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Marilyn Monroe the untold story of her last years

BY FRED LAWRENCE GUILES

When she was born on JUne 1, 1926, she Joe DiMaggin, the former New York Yankee baseball was given the name Norma Jean. The star, and were married on January 14, 1954, in identity of her mother, Gladys Baker San Francisco, the groom's hometown. The corridors Mortensen, is certain. But the search, for her father was to be at the core of of City Hall were jammed with over a hundred reporters her short, tragic life and photographers. Inside Judge Perry's chambers, By the time Norma Jean was eight about a dozen friends of the groom witnessed the cere- years old, her maternal grandparents mony. None of Marilyn's friends were there, although had already been destroyed by mental she had spoken the day before with her friend, Anne illness. and their daughter, Norma Barger, and her makeup man, Whitey Snyder. Her speech Jean's mother, began a series of con- finements in mental institutions. coach and longtime friend, Natasha Lytess, apparently The child, placed in an orphanage for was not invited. two years, was then shunted from one For luck, DiMaggio wore a dark suit and the polka-dot home to another. tie he was wearing the night he met Marilyn in 1952. In 1942, a restless, lonely, 16-year-old She matched his conservatism by wearing a high-collared Norma lean married James Dougherty, a neighbor. Separated for long periods brown suit with an ermine collar. "Save those low-cut because, of Jim's travels with the mari- things for the movies," DiMaggio had suggested. And time service, the couple was dieurced Marilyn wanted to please him. three years later. Glowing with happiness, they emerged from the By then a modeling course began to judge's chambers and DiMaggio obligingly kissed the pay of for Norma Jean, She changed bride for the photographers. her name to Marilyn (After the actress ) Monroe flier grand- While DiMaggio and Marilyn were on their brief mother's last name), and set out to ful- honeymoon, her lawyers and her agent were involved in fill her rtrearns. a marathon conference with Twentieth Century-Fox. She At twenty-one, living a. hand-to- was on suspension for walking out on Tights, a mouth existence, Marilyn did bit parts musical film, which had been slated for production a in obscure movies. Then, in the early month earlier. She had told , who was to , after "Al! About Eve" and "The "Asphalt Jungle" had gained farm-able play opposite her for the first time, that there was attention, she was offered a starring nothing personal in her move ; rather, she disliked the ride in "How To Marry a Millionaire." script. Fox believed that Marilyn really wanted a re- Bearing—and at times exhibiting— vision in her contract and a stronger hand in guiding her the emotional scars of her past. Marilyn nevertheless had come a long way. She FROM ' NORMA JEAN- BY FRED LAWRENCE GUILES. PUBLISHED BY was young, successful and in love. McGRAW-HILL. COPYRIGHT Cg■ 1959 BY FRED LAWRENCE GUILES.

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own career in films. Somehow it was settled DiMaggio left on their wedding trip. DiMaggio and a temporary truce arranged with her sal- had agreed to go to Japan with Frank "Lefty" ary adjusted upward. She even won her fight O'Doul, who had hired him as a rookie on the against Pink Tights, which was shelved per- old San Francisco Seals. It was typical of Di- manently. For better or worse, she was winning Maggio to see nothing wrong in combining that w. • most of her studio battles now. obligation with a formal wedding trip. O'Doul Joe and Marilyn came back briefly to a hand- had married only a few weeks before. Marilyn some two-story house belonging to DiMaggio's and O'Doul's bride, Jean, could spend some family in the Marina district of San Francisco. time together while the men visited the ball His sister, Marie, came in to handle the cooking teams around Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama, and run the household. She had been discreetly lecturing and appearing on television. told by her brother that any time Marilyn Marilyn was determined not to let their wanted to cook dinner, Marie was to just pre- careers conflict. So this was to be DiMaggio's end there was nothing unusual about it and business trip and her wedding journey. et out of the way. The belated honeymooners flew first to Hono- Marilyn did lots of hiking up and down hills lulu where they were mobbed by Marilyn's fans. way from the level Marina district. Joe, Jr., They had neglected to seek any security against dMaggio's son by his first marriage, came in the public's wild enthusiasm. DiMaggio got a :am school to meet his father's bride, and he frightening taste of his future as the husband Lnd Marilyn went out to Seal Point and Cliff of the most famous in the world when House and then to the zoo, hard by the rocky the plane touched clown at Tokyo's International shore of the Pacific. Airport. Crying Illonchan (precious little After this brief introduction to what was girl) , hordes of "little Japanese" (as DiMaggio ntended to be her new hometown, Marilyn and was to remember it) came rushing toward them.

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Throughout her life Marilyn signed all official documents (like I.D. curd for Korean trip) as "74:orma Jeone."

rilyn and her !brated ballplayer- band, Joe DiMaggio, aped off in Honolulu ing IW wedding ?rip.

This pose became a trademark for Marilyn's film, "The Seven Year Lich." But Joe DiMaggio was inflamed by it. Some threw flowers. Others reached out to touch soldiers on the ground so she might wave to Marilyn, several of them grasping at her hair. them. She managed this by lying face down on Marilyn's frozen smile masked her fright. She the floor of the helicopter, lowering her body felt she was paying dearly for her reputation outside the sliding door with two soldiers sitting as the most monchan since Shirley Temple. on her feet. The two couples settled into adjoining suites Several thousand marines cheered wildly as at the Imperial Hotel. After a week or so of the copter came down, and Marilyn was thrilled trips by limousine to Fuji, religious shrines by the sight of them. Impromptu road signs in and villages, the DiMaggios were invited to a the vicinity warned : "Drive carefully—the life cocktail party given by the international set of you save may be Marilyn Monroe's." Tokyo. There were numerous high-ranking With Jean O'Doul assisting her in the wings, American army officers there. At one point, an Marilyn changed from an olive-drab shirt and officer approached Marilyn and proposed that skintight pants to an equally clinging gown of she consider a quick visit to the American troops plum-colored sequins. She was decked out with then fighting for the United Nations in Korea. rhinestones to go with her first song, Diamonds Marilyn was thrilled. DiMaggio was not. He Are a Girl's Best Friend. Although a bit wavery, thought it could be pretty dangerous. "But it's fighting inadequate equipment and gusts of the least anyone can do," Marilyn is reported wind, she sang her song. The wild enthusiasm to have said, and DINleggin finally agreed. of the soldiers carried her securely into the With Jean O'Doul and a contingent of brass, next number. Marilyn was flown into Seoul where snowflakes That evening, there was a dinner for Marilyn swirled about the runway. From there she was in the General's Mess, a lavish arrangement of airlifted by helicopter toward the war area. several Quonset huts. The Signal Corps had ar- Marilyn asked the to fly low over the ranged a telephonic continued on page /74

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in Mail, 1962, ,Pfarityn sang "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at New On wedding 14ivekcied in York's old Madison ‘•.‘ 1956, Marilyn and Arthur Square Garden. Miller joined Miller's parents for happy portrait Inconsolable, Joe at Roxbury, Conn., farm. DiNaggio wept before Marilyn's crypt, in August, 1962. Joe. Jr.. stood next to Dad.

