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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.
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absolutely irrational: Robert H. Montgomery, Jr., to John Wharton, memorandum preserved in MG IX, memorandum for April 1957.
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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.
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It seems: Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1957, sec. III, p. 8.
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He knows perfectly: Ibid.
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The truth is: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.
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Arthur was taking: MM to Amy Greene, quoted to DS, May 5, 1992.
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screamed about me: Arthur P. Jacobs to Irving Stein: MG VI, memorandum for April 20, 1957.
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She was ultrasensitive: MG XIII, 4; see also Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 5, 1982.
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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.
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She loved children: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
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a new kind: Miller, p. 457.
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She knows how: Strasberg, Bittersweet, p. 122.
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Arthur was writing: Olie Rauh, art. cit., p. 16.
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If I shouldn’t: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; similarly, see Marilyn and Me, p. 170.
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a façade of marital: Rosten, p. 79.
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hiding: Ibid., p. 61.
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The accident was reported by the Associated Press, dateline March 25, 1958.
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floating off in: Rosten, p. 55.
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The maid’s not: Quoted by John Moore to DS, August 23, 1992.
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She shouldn’t wear: Associated Press story dated April 29, 1958.
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But I’ve never: Quoted by John Moore to DS, August 23, 1992.
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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.
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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.
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because May: Vanessa Reis to DS, Feb. 16, 1992.
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The comments of Billy Wilder throughout this chapter were made to DS: Nov. 19, 1991.
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She picked: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
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Marilyn time: Rosten, p. 24.
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I never heard: Quoted in The Listener (London), Aug. 30, 1979.
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Well, I think: MM to Richard Meryman, July 1962.
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organically: MM, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1958.
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relaxing a little: MM, quoted in Luitjers, p. 63.
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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.
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I have a feeling: MM to Norman Rosten, quoted in Rosten, pp. 76–77.
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very easy to work: Avedon, in Wagenknecht, p. 59.
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the spontaneous joy: Arthur Miller, “My Wife Marilyn,” Life, vol. 45, no. 25 (Dec. 22, 1958): 146.
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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.
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more and more living with her: Rosten, p. 79.
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For Olie Rauh’s opinion of Arthur’s arrival in California, see Rauh, art. cit., p. 16.
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going through some: Jack Lemmon, quoted in McCann, p. 105.
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Arthur told me: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone can remember lines: Quoted in Mills, p. 122.
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Could I have: Rosten, p. 72.
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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.
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Susan Strasberg’s comments on 1959 were shared with DS in June 1992; see also Marilyn and Me, pp. 187–189.
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warm and plain: “Tribute to Marilyn Monroe from a friend . . . Carl Sandburg,” Look, vol. 26 (Sept. 11, 1962): 90–94.
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uncomfortable: Mervin Block to DS, Oct. 6, 1992. Other details of the press junket were provided by John Moore to DS.
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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.
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I guess: Quoted in Gloria Steinem, “Growing Up with Marilyn,” Ms., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 38.
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He told me: Kenneth Tynan, Profiles (London: Nick Hern/Walker Books, 1989), p. 146.
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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.
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He looked at me: Rosten, p. 21.
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She was always: Frankie Vaughan, quoted in Hutchinson, p. 74.
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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
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Marilyn was a: Sidney Skolsky in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Jan. 20, 1960.
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Next to my husband: Widely quoted—e.g., in “Marilyn meets Montand,” Look, vol. 24 (July 5, 1960): 96.
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Everything she do: Ibid., p. 93.
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There was no script: Quoted in Goode, p. 202.
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a sacrifice of great blocks: Miller, p. 466.
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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.
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Arthur Miller, the big liberal: Skolsky, p. 227–228.
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was a terrible ordeal: Quoted in Kobal, p. 606.
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There was something: Vanessa Ries to DS, Feb. 16, 1992.
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no real communication: Gavin Lambert, On Cukor (New York: Putnam’s, 1972), pp. 174–175.
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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.
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I saw Marilyn: Quoted in Kirk Crivello, Fallen Angels (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1988), p. 261.
