by Colin Clark
Love Among the Ruins
Magna Carta
Makeup artist. See Snyder, Allan
Marilyn: A Very Personal Story (Rosten)
Marilyn Monroe Productions
Martinelli, Elsa
Maysles, David
Media. See Press
Melandribos, Andrea
Method, the
Miller, Arthur
arrival in U.K.
character of
in Clark/Pitt-Millward letter
Clark’s dislike for
as co-producer
fights with Monroe
investigation by McCarthy
Monroe’s relationship with
Paris trip
passport issues of
as prima donna
return to U.K.
Ministry of Information
Miscarriage, Monroe’s
MMP. See Marilyn Monroe Productions
Mona Lisa
Money, Monroe and
Monkey Business
Monroe, Marilyn
acting skills of
appearance without makeup
arrival in the U.K.
Arthur Miller and. See also Miller, Arthur
behavior on the set
in Clark/Pitt-Millward letter
Colin Clark and. See Clark, Colin
dance scene
dark side of
desire for love
distress on set
dressing room at Pinewoods
drug use by
first day of filming
forgetting her lines
as freak of nature
love scenes with Olivier
marriage, first
miscarriage
money and
mother’s mental health
Ophelia Complex
Paula Strasberg and
pregnancy
psychoanalysis and
Queen Elizabeth II and
romances of
self-confidence and
sex and
shopping expedition
singing
Sleeping Prince and the Showgirl, The
stand-in
trapped by fame
unfaithfulness of
walk
work habits of
Moore, Garrett
Moore, Joan
Morshead, Owen (Sir)
Morshead, Paquita
Music, The Prince and the Showgirl
Musical score. See Addinsell, Richard
NAAFI wagon
NATKE, union
News of the World
Newton, Bob
Nissen hut
Niven, David
Notely Abbey (Olivier’s home)
Novak, Kim
Old House Hotel
Olivier, Laurence (Sir)
awards of
Cecil Tennant (agent) and
cigarettes named for
in Clark/Pitt-Millward letter
Colin Clark and
Dame Sybil and
dislike for Monroe
Entertainer, The
as Grand Duke
Greene on
love scenes
miscarriage, work and
Monroe at airport
Monroe/Miller marriage and
Sleeping Prince and the Showgirl, The
Ophelia Complex
Orton, David
Clark and
Prince and the Showgirl, The
Orton, Penny
Osborne, John
Othello, Act V, Scene ii
Paris Match
Parkside House, Englefield Green
owners
staff
unpaid bills at
See also Clark, Colin; Monroe, Marilyn
Pascal, Gabriel
Perceval, Hugh
Clark’s job and
cross-plot of
Peter Pan
Phoenix Theater
Pick up shots
Pinewood Studios
Pitt-Millward, Peter
Clark and
letter to
“Playing trains,”
PLOD. See Smith, Roger
Plowright, Joan
Post-syncing
Powell, Michael
Pregnancy rumor
Press
conference at Savoy Hotel
invasive practices of
Monroe’s U.K. arrival and
Pressburger, Emeric
Prince and the Showgirl, The
cast list
extras for coronation scenes
filming begins
music for
music scenes
production crew
rehearsals
security arrangements
set of
Prince, the Showgirl, and Me, The
Prince Rainier
Princess Grace (Grace Kelly)
Production crew, The Prince and the Showgirl
Psychoanalysis, Monroe and
Publicist. See Allan, Rupert; Jacobs, Arthur P.
Queen Elizabeth II
Rank Films
Rathbone, Tim
Rattigan, Terence
Ray, Johnny
Red Shoes, The
Rehearsals
Rivalry, between Olivier and Monroe
River Thames
Romeo and Juliet
Rosten, Hedda
about
arrival in U.K.
in Clark/Pitt-Millward letter
Rosten, Norman
Royal Court Theater
Royal Library, Windsor Castle
Runnymede House
Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Saltwood Castle, Kent
Jack Cardiff and
Susan Strasberg and
Savoy Hotel
Scotland Yard
Security arrangements, on set
Sex, Monroe on
Shaw, George Bernard
Simmons, Jean
Simoni, Dario
Sitwell, Edith (Dame)
Sitwell, Osbert
Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford (Kenneth Clark)
Sleeping Prince Waltz, The
SLO. See Olivier, Laurence (Sir)
Smith, Roger
about
Clark, Monroe and
hired
Snyder, Allan (aka Whitey)
Some Like It Hot
Sound Department
Spartacus
Spenser, Jeremy
St. James Club
Stand-in, for Monroe
Star Dressing Room
Steel, Anthony
Stein, Irving
Stern, Bert
Stork Club
Strasberg, Lee
banned from set
in Clark/Pitt-Millward letter
Strasberg, Paula
about
as acting coach
arrival in U.K.