MARILYN! MONROE seemed about to overwhelm them as busy San Vicente Boulevard, It was continued from page 65 they debarked from a cable car. Marilyn also something of a mess. The last received a rebuke from DiMaggio tenant had neglected to clean it before greeting to her new husband back in about this and agreed to move about vacating, and the kitchen was filthy. Tokyo. An embarrassing conversation, town by car. Marilyn phoned her agent and close audited by the fifty guests, found Mari- Relieved of the pressures of Holly- friend, Inez Melson. "The kitchen's so lyn asking: "Do you still love me, Joe? wood life and the tensions of courtship, dirty, it must he full of germs!" she Miss me?" In subsequent phone calls the DiMaggios had a good, clear view wailed. "It will be terrible for Joe's made from her private tent that night, of each other. The first significant ulcers!" Marilyn begged DiMaggio to join her, quarrels started in San Francisco. Di- His ulcers were worsening, but his but he explained that he had made so Maggio seemed to be sinking back into condition had nothing to do with germs. many commitments in Japan he couldn't a comfortable semi-bachelor existence. Nevertheless, Mrs. Melson went to the possibly make it. The imbalance be- Sometimes neighbors would catch a empty house with her secretary and tween the warmth and eagerness shown glimpse of Marilyn standing alone on spent the better part of a day scrubbing by Marilyn and DiMaggio's frequent the back patio at night wearing a light down the floors, walls and appliances. bland lack of enthusiasm was to be- raincoat and bedroom slippers. When Marilyn learned what they had come more marked in ensuing months. But DiMaggio's love for Marilyn was done she showed her gratitude by in- Following that day, she cut down on so profound even he would not realize viting Mrs. Melson to share their first her communications to her husband, let- its intensity until after he had lost her. dinner, prepared by Marilyn herself. ting him know only that she was all When disillusionment moved in as an On the following Monday, Marilyn right. She basked in the most concen- unwelcome third party, much of the went back to the Fox lot to begin work trated adulation of her entire career. give-and-take of the early weeks of on the musical. DiMaggio visited the set As Marilyn's plane waited to take her their marriage disappeared. only once—and Marilyn turned the oc- back to DiMaggio in Tokyo two days casion into an open-house. The gamble later, she spoke to the officers and DiMaggio had taken already seemed to men in the airport farewell party. "This tAtingioct be lost. was the best thing that ever happened With one movie finished in Califor- to me," she said. "I only wish I could nia, Marilyn headed East to make an- have seen more of the boys, all of them. other. On the morning of September 9, Come to see us in San Francisco." 1954, when the plane ramp was secured Marilyn became feverish on the flight at Idlewild Airport in New York and back to Japan, and by the time she the door opened, Marilyn faced the mob reached the hotel her temperature had before her with dismay. But she re- risen to 104°. The doctor diagnosed her covered quickly and beamed. Police ailment as a mild form of pneumonia. had set up barricades to keep the crowd She lay in the hotel room for four days, back. Milling about in front of the po- taking antibiotics and resting, with Joe lice lines were dozens of photographers to nurse and comfort her, and Jean and and reporters. This was the year of O'Doul for company. As memorable as Marilyn's romance with the public. It her Korean visit had been (during the would not always be so. last year of her life she was to say She had quarreled with DiMaggio again that it was the high point in her before the plane left . Mak- life), she was exhausted, and her brief ing films in was one thing; stay in bed gave her time to think making them in New York, he felt, was about her career. She made up her quite another. He was faced now with mind about a couple of things. She was Marilyn's location trip East for Billy certain that her acceptance of photog- Wilder's . DiMag- rapher Milton Greene's proposal that gio insisted Marilyn was in a position to they form a new company, Marilyn oppose studio heads who insisted on Monroe Productions, was the only way imprisoning her in a jazz-baby image she could continue in films; and she and forcing her to emote on the streets would try to make a go of it with Di- of New York. For a terrible moment, Maggio in San Francisco. Marilyn feared DiMaggio, who would Still vivacious despite her torment, Marilyn appeared on set of -Fox's join her later, would be there solely as There was a quiet family celebration "Something's Got To Glve," in June 62. Film, a chaperon. upon their return to San Francisco and co-starring , wasn't released. Apparently, too, she was upset about the Marina house. Marie stayed on to run one of his several business associations. things, and Marilyn didn't seem to mind DiMaggio had considered going into a the arrangement. DiMaggio spent an holding company being set up by an hour or so every day at the family A new film was scheduled for Mari- industrialist. The businessman had restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf, and lyn, something the studio hailed as a suggested to DiMaggio that it might be Marilyn went with him a couple of tribute to the songs of Irving Berlin. helpful if Marilyn would appear on times, but she became at once the focal There's No Business Like Show Busi- occasion at certain business affairs point of all interest on the wharf and ness was certainly a shopworn bouquet planned by the new company. It had tourists came running. for the composer, but Marilyn was to be troubled her that DiMaggio had not de- Some mornings, the couple would go surrounded by a clutch of expensive clared himself opposed to the idea. out in DiMaggio's cabin cruiser, The entertainers, from to the She had learned to master the crowd, Yankee Clipper. Marilyn wore slacks phenomenally popular "cry" singer of like the one waiting for her at the St. and a floppy hat and -huge dark glasses the period, Johnny Ray. Regis Hotel, but she had failed to still to keep her face from getting burned Even though she knew the script to her private torments. This is not to say by the hazy sun. One Sunday, DiMaggio be vastly inferior to Pink Tights, she had given up on DiMaggio, but the drove her to the small village across Marilyn suddenly agreed to return to shrillness and indignation of her com- the bay where he had been born over . She and DiMaggio left San plaints to close associates, like the thirty-nine years before. Francisco m April and found a rented Greenes, were clues to the tottering San Franciscans respected Marilyn's house on North Palm Drive in Beverly state of her marriage. privacy for the most part. Tourists, who Hills. Two days later, DiMaggio suddenly sometimes outnumbered natives, were The "Elizabethan cottage" Marilyn appeared at the hotel. He made an another matter. On one occasion, selected was not private. It was prob- effort to keep out of the way of the twelve-year-old Joe, Jr., had to fight ably the most accessible of any star's movie in progress most of that week- off a mob of out-of-towners who home—only three doors removed from end. 174 If DiMaggio believed that he could anger before those men. He shook his take things in hand, and see that Marilyn head and walked away. was treated with some dignity in her Marilyn returned to the hotel around street scenes, which he correctly an- four in the morning, exhausted by re- ticipated would be watched by thou- takes and all the commotion at the lo- sands, he had overlooked his wife's cation site. Apparently, DiMaggio re- stiffening resolve. He had felt only a turned at about the same time or touch of it in California. shortly thereafter. Director began his first Some shouting and scuffling, followed film with Marilyn with some knowl- by hysterical weeping, was overheard edge of her previous behavior—her by other hotel residents nearby. On the lack of punctuality, her disputes with following day, DiMaggio left for Cali- other directors and studio heads, her fornia. need for constant reassurance and her A few hours later, Milton Greene difficulty memorizing lines. Their first arrived with some papers for Marilyn to meetings had gone well, though Wilder go over. He had to wait for her for attributed what he called her fuzzy quite a while, which wasn't too un- Don't let this connection with reality to some mental usual, but when she did appear she happen to you malfunction aggravated by alcohol. seemed distant. She was heavily se- Since leaving San Francisco, she had dated. Be safe with a begun drinking champagne to excess. When he began to discuss the in- But Wilder considered Marilyn an tricacies of some of the documents, "Finger-Flick" absolute natural before the camera. Marilyn was unreachable. Later, Greene Key Theft And more importantly, he felt the learned the source of her distress. Her freshness of approach she brought to marriage was over. Protector" her work was the key to her attraction by and to