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by Donald H. Wolfe


  miscarriages of, 308, 322

  modeling experiences of, 155, 161–162, 176–177, 180–181, 184

  molestation of, 119–121, 127, 442

  motherhood and, 203–204, 303, 304, 307–308, 310, 316, 320

  mother of, see Eley, Gladys Monroe Baker

  name changed to, 66, 189–190, 193

  Neva-Cal Lodge weekend of, 415–416, 439–444

  nightmares and “night terrors” of, 129–130, 159, 363–364, 451

  nude modeling of, 219, 220, 234–235

  in orphanage, 120, 127–130, 382

  overdoses of, 312–313, 323, 355

  political views of, 202, 283, 392–393, 395, 402

  religion and, 215, 285

  reviews of, 211, 234, 247, 265, 296, 306, 363

  sex and, 146, 147

  sister of, see Miracle, Berniece Baker

  suicidal behavior of, 30–31, 226, 361, 363

  telephone and, 44, 311, 366, 374, 441, 451

  telephone calls on night of death of, 10, 12–13, 21, 22–23, 45–49, 86, 87, 88, 93, 100, 102, 459–461

  telephone calls to the Kennedys by, 45, 59–60, 70, 359, 365, 435–436, 444, 450

  toxicology reports on, 31, 33–34, 41–43, 73

  Monroe, Marion, 134

  Monroe, Olive, 133–134

  Monroe, Otis Elmer, 107, 108, 109

  Monsky, Mark, 457

  Montand, Yves:

  affair between MM and, 329, 338–341, 350, 361

  Let’s Make Love and, 335–338

  performances by, 327–328, 338

  Montgomery, Robert H., Jr., 306, 325

  Moore, Terry, 238–239, 392, 420

  Moran, Chuckie, 137

  Moran, Earl, 180

  Morath, Inge, 352, 362

  Moriarty, Evelyn, 350, 418

  Mortensen, Martin Edward, 114

  Mosby, Aline, 235

  Motion Picture Herald, 211

  Mr. President, 444–445, 450

  Muir, Florabel, 50, 84

  Murder One (Kilgallen), 448n

  Murray, Churchill, 165, 228, 385, 394–395, 435

  Murray, Don, 272, 279–280

  Murray, Eunice, 36, 74, 99, 394

  book written by, 12, 101

  changed statements about MM’s death from, 89–91, 94–95, 100, 455, 458

  communism and, 163, 165, 228

  on day of MM’s death, 4–8, 10–13, 15, 18, 19–23, 46, 81, 88, 101–102, 453, 456, 458, 461–462

  Greenson’s contact with, 174–175, 380–382

  after MM’s death, 54, 55, 56, 58–59, 62

  MM and, 400, 406, 416–417, 420, 430–431, 435, 446, 451

  MM observed for Greenson by, 386–387, 394, 421, 436, 449, 454, 456, 459

  work for MM done by, 382, 391, 417, 445

  Murray, John M.:

  and communism, 163–165

  Greenson and, 228, 330, 382

  and World War II, 174, 175

  Murray, Patricia, 164, 228

  Murrow, Edward R., 253

  My Favorite Wife, 388

  My Story (Exner), 345

  Naar, Joe and Dolores, 21, 47–49, 86, 87, 459, 461

  National Concert Artists, 183

  National Football League, 64, 224

  National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 164, 165

  Navy, U.S., 51

  NBC-TV News, 457

  Neary, John, 458n

  Negulesco, Jean, 239

  Neill, Frank, 455

  Nelson, Sam, 318

  Nembutal (pentobarbital), 7, 27–28, 30, 33, 41–43, 68, 75

  Neuman, Bob, 81, 359

  Newcomb, Carmen Adams, 276

  Newcomb, Margaret Patricia, 55, 344

  background of, 276, 277

  Bus Stop and, 277–278

  on day of MM’s death, 10, 13–14, 15, 18, 19–20, 22, 77, 80, 85, 86–87, 88, 101, 452, 454, 456, 458, 462

  drugs and, 360, 417, 421

  JFK and, 346

  after MM’s death, 57–58, 62, 74, 99

  as MM’s publicity rep, 277–278, 359–360, 362, 373, 376, 409, 413–414, 429, 449–450