banned from set
behavior on set
in Clark/Pitt-Millward letter
description
money and
treatment by Miller
Strasberg, Susan
Clark and
in Picnic
at Saltwood Castle
Swanson, Maureen
Swim, Monroe and Clark
Tate Gallery
Tennant, Cecil
Tennant, David
Thornburn, June
Thorndike, Sybil (Dame)
Tibbs Farm
Tiepolo
Titus Andronicus
Tracy, Spencer
Tutin, Dorothy
Twentieth Century Fox
Unions
Association of Cinematograph Technicians (ACT)
Electricians
Film Artists’ Association (FAA)
NATKE
View from the Bridge, A (Miller)
War effort
Wardrobe
Warner Brothers
Wattis, Richard (Dicky)
&nb
sp; Westminster Abbey
White Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
Whitey. See Snyder, Allan
Wilder, Billy
Windsor Castle, Monroe’s visit to
Windsor Great Park
Wisdom, Norman
Worth, Irene
Zec, Donald
1 The director of Bus Stop, Marilyn’s previous film.
2 He was forty-three.
3 Saltwood Castle in Kent, my parents’ home.
4 In the tropical bird house.
5 My shorthand way of describing my parents. Five years previously they had told me to stop calling them ‘Mum and Dad’ and to address them as ‘Mama and Papa’.
6 Notley Abbey, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh’s home in Buckingham shire.
7 My twin sister Colette.
8 Tim Rathbone, with whom I had been at Eton and Oxford. Elected Conservative MP for Lewes in 1974.
9 Arthur P. Jacobs (1918 – 73) later became a producer. His films included Dr Dolittle (1967) and Planet of the Apes (1968).
10 Lord Moore, later Earl of Drogheda, chairman of the Financial Times.
11 Joan Carr, a concert pianist.
12 A nightclub run by a comedian called Al Burnett. The clientele was largely made up of rich young men of a type now known as ‘Hooray Henrys’.
13 (1882 – 1976). Grande dame of British stage and screen. She was the first actress to play Shaw’s St Joan (1923).
14 i.e. Sir Laurence Olivier. When filming began the whole crew was to use this abbreviation.
15 (1912 – 75). He was playing Mr Northbrook of the Foreign Office in the film.
16 1931 — 84, real name Diana Fluck. Popular British actress whose many films included Good Time Girl, Lady Godiva Rides Again, Passport to Shame etc.
17 Vivien Leigh had created the role of Elsie Dagenham, changed to Elsie Marina when Marilyn played her in the film.
18 Terence Rattigan (1911 – 77). Popular West End playwright (The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Separate Tables etc.).
19 1915 – 2005. American playwright (The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge etc.).
20 Milton Greene (1922 – 85) was a fashion and celebrity photographer who had formed Marilyn Monroe Productions with Marilyn Monroe a year previously.
21 Stein, Chairman of the Elgin Watch Co., was killed in a car accident in 1966.
22 Stein was not in fact a partner.
23 Lee Strasberg (1899 – 1982) founded the Actors Studio, famous for teaching ‘the Method’. He went on to act, brilliantly, in films such as The Godfather Part Two. His wife Paula had been an actress.
24 Pier Angeli: Italian actress, modestly successful in Hollywood in the fifties and sixties, who committed suicide in 1971, aged thirty-nine. She was married to the singer and actor Vic Damone.
25 Furse (d. 1972) had also designed the stage sets for the London production of The Sleeping Prince.
26 1904 – 97. Actor in Hollywood and British films of the 1930s (Disraeli, Journey’s End, The Scarlet Pimpernel etc.) who later became a producer. He had worked with Olivier on the films of Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1956).
27 While stationed there in the RAF in 1952.
28 I later became fond of Garrett, and he was right about the house. AM and MM left a very large unpaid phone bill.
29 1908 – 76. Her many designs for Vivien Leigh’s costumes included Caesar and Cleopatra.
30 For Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, 1939. She was awarded a second Oscar for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951. Olivier won a Special Academy Award for Henry V (1944), and a second for Best Actor as Hamlet (1948).
31 British composer (1904 – 77). His film scores included Goodbye Mr Chips, Dangerous Moonlight (including the ‘Warsaw Concerto’), Blithe Spirit etc.
32 Miller had been under investigation by Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee. His marriage to MM evidently convinced them that he was a regular guy.
33 Sir Gerald du Maurier (1873 – 1934).
34 Allan (1913 – 91) was actually an American educated in England. He was the grandest personal publicist in Hollywood: his clients included Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly and Bette Davis.
