 3, p. 14.
167	Joe sponsored: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
168	had done a good: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, More About All About Eve (New York: Random House, 1972), pp. 76–77.
169	Every now and then: Ibid., p. 78.
169	very inquiring: George Sanders, Memoirs of a Professional Cad (New York: Putnam’s, 1960), pp. 70–71.
169	but somehow she: Mankiewicz, p. 79.
170	soft-spoken: Fredda Dudley Balling to Constance McCormick, quoted in the Constance McCormick Collection in the Film Archives of the University of Southern California.
170	because I wanted: MG2 IV, 3, p. 22.
171	She fed Josefa: JWP/NL I, p. 11.
171	was a channel: JWP/NL II, p. 10.
171	I signalled: Ibid., p. 11.
173	He had a tendency: Steffi Sidney Splaver to DS, June 5, 1992. There is also an amusing account of Skolsky’s place in Hollywood history in Goodman, pp. 46–49 and 392–395.
173	Do you think: Quoted by Skolsky in Goodman, p. 394.
174	From then on: Sidney Skolsky, Don’t Get Me Wrong—I Love Hollywood (New York: Putnam’s, 1975), p. 214.
174	He had confidence: “The Men Who Interest Me . . . By Mrs. Joe DiMaggio,” Pageant, vol. 9, no. 10 (April 1954) 53.
175	I don’t know: MG2 VIII, 5.
176	I saw: JWP/NL I, p. 13.
176	Joe Schenck was: Sam Shaw to DS, March 8, 1992.
177	Natasha often accused: MG2 III, 3, p. 9.
177	just by standing: Life, vol. 30, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1951): 37.
	Chapter Ten: January 1951–March 1952
178	It wasn’t until: JWP/NL II, p. 16.
179	She said she: Ibid.
180	she was frightened: Quoted in “MM Remembered,” Playboy, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1964): 191.
180	She can’t stop: Quoted in Kazan, p. 404.
180	Every time: Ibid.
180	She hadn’t even: Ibid., p. 403.
181	technique of seduction: Ibid., p. 404.
181	a simple, decent-hearted: Ibid., pp. 404–405.
181	Marilyn simply wasn’t: Kazan, p. 415.
183	I’m not interested: Many times in her life: e.g., the incident here, cited in Pete Martin, “The New Marilyn Monroe,” Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1956, p. 150.
183	the shock of: Arthur Miller, Timebends (New York: Grove Press, 1987), p. 303.
184	When Miller withdrew his script from Hollywood rather than alter its premise, he received a telegram from Harry Cohn complaining that “THE MINUTE WE TRY TO MAKE THE SCRIPT PRO-AMERICAN YOU PULL OUT” (see Miller, p. 308). The wheels were set in motion for the absurd charges of anti-Americanism against Arthur Miller.
185	the air around: Miller, p. 306.
185	not only by: Ibid.
185	was something like: Ibid., pp. 307, 327.
186	She fell in love: JWP/NL I, p. 9.
186	if I had stayed: Arthur Miller, quoted in James Kaplan, “Miller’s Crossing,” Vanity Fair, vol. 54, no. 11 (November 1991): 241.
186	Most people: MM to AM, March 9, 1951; she kept a working copy (MG2 III, 3).
186	If you want: AM to MM, March 13, 1951, cited in Fred Lawrence Guiles, Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Stein and Day, 1984), p. 173.
186	It scared hell: Kazan, p. 427.
187	you could hear: Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” Hollywood Citizen-News, May 2, 1951.
187	hardly enough room: Quoted in Robert Cahn, “The 1951 Model Blonde,” Collier’s, Sept. 8, 1951, p. 50.
187	the whole crew: June Haver in “MM remembered,” Playboy, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1964): 190.
187	she grabbed: Jack Paar, on the television program Donahue, May 5, 1983.
187	one of the brightest: Ezra Goodman in the Los Angeles Daily News, June 6, 1951.
187	Marilyn Monroe is superb: New York Times, Aug. 3, 1951, p. 10.
188	Our bodies: He was citing the epigraph to the first chapter of his book; cf. Michael Chekhov, To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting (New York: Harper & Row, 1953), p. 1.
189	I am going: Chekhov, p. 6.
189	Merely discussing: Ibid.
189	artists of such magnitude: Chekhov, p. 163–166.
191	She is particularly concerned: Cahn, art. cit.
191	She’s the biggest: Quoted in Goodman, p. 234.
191	How much of the story: Skolsky, p. 220.
192	The studio: Richard Meryman, “A Last Long Talk With A Lonely Girl,” Life, vol. 53, no. 7 (Aug. 17, 1962): 33.
192	Like a famous predecessor: Cahn, art. cit.
193	terribly late: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 1, 1991.
193	the brightest star: Rupert Allan, “Marilyn Monroe . . . a serious blonde who can act,” Look, vol. 15 (Oct. 23, 1951): 40.
193	Nothing happened: Robert Wagner, in Remembering Marilyn, 1988 TV documentary, narrated by Lee Remick; dir. Andrew Solt. Vestron Video/Image Entertainment LaserDisc.
194	indifferent, amusing: E.g., Wanda Hale, in the New York Daily News, Nov. 7, 1951.
194	Hold a good thought: E.g., Skolsky, p. 216; also Susan Strasberg to DS, Aug. 29, 1992.
194	Every element had to be: Marjorie Plecher Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
195	scared as hell: Quoted in Peter Bogdanovich, Fritz Lang in America (New York: Praeger, 1967), p. 81.
195	She fought: JWP/NL I, p. 20.
195	She wasn’t disciplined: Quoted in Ella Smith, Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck (New York: Crown, 1985), p. 233.
195	We don’t want: Bogdanovich, p. 82.
195	a forceful actress: Alton Cook, New York World-Telegram & Sun, June 20, 1952.
196	Natasha, I’m terrified: JWP/NL I, p. 15.
196	I didn’t think: Ibid.
198	surefire money attraction: Variety, Aug. 13, 1952.
198	We had a hell: Quoted in Hollywood Studio Magazine, vol. 20, no. 8 (August 1987): 35.
198	I’m trying to: Aline Mosby, “Actress has memory of heartbreak,” Los Angeles Daily News, Jan. 7, 1952.
199	dazzled by the richness : Miller to the editors of Current Biography, 1973, p. 297.
200	Dear Mr. Chekhov: Copy preserved in MG2 III, 4, p. 2.
200	For Nunnally Johnson’s recollections of MM, cf. Tom Stempel, Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson (San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980), pp. 168–174.
200	The more important: Howard Hawks, quoted in Pamela Trescott, Cary Grant—His Movies and His Life (Washington: Acropolis Books, 1987), p. 144.
201	But we’re not married: MM to Mort Jelline, Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 26, 1952.
	Chapter Eleven: March–December 1952
204	I didn’t let: Quoted in Roger Kahn, Joe & Marilyn (New York: William Morrow, 1986), p. 18.
205	everybody who calls: Ibid., p. 44.
205	almost a mental: Ibid., p. 238.
205–206	One of the most: Quoted in Current Biography, 1951, p. 163.
206	very slow: Ibid., p. 32; cited from an interview by Clay Felker with former player Andy High.
206	loner: Current Biography, p. 164; see also Maury Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? (New York: Dutton, 1975), 171ff.
207	I was surprised: MG2 VIII, 3, p. 14.
207	Joe is looking: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column for March 17, 1952; ironically, that evening Joe took Marilyn to her first baseball game—at Gilmore Stadium, where the Hollywood Stars (a minor-league professional team) were playing the Major League All Stars for a Kiwanis Club benefit. Joe played center field.
207	It’s like a: Quoted in Maurice Zolotow, “Joe & Marilyn: The Ultimate L.A. Love Story,” Los Angeles Magazine, February 1979, p. 240.
208	She got really: Quoted in Luitjers, p. 111.
208	I first met: JWP/NL II, p. 20.
211	although I really: Quoted by Rupert Allan to DS.
212	See Mosby’s article in the Los Angeles Herald Express, March 13, 1952, pp. 1 and 10.
213	I’ve been on: MM quoted in “Four For Posterity,” Look, vol. 18 (Jan. 16, 1962): 83. She was not pleased, however, when the calendar photo turned up on drinking glasses, ashtrays and cocktail napkins later that year. Lawyers for MM and Fox tried, without much success, to stop the flow of artifacts bearing her nude form.
213	the biggest news: Joe Hyams to DS, Sept. 19, 1991.
213	the way she: Halsman, quoted in Wagenknecht.
213	the successor to Harlow: see, e.g., Jim Henaghan, “So Far to Go Alone!” Redbook, June 1952, p. 43.
214	If anything was ‘wrong’: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
215	Dear Marilyn: Gladys’s letter to MM was preserved and included in IMP.
216	I knew there was really nothing: A note appended by MM to the foregoing letter in IMP.
216n1	get a complete: Grace Goddard’s letter to MM, dated Oct. 28, 1952, was preserved in IMP.
216	Unbeknown to me: Erskine Johnson, “Marilyn Monroe confesses mother alive, living here,” Los Angeles Daily News, May 3, 1952.
218	The notes taped by MM to her body were well publicized and copies kept in IMP.
220	She never had: Quoted in John Kobal, People Will Talk (New York: Knopf, 1985), pp. 615, 613.
220	If you wanted: Joseph Cotten, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere (London: Columbus Books, 1987), p. 110.
221	Am I making: Ibid., p. 111.
221	the best natural: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column for July 16, 1952.
222	marvelous to work with: Quoted in Kobal, p. 615.
222	A lot of guys: Maury Allen, p. 177.
223	It’s the seventh: Sidney Skolsky’s column in the Hollywood Citizen-News, July 24, 1952.
223	That’s why: Quoted in Kobal, p. 616.
223	I think I’ll: Jay Breen, “She just lets the conversation drift toward her,” Los Angeles Daily News, Sept. 9, 1952.
223	I didn’t want: MG2 IV, 4, p. 23.
224	nothing, but nothing: Earl Wilson’s syndicated column (e.g., Los Angeles Daily News), Aug. 27, 1952.
224	but La Monroe: Quoted in Dick Williams’s column, Los Angeles Mirror, Sept. 18, 1952.
224	She did the same: George Hurrell, quoted in John Kobal, People Will Talk (New York: Knopf, 1985) p. 266.
224n2	with not a stitch: David Stenn, Clara Bow (New York: Doubleday, 1987), p. 179.
225	This picture might give: Los Angeles Daily News, Sept. 2, 1952, p. 26.
225	I am very: Ibid.
225	People were staring: Newsweek, Sept. 15, 1952, p. 50.
225	That dress was: UPI wire service item, Sept. 5, 1952.
225	Photographers stood: Sidney Skolsky’s column for Sept. 5, 1952.
227	some estrangement: See, e.g., Los Angeles Times, Nov. 5, 1952.
227n3	for bringing in: Regarding Marilyn’s New York shopping spree with Ceil Chapman, see Earl Wilson, Show Business Laid Bare (New York: Putnam’s, 1974), p. 65.
228n4	Too bad: Will Fowler, Reporters: Memoirs of a Young Newspaperman (Santa Monica: Roundtable Publishing, 1991), n.p. Also, Will Fowler to DS, April 9, 1992.
228n4	Slatzer made a career: Allan Snyder to DS, July 3, 1992.
228n4	afraid of Joe: Robert F. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe (Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1974), p. 166
228n4	just trying to help: Fowler, n.p.
228n4	I never believed: Allan Snyder to DS, July 3, 1992.
229n4	It’s the one photo: Kay Eicher, quoted in Alex Burton, “Marilyn & Me is all lies,” The Star, Oct. 1, 1991, p. 45; confirmed to DS, Dec. 4, 1992.
230	when she put: Ron Nyman to DS, July 24, 1992.
231	She was damned: Lionel Newman, in remarks dated Oct. 26, 1972, for liner notes to a collection of MM songs recorded on 20th Century Records (T-901), 1972.
231	I feel as though: Barbara Berch Jamison, “Body and Soul: A Portrait of Marilyn Monroe Showing Why Gentlemen Prefer That Blonde,” New York Times, July 12, 1953, sec. II, p. 5.