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For the shared fears that drew MM and Montand together, see his memoirs, pp. 519ff.
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a whole succession: Simone Signoret, Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be (London: Grafton, 1979), pp. 322–323.
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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.
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Is there anything: Frank Radcliffe, quoted in Del Burnett, “Marilyn: A Personal Reminiscence,” American Classic Screen, March 1981, p. 14.
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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.
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I’ll miss you: Hamon and Rotman, p. 531.
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I bent over: Ibid., pp. 531–532ff.
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I liked her: George Cukor, quoted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 5, 1982, p. A-8.
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She gave me: Quoted in Kobal, pp. 606–607.
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there was a childishness: Inez Melson, in the television special That’s Hollywood, narrated by Tom Bosley; written and produced by Philip Savenick.
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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.
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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.
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her dream house: Murray, p. 6.
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a charismatic speaker: RRG, Box 1.
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He wanted: Benson Schaeffer to DS, Dec. 28, 1992.
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Only later was it: A highly respected California psychoanalyst requested DS to preserve his anonymity.
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a hard-living man: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Anna Freud (New York: Summit, 1988), p. 371.
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“Drugs in the Psychotherapeutic Situation”: RRG, Box 2, Folder 4. Other lectures cited on p. 426 are located in the same box.
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“Special Problems In Psychotherapy With The Rich and Famous,” dated Aug. 18, 1978: RRG, Box 2, Folder 19.
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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.
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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.
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I’m thirty-four: Quoted in Eve Arnold, p. 85.
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You’re both narcissists: Quoted by Esther Maltz (formerly Mrs. Hyman Engelberg) to DS, July 28 and Oct. 23, 1992.
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prescribe medication for her: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.
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I have lived: Alfred Hitchcock to DS, July 18, 1975.
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Westerns and the West: Miller, p. 462.
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This is an attempt: James Goode, The Story of The Misfits (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), p. 17.
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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.
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Each of the players: Goode, p. 17.
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What makes you so sad?: Miller, p. 369.
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desperately unhappy: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 17, 1991.
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But the character: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.
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Miller’s was the: Shaw and Rosten, p. 186.
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I have not: Quoted in “Mosaic for Marilyn,” Coronet, Feb. 1961.
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I never really: Jon Whitcomb, “Marilyn Monroe—The Sex Symbol Versus The Good Wife,” Cosmopolitan, vol. 149, no. 6 (Dec. 1960): 54–55.
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But I promised: McIntyre, art. cit., p. 79.
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Harlow was always: Quoted in Coronet, February 1961.
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by throwing a fit: Luitjers, pp. 67–68.
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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.
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She had considerable: Goode, p. 43.
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I’m Mitzi Gaynor: Goode, p. 117.
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Cut!: Goode, p. 182.
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a mean streak: Anjelica Huston to Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, Nov. 6, 1991.
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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.
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I want you: Madsen, p. 149.
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What I didn’t know: Ibid., p. 150.
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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.
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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.
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You can all: Gable’s remark and the incident are recounted in Goode, pp. 208–209.
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They don’t care: Gable, quoted in Lawrence Grovel, The Hustons (New York: Avon, 1989), p. 494.
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had begun staying: Miller, p. 474.
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But I like: Huston, quoted in Gerald Pratley, The Cinema of John Huston (Cranbury, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1977), p. 130.
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Well, I ran: Quoted in Newsweek, Sept. 12, 1960, p. 102; ibid. for Huston’s gambling schedule.
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I spent a lot: John Huston, An Open Book (New York: Knopf, 1980), p. 287.
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The telltale sign: Grobel, p. 496.
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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.
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What should I ask: The dialogue is recorded in Goode, p. 246 and repeated by Grobel, p. 496.
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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.
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I think we’re doing: Goode, p. 126.
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I was almost: Miller, p. 477.
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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.
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It took so long: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.
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On Huston’s loss of $16,000 on August 16, see Goode, p. 108.
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the one great lesson: Often quoted—e.g., in Lyn Tornabene, Long Live The King (New York: Putnam’s, 1976), p. 361–362.
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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.