35 Gabriel Pascal (1894 – 1954) was a Hungarian film producer who owned the screen rights to Bernard Shaw’s works. He first had the idea of making Pygmalion into a musical (My Fair Lady, as it became). Jean Simmons (b. 1929) appeared in his film versions of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) and Androcles and the Lion (1953). My sister and I spent the summer of 1948 with them in Venice.
36 Othello, Act V, Scene ii.
37 Cecil Tennant was to be killed in a motor accident in 1967, on his way home from Vivien Leigh’s funeral.
38 The ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919 – 91), an old family friend, whose mother was omnipresent.
39 MM’s mother had been certified insane in 1934, and spent the rest of her life in various hospitals. She died in 1984.
40 MM’s hairstyle was created by the famous Hollywood stylist Sidney Guilaroff. He flew in for a few days but did not mix with the British crew, except to instruct the film’s hairdresser Gordon Bond.
41 Where I was stationed as a Pilot Officer in 1952.
42 1914 – 2009. He won an Academy Award for his work on Black Narcissus (1946), and later turned to directing.
43 I had spent the previous summer in Portugal and Spain, and saw Franco arrive in the port of Vigo, where he was very unpopular.
44 Yes it was, and still is.
45 i.e. Wardrobe girl.
46 A well-known New York photographer, married to Balanchine ballerina Allegra Kent.
47 Hedda Rosten was the wife of Norman Rosten, a well-known New York novelist and poet. They both remained friends of MM all her life, and after her death Norman Rosten wrote a book about her entitled Marilyn: A Very Personal Story. He died in 1995.
48 The Prince and the Showgirl was in fact her twenty-fifth film.
49 The servants’ quarters of my parents’ flat in the Albany, Piccadilly, which they had loaned to me.
50 Esmond Knight (1906 – 87) had been partially blinded in the Navy during the war. He acted in many films, including Olivier’s Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III, and The Red Shoes. In The Prince and the Showgirl he played the Regent ’s security officer.
51 Some of the costumes had been designed by Cecil Beaton, but he had asked for too much money to do the whole production.
52 In Monkey Business (1931).
53 Robert Helpmann. Australian-born dancer, choreographer and actor (1909 – 86), knighted in 1968, who often partnered Margot Fonteyn. His film appearances included Henry V and The Red Shoes.
54 (1900 – 69). British stage and screen actress, often cast in imperious roles (e.g. as Miss Havisham in David Lean’s film of Great Expectations).
55 Former child star, b.1937. He was playing the part of Nicky, the young King.
56 In fact the title role in Elephant Boy (1937) was played by the actor Sabu (Sabu Dastagir, 1924 – 63).
57 Irina Baronova, star of the de Basil Ballet in the 1930s.
58 Original Prima Ballerina of the Diaghileff company, partner of Nijinsky.
59 In fact she was brought up in Los Angeles.
60 They had had a brief affair in 1949.
61 Though never hard drugs.
62 The other two couples I had in mind were Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy, and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace (Grace Kelly).
63 Chappell (1908 – 94) started out as a dancer with the Rambert company. He went on to design ballets, light reviews and plays.
64 Vivien Leigh played Cleopatra in the 1945 screen adaptation of Shaw’s play, at the time the most expensive British film ever made.
65 1900 – 96. British musical comedy star, chiefly on stage.
66 It never did.
67 They did get the Jaguar, but it was unreliable and I don’t know if they took it back to the USA or not.
68 Peter Pitt-Millward owned a castle called Paco da Gloria in northern Portugal. I had spent the previous summer there. In 1978 Peter died, and I acquired the castle and lived there, off and on, until 1987.
69 Alan, my older brother.
70 Actually she had turned thirty in June.
71 1931 – 87. With his older brother Albert he went on to make a number of acclaimed documentary films (Salesman, Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens etc.).
72 i.e. back projection.
73 Bumble Dawson had provided three identical white dresses.
74 In fact she was only eighteen. She had appeared with William Holden in Picnic.
75 In 1911, when my father was eight, he met Empress Eugenie in Menton. She invited him to kiss her, but since he had never kissed anyone in his life, including his parents, he turned and fled.
76 I later learned that Susan had just been jilted by Richard Burton, who had been her lover. She wrote in her autobiography that she had been thinking about jumping off the cliff. Quite a compliment to my company!
77 b.1921. Her many films – not all of them ‘B’s – included Fanny by Gaslight, The Wicked Lady, The Rake’s Progress and Rattigan’s The Browning Version.
78 (1897 – 1983). Irish actress who specialised in warm-hearted maternal characters.
79 Nowadays it would be more like three hundred.
80 (1931 – 67). Her films included The Pickwick Papers, The Cruel Sea, Tom Thumb.