231	There wasn’t: Joseph McBride, Hawks on Hawks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), p. 124.
231	She loved to: Hal Schaefer to DS, April 24, 1992.
231	My great ambition: New York Times, Feb. 18, 1953.
231	I had to get out: MG2 I, 4, p. 14.
232	She wants to: Sidney Skolsky’s column (e.g., the Hollywood Citizen-News), Dec. 17, 1952.
232	I want to: MM to Irene Crosby, her stand-in on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, quoted in Skolsky for Dec. 17, 1952.
232	She was terrified: Jane Russell to DS, March 18, 1985; likewise on The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, April 15, 1992. See also David Galligan, “ ‘Sex Symbol’ Jane Russell,” Drama-Logue, vol. 17, no. 7 (Feb. 13–19, 1986): 7.
232	Neither of us: Jamison, art. cit.
232	far more intelligent: Jane Russell, Jane Russell: My Paths and My Detours (New York: Franklin Watts, 1985), p. 137.
232	no makeup: Ibid.
232	that she was just: Jack Cole, quoted in Kobal, p. 605.
233	the most frightened: Hawks, in McBride, op. cit., p. 125.
233	I’m really eager: MM to Dick Williams, Los Angeles Daily Mirror, March 10, 1953.
234	On the auction of the Reinhardt materials, see the Los Angeles Times for Dec. 5 and 6, 1952.
234	Surely you will: Gottfried Reinhardt, The Genius (New York: Knopf, 1979) p. 396.
	Chapter Twelve: 1953
236	Marilyn, this man: JWP/NL I, p. 19.
236	still very much: Sidney Skolsky’s column for Feb. 9, 1953.
236	She had to be: “Billy, Please Dress Me Forever,” News of the World, May 5, 1991, p. 5.
237	that looked as if: “Florabel Muir Reporting,” Los Angeles Mirror, Feb. 10, 1953.
237	burlesque show: Joan Crawford, in Bob Thomas’s Associated Press syndicated column (e.g., Hollywood Citizen-News), March 2, 1953.
238	One thing that makes: Joan Crawford, quoted in the Hollywood Citizen-News, June 10, 1953.
238	Marilyn’s the biggest: Quoted in Aline Mosby, “ ‘They’re just jealous of Miss Monroe,’ says Betty Grable,” Los Angeles Daily News, March 16, 1953.
239	a love affair: Jean Negulesco, Things I Did . . . and Things I Think I Did (New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 219.
239	under the spell: Dorris Johnson and Ellen Leventhal, eds., The Letters of Nunnally Johnson (New York: Knopf, 1981), p. 203.
239	By this time: Alex D’Arcy to DS, June 18, 1992.
239	On the Lytess-Monroe attachment delaying production, see Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1953.
239	Monroe cannot do: Charles K. Feldman, interoffice memo to staff at Famous Artists Agency dated Feb. 20, 1953. In the Charles Feldman Papers at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
241	no meanness in her: Lauren Bacall, By Myself (New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 208.
241	Honey, I’ve had mine: Doug Warren, Betty Grable: The Reluctant Movie Queen (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981), p. 189.
241	I don’t want: The incident is recalled in Anne Edwards, Judy Garland (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975), p. 202.
244	trying to direct: Charles K. Feldman to MM, Aug. 10, 1953; from the Feldman Collection at the American Film Institute.
244	I pleaded with: Otto Preminger, Preminger: An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, 1977), p. 128.
244	Marilyn, you don’t: JWP/NL I, p. 2.
244	Marilyn thought there: Robert Mitchum in the Gene Feldman/Suzette Winters television film documentary Marilyn: Beyond the Legend.
244	We put her through: Paul Wurtzel to DS, Feb. 19, 1992.
245n3	I wouldn’t accept: Luitjers, pp. 57–58.
245	Here are the: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
246	She thought they: Quoted in Bart Mills, Marilyn on Location (London: Pan/Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989), p. 150.
246ff	Regarding news accounts of the Kinsey reports, see Time, Aug. 31, 1953.
250	She was superb: Jack and Joan Benny, Sunday Nights at Seven (New York: Warner, 1990), p. 243.
251	Success has helped: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 25, 1953. p. 15.
251–252	For the circumstances of Grace Goddard’s suicide, see California State File number 53-087308.
252	As for Grace’s husband, he never saw Marilyn Monroe after 1945. Ervin “Doc” Goddard married twice more—first to Anna Alice Long and then to Annie Rundle, who died with him in an auto crash in Ventura on Dec. 4, 1972.
252	she had proved: Negulesco, p. 223; on the pre-theater party, see Johnson, Letters, pp. 205–206.
252	since Gloria Swanson: Mike Connolly, in the Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 6, 1953.
252	This is just: Quoted in Luitjers, p. 56.
253	For Marilyn’s observations and agent Hugh French’s reaction, see a letter from him to Charles K. Feldman dated Oct. 9, 1953, and preserved in the Feldman Collection at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
253	convinced Marilyn: Ray Stark to Charles K. Feldman, memorandum dated Dec. 1, 1953, preserved in the Feldman Collection, American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
254	she cooperated: Hugh French to Charles K. Feldman, cable dated Dec. 19, 1953, preserved in the Feldman Papers, American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
	Chapter Thirteen: January–September 1954
257	pill-pals: Sidney Skolsky’s column for June 6, 1954 (in the Hollywood Citizen-News). Additional information on Skolsky supplying MM with pills was confirmed by Steffi Sidney Splaver to DS, June 5, 1992.
258	not fighting over: Loyd Wright, Jr., quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 6, 1954.
259	I was put: Quoted in Marie Torre, “Marilyn Monroe,” New York Herald-Tribune TV and Radio Magazine (section 9), week of Aug. 14–20, 1955, p. 6.
259	I read the script: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Feb. 1, 1954.
259	I couldn’t believe: Zanuck, quoted in Dick Williams’s column in the Los Angeles Mirror, Jan. 15, 1954.
260	Marilyn herself: Time, vol. lxiii, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1954): 108.
260	the inheritor: Life, vol. 36, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1954): 32.
261	I’d like to have: Widely quoted in the international press: see, e.g., Allen, p. 180; Kahn, p. 254; Los Angeles Examiner, Jan. 15, 1954.
261	On the motel room, see Allen, p. 180.
261	It usually rents for: Quoted in Hedda Hopper, “DiMaggio and Monroe Hide for Honeymoon,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 17, 1954.
261	radiant: San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 17, 1954.
261	solemn and tired: Ibid.
262	I just bumped: “Marilyn and DiMaggio on Their Way to Japan,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 30, 1954. The story of the broken thumb was picked up by the Associated Press and widely reported.
262	my Slugger: Often throughout 1954, and reported, e.g., in Roger Manvell, Love Goddesses of the Movies (New York: Crescent, 1979), p. 116.
262–263	Airport officials: United Press International wire item dated January 30, 1955; see, e.g., the Los Angeles Times for Jan. 31, 1954, sec. I, p. 26 (“Hair-Tugging Mob Greets Marilyn, Joe”).
263	went virtually unnoticed: Time, Feb. 15, 1954, p. 32.
263	like I was: Kahn, p. 255.
263	For O’Doul’s recollections, see Kahn, ibid.
263	The press conference was widely reported by wire services; see, e.g., Time, art. cit.
264	the marriage seemed: Quoted in Allen, p. 183; also see Gay Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero,” in Esquire, vol. 66, no. 1 (July 1966): 43.
264ff	For accounts of MM’s tour of Korea, see C. Robert Jennings, “The Strange Case of Marilyn Monroe vs. the U.S. Army,” Los Angeles Magazine, August 1966, pp. 31–63; Allen, pp. 181–184; Kahn, pp. 255–256.
265	There were seventeen: From the original draft of Hecht’s version of MM’s autobiography, Box HE, pages 133–136, in the Ben Hecht Collection at The Newberry Library, Chicago.
265	She was Marilyn Monroe: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 20, 1954.
265	She gave us: Ted Cieszynski to DS, Feb. 10, 1992.
266	This is my first: Jennings, art. cit., p. 60.
266	When I went to Korea: Skolsky, p. 212.
267	It was so wonderful: Cited frequently—e.g., Talese, p. 43; Kahn, p. 256.
267	Joe hates: Sidney Skolsky’s column, Hollywood Citizen-News, March 10, 1954.
268	For the dialogue between MM and Skolsky, see Skolsky, p. 213.
268	Marilyn wept: Ben Hecht to Jacques Chambrun, April 14, 1954. Ben Hecht Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
270	Sit down and: Quoted by MM to Arthur Miller, Timebends (New York: Grove Press, 1987), p. 370.
270	But you’re married: Quoted by Lucille Ryman Carroll to DS, Feb. 20, 1992.
273	At night: JWP/NL II, p. 22.
273	called me at two or three: JWP/NL I, p. 7.
273	tired of having: Jack Gordean and Hugh French, memo to Charles K. Feldman reporting a meeting with Marilyn on or about June 26, 1954.
274	It’s ridiculous: Hal Schaefer, quoted in Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 6, 1954, and in Confidential, vol. 3, no. 4 (September 1955): 56. The latter magazine, thought at the time to be a mere gossip tabloid, was in fact an impeccably researched and carefully written monthly, however sensational were the aspects of celebrities’ lives it chose to present. Confidential was, for example, the first magazine to challenge the Hollywood hypocrisy that there were no homosexuals in the film industry. Employing investigative reporters, attorneys, fact-checkers and established journalists, Confidential also delivered some of the most revealing stories of its time on executive mismanagement and studio fraud.
275	It’s okay, baby: Confidential, p. 58. This event was confirmed to DS by producer Milton Ebbins, in an interview on Sept. 22, 1992.
275	very unhappy when: Louella O. Parsons, “Joe Jealousy [sic] of Marilyn Told in Rift: Cites Visits to Voice Coach in Hospital,” Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 6, 1954, p. 1.
276	She had very little: Hal Schaefer to DS, April 24, 1992.
276	stupid part: MG IV, 3, p. 25.
276	Breathe from your stomach: Quoted in Robert Cahn, “Marilyn Monroe Hits a New High,” Collier’s, Sept. 9, 1954, pp. 99–101.
277	Miss Monroe’s wriggling: Bosley Crowther, in the New York Times, Dec. 16, 1954.
277	For Irving Berlin’s comment, see Manvell, p. 117.
277	I had a code: JWP/NL I, p. 6.
277	If Marilyn wasn’t: Rita Moreno, on The Class of The 20th Century, Merrill W. Mazuer, prod. for CEL Communications, Inc./The A & E Network (US cable television), 1991.
278	I’ve heard: Susan Strasberg, Bittersweet (New York: Putnam’s, 1980), pp. 55–56.
279	I kept: MM, quoted on MG dictabelt #4, dated April 11, 1957.
279	What the hell: Quoted in Graham McCann, Marilyn Monroe (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988), p. 46.
280	He has the grace: MM, quoted in Pageant, vol. 9, no. 10 (April 1954): 55.
280	He wouldn’t speak: Quoted in Maurice Zolotow, “The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe,” American Weekly, Oct. 23, 1955, p. 30.
280	When I married: Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story (New York: Signet/NAL, 1973), p. 104.
280	I have too many: Quoted in Gloria Steinem, “Growing Up with Marilyn,” Ms., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 38.
283	But although she was: George Axelrod to DS, Nov. 6, 1991.
283	the shot seen: Cited often—e.g., by photographer Sam Shaw, in “Runnin’ Wild,” no. 9 (Jan. 1993).
283	She was shaking: Tom Ewell, quoted in the Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 5, 1954, p. 51.
283	The location work: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.
283–284	Wilder and Wurtzel confirmed the production schedule to DS in interviews on (respectively) Nov. 19, 1991 and Feb. 19, 1992.
284	It would make: The entire dialogue was published by Winchell in his syndicated column just days after MM died: see, e.g., the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 8, 1962.
284	look of death: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
284–285	The violence between Marilyn and Joe was widely reported by witnesses: see McCann, p. 46.
	Chapter Fourteen: October 1954–January 1955
286	On MM’s illness, see the Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 30, 1954.
286	I hope you: Quoted in the Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 5, 1954, p. 51.
286	I knew she: Tom Ewell, quoted in Hollywood Studio Magazine, vol. 20, no. 8 (Aug. 1987): 33.
287	Others could give: Darryl F. Zanuck to Billy Wilder, letter dated Sept. 20, 1954, preserved in the Charles K. Feldman Papers at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
287	I have to sleep: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992; see also Shaw and Rosten, Marilyn among friends, p. 16.
