at this indignity: Peter Bogdanovich, Who the Hell’s in It: Portraits and Conversations (New York: Knopf, 2004).
“for your soul”: Marilyn Monroe, My Story (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007).
“I was never kept”: George Barris, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe’s Revealing Last Words and Photographs (New York: Citadel Press, 2001).
“Louder”: Archive interview with Natasha Lytess on YouTube, unsourced, in French with English subtitles.
“fair to her”: Monroe, My Story.
“I didn’t want to”: Barris, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words.
6. Rising
tiny as the rest of him: Frank Rose, The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).
“meant it in the nicest way”: Carl Rollyson, Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
“nude on red velvet”: Marilyn Monroe audiotape interview with Richard Meryman for Life magazine, 1962. In private hands.
“more of the blonde”: Rollyson, Marilyn Monroe Day by Day.
“she was trying to fill”: “Bette and Marilyn: A Matter of Diction,” blog.everlastingstar.net, May 8, 2014.
“whose girl is that?”: Sandra Shevey, The Marilyn Scandal: Her True Life Revealed by Those Who Knew Her (New York: William Morrow, 1988).
“It shook everyone”: Fred Lawrence Guiles, Norma Jeane: The Life of Marilyn Monroe (Vadnais Heights, MI: Paragon House, 1993).
7. Important Meetings
“at odds with her sadness”: Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life (New York: Grove Press, 1987).
“heroines in one”: Elia Kazan, The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan, ed. Albert J. Devlin (New York: Knopf, 2014).
“starved for sexual release”: Elia Kazan, A Life (New York: Knopf, 1988).
“‘I’m very sincere’”: Marilyn on Marilyn. British Broadcasting Corporation.
“God, the hypocrisy”: Arthur Miller, After the Fall (New York: Viking Press, 1967).
“lose myself in sensuality”: Miller, Timebends.
“the history of this country”: Georges Belmont and Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and the Camera (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2007).
“nor ever change”: Martin Gottfried, Arthur Miller: His Life and Work (Boston: Da Capo, 2004).
“I never had one”: Ibid.
“this is Marilyn Monroe”: Georges Belmont and Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and the Camera (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2007).
“big tits”: Patrick McGilligan, Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).
“It did her no good.… It broke her heart”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009).
“nuts or not”: Sandra Shevey, The Marilyn Scandal: Her True Life Revealed by Those Who Knew Her (New York: William Morrow, 1988).
8. The Talk of Hollywood
“It’s Joe DiMaggio”: Maurice Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960).
“lonely character”: Bernie Miklasz, “Shy, Private Baseball Icon,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 17, 1991.
“What should I do?”: Marilyn Monroe interview with Aline Mosby, syndicated, March 1952.
“retreated into her shell”: James Bawden and Ron Miller, Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood’s Golden Era (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016).
9. Melting the Screen
“I am the blonde”: Marilyn Monroe audiotape interview with Richard Meryman for Life magazine, August 1962. In private hands.
satin strapless: Andrew Hansford and Karen Homer, Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Travilla (New York: Goodman, 2011).
“sleepy eyes of hers”: Adam Victor, The Marilyn Encyclopedia (New York: Overlook Press, 1999).
“quite a lousy childhood”: Larry King Live interview with Lauren Bacall, CNN, May 6, 2005.
“only for her”: Lauren Bacall, By Myself (New York: Knopf, 1978).
“melts the screen”: Ariel Rogers, Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies (Columbia University Press, 2013).
“to make it”: Charles Casillo interview with Murray Garrett, July 30, 2016.
“Including herself”: Ibid.
10. Dissatisfactions
“be happy just being Marilyn Monroe”: Michael Sheridan, “Marilyn Doesn’t Believe in Hiding Things,” Screenland, August 1952.
“great name of medicine”: Marilyn Monroe, My Story (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007).
“She was sparkling”: Charles Casillo interview with Albert Carmine Guastafeste, March 13, 2016.
“Nobody minded that”: “Marilyn Monroe Shatters Quiet on Korean Front,” Herald Journal, February 18, 1954.