the audience's reaction. Upon her return to Hollywood in the The day following the first day of middle of September, Marilyn retained filming, Marilyn was in conference with attorney , whose clients Don't invite danger into your Milton Greene. Her rebellion against almost exclusively were film celebrities home! Police warn; never leave the film industry was now being com- who could afford his fees. Marilyn house keys with parking attend- mitted to long legal forms of partner- would no longer concern herself with ants. Always take house keys with ship creating Marilyn Monroe Produc- being even slightly thrifty. There you when you park. So quick, easy tions. would be no more used cars, small with Finger-Flick. Just a flick of the DiMaggio greeted Greene pleasantly apartments, or clothes off a rack. When finger, house keys slide off. An- enough in the hotel suite, but then her money ran out, as it would on one other flick, they're locked back on again. A "must" for women went off to the adjacent bedroom and or two occasions, her debts would be- turned on the television set. drivers; a great gift for come mountainous. But, somehow, Father's Day and gradu- Around midnight, Marilyn was driv- there would always be more money. ation. All initials. Only .. en to the Trans-Lux Theater at 52nd Marilyn's agent and friend, Inez Street and Lexington Avenue. The Melson, was at the cottage early on the For nearest jeweler: studio had cordoned off the block, and morning Marilyn's separation from cameras and lighting equipment were DiMaggio was announced. Inez realized arm% CALL FREE moved in near the theater marquee. that Marilyn was numb with emotional 800-243-0355 DiMaggio had come along, and Marilyn fatigue. (In Conn. call collect: 853-300) No charge for call, from anyplace was silent and brooding. She wore a DiMaggio was in the house that last In U.S., anytime sweater over her shoulders against the day. He was able to bear Mrs. Melson's night chill. Her costume for the scene presence with equanimity since he consisted of a backless white dress with considered her a woman with decent MAKE EXTRA MONEY a pleated flounce skirt, white shoes instincts. For her part, Mrs. Melson re- SELL CHRISTMAS AHO ALT OCCASION CARDS and white panties, which would be calls that she felt terribly sorry for Wrappings • Stationery • Noire • Gift List plainly visible in one of the shots. DiMaggio that day. "He seemed so lost," Over 200 Name Imprinted Christmas Cards Nearly a thousand New Yorkers were she said, "so angry with himself. Not lined up behind a barricade at the cor- with Marilyn, but with himself and with ner. They had earlier watched studio what was happening to them." workers install a portable air blower Mrs. Melson was mercifully answer- beneath a subway grating in the side- ing the phone and the door, turning walk. away reporters and callers she knew 0.11 ...... DiMaggio kept out of the way of the were not dose to Marilyn, Her mind was • I “1 all actors and flim crew. His expression a catalog of Marilyn's preferences and was grim, unsmiling; his hands were dislikes. She had a somber and laconic thrust into his pockets. Marilyn turned nature. Perhaps that is how she man- her head once to catch a glimpse of him aged not to get on DiMaggio's nerves. and appeared disconcerted for a mo- He must have known from Marilyn that ment, Then she moved over to the the woman was not among the "leeches" grating and allowed the thrust of air to who had attached themselves to the Make Extra Money For toss her flounced skirt well, above her actress. Marilyn had ambivalent feelings Your Organization Or Yourself No experlenee needed. Orgeni• knees. Shouts of "Hurrah!" could be about most of them; she knew some of cations, houeetelves, student.. heard from the spectators, then, "High- shut•ine. others lino make blg them were bleeding her financially, but profit. to ISO% pine bone, Woo. FREE ALBUM er! Higher!" because of her insecurity she hesitated Item& wli en sight. Cards worth or Name Imprinted 250 or more Hell for len then CHRISTMAS CARDS DiMaggio appeared to turn to stone. to shake them off. 70 each when bought by the hos . FREE gilt with first order. 40 for 52.50 sig While Marilyn rehearsed the scene with When DiMaggio was completely additional co-star , DiMaggio retreated OVER 600 FAST SELLERS 3 Lines Arailatile packed, his closest friend, Reno to 569.00 per 100 to the other end of the block. He didn't Barsocchini, loaded gear into the HEDENKAPAP, Dept. 5-67 trunk SAT Broadway, Haw York, N.Y. 10013 see the newspapermen who had been of a Cadillac parked in the driveway. Premse egad me ...leak sample. on approval g Mail for 30 des/ trial. FREE Cater Catalog of over . observing him. DiMaggio delayed making an appear- 400 Ilan.. FREE Album at Noma Imprinted • "What do you think of Marilyn hav- ance as long as he could. Outside were Coupon Christmas Gerd', Sole. Plan. FREE Gift Offer. ing to show more of herself than she's gathered about a hundred newspaper- Today Name . shown before, Joe?" one of them asked. men. Finally DiMaggio emerged. Asked DiMaggio had no time to disguise his where he was going, he told reporters, City, State, Zip Code.— 175

"Back to San Francisco. That's my majority interest. Later, when dissen- much as three or four hours preparing home." sion and misunderstandings created a for it. She had to do everything un- Marilyn went back to work later that breach in their relationship, both hurriedly or she went to pieces. same week when shooting resumed on Marilyn and , who had by Arthur Miller was coming into her The Seven Year Etch at the Fox then become deeply involved in her life and she was determined it would studios. Acting now was therapeutic, affairs, would feel she had been de- be for keeps. Because of his children, and director Wilder was relieved to ceived by Greene over that division of Robert and Jane, Miller found it hard to find Marilyn more engaged with her shares. The bylaws were written in make the decision to break up his work than before. Yet neither a happy such a way that she had no controlling fifteen-year marriage to Mary Slattery marriage nor a crisis-relieving voice in the affairs of her own com- Miller. There were secret meetings were to be any guarantee that all pany. The other officers were Greene's with Marilyn at the homes of friends would be well with Marilyn. associates and she could be outvoted at in Manhattan and . Her break with Hollywood followed any board meeting on any issue. There were none at the Greene home completion of The Seven Year Itch on But to understand why Greene was so in . (According to Miller, November 4, 1954. Though she may desperate to protect his own interests it he did not meet Greene until late 1955 have been anxious about the future, is important to examine how extensive or early 1956.) Marilyn, sympathetic to for now she was entirely on her own, was his stake in the corporation. Ini- the needs of Miller's children, did not her relief was great. Almost any way tially, the impact on his finances was insist upon an immediate rupture with she looked at it, it seemed the most nut oppressive even though his original his family. intelligent move of her career. partner, a Wall Street man, had ob- As her interest in country life waned, She declared herself "no longer con- jected to the risk involved with Fox Marilyn found New York a symbol of tractually bound to Twentieth Cen- (which was threatening to sue them) promise. What had begun as defiance tury-Fox," and left it to her lawyers to and had pulled out. Greene purchased of a movie studio had now become a argue the finer points. a mild Broadway success, The Sleeping whole new life. The next six years, in the East, made Prince, by borrowing the money. And She felt little satisfaction in what .up Marilyn's longest sustained effort to when Marilyn began to assert her in- she had done on the screen up to that live like a normal human being, one dependence and insisted Greene find time. It was time to go on to something with family ties and obligations, coun- her an apartment in New York City, he of more permanent value. try places, and dose friends not in- went more deeply into debt and sub- There were occasional painful epi- volved in movies. When she later leased a small apartment for her in the sodes induced by loneliness while she returned to her native city, she dis- exclusive Waldorf Towers. lived in her Manhattan tower. One of covered she no longer fit in. Hollywood She kept much of her wardrobe at the worst occurred during the summer. doesn't accommodate itself to rebels the Greenes', but spent an increasing had brought easily. amount of time in the city. There was Tyrone Power and to New In those closing weeks of 1954, Holly- continuing newspaper and magazine York to do location work on The Eddy wood represented tyranny to Marilyn, interest in her rebellion. In preparation Duchin Story. Fred Karger, a close while New York beckoned as the home for her interviews, she visited hair- friend of Marilyn's and her music of her new friends, the Milton Greenes, dressers, dress salons and other shops. coach, had come along to help with the one very important old friend, play- All