287	When you got her: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
288	I wanted so much: MG V, 3.
288	letter perfect: George Axelrod to DS, April 22, 1992.
289	For the neighbors’ recollections of Marilyn’s nighttime walks, see the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Oct. 6, 1954.
290	because of incompatibility: For the news release and subsequent statements to the press, see, e.g., Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 1954; Time vol. 75, no. 16 (Oct. 18, 1954): 47; and newswire services from October 4 through 7, 1954.
290	grievous mental suffering: Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 1954.
290n1	common as political: Ibid.
291	It is my home: Los Angeles Mirror, Oct. 6, 1954; see also Beverly Hills Newslife, Oct. 7, 1954.
291	Miss Monroe will: Quoted in Beverly Hills Newslife, Oct. 7, p. 1; also on newsfilm worldwide, and on both the United Press International and Associated Press newswire services.
291	The marriage was: Ray Parker and Roby Heard, “What Made Marilyn and Joe Bust Up?” Los Angeles Mirror, Oct. 5, 1954, p. 4.
291	Now at last: Ibid., Oct. 7, 1954, part 1, p. 6.
292	Joe is a sweet guy: Quoted by Aline Mosby in “Marilyn, Joe Rift Widens,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Oct. 7.
292	Bored: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 2, 1992.
292n2	Joe DiMaggio bored: Skolsky, p. 225.
292	He didn’t like: MG III, 4, unpaginated.
292	I feel alive: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 8, 1954.
292	I can’t understand: Quoted in the Newark Evening News, Oct. 18, 1954.
293	But Marilyn’s determination: Skolsky, p. 224–225.
294	Mr. DiMaggio: Quoted in the Newark Evening News, art. cit.
296	She has been: Charles K. Feldman to Darryl F. Zanuck, letter dated October 21, 1954, preserved in the Feldman Collection at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
296	I feel like: “Life Goes to A Select Supper for Marilyn,” Life, vol. 37, no. 22 (Nov. 22, 1954): 162; this was picked up from Skolsky’s column of Nov. 9.
296	that the so-called elite of: Sidney Skolsky’s column, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 9, 1954.
296	I have come: Quoted in Shaw and Rosten, p. 78.
296	I’ve always admired: MM told the exchange to Skolsky, who included it in his column dated Nov. 9.
297	It’s because of: Ibid.
297	for correction of: Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 8, 1954; Los Angeles Daily News, Nov. 9, 1954.
297	There’s no chance: MM to Aline Mosby, quoted in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 8, 1954.
298	Regarding the end of the Schaefer affair and the dialogue at the Villa Capri between MM and Joe, see Louella Parsons in the Los Angeles Examiner, Nov. 9 and 16, 1954.
298	She wanted me: Ella Fitzgerald, quoted in Gloria Steinern, Marilyn (New York: Henry Holt, 1986), pp. 90–91.
299	He, too, wanted: Michael Korda to DS, June 30, 1992.
299ff	Background material on the formation of MMP is found in MG (all files and folders) and was also provided by Jay Kanter (MM’s MCA agent in New York from 1955) to DS, April 15, 1992.
300	For a brief outline history of Lew Wasserman’s extraordinarily powerful career, see “Lew!”, California, vol. 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1985): 95–144.
300	never had a chance: MG I, 2, p. 3.
302	With us she had: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
302	Marilyn seemed to me: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.
303	because of their: Irving L. Stein, corporate memorandum dated Feb. 2, 1955, in MG II. Hereinafter, Stein’s corporate memoranda, letters, etc., are designated ILS.
303	We will go: New York Times, Jan. 8, 1955; New York Daily News, Jan. 8, 1955.
303–304	The account of the night at the Copacabana was recalled by Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
304	It is the damndest: ILS to Aubrey Schenck, Jan. 13, 1955: MG II.
305	You’re looking good: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column (e.g., Hollywood Citizen-News) for Jan. 12, 1955.
306	It might be fatal: ILS, Jan. 27, 1955: MG II.
306	Get Joe DiMaggio: ILS, Jan. 31, 1955.
306	only while DiMaggio: ILS, Feb. 2, 1955: MG IV.
306	Is this a: Earl Wilson, “Marilyn, Joe Tryst Hints Reconciliation,” syndicated column (e.g., Boston Mirror-News), Jan. 25, 1955.
307	Regarding Marilyn’s ease in wandering the streets of New York if she did not make herself up: this she discussed on Edward R. Murrow’s CBS television show Person to Person on April 8, 1955.
307n6	Regarding RCA’s promotion for her recordings in Variety, see the issue dated Feb. 16, 1955, p. 43.
308	For accounts and histories of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio, see Evangeline Morphos, ed., Lee Strasberg: A Dream of Passion (Boston: Little, Brown, 1987); Cindy Adams, Lee Strasberg: The Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio (Garden City: Doubleday, 1980); and Steve Vineberg, Method Actors (New York: Schirmer, 1991). Much important information also came to DS in several interviews with Susan Strasberg during 1989, 1990 and the spring and summer of 1992.
309	We were like: Eli Wallach, quoted in Joanne Kaufman, “Studio System,” Vanity Fair, vol. 55, no. 11 (November 1992): 238.
309	We were dedicated: Shelley Winters, ibid., 272.
309	He sometimes got: Anne Jackson, ibid.
309	Lee was enshrined: Kazan, p. 539.
310	It made me: Marlon Brando, quoted in the New York Times’s obituary of Lee Strasberg, Feb. 18, 1982, p. D20.
310	Lee-you-should-excuse: Quoted in Adams, p. 3.
311	Crying, after all: Quoted in Viner, p. 109.
311	All this talk: Laurence Olivier, quoted by Basil Langton to DS, May 11, 1990; see also Maurice Zolotow, “The Olivier Method,” New York Times, Feb. 7, 1960, sec. 2, p. 1.
312	On Strasberg’s insisting that MM submit to psychoanalysis: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3 and 10, 1992; see also Susan Strasberg, Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends (New York: Warner Books, 1992), p. 31.
313	Milton did more: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
	Chapter Fifteen: February–December 1955
314	I had teachers: MG VI: 4.
315	It seemed to me: ILS, Feb. 28, 1955.
316	My problem is: Her remarks have three sources: Belmont, p. 19; MG III, 3, 17, in notes taken at a meeting with Stein on March 10, 1955; and MM to Susan Strasberg, quoted to DS, June 3, 1992.
317	The incidents and dialogue with the Rostens are recounted in Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story (New York: Signet/NAL, 1973), pp. 11–12, 27–28.
317	When she came: Norman Rosten, quoted in Kahn, p. 67.
319	and the resulting: Miller, p. 354.
319	It was wonderful: James Kaplan, art. cit., 242.
321	It meant a lot: MM on Edward R. Murrow’s CBS-TV show Person to Person, April 8, 1955.
321	The circumstances of the Murrow television broadcast are derived from Amy Greene’s account to DS, May 5, 1992; and from a study of the program, preserved in the archives of the Museum of Television and Radio, New York City.
322	Imagine what you: Eve Arnold, on the BBC-TV documentary Eve and Marilyn (1987).
323–324	For Susan Strasberg’s contributions, see Marilyn and Me, pp. 143, 145; also, Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992.
323	She wore: Stanley Kauffmann, “Album of Marilyn Monroe,” American Scholar, vol. 60, no. 4 (autumn 1991): 568.
323n1	You have only: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992.
324	Sam Shaw’s memories of MM to DS, March 7, 1992.
324	Looking at her: Truman Capote, “An Abbess in High-heeled Shoes,” People, Oct. 27, 1980, p. 56.
324	I just felt: The incident with Eli Wallach is recorded in Adams, p. 256.
325	The notes by MM are recorded in MG III, VI, VII, IX, as are the poems on pp. 325–327.
327	My father was: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992.
328	Don’t you ever: Quoted in Adams, p. 263.
329	Our household revolved: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 19.
329	it was hard: John Strasberg, quoted in ibid., p. 44.
329	When I have problems: Quoted in Adams, p. 258.
330	Oh, no: MM quoted by Gloria Steinem in Ms., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 36.
330	Hi, it’s me: Quoted by Susan Strasberg to DS; also in Bittersweet, p. 56.
330	anybody who had: Kim Stanley to John Kobal, p. 699.
330	endeavor to develop: Frank Corsaro, on the 1991 American Masters documentary on the Actors Studio, prod. Chloe Aaron, dir. Dennis Powers for PBS.
330	I know they say: For MM on Kafka, see Tom Hutchinson, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Exeter Books, 1982), p. 69.
331	That’s all they’re: Shaw and Rosten, p. 95.
332	We’re just good friends: New York Journal-American, June 2, 1955, p. 1; New York World-Telegram and Sun, same day; and also the New York Daily News, June 2, 1955, p. 4.
332	Marilyn was afraid: Lois Weber Smith, quoted in Allen, pp. 199–200.
332	Marilyn told me: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 3, 1991.
332	The supplanting of Milton by Lee was suggested in Dorothy Kilgallen’s column in the New York Journal-American on June 28, 1955.
332	How do we: ILS, June 30, 1955: MG IX.
332ff	For details of MM’s time with the Strasbergs on Manhattan and on Fire Island, and for the nighttime dialogue between MM and their daughter, I am grateful for several interviews with Susan Strasberg during May, June and July 1992.
333	One day she: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
334	had a great sense: Eve and Marilyn, BBC-TV (1987).
334	She was pleased: John Springer to DS, March 5, 1992.
335	This is the girl: Quoted in Edward Wagenknecht, Marilyn Monroe: A Composite View (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1969), p. 47.
336	The dialogue with Gilels is reported by Rosten (pp. 24–25), who was present.
336ff	Regarding the FBI file on Marilyn Monroe, there are eighty pages declassified, beginning at document number 105-40018-1. Documents dated August 19, 1955, and April 27, 1956, concern MM and her request for a visa and the history of her last two years. They are documents numbered 105-40018. The document containing the FBI’s recording of the item from the London Daily Worker is numbered 100-351585-A, dated Aug 15, 1955.
337	I expect our divorce: Joe DiMaggio, on the INS newswire service dated Aug. 21, 1955; see e.g., Los Angeles Herald-Examiner this date.
337	I never should: MM to Amy Greene, quoted to DS, May 5, 1992.
338	You all start: George Axelrod, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (New York: Samuel French, 1955), p. 7.
338	I saw: Quoted by George Axelrod to DS, April 22, 1992.
340	I’m beginning to: MM, quoted in Pete Martin, “The New Marilyn Monroe,” Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1956, p. 110.
	Chapter Sixteen: 1956
341	There is persuasive: Time, Jan. 30, 1956, p. 62.
341	But then she had: Laurence Olivier, Confessions of an Actor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), pp. 205–206.
342	The questions and answers at the press conference were widely reported: see, e.g., Time, vol. 67, no. 8 (Feb. 20, 1956): 94 and the Manchester Guardian, Feb. 10, 1956 (“Miss Monroe Meets Her Idol: Alliance of Pulchritude and Art”).
343	Shall I take: Josephine DiLorenzo and Theo Wilson, “Marilyn Can Act Too, Sez Olivier,” New York Daily News, Feb. 10, 1956, p. 3.
343	The strap breaking: John Moore to DS, Aug. 23, 1992.
343	Before we went: Eve Arnold in the BBC-TV documentary Eve and Marilyn (1987).
343	artless: Quoted in Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985), p. 393.
343	Brooklyn became Nirvana: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.
343	heavenly: often, as in Hedda Hopper’s syndicated column for Jan. 24, 1956.
343	There are all: ILS, Jan. 6, 1956: MG IV.
344	Teenage boys: Vincent X. Flaherty, “Will Marilyn Become an Intellectual?” Los Angeles Examiner, July 6, 1956, sec. 1, p. 2.
344	America’s best known: Walter Winchell’s radio broadcast of Feb. 12, 1956, recorded as FBI document number 62-31615-966.
344ff	For an account of Miller’s troubles with the FBI, see Natalie Robins, Alien Ink (New York: Morrow, 1992), pp. 310ff.
345	the next stop: Walter Winchell’s broadcast of June 10, 1956, recorded as FBI document number 62-31615-983.
