by Donald Spoto
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You have only: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992.
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Sam Shaw’s memories of MM to DS, March 7, 1992.
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Looking at her: Truman Capote, “An Abbess in High-heeled Shoes,” People, Oct. 27, 1980, p. 56.
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I just felt: The incident with Eli Wallach is recorded in Adams, p. 256.
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The notes by MM are recorded in MG III, VI, VII, IX, as are the poems on pp. 325–327.
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My father was: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992.
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Don’t you ever: Quoted in Adams, p. 263.
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Our household revolved: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 19.
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it was hard: John Strasberg, quoted in ibid., p. 44.
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When I have problems: Quoted in Adams, p. 258.
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Oh, no: MM quoted by Gloria Steinem in Ms., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 36.
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Hi, it’s me: Quoted by Susan Strasberg to DS; also in Bittersweet, p. 56.
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anybody who had: Kim Stanley to John Kobal, p. 699.
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endeavor to develop: Frank Corsaro, on the 1991 American Masters documentary on the Actors Studio, prod. Chloe Aaron, dir. Dennis Powers for PBS.
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I know they say: For MM on Kafka, see Tom Hutchinson, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Exeter Books, 1982), p. 69.
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That’s all they’re: Shaw and Rosten, p. 95.
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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.
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Marilyn was afraid: Lois Weber Smith, quoted in Allen, pp. 199–200.
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Marilyn told me: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 3, 1991.
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The supplanting of Milton by Lee was suggested in Dorothy Kilgallen’s column in the New York Journal-American on June 28, 1955.
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How do we: ILS, June 30, 1955: MG IX.
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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.
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One day she: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
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had a great sense: Eve and Marilyn, BBC-TV (1987).
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She was pleased: John Springer to DS, March 5, 1992.
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This is the girl: Quoted in Edward Wagenknecht, Marilyn Monroe: A Composite View (Philadelphia: Chilton, 1969), p. 47.
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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.
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I expect our divorce: Joe DiMaggio, on the INS newswire service dated Aug. 21, 1955; see e.g., Los Angeles Herald-Examiner this date.
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I never should: MM to Amy Greene, quoted to DS, May 5, 1992.
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You all start: George Axelrod, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (New York: Samuel French, 1955), p. 7.
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I saw: Quoted by George Axelrod to DS, April 22, 1992.
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I’m beginning to: MM, quoted in Pete Martin, “The New Marilyn Monroe,” Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1956, p. 110.
Chapter Sixteen: 1956
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There is persuasive: Time, Jan. 30, 1956, p. 62.
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But then she had: Laurence Olivier, Confessions of an Actor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), pp. 205–206.
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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”).
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Shall I take: Josephine DiLorenzo and Theo Wilson, “Marilyn Can Act Too, Sez Olivier,” New York Daily News, Feb. 10, 1956, p. 3.
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The strap breaking: John Moore to DS, Aug. 23, 1992.
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Before we went: Eve Arnold in the BBC-TV documentary Eve and Marilyn (1987).
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artless: Quoted in Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985), p. 393.
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Brooklyn became Nirvana: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.
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heavenly: often, as in Hedda Hopper’s syndicated column for Jan. 24, 1956.
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There are all: ILS, Jan. 6, 1956: MG IV.
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Teenage boys: Vincent X. Flaherty, “Will Marilyn Become an Intellectual?” Los Angeles Examiner, July 6, 1956, sec. 1, p. 2.
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America’s best known: Walter Winchell’s radio broadcast of Feb. 12, 1956, recorded as FBI document number 62-31615-966.
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For an account of Miller’s troubles with the FBI, see Natalie Robins, Alien Ink (New York: Morrow, 1992), pp. 310ff.
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the next stop: Walter Winchell’s broadcast of June 10, 1956, recorded as FBI document number 62-31615-983.
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Miss Monroe, after: Memo from SAC, Los Angeles, to Director, FBI, dated June 1, 1956, FBI document number 23-100-422103.
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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.
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Be conservative: The Wasserman memorandum to Stein was dated Feb. 14, 1956; subsequent calls and correspondence on this matter occur through the twenty-first.
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Marilyn Monroe, Blonde: Quoted in “The New Marilyn,” Look, vol. 20 (May 29, 1956): 73.
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This was really: Maureen Stapleton to DS, April 22, 1992.
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I couldn’t see: Quoted in Redbook, Feb. 1958, p. 96.
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very deep: Anna Sten to John Kobal, p. 140.
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often brilliant: Robert Schneiderman, “Drama teacher remembers Marilyn Monroe,” Spotlight Chicago, week of Aug. 4, 1992, p. 6.
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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.
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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.
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She seemed content: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
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Irving Stein’s statement is from ILS, memorandum dated March 3, 1956: MG VII.
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In Marilyn’s powerful: JWP/NL II, p. 25.
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But Marilyn can’t act: Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real People and Me (New York: Delacorte, 1978), p. 35.