“then we all did that”: Casillo interview with Guastafeste, March 13, 2016.
ran out of film: “Monroe Exhausts Korea Film Supply,” The South Missourian, February 19, 1954.
“I want to be a dramatic actress”: Casillo interview with Guastafeste, March 13, 2016.
“loud as they can cheer”: Ted Schwarz, Marilyn Revealed: The Ambitious Life of an American Icon (Lanham MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2009).
11. “Elegant Vulgarity”
“with a baseball bat”: Earl Wilson, “Now You Get Marilyn with Music,” The Miami News, July 4, 1954.
“I didn’t know it had”: Erskine Johnson, in Hollywood NEA syndicated column, Statesville (North Carolina) Record and Landmark, March 25, 1955.
“embarrassing to behold”: Bosley Crowther, “There’s No Business, Etc.; And Musical at the Roxy Sets Out to Prove It,” The New York Times, December 17, 1954
“I think was very important”: Cameron Crowe, Conversations with Wilder (New York: Knopf, 2001).
“Marilyn Wiggles In”: Barbara Leaming, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).
not wearing stockings: Leonard Lyons’s syndicated column, September 14, 1954.
“public streets”: Earl Wilson’s syndicated column, September 9, 1954.
“the look of death”: Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
“important than any career”: Earl Wilson’s syndicated column, September 15, 1954.
“she didn’t have any foundation”: The Many Loves of Marilyn Monroe. E! True Hollywood Story documentary, 2001.
“anything at all”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe.
12. Marilyn Inc.
“You’re a movie star”: Donald Spoto interview with Amy Greene, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
“he gave me great help”: Clark Kidder, Marilyn Monroe: Cover to Cover (Iola: WI, Krause Publications, 2003).
“the way the character does”: Sharon Marie Carnicke, Stanislavsky in Focus: An Acting Master for the Twenty-First Century. Routledge Theatre Classics (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2008).
“when she was a child”: Susan Strasberg, Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends (New York: Time Warner Paperbacks, 1992).
“It was touching”: Clive James interview with Peter Bogdanovich, The Guardian, November 30, 2004.
13. New York Actress
“I touched her”: James Haspiel, Marilyn: The Ultimate Look at the Legend (New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1991).
was Arthur Miller: Charles Casillo interview with Joan Copeland, June 9, 2016. Copeland witnessed them talking.
“a tribute to her sex”: Donald Spoto interview with Rupert Allan, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
“two mirrors simultaneously”: Rex Harrison, Rex: An Autobiography (New York: William Morrow, 1974).
“looking at Her”: Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons (New York: Random House, 1979).
“really is Marilyn Monroe”: Keith Badman, Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books, 2012).
“a very important s
urgery”: Interview with Natasha Lytess on YouTube, unsourced, in French with English subtitles.
“maybe I was”: Jeffrey Meyers, The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010).
“sensitive person also”: Marilyn Monroe audiotape interview with Georges Belmont, editor of Marie Claire, 1960.
“guilt between them”: Frank Langella, Dropped Names (New York: Harper, 2012).
“Why must you lose me?”: Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life (New York: Grove Press, 1987).
“I can’t hate you”: Letter from Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe, 1956.
“one and all”: Elia Kazan, A Life (New York: Knopf, 1988).
“Marilyn loved it”: Casillo interview with Copeland, June 9, 2016.
a shrewd businesswoman: Time, January 1956.
14. “A Different Suit”
“She was just immensely insecure”: Larry King Live, interview with Hope Lange, 1997.
“every other day”: Donald Spoto interview with Rupert Allan, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
a guy that she liked: Donald Spoto interview with Patricia Newcomb, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
“she hogged”: Donald Spoto interview with Rupert Allan, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
“Marilyn couldn’t forgive her”: Ibid.
“with makeup”: Michele Farinola, Backstory: The Making of Bus Stop, AMC Productions.
Only then would Logan: Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978).