345	Miss Monroe, after: Memo from SAC, Los Angeles, to Director, FBI, dated June 1, 1956, FBI document number 23-100-422103.
346	Regarding the final disposition of MMP shares and control, information is detailed in ILS memoranda throughout October and December 1955, culminating in the memorandum of February 11, 1956.
346	Be conservative: The Wasserman memorandum to Stein was dated Feb. 14, 1956; subsequent calls and correspondence on this matter occur through the twenty-first.
346	Marilyn Monroe, Blonde: Quoted in “The New Marilyn,” Look, vol. 20 (May 29, 1956): 73.
347	This was really: Maureen Stapleton to DS, April 22, 1992.
348	I couldn’t see: Quoted in Redbook, Feb. 1958, p. 96.
348	very deep: Anna Sten to John Kobal, p. 140.
348	often brilliant: Robert Schneiderman, “Drama teacher remembers Marilyn Monroe,” Spotlight Chicago, week of Aug. 4, 1992, p. 6.
349	The press reception at the airport was documented on film and has been included in virtually every documentary on MM: see, e.g., Feldman and Winters, “Beyond the Legend,” and Wolper, Legend.
349	For the court appearance of MM, see these newspapers, all dated March 1: Hollywood Citizen-News; Los Angeles Mirror; Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles Examiner.
350	She seemed content: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
350	Irving Stein’s statement is from ILS, memorandum dated March 3, 1956: MG VII.
351	In Marilyn’s powerful: JWP/NL II, p. 25.
352	But Marilyn can’t act: Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real People and Me (New York: Delacorte, 1978), p. 35.
352	I have worked: Ibid.
354	she wants to: Milton Greene to ILS, March 17, 1956: MG IV.
354	Like a child: Guy Trebay, “Don Murray,” Interview, October 1973, p. 21.
355	Milton seemed to want: William Woodfield to DS, Sept. 20, 1991.
355	surrounded with intrigue: Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), p. 239.
355	He just kept clicking: George Axelrod to DS, Nov. 6, 1991.
356	I can’t do it: Miller, pp. 379–380.
357	expressly for her: Logan, p. 39.
358	Hold onto your chairs: New York Times review by Bosley Crowther, Sept. 1, 1956, p. 19.
358	effectively dispels: Arthur Knight, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Sept. 8, 1956.
358	one of the great: Logan, pp. 36, 48; also, Logan speaking in the documentary Marilyn: Beyond the Legend, dir. Gene Feldman/Wombat Productions, 1987; see also the Los Angeles Daily Mirror, Oct. 10, 1956.
359	For the meeting with Sukarno, see the New York Times, June 2, 1956, p. 13; for MM’s remarks on the encounter, see Rosten, p. 73.
359	Al Delgado’s letter to Jay Kanter, dated June 15, 1956, is included in MG III.
361	a live witness: Robins, p. 313.
361	Marilyn Monroe’s new romance: Ibid.
361ff	Miller’s appearance in Washington and his statements before the HUAC were documented in, among many other journals and magazines, the New York Times on June 22, 1956, pp. 1, 9; New York Daily News, June 22, 1956, pp. 3, 6; Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1956, pp. 1, 9.
362	No question about it: New York Sunday News, July 1, 1956.
362	provided Marilyn agreed: Miller, p. 406.
362	and to be: New York Mirror, June 21, 1956 et alibi. See also the important history in Eric Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968 (New York: Viking, 1971), p. 819.
362	Have you heard: Rosten, p. 34.
362	It was awfully: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992; Rupert Allan to DS, July 21, 1991.
363	Arthur was learning: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also Marilyn and Me, p. 105.
364	[Jean] was always: Maureen O’Sullivan, quoted in Golden, p. 158.
365	stand by in case: Milton Greene’s telephone call to Irving Stein is recorded in ILS dated June 29, 1956: MG XI.
365–366	The account of Marilyn’s hesitation at her marriage was provided to DS by Amy Greene, May 5, 1992.
366	Well, I hope: George Axelrod to DS, April 22, 1992; Axelrod’s statement was included in an essay on Miller by Kenneth Tynan, in Profiles (London: Nick Hern/Walker Books, 1989), p. 119.
367	Lee doesn’t care: ILS memorandum dated July 2, 1956: MG IV.
368	Perhaps later: ILS memorandum dated July 14, 1956: MG IV.
368	result in capital gain: ILS to MG, October 16, 1956: MG XI, 4.
368	he ought to stay out: Kay Brown, quoted in ILS memorandum dated Sept. 12, 1956: MG V, 3.
369	Yes, but: Daily Telegraph, July 16, 1956.
369	Unlike many other: Jack Cardiff to DS, May 26, 1992.
370	to take her: Quoted in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 5, 1982; similar remarks are recorded in MG VIII, 4, p. 3.
370	He tried to be: W. J. Weatherby, Conversations with Marilyn (New York: Mason/Charter, 1976), p. 84.
370	All you have: The remark is widely quoted by witnesses, among them Susan Strasberg to DS, April 23, 1990; by Amy Greene; by actress Maxine Audley, et al. Olivier never denied he said this.
370	suspicious, sullen: Rosten, p. 43.
371	The incident of Marilyn’s discovery of Arthur’s notebook was related to DS by Amy Greene, Susan Strasberg, Allan Snyder and Jack Cardiff.
371	It was something: Quoted in Bart Mills, Marilyn on Location (London: Pan/Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989), p. 108.
371	I think Arthur: Quoted by Rupert Allan to DS, July 15, 1991.
371	Miller looked on: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column for Nov. 25, 1961.
372	The Strasberg interference: The phrase, almost a motto at the time, was used in conversations with DS by Allan Snyder, Rupert Allan, Amy Greene and Jack Cardiff; its equivalent is much cited by Arthur Miller.
372	My mother had once: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also Bittersweet, p. 84.
372	poisonous and vacuous: Kaplan, art. cit., p. 242.
372	nearly religious: Miller, p. 423.
372	Miller’s comments on Paula were spoken to Fred Lawrence Guiles, Legend, p. 316.
372	Greene thought: Guiles, p. 309.
373	it was important: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.
373	getting involved: Albert Maysles to DS, March 30, 1992.
373	wrecking her: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
373	two months supply: MG to ILS, Sept. 27, 1956: MG VII.
374	Too many people: Quoted in Hutchinson, p. 78.
374	had been wrong: Margaret Hohenberg to ILS, reported to MG in telephone call on Dec. 27, 1956 and so dated in ILS: MG IV.
375	she had some: Letter from MG to Joe Carr and ILS, dated Sept. 27, 1956: MG IV.
375ff	ILS memoranda dated September 1–3, 1956: MG IV and VI.
376	thoroughly ill-mannered: Daily Express, May 22, 1980.
376	It was a: Henry Brandon, “Sex, Society and the Theatre,” The Sunday Times (London), March 20, 1960, p. 15.
376	She’s quite remarkable: Quoted in Time, Aug. 6, 1956, p. 31. That the citation from Hopkins was a favorite line of Marilyn was reported to DS by Ralph Roberts (to whom she often quoted it), May 1, 1992.
376	You did well: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column for June 14, 1957; and in Taylor, Marilyn in Art, n.p.; see also Miller, p. 426.
378	No one had: Laurence Olivier, On Acting (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 316; and the same author’s Confessions of an Actor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 213.
	Chapter Seventeen: 1957–1959
382	I was off: Miller, p. 460.
382	I felt an urgency: Miller, pp. 458–459.
382	a mere child: Miller, p. 448.
382	a rose-tinted: Kazan, p. 540.
382	For Norman Rosten’s recollections of Marilyn’s never-ending struggle for the perfect home design, see Marilyn: An Untold Story, p. 67.
382	I love them: MM to Richard Meryman in a taped interview for Life magazine in July 1962.
383	You must excuse me: the anecdote with the neighbor and the new coat is documented in Wagenknecht, p. xvii.
383	Michael Korda to DS, June 30, 1992.
383	But there was another: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
384	adopted daughter: Michael Molnar, The Diary of Sigmund Freud (New York: Robert Stewart/Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), p. 174.
385	some of the most: Edward A. Gargan, “Tribute to Marianne Kris,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 1980. See also Henry Nunberg, “In Memoriam Marianne Kris,” The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, vol. 38 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 1–7 (Kris, as it happened, was Nunberg’s aunt); and the obituary in the New York Times on Nov. 25, 1980, p. D-23.
386	as if I were: MM, quoted by Rupert Allan to DS, June 10, 1991.
387	too stand-offish: Comments by Miller’s brother, sister and in-laws are cited in Robert J. Levin, art. cit., p. 95.
387	For Kazan’s estimation of the Monroe-Strasberg connection, see Kazan, p. 540.
387	Lee makes me think: Rosten, p. 49.
388	Whether it was: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 103.
388	It is not: MM drafted the letter in early April but kept it for reflection and revision; it was cabled to Jack Warner on April 22, 1957; see the production files for The Prince and the Showgirl in the Warner Bros. archives at the University of Southern California.
389	MM’s statement through Miller’s attorney was issued April 11 and was noted in the next day’s edition of the New York Times, p. 22.
389	absolutely irrational: Robert H. Montgomery, Jr., to John Wharton, memorandum preserved in MG IX, memorandum for April 1957.
389ff	For the news accounts of the reorganization of MMP, see: New York Times, April 17, 1957, p. 36; Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Examiner, April 17, 1957; Time, vol. 69, no. 17 (April 29, 1957): 94.
390	It seems: Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1957, sec. III, p. 8.
390	He knows perfectly: Ibid.
390	The truth is: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.
390	Arthur was taking: MM to Amy Greene, quoted to DS, May 5, 1992.
391	screamed about me: Arthur P. Jacobs to Irving Stein: MG VI, memorandum for April 20, 1957.
391	She was ultrasensitive: MG XIII, 4; see also Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 5, 1982.
392	She had no desire: Olie and Joe Rauh, as told to Harriet Lyons, “The Time Marilyn Monroe Hid Out at Our House,” Ms., August 1983, p. 16.
393	She loved children: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
393	a new kind: Miller, p. 457.
394	She knows how: Strasberg, Bittersweet, p. 122.
395	Arthur was writing: Olie Rauh, art. cit., p. 16.
395	If I shouldn’t: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; similarly, see Marilyn and Me, p. 170.
395	a façade of marital: Rosten, p. 79.
395	hiding: Ibid., p. 61.
395	The accident was reported by the Associated Press, dateline March 25, 1958.
395	floating off in: Rosten, p. 55.
396	The maid’s not: Quoted by John Moore to DS, August 23, 1992.
396	She shouldn’t wear: Associated Press story dated April 29, 1958.
396	But I’ve never: Quoted by John Moore to DS, August 23, 1992.
397ff	For I. A. L. Diamond’s memoir of Some Like It Hot, see his article, “The Day Marilyn Needed 47 Takes To Remember to Say, ‘Where’s the Bourbon?’,” California, vol. 10, no. 12 (December 1985): 132–136.
398	because she gives me: MM, to Hedda Hopper in New York, April 1958. Heavily edited, the comments appeared as part of Hopper’s article, “Just Call Her Mrs. Miller!” in the Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1958, p. 14.
398	because May: Vanessa Reis to DS, Feb. 16, 1992.
399ff	The comments of Billy Wilder throughout this chapter were made to DS: Nov. 19, 1991.
400	She picked: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
400	Marilyn time: Rosten, p. 24.
400	I never heard: Quoted in The Listener (London), Aug. 30, 1979.
400	Well, I think: MM to Richard Meryman, July 1962.
401	organically: MM, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1958.
401	relaxing a little: MM, quoted in Luitjers, p. 63.
401	It seemed to me: In notes prepared by Leon Krohn, M.D., for Ted Landreth, during preparation for the BBC-TV documentary Say Goodbye to the President in 1984.
402	I have a feeling: MM to Norman Rosten, quoted in Rosten, pp. 76–77.
402	very easy to work: Avedon, in Wagenknecht, p. 59.
402	the spontaneous joy: Arthur Miller, “My Wife Marilyn,” Life, vol. 45, no. 25 (Dec. 22, 1958): 146.
403–404	Arthur Miller’s letter to MM was typed Friday evening, September 12, 1958, and sent via air mail that night. It arrived Monday at the suite of “Mrs. Marilyn Miller” at the Bel-Air Hotel. MM obviously thought the letter so important that she kept it until her death. It was among the personal papers gathered up by Inez Melson on Aug. 6, 1962, documents which subsequently were acquired by DS through a private purchaser in 1991.
