by Donald Spoto
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I felt like: MG2 XIV, 3, 24.
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Please don’t do: JWP/NL II, p. 5.
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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.
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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).