“She was magnificent”: Leo Verswijver, “Don Murray: ‘I never understood why Marilyn Monroe was not nominated for “Bus Stop”’” Film Talk, December 11, 2014.
“It can hold up the set for hours”: Michele Farinola, Backstory: The Making of Bus Stop, AMC Productions; Larry King Live, interview with Hope Lange, 1997.
“She and the picture are swell”: Bosley Crowther, New York Times, September 1, 1956.
15. Innocent Monster
“champagne bottles around”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009).
the next day a size 40: Charles Casillo interview with Leslie Caron, January 14, 2016.
she became difficult: Jack Cardiff, Magic Hour: A Life in Movies (London: Faber & Faber, 1997).
“lasts all day”: Marilyn Monroe audiotape interview with Georges Belmont, editor of Marie Claire, 1960.
“anything else but Marilyn”: Casillo interview with Leslie Caron, January 14, 2016.
“thought was a rival”: Philip Ziegler, Olivier (London: MacLehose Press, 2015).
“attention away from herself”: Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life (New York: Grove Press, 1987).
“better than him in that movie”: Marilyn Monroe—Life After Death, documentary, United Artists Theatre Circuit, 1994.
“monster too”: W. J. Weatherby, Conversations with Marilyn (Vadnais Heights, MI: Paragon House, 1992).
called her a “whore”: Charles Casillo interview with Denis Ferrara, February 3, 2017.
“She was ravishing”: Online interview with Brigitte Bardot, Witnify, February 28, 2014.
“I think she is so charming”: Liz Smith, “Bardot,” Q Magazine, Spring 2016.
16. Marriage
“even less youthful”: Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
“sit back and relax”: Radie Harris, “The Empty Crib in the Nursery,” Photoplay, December 1958.
“I love you”: “Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Love Letters to Be Auctioned,” (AP) Hollywood Reporter, November 11, 2014.
Miller became vice president: Barbara Leaming, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).
“made the production possible”: Charles Casillo interview with Paul Libin, March 4, 2016.
“That was so sweet and poignant” Charles Casillo interview with Joan Copeland, September 27, 2016.
“constantly trying to”: Ibid.
“topple either way”: Marilyn Monroe: Her Last Untold Secrets (Interview with Dr. George Kupchik for this tribute magazine, 1962, publisher unidentified).
“I never had one”: Donald Spoto interview with Rupert Allan, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
“including one from Arthur”: Ibid.
“she wanted to have them”: Charles Casillo interview with Joan Copeland, June 9, 2016.
17. Marilyn Gets Hot
“reading the rest”: Radie Harris, “The Empty Crib in the Nursery,” Photoplay, December 1958.
than her own: Peer J. Oppenheimer, “Look Who’s Back—Marilyn,” Family Weekly, February 22, 1959.
recalled costar Laurie Mitchell: Mike Thomas, The Making of Some Like It Hot. Documentary, 2006.
“color as mine”: Charles Casillo interview with Marion Collier, March 20, 2016.
“or believe”: Charles Casillo interview with Al Breneman, March 6, 2016.
for the weekend: Thomas Larson, “The White Mask: Marilyn Monroe and the Hotel Del Coronado,” The San Diego Reader, September 4, 2003.
reported to be vermouth: Chris Hatcher, “Is Marilyn Monroe Ruining Her Life,” Movie Mirror, August 1960.
vodka and orange juice: Barbara Leaming, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).
“be able to do it”: Cinéma Cinémas: Jack Lemmon—Hollywood Juillet 1987. Documentary directed by Claude Ventura.
inside the drawer: Billy Wilder interview, MSNBC news, April 30, 1984.
“You just saw it”: Charles Casillo interview with Al Breneman, March 6, 2016.
“it was fascinating”: Don Widener, Lemmon: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1975).
can’t be beat: Variety, February 25, 1959.
“let’s do it again”: Mike Thomas, The Making of Some Like It Hot. Documentary, 2006.
18. Truth
the script he wrote for her: Norman Rosten, Marilyn: The Untold Story (New York: Signet, 1973).