404	more and more living with her: Rosten, p. 79.
404	For Olie Rauh’s opinion of Arthur’s arrival in California, see Rauh, art. cit., p. 16.
404	going through some: Jack Lemmon, quoted in McCann, p. 105.
405	Arthur told me: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
406	I have discussed: Ibid.; see also Tom Wood, The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (New York: Doubleday, 1960), p. 158, and Maurice Zolotow, Billy Wilder in Hollywood (New York: Putnam’s, 1977), p. 265.
406	MM’s telephone call to Audrey Wilder was relayed by Billy Wilder to DS; see also Diamond, art. cit., p. 136; with slight variations, the anecdote is also recounted in Zolotow, Billy Wilder in Hollywood, p. 271, and in Wood, p. 162.
406	Anyone can remember lines: Quoted in Mills, p. 122.
407	Could I have: Rosten, p. 72.
407ff	Incomplete records of Dr. Kris’s prescriptions for MM are attached to her bills and to pharmacy invoices through 1957 (and are so preserved in MG III, IV and VI, since they were items for her accountant’s perusal); for 1959, some records remained in MM’s possession at the time of her death and were collected by Inez Melson, whence they passed to a private collector and, in 1991, to DS.
407	Susan Strasberg’s comments on 1959 were shared with DS in June 1992; see also Marilyn and Me, pp. 187–189.
408	warm and plain: “Tribute to Marilyn Monroe from a friend . . . Carl Sandburg,” Look, vol. 26 (Sept. 11, 1962): 90–94.
408	uncomfortable: Mervin Block to DS, Oct. 6, 1992. Other details of the press junket were provided by John Moore to DS.
408	For Miller’s creative stasis during this time, see Allan Seager, “The Creative Agony of Arthur Miller,” Esquire, vol. 52, no. 4 (October 1959): 123–126.
409	I guess: Quoted in Gloria Steinem, “Growing Up with Marilyn,” Ms., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 38.
410	He told me: Kenneth Tynan, Profiles (London: Nick Hern/Walker Books, 1989), p. 146.
411	I’m sure he accepted: Arthur Miller, quoted in Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman, Tu vois, je n’ai pas oublié (Paris: Seuil/Fayard, 1990), p. 499.
411	He looked at me: Rosten, p. 21.
411	She was always: Frankie Vaughan, quoted in Hutchinson, p. 74.
412	un titre prémonitoire: Signoret’s description, cut from the final published edition of her memoirs, is cited in Hamon and Rotman, p. 503.
	Chapter Eighteen: 1960
413	Marilyn was a: Sidney Skolsky in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Jan. 20, 1960.
413	Next to my husband: Widely quoted—e.g., in “Marilyn meets Montand,” Look, vol. 24 (July 5, 1960): 96.
413	Everything she do: Ibid., p. 93.
414	There was no script: Quoted in Goode, p. 202.
414	a sacrifice of great blocks: Miller, p. 466.
414	came running: Hervé Hamon et Patrick Rotman, Yves Montand: Tu vois, je n’ai pas oublié (Paris: Seuil/Fayard, 1990), p. 512; trans. DS. See also Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, p. 347.
415	Arthur Miller, the big liberal: Skolsky, p. 227–228.
415	was a terrible ordeal: Quoted in Kobal, p. 606.
415	There was something: Vanessa Ries to DS, Feb. 16, 1992.
415	no real communication: Gavin Lambert, On Cukor (New York: Putnam’s, 1972), pp. 174–175.
416	The incident with Frankie Vaughan and his son was documented by Vaughan in Paul Donovan, “The day Marilyn cried on Frankie’s shoulder,” Today (U.K.), June 2, 1986.
416	I saw Marilyn: Quoted in Kirk Crivello, Fallen Angels (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1988), p. 261.
416ff	For the shared fears that drew MM and Montand together, see his memoirs, pp. 519ff.
417	a whole succession: Simone Signoret, Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be (London: Grafton, 1979), pp. 322–323.
417	Comments by Jack Cole and Jerry Wald may be found in Life, vol. 49, no. 7 (Aug. 15, 1960): 68, and in Kobal, pp. 605–607.
417	Is there anything: Frank Radcliffe, quoted in Del Burnett, “Marilyn: A Personal Reminiscence,” American Classic Screen, March 1981, p. 14.
417	What am I afraid of: MM’s notes, scribbled on a pad, were found by a journalist who published them in the American Weekly on May 1, 1960.
419	I’ll miss you: Hamon and Rotman, p. 531.
419	I bent over: Ibid., pp. 531–532ff.
420	I liked her: George Cukor, quoted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 5, 1982, p. A-8.
421	She gave me: Quoted in Kobal, pp. 606–607.
421	there was a childishness: Inez Melson, in the television special That’s Hollywood, narrated by Tom Bosley; written and produced by Philip Savenick.
421ff	On Ralph Greenson’s background and childhood, see Greenson’s incomplete and unpublished memoir, “My Father the Doctor,” in Box 12 of the Ralph R. Greenson Collection in the Department of Special Collections at the University of California at Los Angeles; henceforth, extracts from this collection are designated RRG.
423	The materials relevant to Captain Newman, M.D. are contained in RRG Box 15 and in the June 1962 supplement to his biography at the UCLA Medical School.
423	her dream house: Murray, p. 6.
424	a charismatic speaker: RRG, Box 1.
425	He wanted: Benson Schaeffer to DS, Dec. 28, 1992.
426	Only later was it: A highly respected California psychoanalyst requested DS to preserve his anonymity.
426	a hard-living man: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Anna Freud (New York: Summit, 1988), p. 371.
427	“Drugs in the Psychotherapeutic Situation”: RRG, Box 2, Folder 4. Other lectures cited on p. 426 are located in the same box.
427	“Special Problems In Psychotherapy With The Rich and Famous,” dated Aug. 18, 1978: RRG, Box 2, Folder 19.
428ff	At a meeting held at Fox on June 8, 1962, during the troubled production of MM’s final film, studio executive Phil Feldman wrote: “Dr. Greenson advised that he would be able to get his patient to go along with any reasonable request and although he did not want us to deem his relationship as a Svengali one, he in fact could persuade her to do anything reasonable that he wanted.” From a memorandum in the Twentieth Century–Fox Studio archives headed “Marilyn Monroe Situation,” dated June 8, 1962.
428	I was going to be: The quotations attributed to Ralph Greenson are derived from a letter he wrote to Marianne Kris on Aug. 20, 1962. From the Ralph Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
429	I’m thirty-four: Quoted in Eve Arnold, p. 85.
429	You’re both narcissists: Quoted by Esther Maltz (formerly Mrs. Hyman Engelberg) to DS, July 28 and Oct. 23, 1992.
429	prescribe medication for her: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
430	I have lived: Alfred Hitchcock to DS, July 18, 1975.
431	Westerns and the West: Miller, p. 462.
431	This is an attempt: James Goode, The Story of The Misfits (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), p. 17.
432ff	On the making of The Misfits, see (in addition to Goode), Time, vol. 76, no. 6 (Aug. 8, 1960): 57; Arlene Croce, “The Misfits,” Sight and Sound, summer 1961, pp. 142–144; Alice T. McIntyre, “Making The Misfits,” Esquire, vol. 55, no. 3 (March 1961): 74–81; Rosten, pp. 82–89.
432–433	Each of the players: Goode, p. 17.
433	What makes you so sad?: Miller, p. 369.
434	desperately unhappy: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 17, 1991.
434	But the character: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.
434	Miller’s was the: Shaw and Rosten, p. 186.
435	I have not: Quoted in “Mosaic for Marilyn,” Coronet, Feb. 1961.
435	I never really: Jon Whitcomb, “Marilyn Monroe—The Sex Symbol Versus The Good Wife,” Cosmopolitan, vol. 149, no. 6 (Dec. 1960): 54–55.
435	But I promised: McIntyre, art. cit., p. 79.
435	Harlow was always: Quoted in Coronet, February 1961.
435	by throwing a fit: Luitjers, pp. 67–68.
436	I had to: Most of these remarks were edited out of the 1962 Life magazine interview by Meryman; the few remaining comments were much altered. As offered here, they are drawn from the original taped conversations.
436	She had considerable: Goode, p. 43.
436	I’m Mitzi Gaynor: Goode, p. 117.
436	Cut!: Goode, p. 182.
437	a mean streak: Anjelica Huston to Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, Nov. 6, 1991.
437ff	For the account of the perils of making Moby Dick in 1955, see Michael Freedland, Gregory Peck (New York: Morrow, 1980), pp. 137–138, and Axel Madsen, John Huston (New York: Doubleday, 1978), pp. 149–150.
437	I want you: Madsen, p. 149.
437	What I didn’t know: Ibid., p. 150.
438	I’m doing this one: For the account of Gable’s stunts in China Seas, see Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph Ross, The Motion Picture Guide (Chicago: Cinebooks, 1985), vol. 2, p. 417.
438ff	For an account of Gable’s stunts in The Misfits, and for Dunlevie’s remark, see Jack Scagnetti, The Life and Loves of Gable (Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David, 1976), p. 152.
438	You can all: Gable’s remark and the incident are recounted in Goode, pp. 208–209.
438	They don’t care: Gable, quoted in Lawrence Grovel, The Hustons (New York: Avon, 1989), p. 494.
439	had begun staying: Miller, p. 474.
439	But I like: Huston, quoted in Gerald Pratley, The Cinema of John Huston (Cranbury, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1977), p. 130.
439	Well, I ran: Quoted in Newsweek, Sept. 12, 1960, p. 102; ibid. for Huston’s gambling schedule.
439	I spent a lot: John Huston, An Open Book (New York: Knopf, 1980), p. 287.
439	The telltale sign: Grobel, p. 496.
440	losing steadily: Goode, p. 48; see also pp. 31, 35, 61, 73, 82, 159. Huston’s gambling habits are also detailed in William F. Nolan, John Huston: King Rebel (Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965), pp. 184–185.
440	What should I ask: The dialogue is recorded in Goode, p. 246 and repeated by Grobel, p. 496.
440	For details of Paula Strasberg’s illness, I am grateful to Susan Strasberg, who discussed the matter in several interviews during June and October 1992.
440	I think we’re doing: Goode, p. 126.
441	I was almost: Miller, p. 477.
441	MM’s doctor-administered injections of Amytal were gruesomely recounted by Miller, p. 481: these were, he wrote, enough to sedate her for a major operation. See also Miller, pp. 528–529.
441	It took so long: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
441	On Huston’s loss of $16,000 on August 16, see Goode, p. 108.
441	the one great lesson: Often quoted—e.g., in Lyn Tornabene, Long Live The King (New York: Putnam’s, 1976), p. 361–362.
442ff	The relevant daily production history of The Misfits can be determined from Goode, pp. 115–124, from call sheets preserved by members of the cast and crew, and from the reminiscences of Evelyn Moriarty, Allan Snyder, Rupert Allan and Ralph Roberts.
442	I think she: Hedda Hopper’s column for Sept. 1, 1960; prepared the previous day at her office by wire service.
443	On Huston and Miller, see Miller, p. 485. Huston’s account was unvarying: “Drugs ravaged her, and she broke down. I had to send her to a hospital for a week” (in Wolper, Legend).
444n3	August 27: Goode, p. 124.
444	And with that: Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 17 and Aug. 9, 1992.
444	When the press: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992.
445	My guess is: Hyman Engelberg, quoted in the New York Times, Aug. 30, 1960, p. 24.
445	looking wonderfully: Miller, p. 485.
445	when she was told: Goode, pp. 257–258.
445	I know Arthur’s: Quoted in Charles Hamblett, Who Killed Marilyn Monroe? (London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 128.
446	All my life: Henry Hathaway, quoted in Kobal, p. 613.
447	serious, accurate: Paul V. Beckley, in the New York Herald Tribune, Feb. 3, 1961.
448	I can’t do it: Grobel, p. 498.
448ff	Detailed information on Greenson’s increasingly bizarre relationship with MM, and his family’s relationship with her, came collectively from Rupert Allan, Ralph Roberts, Susan Strasberg, Pat Newcomb, and from three sources close to the Greenson family who requested that DS preserve their anonymity.