of the bills went to Greene and film. With the stars of the film he was wright Arthur Miller (whom she'd met somehow they were paid. in a suite on a lower floor of the in late 1950 when he had come West Marilyn could never remain isolated Waldorf-Astoria, celebrating the con- with his first screenplay), and the hope for an extended period. She went out clusion of their New York shooting. Re- of a new start in the industry with of kilter after a time when all de- membering that Marilyn lived in the Marilyn Monroe Productions. In some mands upon her were removed. Even Towers, Karger phoned her around manner, possibly by phone, she had her interest in reading sagged when eight in the evening. She told him she been in touch with Miller. she found whole days yawning emptily would be down in half an hour; she Marilyn flew to New York in early to be filled. She needed the pressure of only needed time to change. December. Although it was one of sev- a busy schedule. Being busy might In an hour, when Karger called back, eral new beginnings in her life, she mean she had only one important ap- Marilyn's voice was fuzzy with alcohol, was still too frightened to feel revital- pointment, but she could devote as probably vermouth, which had become ized. Nevertheless, the auspices for her favorite insulation when she was some sort of fulfillment were more fa- fretful. Apparently the ghosts of her vorable now than ever before. Certainly HANDCRAFTS TO MAKE past had revisited her after Karger's her status as a performer had improved FOR YOUR HOME call and she was trying to banish them. immeasurably. Even the most acid of (continued from page 112) When, later, Karger went up to say good her critics had to admire her courage. night, she was too far gone to care. Marilyn's temporary stay in the Handcraft your own originals—a When Marilyn dined out it was usu- Greenes' home was not without its has-relief plaque, a collage or floral ally with some of Miller's friends in handicaps. She had never felt at home picture similar to those shown on their apartments: Norman Rosten, with disciplined natures, and Amy pages 111 and 112. Complete direc- whose wife, Hedda, had become a good Greene was the most organized human tions for these three craft tech- friend, and the Eli Wallachs. At one of being Marilyn had ever encountered. niques are in the GH leaflet, these dinners Marilyn met the producer The Greenes lived in a spacious hill- Handcrafted Accessories. To order and director, . Miss top house in Weston, Connecticut. it, use coupon below. Crawford became interested in Mari- Marilyn delighted in it. She took long lyn's ambition to make her reputation solitary rambles over the acreage. as an actress equal her reputation as a Send order to: When warm weather came, she at- personality. She spoke of the work tempted water skiing in Good Housekeeping being done at the and Sound. During those months, she was Bulletin Service thought it might be a fine idea if Mari- more intimately aware of the out-of- 959 Eighth Avenue lyn discussed her acting problems with doors than she had been since her first New York, N.Y. 10019 its artistic director and leading teacher, months as the young wife of Jim Dou- . gherty. Enclosed is 35 cents. Please send me Strasberg, in studio classes, encour- Greene and Marilyn had formalized Handcrafted Accessories. aged his students in such total involve- their partnership on the last day of Name ment with self, with emotional memory 1954, and that New Year's Eve there and experience, that they would often were numerous toasts to the success of Address appear to outside directors as inde- Marilyn Monroe Productions. There City pendent agents, unable to do a scene were 101 shares of stock in the corpo- State ZIP Code until they grasped "the inner key." ration, giving Marilyn 51 shares or a Strasberg also approved of his students 176 entering analysis, the better to discover to create around her the atmosphere of In early February of 1956, Marilyn their total inner selves. This emphasis family living she had never really appeared at the Studio before a capac- on self-involvement would be pivotal known before. (She could not know ity audience of members. Her perform- to Marilyn's future development both then, nor could anyone, that children ance as in the play of on and off the screen. would be a physiological impossibility the same name caught everyone there Marilyn's first lesson with Strasberg for her, that each of her pregnancies, of —except Strasberg—by surprise. Her was arranged. After she was comfort- necessity, would be terminated.) nervousness lent a tension to the scene ably settled, Strasberg began to bait Marilyn knew without being told that that seemed right. Strasherg was terri- her with questions that hurt, that were she was too sell-dedicated to be either bly excited by her work that night and downright embarrassing. He wanted to a good wife or mother. This was not foresaw a long and rewarding career see how she would rise to the stimulus peculiar to her, but an occupational for her on the stage. of a loaded question. and how she malady common to stars, one which After more than half a year of study would respond. And, perhaps more im- evolves from their constant battle for with Lee Strasberg, Marilyn was begin- portantly, whether she would respond attention. ning to reach deeper resources within quickly and easily. He was also alert to But Marilyn wanted to subdue this herself. If Arthur Miller had small re- how much imagination she brought preoccupation at any cost. A psycho- spect for the Strasbergs, even he had to into play in her answers. analyst was recommended to her and concede that they were helping Mari- After the session, Strasberg told his soon that lady's bills, too, began ar- lyn to build some sturdy defenses wife, Paula, that he felt Marilyn pos- riving at Greene's office to be paid. about her talent. If they went too far sessed an extraordinary and seemingly In Strasberg's view, and began to speak of her "genius," it inviolate sensitivity. This sensitive core began to liberate Marilyn. The work in was done out of respect for her original should have been killed by all that he the class helped her analysis, and the style, and thus out of honesty. Her be- had heard had happened to her as a analysis freed her in such a way that lief in her own work, never secure, was child and adolescent. But here it was, the clasawork took on another dimen- getting needed reinforcement. fresh and alive, sion. In the opinion of those close to Hollywood's attitude toward Marilyn, It is worth mentioning that, although her—makeup man Whitey Snyder, Inez which had hardened during her tran- Norma Jean had been emotionally de- Melson and a handful of others—Mari- sitional year, would not change per- prived and turned over to a succession lyn's preoccupation with her "emotion- ceptibly during her lifetime. She had of mother substitutes, she was never al memory," a term much used in the rejected the industry and it reacted ac- entirely deprived of some kind of affec- Actors Studio, triggered a disintegra- cordingly. Even those who had known tion except for her two years in the ting process, the fracturing of an ego her fairly well were inclined to dismiss orphanage. Her mother's friends, the that had been painfully reassembled as unfortunate her pretensions to lift Bolenders. despite their stern sense of only a few years earlier. herself up culturally. It seemed a little discipline, really loved Norma Jean, as In December, Strasberg pronounced sad to them, a little embarrassing. had her mad grandmother, in her own Marilyn ready to do a scene before an They could not be blamed for thinking peculiar fashion. Gladys Baker herself audience of Studio members. He felt this since Marilyn was constantly had loved her daughter sufficiently to she needed to test her skills and con- changing, evolving. She was now quite ensure that she was never physically centration before a group other than different from the Marilyn they had deprived. Even in early adolescence the her own class. known. child received the warm devotion of When Marilyn protested that she Some applauded Marilyn's public and another family friend, Ana Lower, and would be terrified before a live audi- private courage, her individual stance, then the comfortable sanctuary of her ence, Strasberg attempted to reassure while others deplored the Miller- own home as the bride of Jim Dou- her. "A stage role," he explained, "is a Monroe rumors then beginning to ap- gherty. What was missing, of course, totally different thing from one in films. pear in the gossip columns. These was her father, the man Marilyn was to You're on the stage, you have the lights, items suggested that Marilyn was a spend her fife seeking. the audience is dark, nobody talks. You home-wrecker, and underlying them Lee Strasberg was unaware at the remember all those technicians and was the implicit reminder that, since time he met Marilyn that he was to everybody standing around smoking Marilyn had never known a stable partially fill that role. and laughing back in Hollywood. You home, how could she have any stan- Now, in his role of teacher, Strasberg