“Never lie in a script”: Donald Spoto with Sam Shaw, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
“‘Hi Marilyn!’”: Charles Casillo interview with Michael J. Pollard, November 11, 2015.
“very close to the surface”: Boze Hadleigh, Marilyn Forever: Musings on an American Icon by the Stars of Yesterday and Today (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2016).
19. Making Love
“going to let up”: Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life (New York: Grove Press, 1987).
“hold in your stomach”: Charles Casillo interview with Robert Banas, January 28, 2016.
“I’m lost”: Barbara Leaming, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).
“afraid of acting”: Yves Montand and Jeremy Leggatt, You See, I Haven’t Forgotten (New York: Knopf, 1992).
“moving wonderfully”: Mervyn Rothstein, “For Montand at 66, the Passions Burn, the Memories Endure,” The New York Times, April 25, 1988.
“only rarely possess”: Montand and Leggatt, You See, I Haven’t Forgotten.
“girl imaginable”: Simone Signoret, Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be (New York: Harper & Row, 1978).
“I had to do it”: Pamela Andrioakis, “At 57, Simone Signoret Decides ‘It Is Useless to Hang onto the Branches of Youth,” People, June 12, 1978.
“she posed for”: Richard Gehman, “The Big M,” The Milwaukee Sentinel, May 1, 1960.
“a new film”: Fred Lawrence Guiles, Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Stein & Day, 1984). See also Montand and Leggatt. You See, I Haven’t Forgotten.
“I couldn’t stop”: Montand and Leggatt, You See, I Haven’t Forgotten.
times a week: This segment and quotations are based on the 1978 paper “Special Problems in Psychotherapy with the Rich and Famous,” Dr. Ralph Greenson (in private hands).
“into their arms”: Rothstein, “For Montand at 66.”
“a per
manent scar”: Montand and Leggatt, You See, I Haven’t Forgotten.
stay with her: Charles Casillo interview with Michael Selsman, July 15, 2015.
“Diet anyone?”: Hollywood Citizen News review by Lowell E. Redelings, as quoted in Adam Victor, The Marilyn Encyclopedia (New York: Overlook Press, 1999).
20. An Unfit Misfit
“it seemed so hopeless”: Ted Schwarz, Marilyn Revealed: The Ambitious Life of an American Icon (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2009).
“waiting and waiting”: Charles Casillo interview with Frank Parone, September 10, 2015.
“against her”: Ibid.
“It’s the pills”: Charles Casillo interview with Angela Allen, October 24, 2015.
“true professional”: Charles Casillo interview with Dawn Wells, August 23, 2015.
“Rubensian presence unappealing”: Casillo interview with Allen, October 24, 2015.
“around the moon”: Esquire, March 1961.
“magical quality”: Casillo interview with Allen, October 24, 2015.
“the censors won’t pass”: Ibid.
more heated and contentious than previously reported: Charles Casillo interview with Curtice Taylor, October 19, 2015.
locked filing cabinet: Ibid.
“shoot the bikini scene?”: Casillo interview with Allen, October 24, 2015.
Huston considered “pedestrian”: Patricia Bosworth, Montgomery Clift: A Biography (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978).
“suicide attempts during the production”: Casillo interview with Allen, October 24, 2015.
“just worn out”: Michelle Morgan, Marilyn Monroe: Private and Confidential (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012).
21. A Woman Alone
“because you are too heavy”: Motion Picture, July 1960.
didn’t respond: Yves Montand and Jeremy Leggatt, You See, I Haven’t Forgotten (New York: Knopf, 1992).
“can’t do it”: Look, February 19, 1979.
“wasn’t interested in him at this point”: Donald Spoto interview with Ralph Roberts, Donald Spoto Collection, Margaret Herrick Library.
(among others) would come to believe: Charles Casillo interview with Michael Selsman, July 21, 2015.
“He’d get so angry waiting”: “What Really Happened When They Were Filming The Misfits,” Screen Stories, May 1961.
“Murderer!”: Berniece Baker Miracle and Mona Rae Miracle, My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1994).
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