449	I was her therapist: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962.
450	the sad fact: Quoted in Time, vol. 76, no. 21 (Nov. 21, 1960): 61.
450	I kept him waiting: Skolsky, p. 230. He locates this conversation in Los Angeles after Gable’s death, but that is impossible: it must have occurred between the first heart attack and the second, fatal one, for when Gable died MM was in New York.
451	I take a lot: Vernon Scott, “What’s the Next Move for Marilyn Monroe?” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30, 1960.
	Chapter Nineteen: 1961
453	Scott, art. cit.
453	My work is: Alan Levy, “Marilyn Monroe: ‘A Good Long Look at Myself,’ ” Redbook, Aug. 1962, p. 77.
453	splendid: W. Somerset Maugham, in a letter to MM dated Jan. 31, 1961.
455	because the press: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992. Henceforth, all quotations attributed to Pat Newcomb are taken from this interview unless otherwise noted.
455	incompatibility of character: Divorce proceeding reported in the New York Times, Jan. 22, 1961, p. 86; see also ibid., Jan. 25, 1961, p. 35; and the UPI wire service dispatches dated Jan. 21, 23, and 25, 1961.
455	I am upset: UPI wire service story dated Jan. 21, 1961; see, e.g., the Hollywood Citizen-News, that date.
455	It would be: Ibid.
455	Mr. Miller is: MM to Hedda Hopper in July 1961, released in her syndicated column on Sunday, July 16.
456ff	The details of MM’s sojourn at the Payne Whitney Clinic of New York Hospital were provided in interviews with Norman Rosten, Ralph Roberts, Susan Strasberg and Pat Newcomb. For the medical evaluation of her as “extremely disturbed and potentially self-destructive,” see a report obtained by the New York World Telegram and published on Feb. 10, 1961, p. 1.
457	MM’s letter to the Strasbergs was first printed in The Daily Mirror (London), Aug. 5, 1981; in abbreviated form, it is also in Guiles, Legend, p. 402.
458	On DiMaggio’s life from 1955 to 1961, see Bob Dean, “Marilyn to Wed Again?” Photoplay, May 1961; also Allen, p. 194ff.
458	He carried a torch: Quoted in Allen, p. 186.
458	take the hospital: Quoted by many of MM’s friends—e.g., in Rosten, p. 93.
458–459	Kris’s remarks to Roberts were relayed to DS and are also found in Susan Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 228.
464	I feel wonderful: UPI wire service story for March 6, 1961; see, e.g., the Los Angeles Examiner, “Marilyn Whisked From Hospital,” that date.
464	as radiantly: Ibid.
464	She had just been discharged: Wagenknecht, p. 49.
465	Joe DiMaggio deeply loved: Allen, p. 189.
465	The attraction to Joe: Ibid., p. 199.
466	I’m very happy: Jonah Rudd, “Now That I Am 35,” The Daily Mail (London), June 5, 1961.
466	There’s no doubt that: Milton Ebbins’s recollections about Sinatra and MM, and about MM up to the night of her death, were provided in his interviews with DS in Beverly Hills on August 6 and September 22, 1992.
467	It was scary: A composite statement of the same sentiments, expressed by MM to Rupert Allan and Susan Strasberg.
468	I told [Arthur]: Rosten, p. 91.
468	Henceforth in the text, all the remarks attributed to Ralph Roberts derive from the interview with DS on March 2, 1992, and from subsequent, supplementary telephone conversations in May, June, August and September of that year. See also Susan Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 230.
469ff	Details of the Greenson-Monroe relationship derive from previously dated interviews with Ralph Roberts, Susan Strasberg, Allan Snyder, Pat Newcomb, Rupert Allan; from a conversation with Greenson’s then brother-in-law and attorney, Milton Rudin; and from interviews with three layfolk who knew Greenson personally and two of his Los Angeles psychiatric colleagues, whose five separate requests for anonymity DS has honored so that their professional confidence may be maintained.
470	He overstepped: Robert Litman, M.D., to DS, April 23, 1992.
471	Help Help: Norman Rosten, “About Marilyn,” McCall’s, Aug. 1972, p. 132. These words were not new from MM but apparently recaptured by her: they are found as early as 1956, shortly after she arrived in London and found Arthur’s notebook entry (MG IV, 5, p. 5).
471	She began to get rid: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: Greenson Papers, UCLA Special Collections.
472	I never heard: Betsy Duncan Hammes to DS, July 22, 1992.
473	You must have: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
474	in a shambles: Milton Gould to DS, November 10, 1992.
474	a tall, dark: Negulesco, p. 224.
474ff	The production history of Something’s Got to Give described herein and in the following chapter derives from an interview with the original producer, David Brown (to DS, November 11, 1992), and from Brown’s book, Let Me Entertain You (New York: Morrow, 1990), pp. 53–56; from Patricia Newcomb; from the Fox production files; and (as detailed below) from interviews with those involved in the production, especially Evelyn Moriarty, Henry Weinstein, Allan Snyder and Marjorie Plecher Snyder.
475	There was nothing: Arnold Shulman to DS, July 28, 1992.
475	Have you been trapped: Johnson and Leventhal, p. 206.
475	quick, she was gay: Ibid., p. 207.
475	The change: Peter G. Levathes to Spyros P. Skouras, cable dated Jan. 10, 1962, in Box 45 of the Skouras Collection, Stanford University.
476	how much: Peter G. Levathes to DS, Oct. 8, 1992.
476	Her therapist: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
476	essentially a different: Douglas Kirkland to DS, July 24, 1992.
477	If I am a star: Many times, e.g., to Richard Meryman, July 1962, as in Life, art. cit.
478	I encouraged her: Greenson, in a deposition to the Estate of Marilyn Monroe, preserved in RRG/UCLA.
478	The doctor thought: Eunice Murray, in Wolper, Legend; see, similarly, Eunice Murray, with Rose Shade, Marilyn: The Last Months (New York: Pyramid, 1975), p. 43; hereinafter referred to as Murray.
478	there was nobody else: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
478ff	Details on the background and biography of Eunice Joerndt Murray Blackmer were ascertained from the Advancement Office of Urbana University, in Urbana, Ohio; from the Annual Catalogue of the Urbana University School Academy and Junior College for 1917–1918; from the Library and Archives of the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton, Massachusetts; from Eunice’s son-in-law Philip LaClair (interview July 22, 1992); from County records in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bath, Maine; from Frank Higgins, Urbana College (Urbana, Ohio: Urbana College, 1977); from the obituary of John Murray in the Albuquerque Tribune, Nov. 24, 1958.
479	mere shadow: Eunice Murray Blackmer to Audrey Stevens, May 13, 1983.
479	constantly to engage: Higgins, pp. 6–7.
479	controversial, alienating: Ibid., p. 108.
481	It was strictly: Philip LaClair to DS, July 22, 1992.
481	in any kind: Murray, p. 7.
482	At first: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992; henceforth all quotations attributed to Newcomb were derived from this interview unless otherwise noted.
482	very strange lady: Alan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1991.
	Chapter Twenty: January–May 1962 N.B.: Citations from the daily production reports and call sheets for Something’s Got to Give cited in the text are drawn from those files: Picture No. A-855, Twentieth Century–Fox Film Corporation, 1962.
484	Regarding the cost and mortgage of 12305 Fifth Helena, see the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 11, 1962 and the relevant Los Angeles County tax records for 1962.
484	I felt badly: Quoted in Murray, p. 49.
484	she was talked: Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 17, 1992.
486	but there isn’t: Cherie Redmond to Hedda Rosten, MM daily secretarial and business report from Los Angeles to New York, dated Sunday, Feb. 25, 1962.
486ff	For accounts of the brief encounters between MM and President Kennedy (hardly constituting a romance), DS relied on interviews with Ralph Roberts, Allan Snyder, Rupert Allan, Susan Strasberg, Pat Newcomb, Milton Ebbins and Joseph Naar; see also Skolsky, pp. 233–234; and Wilson, Show Business Laid Bare, pp. 56ff.
489ff	On Robert Kennedy’s friendship (it can be called nothing else) with MM, DS relied on interviews with Edwin Guthman (October 29, 1992) and those listed in the note on p. 493; see also Skolsky, p. 234; Wilson, pp. 60, 84. In his appearance on the television program 60 Minutes in 1973, Norman Mailer admitted that, contrary to the allegations in his then recently published book on Monroe, he did not believe that she was romantically involved with Robert Kennedy, but that his publisher had offered him a lot of money when he “needed quick cash,” and that this element made a good story. Granted.
491	They all came over: Eunice Murray, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, Sept. 11, 1973, sec. 2, p. 1.
493	The man: Wilson, p. 56.
493	There was no doubt: Ibid., p. 84.
494ff	MM’s telephone message logs, kept in longhand and then typed by Cherie Redmond, were turned over to DS in 1992 by a purchaser who had obtained them after MM’s death from Inez Melson.
494	According to Redmond’s message logs (for Feb. 5, March 8, May 9, June 12, 22, 29 and July 6), Eunice’s repeated requests for cash advances continued throughout that year constituted a habit MM found annoying—as she did the housekeeper’s demand for a signed check without the amount filled in for her son-in-law Norman Jefferies, who performed odd jobs about the house (Redmond log for Feb. 5, 1962).
495	For Isadore Miller’s brief recollections of the Florida visit, see Wagenknecht, pp. 52–54.
495	On MM’s freedom from drug dependence during her Mexican trip, see Murray, p. 59ff.; also Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.
496	Whenever she was: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992. See also George Masters and Norma Lee Browning, The Masters Way to Beauty (New York: NAL/Signet, 1978), pp. 68–83.
496	Regarding MM’s dress at the Golden Globe ceremony: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.
497	drunk, barely: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also Marilyn and Me, p. 239.
497	vitamin shots: Murray, p. 78.
497	It was irresponsible: Arnold Abrams, M.D., to DS, Nov. 2, 1992.
498	During and after: Ralph Roberts to DS, Mar. 2, 1992.
498	It is hard: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992; see also Guiles, Legend, p. 441.
498	The details of MM’s visit to Greenson on March 3, 1962 were provided by two sources who requested anonymity—one a medical colleague of Greenson, the other a person close to him.
498	I don’t know: Nunnally Johnson to Jean Negulesco, quoted in Negulesco, p. 223.
499	the studio simply: Arnold Shulman to DS, July 7, 1992; see also Shulman’s comments in Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, pp. 240–242.
499	an artist who: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
500	loved and admired: Milton Rudin to DS, Oct. 31, 1992.
500ff	out of line: The doctor present in the Greenson house was under supervision by Greenson for psychotherapeutic training that year, and he was an eyewitness to the DiMaggio event. Still in practice in Los Angeles, he has requested that his name not be used as a source for this event. In fact, there was a second witness, also a physician still in practice in Beverly Hills.
501	Henry, don’t you pay any attention: Quoted by Weinstein to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.
501	I think that Ralph: Henry Weinstein to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.
502	She was a poor creature: Quoted in McCann, p. 176.
503	executives were not: Walter Bernstein to DS, March 5, 1992; see also his reminiscences in “Marilyn Monroe’s Last Picture Show,” Esquire, vol. 80, no. 1 (July 1973): 104–178; published in the UK in the Observer Review, Sept. 9, 1973.
503	She was very charming: Bernstein to DS, March 5, 1992.
504	based on the fact: Murray, p. 71.
504ff	Regarding Eunice’s management of Marilyn’s home and life, and her choice of workmen, see her book, pp. 72ff.
504	It’s not particularly: Cherie Redmond to Hedda Rosten, April 27, 1962.
505n9	Not in her worst: Susan Strasberg to DS, Nov. 5, 1992.
506	For the injection by Seigel, see Bernstein, art. cit.
506	Seigel was: Ernest Lehman to DS, Aug. 29, 1992.
506	every few days: Murray, p. 78.
506	Regarding the gift to Agnes Flanagan: see Crivello, p. 250.
507	The arithmetic: Close-Up, vol. 5, no. 21 (June 14, 1962): 5. The producer is unnamed.
507	an agent: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
507ff	Receipts detailing each hour of Marilyn’s appointments from April through June were preserved by Carey Cadillac. They were signed and dated by the driver, Rudy Kautzky, and bear invoice numbers 21703 through 22005.