  RFK and, 64, 66, 360, 392, 421, 441, 454, 456

  Newsweek, 358

  New York Daily Mirror, 254

  New York Daily News, 50, 258

  New York Herald-Tribune, 9–10, 18, 49, 58

  New York Journal-American, 19, 258, 447

  New York Post, 94–95, 100

  New York Times, 265, 296, 345, 383n

  New York World-Telegram, 234, 258

  Niagara, 11, 237

  Nixon, Richard, 66, 357–358, 383n

  Noguchi, Thomas, 7n

  inconsistancies noted by, 28, 29–31, 40, 42, 75, 77n, 95

  MM’s autopsy by, 25–31, 33–35, 68, 89

  Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe (Guiles), 66–67

  Norwalk Mental Hospital, 121

  Novak, Kim, 206, 392, 423

  O’Casey, Sean, 61

  Odets, Clifford, 201, 228, 234, 281, 282, 369

  O’Donnell, Kenny, 359, 399, 400, 447

  O’Doul, Frank “Lefty,” 242

  Office of Naval Intelligence, 152

  Olivier, Laurence, 139

  acting technique of, 293

  MM’s distrust of, 295–296, 299

  Prince and the Showgirl and, 267–268, 289–298, 301–302, 306

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 53, 57, 68, 244, 299, 346, 410