were very much aware of them, all that dards? began to instruct Marilyn in how to live d is traction." through the experience she was acting. His message was hypnotic. He was Before 1956 was very far advanced, Concentration was her weak point, as it preaching a new gospel to Marilyn and Mary Slattery Miller had separated is with a great many actors, and Stras- she was enraptured. "But on the stage, from Arthur Miller. It was disclosed berg sought ways and means to sustain everything is very concentrated," he that Miller had left their home in her concentration through twenty min- told her. "There is a curtain between Brooklyn Heights and had moved into utes or so of a scene from a stage work. you and the audience. The curtain goes Manhattan, But Marilyn could only achieve the up only when you are ready. . . ." "I have nothing to say about any so- proper intensity of a scene by tapping It is clear from nearly all of Marilyn's called romance with Arthur Miller," her own reserve of emotional experi- public and private utterances on the Marilyn told reporters with as much ences. Strasberg had taught her how to subject that the ambitions fanned by emphasis as she could manage. At the arouse this reserve and make it part of Strasberg were more of a hope than an time, she was suffering from laryngitis, her craft. eventuality, that her whole life was tied contracted just after her success as Despite her chance for a new life, up in films. She was, through almost Anna Christie. The motive for this there were a few unattractive holdovers, equal measures of will, emotion, and hedging about their relationship re- from Marilyn's past. There was her bad Strasberg's encouragement, coming mains obscure. Miller may have been a temper, which she'd inherited from her through finally as an actress and not reluctant suitor when he finally saw grandmother. Marilyn knew that a per- merely as a screen star who could com- the responsibility he would have to as- son in a position of power should not mand the best directors. There is rea- sume as Marilyn's husband. In addition permit his feelings to get out of control_ son to believe that the Strashergs were to her profound insecurity, there were As president of her own company, she persuading her that she should toil in her moods that swung so precipitously felt she had to deal with her own rages. the high-paying vineyards of Holly- from gaiety to depression; Miller was Amy Greene had helped her polish her wood to support her higher goal— never quite certain just how he might public display of self-possession. It instilled in her chiefly by them—to find her. There was also her frightening was her private furies she worried become a polished performer In the ambition, so towering that it seemed about now. legitimate theater. This was unfortu- beyond realization. But all that was to She also wanted a fuller life. Beyond nate, for Marilyn was led to believe she change in weeks to come. Miller at- a hoped-for marriage with the man she was a valuable property to the Holly- tempted to give all the support he had pursued across the continent, she wood studios because she was becom- could muster to counterbalance her in- wanted children of her own. She hoped ing a valuable actress. security. He met her depressions with 177 lightheartedness even when he didn't she was to get $100,000 a year from Feb- scene for Marilyn. At times, in the fu- feel it, and he already had joined in ruary 1, 1956, in equal monthly install- ture, Marilyn would become terrified league with her ambition. ments. Since her actual holdings in the when she wasn't able to find the key to There was yet another complicating corporation amounted to 51 out of a to- a scene. factor. Joe DiMaggio, his ego apparent- tal of 101 shares, she would get only But the liaison was formed as simply ly badly bruised by the divorce, 50.5 percent of the firm's profits, so she as that. Marilyn wanted to continue appeared occasionally at Marilyn's was really being paid a little over $50,- to cultivate her inner resources as an Waldorf Towers apartment. The old 000 per film. She would have to com- actress, and Paula was ready to volun- recriminations began as though their plete two films per year in order to earn teer. It was to become one of the most lives had not been legally separated. In her prescribed corporation salary. It controversial attachments of Marilyn's one instance, Marilyn ran into her bed- was a prerequisite she was never to life. room and bolted the door after her. fulfill as her own employer. Paula soon made herself indispens- From a call to her press agent, it was Greene was to receive $75,000 per able to directors on a Monroe film, for difficult to determine just what was year in equal monthly installments, Marilyn simply could not act without wrong since she was almost literally which, if paid, would leave little or no Paula's constant help. Marilyn's work struck mute with fear, but the banging working capital for the firm even with on the new picture was to begin with on her door in the background was two films annually. this dependency very much in every- unmistakable. On January 4, 1956, Fox made the offi- one's mind. There was still another complication. cial announcement: Marilyn and the stu- Before Marilyn left for the West Coast, Miller's writing career was in the dol- dio had come to terms. She was headily Miller had suggested they continue to drums, and the outlook for any relief triumphant; Greene was suddenly sol- deny all rumors that they would be was remote at the time. When any vent. It was one of those rare moments married soon, possibly out of deference writer is in a season of sterility he in Marilyn's life when a calculated risk to his children, Mary Miller came to their moves either recklessly or with ex- had turned out brilliantly. aid with an avowal that Marilyn had treme caution, depending upon his Marilyn's career was being guided by nothing to do with their separation. character. Miller was not the reckless three very different men by the end of This was an honest declaration; Mil- type. His first move was to extricate 1955: Lee Strasberg, Milton Greene and ler, too, had considered the marriage himself from his family situation. When Arthur Miller. The least involved at doomed for a long time. he recovered from that, it may be that this point was Miller. Yet, in less than It was painful for Marilyn to leave he committed himself totally to Marilyn a year, he would be the most intimately Miller, although they were to keep in and hurried to the altar so as not to Involved. touch by phone. She left behind, too, prolong his emotional turmoil. He Marilyn felt impelled to go on with her press agent, Lois Weber, who was wanted to get involved in his work the work she had begun with Strasberg permanently attached to the New York again, but he could do so only if the —the exercises, the concentration and office of the Jacobs agency, They as- theme he had decided upon was worth the of a part. He had suggested signed to her a slightly younger wom- all the effort and concentration needed that his wife, Paula, might be willing to an, Patricia Newcomb. Though Marilyn to write a serious play. It was several help. She had coached others and had and Miss Newcomb clashed during the months before he even attempted such been a member of the acting ensemble production of Bus Stop and the press a project. Cannily aware of Arthur's of the Group Theater. agent was assigned elsewhere, she was agonies and indecision, Marilyn real- was more specific to re-enter Marilyn's professional fam- ized she might kill the spark if she than her husband in her application of ily nearly five years later. piled on more kindling, It was a curious acting principles. She went into great Marilyn's return to Hollywood after situation and an even more curious detail to set the mood of a line or a a year's absence was greeted as an romance, as they carefully threaded to- event. A swarm of reporters enveloped gether the strands of their emotions her as she left her plane. and their careers. BOUNTIFUL KITCHENS Despite the fact that she had become Marilyn's former studio bosses were the hotly defended pet of a great many now insisting that they were not "for- continued from page 85 people in and out of films, there were mer" at all, that they still had a stake numerous critics around, most vocal in in her future whether she was incor- Pages 82-83: Hollywood, who were eager to sp"ead porated or not. dusted off Cabinets, Kingsway Custom Kitch- the word from a "reliable" source at a project for her that had been on the ens, 1602 Troy Avenue, Brooklyn, Fox that Marilyn had come back to the shelf for some years: the life of the ill- N.Y. 11234. Glass-ceramic cook-top, studio practically on her knees since fated star, . He closed a deal Corning; all other appliances, Milton Greene had run out of funds. with the late actress's mother, Mrs. Bel- Frigidaire. Sinks by EIkay, "Slate" As they told the story, the bills from lo, and announced that filming would plastic serving bar and counter- her analyst, couturiers, hairdresser and begin In the late falL When Marilyn tops, custom lamination of floral