Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

by C. David Heymann

  “like a young girl”: Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story, p. 107.

  “she never came back”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 406.

  “Come on in”: Lyons, Stories My Father Told Me, p. 111.

  “From the man”: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 175.

  lashed out at: Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham, Marilyn: The Last Take, p. 186.

  “a no-good Jew bastard” and hung up on him: C. David Heymann, RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy, p. 307.

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 19 relies on interviews with Jeanne Carmen, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Amy Greene, Daniel Greenson, Lotte Goslar, Peter Lawford, Richard Meryman, Chuck Pick, Ralph Roberts, Pierre Salinger, Arthur Schlesinger, George Solotaire, Mickey Song, Donald Spoto, Bert Stern.

  “deeply paranoid”: Dr. Ralph Greenson Archives, UCLA.

  Dr. Eric Goldberg: a pseudonym. The Santa Barbara physician, now in his nineties, wishes to remain anonymous.

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 20 relies on interviews with Joe DiMaggio Jr., Milt Ebbins, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Lotte Goslar, Kurt Lamprecht, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Mickey Rudin, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Connie Stanville.

  Norman Rosten: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 364.

  “I’d moved in”: In an interview with the author, Peter Lawford originally claimed that Marilyn threatened RFK with a kitchen knife; he then revised the anecdote to indicate instead that she threw a glass of champagne at him.

  “To be honest”: Mickey Rudin interview; cf. Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 411–14.

  “Dear Joe”: Gulies: Legend, p. 274.

  “Last rites”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 417.

  “Marilyn Monroe was a legend”: New York Times, August 9, 1962.

  “I love you, I love you, I love you”: Cramer, The Hero’s Life.

  The problem: Joe DiMaggio also seems to have discussed this subject with Lotte Goslar, who conveyed the quote to the author, as did Joe DiMaggio Jr.

  Chapters 21 and 22

  Chapter 21 relies on interviews with Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Norman Mailer, Robert Solotaire, Louis Wolfson. Chapter 22 relies on material gleaned from the sources listed below.

  several hypodermic: Summers, Goddess, p. 147.

  “I could count”: confidential source.

  “It had to happen”: Arthur Miller quoted in the New York Post, September 15, 1962.

  Vincent Marotta: Linda Wertheimer interview.

  According to Morris Engelberg: This and most of the quotes in this section are from Engelberg, Setting the Record Straight.

  writer Ben Cramer: This and the anecdotes that follow are from Cramer. Hero’s Life.

  Chief executive Frank Sacco: Bob LaMendola, “Joltin’ Joe,” South Florida Sun Sentinel, March 9, 1999, p. 1A.

  “very, very lonely life for a long time”: Buzz Bissinger, “For Love of DiMaggio,” Vanity Fair, September 2000, pp. 362–376.

  “we were from different planets”: This and and other quotations from Joe DiMaggio Jr. come from Larry King interview with Joe DiMaggio Jr. on CNN.

  “You know, I never got the words”: Greg Garber, “Joe DiMaggio Jr.: In the Shadows,” Seattle Times, March 21, 1999, p. D-3.

  through still in a ponytail: Richard Jerome, “Joe DiMaggio: The Quiet Man,” People, March 29, 1999, p. 110–113.

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