509ff	For Cukor’s opinions, DS interviewed (on April 20, 1992) Richard Stanley, the director’s assistant during the last seven years of Cukor’s life.
511ff	Seigel’s reports are preserved in the production files for the film, on reports for April 30 through May 4, and in the documentary Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give (Fox Entertainment News, 1990), ex. prod. William K. Knoedelseder, Jr., prod., wr., narr. Henry Schipper. Fox Video #1955.
511	Marilyn did not: Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 17, 1992.
511	Marilyn was shattered: Johnson and Leventhal, p. 208.
512	The president’s birthday gala in May had, of course, been planned for months: Marilyn told Rupert Allan, among others, that the invitation to her was issued personally by JFK in March, and as filming approached, she also made it clear to Fox that she would have to be released for two days in New York that May. The studio would not, of course, object to a star appearing at so prestigious an event.
512	nothing, absolutely: Life, June 1987, p. 70.
512	It might have been: Murray, p. 101.
512	At 4:00: Daily log for May 1 kept by Cherie V. Redmond, from the Redmond/Melson papers delivered to DS in June 1992.
514	Evelyn Moriarty’s meeting with Eunice Murray was told to DS by Evelyn on Feb. 17, 1992.
515	Hildi was afraid: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1992: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
515	When I left: Ralph Greenson, Folder 4, Box 2: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA. This material was the rough draft form of what became a portion of chapter twelve of his book Drugs in the Psychotherapeutic Situation, pp. 204–205. MM is not specifically mentioned as the patient, but the only five-week summer vacation he took from 1959 to his death in 1979 was in 1962. With no other woman patient was he so involved, and the language of this passage is virtually a copy of his descriptions of MM in his August 20 letter to Marianne Kris. Even if the patient were not MM, the words and tone of this passage is frighteningly self-referential, not to say frankly sexual. One need not be trained in the fine points of Freudian language to be astonished at Greenson’s lack of discretion.
515	By this time: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.
517	I had no idea: Milton Gould to DS, Nov. 10, 1992.
517	The Weinstein-Ebbins dialogue was reconstructed for DS by Milton Ebbins, Aug. 6, 1992.
518	The whole thing: Henry Weinstein to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.
519	Peter Levathes firmly denied (to DS, Oct. 8, 1992) the absurd allegation set down by some writers to the effect that he received a telephone call from Robert Kennedy, ordering the release of MM from work so she could come to New York on May 17.
519	became more and more: recounted to DS by Ralph Roberts on March 2, 1992.
520	We kept working: William Asher to DS, Sept. 25, 1992.
520	skin and beads: Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 590.
521	I’d like you: Quoted in Wagenknecht, p. 54.
521	Marilyn came: Mathilde Krim, on The Class of the Twentieth Century, A & E Cable Television Network, 1991. Narrated by Richard Dreyfus.
521	reveled in that: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.
521	Regarding the presidential gala: for years there has circulated the rumor that after the reception at the Krim residence, MM joined Kennedy for a tryst in his bedroom at the Carlyle Hotel. “This is absolutely impossible,” recalled Ralph Roberts. After Milton Ebbins and two other guests left the Krim residence on East Sixty-ninth Street with Marilyn, they delivered her to her apartment at about two o’clock, and there Roberts awaited to give her pre-arranged massage. “When I departed, it was almost four and she was asleep” (RR to DS, March 2, 1992).
	Chapter Twenty-one: May–July 1962
524ff	MM was attended at home for her ear infection and resulting insomnia by Dr. Milton Uhley, then on call for Engelberg. He billed her for three visits to her home: the evening of May 27, after midnight on May 28–29, and from one to four the morning of June 3.
526	What happened: Henry Weinstein, in the Schipper documentary Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give, 1990.
527	a dangerous arsenal: Murray, p. 107.
527ff	Henceforth, all details of MM’s telephone calls are derived from the complete records of General Telephone and Electronics for the two numbers installed at her residence, 476-1890 and and 472-4830. These were provided to DS through the mediation of producer-director Ted Landreth, who obtained them from Neil Spaatz, Senior Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department and later head of security for Playboy Enterprises.
528ff	Details of the telephone calls and meetings involving Weinstein, Feldman, Levathes, Rudin, Greenson and Gang were all set down in nine pages of studio memoranda by Phil Feldman titled “Marilyn Monroe Situation” and dated June 6 through 11, 1962. DS obtained them in early 1992 from a private source. Henceforth these documents are designated “Feldman.”
529	Everyone was aware: Walter Bernstein to DS, March 5, 1992.
529–530	The accounts of Greenson’s conduct with the actor-writer and another patient were provided by those who for obvious reasons have requested anonymity.
530	Correspondence between Greenson and John Frosch of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1957 is located in Box 14, Folder titled “1957 Correspondence,” Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
530	She was disheveled: The citations from Michael Gurdin, M.D., are derived from the DS interview with him, Sept. 21, 1992.
531	with them: Feldman, June 6, 1962 memorandum.
531	the medical member: Ibid., June 7, 1962.
531	I am convinced: Ibid.
532	I went to see: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 11, 1962.
534ff	Feldman, memorandum for June 8, 1962, pp. 1–3.
534	was made necessary: Quoted in the Hollywood Citizen-News, June 9, 1962, p. 2.
535	We’ve let the inmates: Quoted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 12, 1962, p. 2.
535	Cleopatra was way: Henry Weinstein, in Schipper’s documentary Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give, 1990.
535	They just didn’t: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.
536	Mr. Martin: Feldman, memorandum for June 11, 1962.
536	Mr. Rudin said: Ibid., p. 3.
537	since April 16: Complaint no. 797856, Twentieth Century–Fox Film Corporation, Plaintiff, vs. Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., Defendants.
537	When [Levathes]: Johnson and Leventhal, p. 209.
538	she had never: Quoted in Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), p. 269.
538	There’s a future: Quoted in McCann, p. 173.
538	She was very natural: Bert Stern to DS, May 10, 1992.
538	she said: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.
538	I’m thirty-six: In Photoplay, September 1962, p. 87.
539	To think of: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
539	Regarding the so-called “liver and vitamin injections,” the first Mrs. Hyman Engelberg told DS that she never heard of them: “Dr. Greenson used Hy to sedate [Marilyn].” Esther Maltz to DS, Oct. 23, 1992.
540	She asked to postpone: Richard Meryman, “A Last Long Talk with a Lonely Girl,” Life, vol. 53, no. 7 (Aug. 17, 1962): 33.
540	but she implied: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.
540	I have access: Esther Maltz (formerly Mrs. Hyman Engelberg) to DS, July 28, 1992.
540	so that I had nothing: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: RG Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
541	The calls placed by MM to the Department of Justice are recorded on her GTE bill (documented above under the note on p. 527). Edwin Guthman, previously cited in this matter, provided for DS an account of how the calls were or were not put through to the attorney general, and how Angie Novello fielded them.
541	That Angie Novello talked with MM more often than RFK did, see Schlesinger, p. 591.
542	Regarding DiMaggio’s visits to MM, see “Joe’s Plan to Be Near Marilyn,” San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 14, 1962.
542	For the history of MM’s gynecological problems and procedures, see above, on Leon Krohn’s notes.
542	Regarding DiMaggio’s termination with Monette, see Maury Allen, p. 197, and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 14, 1962.
543ff	MM’s remarks are excerpted from Meryman, art. cit. This was available the week before, on July 27; according to Eunice Murray (p. 116), MM read and liked it.
544	What are you: Quoted by Murray, p. 115.
545	On plans for The Jean Harlow Story, see Skolsky, pp. 235–236.
547	As so often: Peter G. Levathes to DS, Feb. 21, 1992.
548	She didn’t want: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992.
549	There was absolutely: Alex D’Arcy to DS, July 1, 1992.
549	I was in Lake Tahoe: Betsy Duncan Hammes to DS, July 22, 1992.
549	He loved her: Quoted in Maury Allen, p. 197. Rupert Allan’s interview with DS, July 19, 1991. Privy to the secret wedding plans were, among others, Valmore Monette, Rupert Allan and (documented in Chapter 22, below) Bill Alexander. But MM and DiMaggio intended to keep the wedding secret until after the ceremony, to avoid the kind of publicity that had surrounded them in 1954.
549	She was fighting: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 4, 1992.
550	Regarding MM’s new will: Milton Rudin to DS, Oct. 31, 1992.
552	She was so happy: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 12, 1962.
	Chapter Twenty-two: August 1–4, 1962
554	because Marilyn has asked: Negulesco, p. 226.
554	a hurricane of glamour: Ibid., p. 227.
554	in great spirits: Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 26, 1992.
555	Notes on interviews with Leon Krohn were shared with DS by producer Ted Landreth, who interviewed Krohn for a BBC-TV documentary. MM’s telephone records confirm her call to Krohn (Los Angeles telephone number 662-9111) at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital that day.
556	being held by: Cherie V. Redmond to MM, July 30, 1962.
556	made her presence known: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992.
556ff	The dismissal of Eunice Murray was well known to Newcomb, Roberts, Allan and perhaps to Joe as well. See also Guiles, Legend, p. 433.
557	Marilyn just: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.
558	Greenson’s connection: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992.
559	“Special Problems in Psychotherapy with the Rich and Famous,” Box 2, Folder 19 (dated Aug. 18, 1978): RG Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
560	I have a Spanish: Bill Alexander to DS, Aug. 27, 1992.
561	It was a difficult: John Bates to DS, Nov. 20, 1992. Also contributing to the accounts of that weekend were Nancy (Mrs. John) Bates and John Bates, Jr. A separate interview was conducted that same date with Ronald Snyder, the retired foreman of the Bates ranch, who was also with the Kennedys at the ranch that entire weekend.
562	I saddled: Roland Snyder to DS, Nov. 20, 1992.
562	I was fourteen: John Bates, Jr., to DS, Nov. 20, 1992.
563	Regarding RFK’s presence at Mass, see The Gilroy Dispatch, Aug. 6, 1962.
563ff	Greenson and Engelberg submitted bills for August 3. Norman Rosten summarized his conversation with MM in Rosten, pp. 120–121, Allen, p. 203 and Shaw and Rosten, pp. 189–190. The telephone calls to Ray Tolman and to Rosten appear on MM’s GTE telephone bill for that date. The calls to Courtney and Louis are noted by Murray, p. 122. Jule Styne discussed his telephone call to MM with DS on Nov. 25, 1992. Other material from Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992, and it is also documented in Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows, p. 299.
564	Engelberg told the district attorney of this prescription in the December 1982 report, the official title of which is: “Report to the District Attorney on The Death of Marilyn Monroe by Ronald H. Carroll, Assistant District Attorney; Alan B. Tomich, Investigator.” This final report was preceded by a series of investigative interviews conducted on August 16 and 20, September 3, 7 and 27, October 1, 12 and 18, and compiled as the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation, Investigator’s Report, File #82-G-2236. The interviews were conducted by Carroll and/or by Investigator Alan B. Tomich. Henceforth, the full report is designated as “DA 1982,” and the interviews as “InvRep.” The citation here is from DA 1982, p. 25.
564	The Engelberg divorce is Los Angeles County civil case #D-617021; additional information was provided by the former Esther Engelberg (later Mrs. Albert Maltz) to DS, Oct. 23, 1992.
564	Regarding the prescriptions by Greenson et al.: see Ralph Greenson to Maurice Zolotow, reported in the Chicago Tribune, Sept. 14, 1973, sec. 2, p. 4; the Hollywood Citizen-News, Aug. 7, 1962; and DA 1982, p. 25.
564	Regarding the two physicians’ prescriptions for MM, Engelberg made a formal statement to investigators from the district attorney’s office on Sept. 27, 1982, in which he stated that he approved only one Nembutal a day for her, and Greenson claimed to the Suicide Prevention Team on Aug. 17, 1962 that a primary goal of his therapy with MM was to break her drug dependency.
565	She was very excited: Jule Styne to DS, Dec. 14, 1992.
565	Regarding MM’s deal with Esquire, see the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 14, 1962.
565	My husband and I: Paula Strasberg, quoted in the New York Daily News, Aug. 6, 1962.
565	There was too much: Murray, p. 122.
565	Why don’t you come: Regarding MM’s invitation to Pat Newcomb and their dialogue: Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992; also Newcomb quoted in the New York Journal-American, Aug. 15, 1962.