others were about to force Marilyn Mon- heard about the project and examined fabric by Parkwood Noma-Plastics, roe Productions into bankruptcy before the script, she was both angry and dis- 10 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. it ever got around to shooting a foot of heartened. She told her agent and her 10017. Custom-cut vinyl flooring, film. friends that she would never do such a Arabes. Fabric, "Bora Bora" by While there was an element of truth film. "I hope they don't do that to me Boussac of France. in this, there was nothing of defeat in after I'm gone," she said. Marilyn. As she moved through the air- By mid-December, 1955, a new con- Pages 84-85: port terminal, surrounded by reporters, tract with Marilyn Monroe Productions Cabinets by Wood-Mode Kitchens, she came as close as she ever would to was nearing settlement. It would run Krearrier, Snyder County, Pa. 17833. realizing that she was a film goddess. for seven years and encompass four Range, Caloric. Dishwasher, Kitch- There was a subtle difference about Films, leaving Marilyn free to do out- enAid. Refrigerator-freezer, Amana. her. Economic security (now that she side productions. The first of the films Countertops, dining-table top, For- could breathe freely again following was to be Bus Stop, based upon the play mica "Chutney" plastic laminate. Milton's close call with insolvency) and that had already been an enormous Small appliances, Proctor-S ilex. a new self-confidence gave her every success on Broadway. It was one of sev- Decorative trim on curtains. Conso. utterance the weight of a pronounce- eral properties Greene had sought as Chairs and desk (unfinished), ment and turned some of the Fox exec- a property for Marilyn. Mastercraft by S. J. Bailey and utives' blood to ice. They reasoned that, Her corporation would be paid $100,- Sons, Inc., Clarks Summit, Pa. if previously she could drive them up 000 for her services on each film, and 18411. Spices, preserves, glass jars the well when she was plagued by un- retroactive pay was worked out for the by Wheaton-Nuline, MillviLle, N.J. certainty, now that she seemed to know period of her self-imposed exile. Ac- 08332. Wallpaper, "New Boston" by where she was going they could expect cording to the terms of the corporation Greeff. Vinyl flooring, Arntico. behavior far more nerve-shattering. agreement between herself and Greene, Marilyn and the Greenes rented a 178 large place in Beverly Glen where Amy Her hysteria built when the moment was to stay much of the time, super- approached for her appearance before vising the household and her young Logan's mood-devouring camera, Often son, Josh. Milton had been signed to she grasped the arm of some friendly design Marilyn's makeup and lighting member of the production company, and, more significant, to be peacemaker such as script supervisor Joe Curtis, between the studio and his corporation and walked with him up and down the president. The atmosphere of the place darkened periphery of the sound stage. was altogether different from the home- If she was seen at such an embattled stead in Connecticut. There, Marilyn moment by those of the company who appeared to be groping for a new direc- were waiting for her at the camera set- tion, and her dependency upon Amy up, everyone understood that she was Weil take the had bound them together. Despite her not to be approached. and Logan was preoccupation with a sense of reality in too keenly aware of her problem to her films, things were not always what send anyone to fetch her. gpan out of they seemed in her private life, The Some of the rapport between Marilyn Beverly Glen house was at once and her director dissolved as they charged with the presence of an ego- moved to their first location in Phoenix, centric in the throes of a new project. , to film rodeo scenes. She was ingrown. The phone rang constantly. Messengers in seclusion a good part of the time and appeared with scripts and photos. There Logan could no longer rely upon a was a steady stream of servitors: hair- close, personal communication with her. dressers, masseurs, publicity men. And Milton Greene was called on numerous Paula Strasberg. Amy, who had quietly occasions to talk with her and try to get dominated her Connecticut household, her to the set. was now very much in the background. In Sun Valley, , where the ex- Marilyn was in prime condition. She terior Bus Stop scenes were made, the looked, as Amy Greene put it, like a snow—a kind of magic powder to her— Our prescription: "noodle." She had lost every ounce of sweetened her temper for a time, She excess weight and she seemed to subsist was often playful and she even man- Dr. Scholl's Onixol*. on a diet of raw steaks and champagne. aged some friendly conversation with A few drops help take the Director thought her the ingenue, , who had re- the most constantly exciting actress he cently become the wife of actor Don groan out of ingrown toenails had ever worked with, and that excite- Murray. by softening the calloused ment was not related to her celebrity But once Marilyn was back on the tissue and the imbedded nail. but to her humanness, to the way she dusty acres of Fox's Beverly Hills lot, saw the life around her. she caught a bad case of bronchitis, and Simply apply. And Onixol Once shooting began, Logan quickly Greene drove her to Cedars of Lebanon does the rest. learned that Marilyn turned on her in- Hospital, where she was admitted and candescence only when she knew the treated for nearly a week. cameras were running: Marilyn reacting Visitors were kept to a minimum. It to disappointment, crying on cue; Mar- is said that DiMaggio came on one oc- ilyn showing joy and exuberance, her casion, and Mrs. Logan visited Marilyn face flushed. Logan treated her as some- one afternoon. She reassured Marilyn thing fragile that could be easily crushed that her husband had become "very or extinguished. fond and very protective" of her. Mari- Onixol' Despite Logan's patience, Marilyn was lyn told Nedda Logan ruefully that the in a state of nerves a good part of the hospital had sent someone around to time. She had a great deal riding on take her medical history and they asked !,PLANT this, the first production since her free- who the next of km would be in case HYPON - FOOD dom had been won. She had to prove Grows bolter plants, indoors or outdoors. Clean. they needed to be notified. "And there Odorless & soluble. 10 ne.-57.00. Makes 60 gars. she was worth all the trouble. She must wasn't anyone I could think of," Marilyn 75 item catalog Freo.HYPONeX COPIA 11 014. 44321 somehow measure up to all the fuss. said, turning away and staring at the She knew as well as some of her wall. detractors that Marilyn Monroe was a When Marilyn had recovered, and the flawed creation: her education was a • Rings won't film was nearing completion, it became twist with new patchwork affair with glaring omissions, evident that Bus Stop was the most Finger-Fit! a hand-me-down from Norma Jean; her nearly perfect film of her career. She torrential rages might possibly stem • Rings slip on was as good as she would ever be, and and off easily from tainted family genes. Some of her that was very good indeed. She was even over swol- most trusted friends felt that she was more than worth all the "fuss." len knuckles. too withdrawn and sensitive to succeed There had been numerous phone calls as an independent actress. Jeweler can from Miller, who was then in residence attach to any Despite the odds, she was waging a near Pyramid Lake, Nevada, for his di- woman's ring, old fight on all these fronts. Through Mil- vorce. Before Marilyn was ready to fly or new. Opens 3 ler and on her own, she had met liter- back East, they had decided to be mar- sizes, snaps closed for ary figures—poets Norman Rosten and ried as soon as they could make their snug fit. 14K yellow Carl Sandburg and soon Edith Sitwell— plans. or white gold or winning their friendship and loyalty at In May, when Marilyn arrived in New NO. 2771753 platinum. once. She was able in most instances to York, Miller was still off in Nevada. beat a quick retreat from any source of She moved into a fashionable Sutton Mail coupon For name of Finger•Fot jeweler near you. irritation so that her temper was kept Place apartment Milton Greene had Thousands of satisfied customers coast to coast! bottled up or submerged by tranquil- Suggested retail price in 14K gold- rented for her. 519.00 plus installation. izers. She was heavily reliant upon Those final days before her reunion Logan on the set, and Paula off the set, with Miller were observed by her FINGER-FIT ... for a G.oronlead Fit! to prove that her sensitivity was the friends and associates—the Greenes, DEPT. C.7. BOX 366. ROYAL OAK, MICH. 48058 negotiable coin of her success as a free Lois Weber, the Strasbergs—with ap- NOME agent, though she would, when neces- prehension. Marilyn, they felt, had be- tuso.,‘ ADORE'S z sary, reveal that it masked a will of come totally vulnerable, had abandoned !Coed Iteu11610461o9: iron. all of her defenses and thrown aside CITY, STATE. ZIP err r"mosscPs 179