  MM’s opinion of, 326, 329, 444–445

  Sinatra disliked by, 378

  One, Two, Three, 321

  Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID), 36

  Osborne, John, 297

  Otash, Fred, 91, 92–94, 95, 100, 445–446, 457, 458n

  Papp, Joe, 201, 202

  Paris-Match, 286, 341, 449

  Parker, William, 3, 47, 44, 49, 50–52, 64, 70, 71, 91, 97, 455

  Hamilton and, 223–224, 277

  RFK and, 64, 346

  Parsons, Louella, 200, 230

  Pataki, Ron, 17, 45, 447–448

  Patten, Corrinne, 278

  Patterson, Cissy, 152

  Peck, Gregory, 174, 193, 233, 327, 328

  Peery, Charles, 241

  Pentagon Papers, 383n People’s Education Centers, 163, 228, 385

  Pepitone, Lena, 204, 311, 313, 314, 322, 360–362, 374, 375–376

  MM’s comments about Greenson to, 331, 366–367

  MM’s comments about JFK to, 326

  MM’s comments about Miller to, 284, 313, 315, 325, 360

  MM’s comments about Sinatra to, 375

  Pepper, George, 394

  Person to Person, 253

  Phillips, Gladys, 135

  Phillips, Marion, 64

  Photoplay, 271

  Pic, 184

  Pierson, Arthur, 202

  Pink Tights, 241

  Playboy, 453–454

  “Please Don’t Kill Anything” (Miller), 304–305

  Plecher, Marjorie, 445

  Pollard, Betty, 461

  Pollard, Elizabeth, 61, 62, 460–461

  Powers, Dave, 378

  Preminger, Otto, 240

  Prince, the Showgirl, and Me, The (Clark), 294n

  Prince and the Showgirl, The, 267–268, 281, 289–298, 300–302, 304, 305, 306, 315

  Profiles in Courage (J. F. Kennedy), 327

  psychiatry, 166–169, 263

  Psychoanalytic Institutes, 386, 391

  PT-109 (Donovan), 154, 187

  Publishers Weekly, 67

  Pucini’s, 346–347, 371

  Quick, 233

  Quinn, Jack, 67–70

  Radioplane Company, 155, 159, 160, 161, 162

  Randall, Peggy, 440–441

  Rand Corporation, 383n

  Rathman, Richard, 36

  Rattigan, Terence, 267, 291, 292, 297–298, 300

  Rauh, Joseph, 283, 284, 362

  Rauh, Olie, 362

  Reagan, Ronald, 155

  Redbook, 429

  Reddin,
Tom, 49, 52, 102, 455

  Reilly, Irma Lee, 47

  Reimer, Susan Gifford, 232

  Reiner, Ira, 95–96, 97

  Reis, May, 311, 314, 315, 323, 325, 350, 354

  Reis, Pamela, 428

  Remick, Lee, 429

  Right Cross, 223

  Rivera, Geraldo, 90, 91, 92

  River of No Return, 240

  RKO Studios, 117, 124–125, 187, 234, 235

  Robbins, Alfred, 19

  Roberts, Henry, 345–346

  Roberts, Ralph, 55, 354, 364–365, 371, 375, 387, 440, 441, 449–450, 453

  on day of MM’s death, 459

  knowledge of MM/JFK affair by, 373, 401

  as MM’s masseur, 66, 337, 350, 372, 379–380, 406

  Robin and the Seven Hoods, 399

  Rockhaven Sanitarium, 53, 374

  Roemer, Bill, 354, 442

  Romanoff, Gloria, 344, 364, 393, 440

  Rosenfeld, Henry, 46, 47, 85, 259, 328, 359, 444, 460

  Rosenman, Samuel, 390, 408, 422, 424, 425–426, 431, 432, 433, 437–438

  Rosselli, Johnny, 197, 198, 203–204, 344, 366, 371, 379, 442

  Rosten, Hedda, 254–255, 288, 298, 301, 323, 328, 401, 450

  Rosten, Leo, 169, 174, 382

  Rosten, Norman, 9, 304, 458

  friendship between MM and, 12–13, 254–55, 260, 329, 402–403, 450

  MM/Miller marriage and, 266, 284, 288, 311, 323, 324, 328, 375

  MM’s affairs confided to, 340, 377, 401

  poem by, 316

  Rothberg, Howard, 447, 448

  Rothmiller, Mike, 36, 70

  Rudin, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, 170, 173, 330, 382

  Rudin, Milton “Mickey,” 10, 13, 15, 18, 21–22, 23, 55, 74, 391

  Greenson and, 173, 330, 422

  as MM’s agent and lawyer, 388–389, 408, 422, 432, 437

  MM’s death and, 21–22, 47, 86, 87–88

  Sinatra and, 330, 346, 355, 415

  Ruhe, Jeff, 92

  Rule, Janice, 63, 72, 366

  Rundbriefe, 167, 168, 307

  Russell, Jane, 239–240, 273

  Ryan, Robert, 234

  Ryman, Lucille, 221–222

  Saffir, Joyce, 252

  St. John, John, 347