566	seemingly without: Quoted in Murray, p. 125.
566	Marilyn seemed angry: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.
566	Greenson billed MM’s Estate for a visit to Fifth Helena on August 4.
567	He spent most: Milton Rudin to DS, Oct. 31, 1992.
567ff	Regarding the telephone calls to MM from Joe DiMaggio, Jr., he described these to the police on August 9, who included them in their 1962 report on MM’s death: “Interview With Persons Known to Marilyn Monroe, Police Follow-Up Report,” August 10, 1962; interviews conducted by Detective Sergeant Robert E. Byron.
567	Regarding Eunice’s shopping, see Murray, p. 128.
567	I was there: William Asher to DS, Sept. 25, 1992. Milton Ebbins confirmed to DS that Asher was at Lawford’s that afternoon and had related MM’s presence to Ebbins shortly thereafter.
568	Although Greenson admitted in his letter to Kris that he arrived at four-thirty, he wrote that this was at MM’s request and gives no indication of the preceding events of the day, much less of his earlier visit.
568	Regarding Greenson’s visit to MM, see his statement to the police, Aug. 5, 1962; Zolotow, art. cit.; and Murray, p. 129.
568	In 1975 and 1982, Peter Lawford told police investigators that he placed his first call to MM at five o’clock that afternoon.
568	Oh, Marilyn: Quoted in Robert Welkos and Ted Rohrlich, “Marilyn Monroe Mystery Persists,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 29, 1985, part 2, p. 1.
569	The call from Isadore Miller and Murray’s response are reported in The Daily Express (London), Aug. 8, 1962.
569	But it was Greenson: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992.
569	Regarding Greenson’s calls to Engelberg: Esther Maltz to DS, Oct. 23, 1992.
570	I asked the housekeeper: Greenson to Marianne Kris. Aug. 20, 1962.
570	this was the first: Eunice Murray to Investigator Al Tomich, Sept. 27, 1982: Los Angeles County District Attorney, Bureau of Investigation, Report File No. 82-G-2236; Murray, p. 2.
570ff	Regarding the younger Joe DiMaggio’s last call to MM, see note to p. 567, above. See also his statement to the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 8, 1962, that MM was alert and in good spirits.
570	happy, gay, alert: Murray, p. 130.
570	quite pleasant: Greenson to Kris, Aug. 20, 1962; Greenson to Zolotow, art. cit., Sept. 16, 1973.
571	The time of Lawford’s call can be precisely fixed because Milton Ebbins recalled that Lawford called him at exactly 7:40 P.M.—a time Lawford later confirmed with William Asher and Joe Naar, among others. Ebbins, Asher and Naar interviews with DS dated, respectively, Aug. 6, 1992; Sept. 25, 1992; July 22, 1992.
571	Lawford’s account as herein related was his consistent account as told in a police interview in 1975, and as reported in the Los Angeles Times on Sept. 29, 1985. Lawford was also interviewed by district attorney investigators in 1982, but at that time he changed his story, saying simply that he could not get through to MM’s line at eight o’clock. However, Milton Ebbins reported to DS that Lawford told him the night of MM’s death of his last conversation with the actress at seven-forty. Lawford told the same story, in somewhat less detail, to Bill Asher and Joe Naar. It would have been natural for him to alter the account somewhat in 1982, by which time the unjustly believed rumors of the Kennedy involvement in MM’s death would have led Lawford to remove himself as far as possible from direct contact with her that night. Lawford later reported that he ended his string of fearful phone calls at one-thirty in the morning, after yet another call from Ebbins. Lawford told investigators from the district attorney’s office in 1982 that “Ebbins advised that he had just received a telephone call from Rudin, who stated that he and Dr. Greenson had found Monroe dead in her residence at midnight.” Lawford added that he was sure of the time of the call because he remembered looking at his bedside clock.
	Again, Ebbins denied making the one-thirty call. By his account, following his (roughly) nine o’clock conversation with Rudin, he did not speak with the attorney again until four in the morning, at which time Rudin informed him of the death. “I said, ‘Mickey, what are you doing up at this hour?’ He said, ‘I got problems.’ I asked, ‘How’s Marilyn?’ and he said, ‘Not good.’ He said, ‘Her doctors and I just broke into the bedroom. They’ve been working on her, and they just pronounced her dead.’” This timing (Ebbins to DS, Aug. 6, 1992) seems unlikely, for it contradicts the collective witness of Asher, Naar and Rudin and supports the claims of Greenson and Eunice Murray themselves—namely, that the doctor had to break into MM’s bedroom to gain access to it.
571	Say goodbye: Lawford to Los Angeles Police Department, Oct. 16, 1975; also Lawford to Earl Wilson, Show Business Laid Bare, p. 88.
571	Regarding Lawford’s second telephone call: see Harrison Carroll, “Lawford Tells of Phoning Marilyn,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 6, 1962: “Lawford may have been the last person to talk to the blonde star before she was found dead in her bed . . . Eunice Murray earlier reported that Marilyn received such a call.”
571	Peter was obviously: Milton Ebbins to DS, Aug. 6, 1992.
571	Monroe was laughing: Thomas T. Noguchi with Joseph DiMona, Coroner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), p. 65.
572	That Ebbins reached Rudin’s office at 8:25 P.M. is confirmed by Rudin’s report to the police, based on his office records for that evening. Attorneys’ offices (especially in Hollywood) routinely have round-the-clock answering services for emergencies.
572	I did not call: Milton Rudin to DS, Oct. 31, 1992.
572	Rudin’s account is from this same interview with DS. Also, see Rudin’s account in the police interview dated Aug. 10, 1962.
572	If only: Murray, p. 132.
573	Joseph Naar’s account: to DS, July 22, 1992. George Durgom, who died in 1992, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease the last several years of his life, while this book was being researched, and could not be interviewed.
573	Ebbins denied (to DS, July 22 and Oct 6, 1992) calling Naar that evening. “He must be mistaken,” he said of Naar, who was and remains a friend of Ebbins. Naar, however, was emphatic (to DS, July 22, 1992): “I could swear it was Ebbins who called.” The information Naar received in that call is consistent with what Ebbins affirmed he later learned.
573	had found Marilyn: The entire episode was recounted by Lawford in InvRep (Lawford), p. 2.
574	At about ten: Natalie Trundy Jacobs to DS, Feb. 28, 1992.
574ff	Murray’s and Greenson’s reports are here represented as given to the Los Angeles police in 1962: report # 62-509 463.
574	for reasons I still: Murray, on Wolper, Legend.
575	We’ve lost her: Quoted in Robert Welkos and Ted Rohrlich, “Marilyn Monroe Mystery Persists,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 29, 1985, part 2, p. 1.
575	Murray’s altered account from a “light beneath the door” to a “telephone cord” was made on Wolper, Legend, 1964.
575	Murray’s written answer to Roy Turner’s typewritten letter dated Feb. 9, 1987; also Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992; Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992; Rupert Allan to DS, June 19, 1992.
	Chapter Twenty-three: August 5, 1962
578ff	Clemmons’s account is derived from an extended lecture and presentation he gave in Los Angeles on March 22, 1991, before an audience of those devoted to MM called “Marilyn Remembered.” His report is also contained in DA 1982, pp. 7–8, 26–28.
579	It is officer’s opinion: Los Angeles Police Department Report: Re-Interview of Persons Known to MM, dated Aug. 10, 1962.
579	take a look: Don Marshall (Los Angeles Police Department, Retired) to DS, Sept. 2, 1992.
579	a very good: Quoted by Marshall.
580	burning a pile: Peter Brown and Patte Barham, The Last Take (New York: Dutton, 1992), p. 322.
580	the locks: Ibid.
580	Nobody was destroying: Don Marshall to DS, Sept. 14, 1992.
582	It was obvious: Robert Litman, M.D. to DS, April 23, 1992.
582	Since our studies: Robert Litman, M.D., quoted in Howard Hertel and Frank Laro, “Marilyn Monroe’s Death Listed by Coroner as Probably Suicide,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18, 1962.
582	an addict among: Norman Farberow, M.D., quoted in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Aug. 20, 1962.
583	I did not think: John Miner to DS, June 11, 1992. All further citations of Miner are derived from this interview.
583	not a large: DA 1982, p. 4.
584ff	Citations from Arnold Abrams, M.D., to DS: Nov. 2, 1992.
584	On the impossibility of an injection, see also DA 1982, p. 4.
584	This leads: Ibid.
584	marked congestion: Coroner’s Report, File #81128: autopsy performed on August 5, 1962, signed by T. Noguchi, M.D., Deputy Medical Examiner. See also Noguchi, p. 78.
585	cutting down: To Zolotow, in the Chicago Tribune, Sept. 14, 1973, sec. 2, p. 4.
587	Eunice did only: Philip LaClair to DS, July 22, 1992.
588–589	Weinstein’s recollections concerning Engelberg’s gastric lavage (stomach-pumping) of MM at Doheny Drive were reported in an interview to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.
589	Regarding Eunice’s statement about the ambulance, so she said in a taped telephone conversation with Roy Turner, Feb. 9, 1987.
590	Well, I’ve made: Quoted by William Woodfield to DS, Sept. 20, 1991.
590	I don’t recall: Eunice Murray to Roy Turner, taped telephone conversation, Feb. 9, 1987.
590	I wouldn’t swear: Ibid.
591	tried to help: Quoted in McCann, p. 176.
591	Marilyn wasn’t killed: John Huston to Reuters News Service, Aug. 22, 1962.
591	Oh, why do I: Murray, during the filming of the BBC-TV documentary, Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President, as heard by the producer, Ted Landreth and reported to DS.
593	Dear Joe: This note was found in MM’s personal address book, removed Sunday by Inez Melson, her business manager. It was included in a box of personal materials later purchased by a private collector—a cache then passed on to DS in 1991.
	Chapter Twenty-four: August 6–8, 1962
594–595	The dialogue between MM and Allan Snyder was recalled for DS by Snyder on May 2, 1992.
596	I love you: Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 8, 1962, p. 1.
	Afterword
600	vastly alluring: Lee Israel, Kilgallen (New York: Delacorte, 1979), pp. 338–340.
600	one of the President’s appointees: “The Midnight World of Walter Winchell,” Photoplay, Dec. 1962, p. 91.
600ff	On Frank A. Capell, see the profile in The New York Times, Feb. 18, 1965.
600	subversive activities which threaten: William Turner, Power on the Right (Berkeley: Ramparts Press, 1971), p. 224.
601	I’ll tell you a story: This dialogue and the account of the meeting were reported by Clemmons himself in an address in Los Angeles on March 22, 1991, to the group known as Marilyn Remembered.
601	the closeness of their friendship: Frank A. Capell, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe (Zarephath, N.J.: The Herald of Freedom, 1964), pp. 62, 69–70.
601ff	On Winchell and Hoover, see Natalie Robins, Alien Ink (New York: Morrow, 1992).
602	[Capell’s] book: FBI File #77-51387.
602	On Capell, Clemmons, Fergus and the Kuchel case, see, e.g., Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1965.
603	a married man: Fred Lawrence Guiles, Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), p. 315.
603	the [RFK] liaison: Guiles, Legend, p. 16; like Norma Jean, this book also lacks documentation.
603	Guiles’s version: Norman Mailer, Marilyn (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), p. 237.
603	See Anthony Scaduto, “Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?” Oui, Oct. 1975, pp. 35ff.
604	The evidence is as thin: Report of the Los Angeles Police Department Organized Crime Investigation Division, dated Oct. 22, 1975.
605ff	On the results of the District Attorney’s threshold investigation, see the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation, Investigator’s Report, File #82-G-2236: this report is treated extensively in the notes to chapter 22.
606	a known boaster: Ibid.
607	Capell’s role as: Anthony Summers, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, 2nd ed. (New York: Signet/Onyx, 1986), p. 453.
607	On Parker and Hoover: Ibid., p. 374.
607	On Kennedy’s order to Hoover: Ibid., p. 405.
607	the most cogent account: Ibid., p. 390.
609	I don’t know why: Michael Gurdin, M.D., to DS, Sept. 21, 1992.
610	tangled, disastrous affairs: Brown and Barham, p. 386.
610	Geraldo, Sally Jessy: Ibid.
611	evidence: Ibid., p. 387.

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