any wisdom she had gained from the found Marilyn's determination to be- oily two reporters had to assist her most past. She wanted to come to her forth- come one of the Miller family altogeth- of the way. coming marriage cleansed of the past, er disarming. He promptly fell in love It would be said later by some of and her friends feared that in this state, with his future daughter-in-law and Marilyn's friends and co-workers that whether fancied or real, she might eas- became in time one of the elder advi- her nerves were always at a delicate ily be destroyed. sers in her life, a position he held even edge, but she somehow managed to get Marilyn had no such qualms. Her after her marriage to his son was dis- through that exhausting week. She was mood was gay. It was difficult for her to solved. finally being saved by the one man she recall another time in her life when Miller had first brought Marilyn to his had had her sights on for years. The things were going so well. parents' two-family house in the Flat- prospect gave her a grace that was im- bush section of Brooklyn during that pressive. If she was inwardly terrified It was early June, 1956, when Arthur final crowded week before the wedding. that he might not succeed, the feeling Miller, divorce papers in his pocket, She was struck by the unpretentious- was carefully contained, flew into New York. His time in Nevada ness of the household. She commented As her private terrors increased their had not been entirely wasted on the to Miller that it fitted in with her ear- hold over her. her expression was that bu-lness of divorce. He was working on lier persuasion that Brooklyn was a of a woman anchored safely in some a play, and he had met some down-at- place where people could "really live." faith. It was an illusion, an image to the-heels cowboys near Reno who in- This feeling of family environment which she would cling, with only rare spired him to write a short story, The must have been reinforced when she lapses, until her death. To maintain it, Misfits. and Miller walked up the steps arm- though, often required heavy doses of Miller recalls laconically that Marilyn in-arm. About a dozen neighborhood sedation. seemed pleased to see him again, Other children came running up to see them. A hasty civil wedding was arranged friends recall her inability to leave him Miller recalls that Marilyn laughed and in the White Plains, New York, court- alone even for a moment. Miller, who talked to the children for a few min- house. Only a handful of reporters were had always seemed reserved before, utes. She even gave out a few auto- present. On this occasion all of Mari- was equally abandoned with her among graphs before he gently detached her lyn's new friends from New York were friends whom he trusted. They were from them and led her inside. there and Lee Strasberg gave her away. entwined a good deal of the time, and No one from her Hollywood days was gradually their friends recovered from in attendance. Her break with her past their embarrassment and accepted the WARNING! There is no connection between seemed complete. Her gold wedding couple's behavior as natural. band was inscribed: "A. to M., June this magazine and any so-called Goad Conversation was 'limited mostly to 1956. Now Is Forever." plans for the future. Marilyn had al- Housekeeping Shop, Good Housekeeping Just prior to the ceremony, Marilyn ready invited both Strasbergs to ac- Store, Good Housekeeping Distributors, had been closeted with Rabbi Robert company her to England for the filming Good Housekeeping Products, Good House- Goldberg, a Reform rabbi from a sub- of her first independent production, keeping Centers, or any product or service urb of New Haven and a friend of Mil- The Prince and the Showgirl, because, using the name GOOD Houssesseisie. It ler's for several years. The rabbi in- as she told them, "I want everything to you have any doubts write or wire Goan structed Marilyn for two hours or more go right." She now urged Miller to meet liousseseeiric, Legal Dept., 959 Eighth As. in the general theory of Judaism; a them. enue, New York, N Y. 10019. humanistic approach. He explained his Marilyn was always seeking support view that there was no afterlife. Em- and reassurance, and Lee and Paula bracing the Jewish faith was a senti- were supplying these in wholesale mental thing with Marilyn, and Rabbi drafts. She had no family to give a Miller called Marilyn's press agent, Goldberg was trying to determine blessing to the marriage, and it was Lois Weber, on the Thursday in June, whether she was prepared to go through clear that the Strasbergs were her cho- 1956, that he had designated for their with it. When the indoctrination was sen substitutes. Miller felt obliged to press conference at Roxbury to an- over, Marilyn was persuaded that she comply with her wishes. nounce the wedding. Miss Weber was was finally a Jewess. How profound this And so they met. Miller seemed asked if she would please come up to feeling was is difficult to know. A sensi- standoffish to the Strasbergs, more so assist. "There may be five or so re- tive director could convince her that than they had heard about or remem- porters," Miller told her. she was also an archduke's mistress bered from an earlier, casual meeting. "You're living in a dream world," or a cowboy's simple-minded "angel." To Marilyn, his remoteness must have Was Weber interjected. "You'll be Even Miller isn't sure how "Jewish" been a disappointment. There was no overrun. They'll be hanging from the Marilyn really became, but he is in- starting point from which to proceed trees." The number of reporters was to clined to accept it as part of her in- to any closeness. She had hoped for surprise even Lois Weber. They were tense desire at the time to please him, something better. not only hanging from the trees on the to become a vital part of his life. Plans for their wedding shared top Miller property, but more than sixty Soon after the wedding, the Millers, priority with the final arrangements were stampeding over the lawn. along with the Greenes and the Stras- with Sir , who was to As the Millers neared the farm, a bergs, went to England for filming of direct and co-star in the upcoming film. car tailing them suddenly swerved and The Prince and the Showgirl Sir Laur- Marilyn and Milton Greene were in- crashed. Miller would not permit ence Olivier and his wife at the time, volved in costume approvals and fittings, Marilyn to leave their car when his the late , met the Millers interviews and a review of the budget. cousin, Morton, groaning deaparingly at the London airport, along with the There was a difference between Mil- pulled over to the narrow shoulder of usual army of newsmen and photog- ler's attitude toward the Strasbergs and the winding road. They had heard rather raphers. Marilyn handled the reception the way he behaved in Greene's pres- than seen the crash. Marilyn, chalk- with her new serenity and some jour- ence. While he seemed not at all inter- white, was shaking her head mutely nalists mistook it for snobbishness. Her ested in Greene as a human being, al- and seemed on the edge of hysteria. husband was silent, a stance he main- though he nearly always tried to half- Miller ran back to investigate. The tained permanently in public with Mar- smile upon greeting him, he had an small foreign car had failed to negotiate ilyn. inexhaustible supply of questions to ask the last curve and had smashed into a Olivier embraced his co-star warmly. about Marilyn Monroe Productions. Mil- tree. The driver, a young man, ap- He had received half a dozen letters ler's intervention would one day soon peared to have no grave injury, but his from Joshua Logan describing how sen- provoke Greene to cry out to him, "Be companion. a French woman reporter sitive and magnificent Marilyn was as a a husband! Leave the corporation to named Mara Scherbacoff, lay dying in a performer. "She's worth all the trou- Marilyn, me, and our attorneys." pool of blood. ble," Logan had written, and his pre- Arthur's father, Isidore Miller, a re- Later, Marilyn made an effort to get scription for avoiding trouble seemed tired manufacturer who had lost much out of the car and make her way to- simple enough: "Load up the camera of his fortune in the crash of 1929, ward the house, but she swayed no dlz- and put Marilyn in front of it. , . ." 180