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I have worked: Ibid.
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she wants to: Milton Greene to ILS, March 17, 1956: MG IV.
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Like a child: Guy Trebay, “Don Murray,” Interview, October 1973, p. 21.
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Milton seemed to want: William Woodfield to DS, Sept. 20, 1991.
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surrounded with in
trigue: Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), p. 239.
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He just kept clicking: George Axelrod to DS, Nov. 6, 1991.
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I can’t do it: Miller, pp. 379–380.
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expressly for her: Logan, p. 39.
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Hold onto your chairs: New York Times review by Bosley Crowther, Sept. 1, 1956, p. 19.
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effectively dispels: Arthur Knight, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Sept. 8, 1956.
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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.
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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.
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Al Delgado’s letter to Jay Kanter, dated June 15, 1956, is included in MG III.
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a live witness: Robins, p. 313.
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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.
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No question about it: New York Sunday News, July 1, 1956.
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provided Marilyn agreed: Miller, p. 406.
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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.
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Have you heard: Rosten, p. 34.
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It was awfully: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992; Rupert Allan to DS, July 21, 1991.
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Arthur was learning: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also Marilyn and Me, p. 105.
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[Jean] was always: Maureen O’Sullivan, quoted in Golden, p. 158.
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stand by in case: Milton Greene’s telephone call to Irving Stein is recorded in ILS dated June 29, 1956: MG XI.
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The account of Marilyn’s hesitation at her marriage was provided to DS by Amy Greene, May 5, 1992.
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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.
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Lee doesn’t care: ILS memorandum dated July 2, 1956: MG IV.
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Perhaps later: ILS memorandum dated July 14, 1956: MG IV.
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result in capital gain: ILS to MG, October 16, 1956: MG XI, 4.
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he ought to stay out: Kay Brown, quoted in ILS memorandum dated Sept. 12, 1956: MG V, 3.
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Yes, but: Daily Telegraph, July 16, 1956.
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Unlike many other: Jack Cardiff to DS, May 26, 1992.
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to take her: Quoted in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 5, 1982; similar remarks are recorded in MG VIII, 4, p. 3.
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He tried to be: W. J. Weatherby, Conversations with Marilyn (New York: Mason/Charter, 1976), p. 84.
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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.
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suspicious, sullen: Rosten, p. 43.
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The incident of Marilyn’s discovery of Arthur’s notebook was related to DS by Amy Greene, Susan Strasberg, Allan Snyder and Jack Cardiff.
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It was something: Quoted in Bart Mills, Marilyn on Location (London: Pan/Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989), p. 108.
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I think Arthur: Quoted by Rupert Allan to DS, July 15, 1991.
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Miller looked on: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column for Nov. 25, 1961.
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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.
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My mother had once: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also Bittersweet, p. 84.
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poisonous and vacuous: Kaplan, art. cit., p. 242.
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nearly religious: Miller, p. 423.
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Miller’s comments on Paula were spoken to Fred Lawrence Guiles, Legend, p. 316.
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Greene thought: Guiles, p. 309.
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it was important: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.
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getting involved: Albert Maysles to DS, March 30, 1992.
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wrecking her: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
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two months supply: MG to ILS, Sept. 27, 1956: MG VII.
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Too many people: Quoted in Hutchinson, p. 78.
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had been wrong: Margaret Hohenberg to ILS, reported to MG in telephone call on Dec. 27, 1956 and so dated in ILS: MG IV.
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she had some: Letter from MG to Joe Carr and ILS, dated Sept. 27, 1956: MG IV.
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ILS memoranda dated September 1–3, 1956: MG IV and VI.
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thoroughly ill-mannered: Daily Express, May 22, 1980.
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It was a: Henry Brandon, “Sex, Society and the Theatre,” The Sunday Times (London), March 20, 1960, p. 15.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I was off: Miller, p. 460.
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I felt an urgency: Miller, pp. 458–459.
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a mere child: Miller, p. 448.
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a rose-tinted: Kazan, p. 540.
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For Norman Rosten’s recollections of Marilyn’s never-ending struggle for the perfect home design, see Marilyn: An Untold Story, p. 67.
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I love them: MM to Richard Meryman in a taped interview for Life magazine in July 1962.
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You must excuse me: the anecdote with the neighbor and the new coat is documented in Wagenknecht, p. xvii.
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Michael Korda to DS, June 30, 1992.
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But there was another: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
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adopted daughter: Michael Molnar, The Diary of Sigmund Freud (New York: Robert Stewart/Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), p. 174.
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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.
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as if I were: MM, quoted by Rupert Alla
n to DS, June 10, 1991.
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too stand-offish: Comments by Miller’s brother, sister and in-laws are cited in Robert J. Levin, art. cit., p. 95.
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For Kazan’s estimation of the Monroe-Strasberg connection, see Kazan, p. 540.
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Lee makes me think: Rosten, p. 49.
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Whether it was: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 103.
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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.