  Salinger, Pierre, 58, 276–277, 360, 365

  RFK and, 277

  Sandburg, Carl, 3, 327, 451, 463

  Sanders, George, 196

  San Francisco Chronicle, 51, 276, 446

  Santa Monica Evening Outlook, 80

  Saturday Review of Literature, 296

  Say Goodbye to the President (BBC), 89–90, 95, 409, 455

  Schaefer, Walter, 62, 77, 78, 79–82

  Schaefer Air Ambulance Service, 81–82, 359

  Schaefer Ambulance Service, 62, 76, 79, 80, 462

  Schenck, Joe, 197–198, 203, 210

  Schermerhorn, Jack, 94–95

  Schiller, Lawrence, 413–414, 415, 453–454

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 359, 411–412

  Schulman, Arnold, 353

  Schur, Max, 63, 72

  Schwartzberg, Phil, 36

  Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!, 199

  Secret Service, 412, 430

  Selznick, David O., 370

  Seven Year Itch, The, 244–246, 265, 272, 316, 351

  Shade, Rose, 12, 174

  Shalam, Jane, 259

  Shamroy, Leon, 188, 189

  Shaw, Sam, 254

  Sherbatoff, Myra, 286

  Shocking Miss Pilgrim, The, 195

  Shoopman, Mae, 441

  Siegel, Lee, 406, 413, 414, 421

  Signoret, Simone, 327, 335–336, 338, 340, 341, 361

  Simmel, Ernst, 167–168, 173, 307

  Sinatra, Frank, 55, 58, 85, 241, 253, 354–355, 359–360

  Giancana and, 355, 379, 398, 439–440, 441, 442

  Greenson and, 329–330, 343, 372, 375, 377

  JFK and, 343, 344, 345, 346, 362, 377–379, 397–399

  Lawford and, 344, 347, 378, 397–399, 440, 441

  Mafia and, 379, 398–399

  MM and, 311, 344, 354, 393, 415, 440–442

  MM’s affair with, 367–371, 372, 373, 375, 376

  MM’s diary entries about, 36, 60

  Rudin and, 330, 346, 355, 415

  Sir, 184

  Skakel, George, Jr., 276, 424

  Skolsky, Sidney, 200–201, 235, 239, 243, 247, 260, 335, 437, 453

  Skouras, Spyros, 233, 282, 369, 424, 426, 437–438

  SLATE, 283, 382

  Slatzer, Robert, 89, 100

  books by, 67, 70, 72, 96

  first meeting of MM and, 185–186, 195

  friendship between MM and, 210, 271, 366, 414, 428, 447–448, 449

  investigations into MM’s death by, 11–12, 44–45, 50–51, 58–59, 62, 67–70, 74, 79, 81, 84, 97, 453, 454

  MM/Kennedys relationships known by, 45, 59–60, 326, 359, 436–437, 440

  MM’s affair with, 237

  MM’s death and, 17–18, 55

  MM’s living with, 219–220

  MM’s marriage to, 238–239

  Sleeping Prince, The, 291, 292

  Smathers, George, 91, 100, 299, 345, 355, 359, 365

  Smith, Jean Kennedy, 84, 100, 373, 393

  Smith, Liz, 91

  Smith, Merriman, 412

  Snively, Emmeline, 159, 160, 161–162, 176, 177, 180–181, 183

  Snyder, Allan “Whitey,” 54, 55, 193, 236, 245, 350, 353, 354, 381, 413, 418, 423, 425, 431, 445

  Solotaire, George, 236, 245, 374

  Some Like It Hot, 251, 314–322, 326, 338, 340, 405

  Something’s Got to Give, 10, 21, 59, 201, 320, 370, 388–390, 393, 426, 429, 431–432

  filming of, 404, 405–407, 408, 413–415, 417, 418–419, 432, 438, 440, 445

  Song, Mickey, 409–410, 445

  Sorrell, Herb, 163, 164, 165, 228, 382

  Southern California Psychoanalytic Study Group, 173

  Spalding, Chuck, 186, 196, 355, 359

  Spindel, Bernard, 445–446, 457, 458n

  Spoto, Donald, 11, 51, 72, 86, 98–100, 163, 392

  MM death theories of, 99–100

  Stack, Robert, 187

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 230–231, 273

  Stanley, Kim, 269

  Stanley, Olin, 114, 117, 133

  Stanwyck, Barbara, 234, 235

  Stapleton, Maureen, 268–269

  Star, 99

  Stein, Irving, 246, 265, 270, 287, 306

  Stekel, Wilhelm, 173

  Sten, Anna, 269

  Stern, Bert, 429

  Stevens, George, Jr., 64

  Stevens, Liz, 64

  Stevenson, Adlai, 347, 365, 411

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, 138

  Stolley, Richard, 9

  Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, The (Capell), 65–66, 163, 386

  Strasberg, Ana, 322

  Strasberg, John, 262

  Strasberg, Lee, 18, 63, 201, 261–262, 273, 300, 307, 337

  eulogy by, 55–56

  MM and, 255, 263–264, 286, 294, 304, 364

  MM’s classes with, 255, 262–263, 268–269, 271, 315, 319, 327, 367, 405

  showdown between Miller and, 353–354

  Strasberg, Paula Miller, 18, 31, 55, 201, 263, 264, 281, 286, 299, 300, 304, 339, 355, 363, 364, 409

  coaching by, 271–274, 278, 289, 293, 294, 315, 318–319, 337, 350, 405, 422, 449

  Misfits and, 353–354

  Strasberg, Susan, 96, 286, 353, 387

  MM and, 260, 263, 264, 268, 285, 326, 354, 363, 366, 371, 441

  Strauss, Ted, 389

  Studio Club, 210

  Sturgis, Frank, see Fiorini, Frank

  Styne, Jule, 444

  Sullivan, Ed, 247

  Sullivan, William, 153, 154

  Summers, Anthony, 17, 39–40, 46, 70, 79, 83–84, 85, 89–90, 100, 101, 239, 255, 277, 359, 392, 435, 439, 447, 456, 457

  Summers, Peter, 346, 347

  Sunday Express (London), 83

  Swanson, G
loria, 125–126

  Szulc, Tad, 365

  Tabachnick, Norman, 37, 458

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 291, 373, 418

  Taylor, Frank, 66, 349–350, 353

  Taylor, Maxwell, 432

  Teamsters Union, 276–277

  Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, The (Greenson), 383

  Tender Is the Night, 370, 390

  There’s No Business Like Show Business, 243, 244, 247

  This Week, 276

  Thompson, J. Lee, 444

  Thompson, Tommy, 9, 11

  Thorndike, Sybil, 293, 294–295

  Ticket to Tomahawk, 221

  Tierney, Gene, 183, 185, 186–187, 196, 325, 326

  Time, 9, 11, 81, 270, 299, 412

  Timebends (Miller), 229, 305

  Times (London), 17, 296

  Timilty, Joe, 346

  Tobin, Jack, 50

  Tomich, Alan, 75–76, 78

  Trafficante, Santo, 366

  Travilla, William (Billy), 272, 450

  Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A, 444

  Tretick, Stanley, 377

  Tryon, Tom, 406, 414–415, 417

  20th Century-Fox, 7, 52, 55, 59, 184, 188, 270–271, 328, 335, 455

  Gould, Loeb, and Rosenman interest in, 390, 424–425, 432, 437–438

  MM at, 193, 195, 197, 202, 221, 223, 226, 231, 233, 235, 243, 244–247, 267, 269, 271–273, 282, 321, 350, 370, 406–407, 414, 418, 444

  MM’s firing and fight with, 422–426, 428–430, 437, 443, 449

  MM’s legal wrangling with, 247, 253, 259, 265–266, 327, 388, 408, 422–423, 431–432

  20/20, 90–91, 94, 95, 100, 204, 457

  UCLA:

  Medical Center, 76

  School of Medicine, 34

  United States Information Agency, 64, 66

  United Studio Technicians Guild, 164

  UPI, 235

  Ure, Mary, 297

  Valmore Monette Corporation, 427

  Van de Kamp, John, 74–75, 97

  Variety, 265, 296

  Vaughan, Frankie, 328

  Vidor, Dorris, 338–339

  Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 173

  View from the Bridge, A (Miller), 230

  Viner, Mort, 344

  Vogue, 176, 429

  Wagner, Marion, 198

  Wald, Jerry, 327, 328, 337, 430

  Wallach, Eli, 254, 261, 325

  Walt Disney Studio, 164

  Walters, Barbara, 91

  Wanger, Walter, 142, 370

  Warner, Jack, 246

  Washington, Hazel, 405, 411, 415, 417, 430

  Washington Star, 299

  Washington Times-Herald, 152, 154

  Wasserman, Lew, 271

  Watson, Philip, 376, 400

  Weatherby, W. J., 44

  Weber, Lois, 265

  Weekly Variety, 423

  Weinberg, Sidney S., 30

  Weinstein, Hannah, 201, 281, 370, 382

  Weinstein, Henry, 370, 389–390, 404, 405, 406, 407, 409, 414, 415, 419, 421, 422, 423

 

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