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More leisure time The Millers settled into a rented es- tral complaint, "Why are they doing tate at Eggham, some miles from the these things to me?" for you with the... edge of the city near Windsor Park, a Marilyn's slide from a partial ability part of the royal grounds. to function to complete incapacity was During the first week of shooting at so precipitous that Miller didn't know , Olivier began to feel it was coming until it happened. Be- deceived by Logan's reassurances. He fore, her ini-omnia had been partially made it clear to Miller that he was relieved by pills. Now even they didn't counting heavily upon him to help see work. As the night deepened, she would Ma ilyn through. Later, Logan recalls, become hysterical. Miller was unwill- Olivier told him plaintiyely, "You nev- ing to risk the amount of er told me what to do' when I'm ex- it would take to drop her into slumber. plaining to Marilyn how to play a scene Nightly vigils began. and she walks away from me In mid- There were a few days when Miller sentence." was able to pin her together, after sev- Dua1130 Olivier held frequent conferences with eral hours of effort, and get her to the Milton Greene to revise their shooting studio only four or five hours late, but schedules when Marilyn failed to appear there were two or three days when he Sanitronic on numerous occasions. Often, Olivier had to call in that she was ill. or one of his associates (at the high- "Oh, I'm sorry," Olivier would say, :Goad itoussietpleg% est level) called the Miller residence honestly concerned. "What seems to be .1110.11111. to inquire about Marilyn. Miller in- System *",frir the matter?" And Miller's hesitation. variably would report that he was doing his unwillingness to put into words The only single appliance in the world that all he could to get her on her way. The the sad truth, was answer enough. does so many jobs. You sanitize, clean, sham- pressure to keep the production from About six weeks after production be- poo a rug, wax, polish, paint, sharpen. de- collapsing was on him throughout the gan the Strasbergs came to Eggham for odorize, mothproof and do enough other filming. the weekend. Marilyn appeared dis- chores to fill a book. Marilyn looked pained when Miller traught to them. She was, Strasberg To get the book, mail coupon, today! first mentioned the calls to ask about later said, in a "state." When Arthur r her. "Why are you getting involved in retreated to his study, Marilyn began The Kirby Company this?" she asked. It was a question Mil- weeping and told her friends that some- ler would often ask himself a film or thing terrible had happened. Dhaman of The Scarf & &lie, Company 1920 West 114th two later. A day or so earlier, she said, she had Street • Cleveland, Ohin 44102 Marilyn told at least two of her press Send full information on the Kirby 1)tiall0 come into the living room to pick up Sanitronic Spit., agents that she regretted Miller's close her script from the table. Lying open involvement in her work and career. next to it was Miller's black notebook. Name, Perhaps she did at the end, but it hap- She was so overwrought in telling the Addree* pened so gradually and so casually that story it was not easy to determine pre- neither she nor Miller was aware of cisely what the notebook entry had City Sate Zip what it was leading to. said., but Strasberg remembers there .J was indignation in her voice. "It was Worry of As the production moved ponderously something about how disappointed he along, it became apparent that Olivier was in me," Marilyn told them, "How FALSE TEETH was both too intrusive as a director he thought I was some kind of angel but and too lax. Quite often he had elabo- now he guessed he was wrong. That Slipping or Irritating? rate notions about how the script should his first wife had let him down, but I Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth he played. There was little room for that drop, slip or wobble when you eat. talk had done something worse. Olivier was or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH Marilyn's new feeling for spontaneity. beginning to think I was a troublesome on your plates. This pleasant powder holds More disastrously, Olivier complained plates more firmly—gives added sense of com- bitch and that he [Arthur) no longer fort and security. Its alkaline. No gooey. to Greene and Miller that Paula was had a decent answer to that one," pasty taste or feeling. Dentures that fit are driving him out of his "squeaking The Strasbergs were shocked. Why essential to health. See your dentist regular- ly. Get FASTEETH today at all drug counters . iY ot; mind." If Marilyn had some difficulty had Miller left the notebook open for with a scene and Olivier corrected her Marilyn to see? They and half a dozen Give U. S. Saving Bonds— in a way that upset her, she ran to others who were to become close to Paula. And there were many times Marilyn in subsequent years believe The Gift with a Future when Olivier watched Marilyn and that her sense of having been betrayed Paula in conferences that might go on in Eggham was the seed of her later • for half an hour while he waited for destruction. Miller, defensively perhaps, • • her to return before the camera. Half- admits to the carelessness but mini- • way through the production he took mizes its impact. action to rid himself of this unnecessary The Strasbergs, on that weekend at • headache, but by then any semblance of Eggham, were in the position of in- a friendly working relationship be- laws who were reluctant to tell their • tween Marilyn and him had disap- weeping daughter to pack her bags and • peared. leave. Ironically playing the same game • If Marilyn felt permanently inade- • as Miller, they chose discretion as the a quate, Miller began to feel a permanent most sensible reaction to her aggrieved- indignation. To him, it was an outrage ness, since Marilyn had invested so • that anyone should fail to see or ap- much of her hope in Miller, preciate Marilyn's naturalness, her spir- The psychiatrist whom Marilyn had it and sensitivity, her unique talent. He been seeing hack in New York was agreed with the Strasbergs on one sin- soon hastily summoned to England. • gle point—Marilyn's potential for great- Shortly, Marilyn was able to work most • ness. of every day. • In the face of Olivier's awkwardness • And then. finally, the filming was eel Freez Frozen "farm•raised- rabbit meat in handling his leading lady, Miller felt Ask your bulcoer for IN blue sod yellow completed. There was a certain stiff- • completely helpless. He knew that he ness in Olivier's farewell to Marilyn, and Dor or rile new IV ay 5,11c• was now the main prop in Marilyn's For 20 FREE rabbit recipes 40°""7"" N it they were never in touch again. write to. i.Coad Ilegulsproinv • life. It would be cruel and futile to tell The Millers came home in October. Psi-Free: ItAaall MfAl, 1.404.... • her that he had no answer to her cen- Both needed privacy and they found it •••010.- • 1. • . • • a n , • la • II 181

saved her, was limitless. As she came , in a rented cottage at Amagansett, Long around and was able to recognize him, Island, where there were cloistered she would reach for his hand and kiss stands of trees to walk in and a shel- it over and over again. There was an ex- tered beach nearby. They needed time ANNiE quisite tenderness about her regard for to live quietly. lInr.•,••■■• Miller then. Perhaps being saved by him tit Marllyn's was something was an unconscious need, though there she had to learn to live with. It was is no evidence that she was actually never to leave her, although there courting death. would be nights when her spirit had been insulated by an especially care- At one point, a large Connecticut farm, -nutner- free day—and they were fairly adjacent to the Roxbury one which ous at Amagansett—permitting her to Miller had sold while in England. came drop into slumber with only two pills. on the market. It was over three hun- There had been no real crisis with Mil- dred acres and Miller quickly acquired ler over his notebook complaint. Rath- it. He and Marilyn moved there from er, the incident had left her at times Amagansett in the early spring. fretful and anxious, her security with The writing of The Misfits screenplay him threatened but not destroyed. had begun on Long Island. At the new The cold winter in the creative ca- farm Miller hastened to complete the reer of Arthur Miller was not about to first draft. thaw. It had begun soon after he com- Miller had a brief spell of hopefulness. Bridge, the pleted A View from the Marilyn no longer seemed apathetic work he finished while still with his about the Connecticut countryside. family in Brooklyn Heights. Such lapses Together they had found and occupied happen to most writers whose careers the new farm; together they renovated span a number of years. It was only it. She spent days prowling about in coincidentally that much of Miller's nearby towns for kitchen cabinets and barren time came while he was with accessories. Marilyn. When Miller realized the need to put Once their lives were joined, there is some distance between his role as pa- no question but that Miller gave over ternalistic lover and his own needs as much of his time to reassurances, in- a writer, he had a cabin built about vesting nearly all of his energy, creative thirty yards from the house. He set and otherwise, in Marilyn, the wife and about listening carefully to Marilyn, to the actress. detect her speech patterns, and jotting In Amagansett, Marilyn discovered she down her feelings toward life and to- was pregnant. Unfortunately, the preg- ward death. If Roslyn, played by Mari- nancy turned out to be tubular and she lyn in The Misfits, is the most human was in such agony and danger that by and convincing of all of Arthur Miller's the sixth week Miller had to rush her female characters, it is not by chance. into the city where the pregnancy was Yet there was a limit to Marilyn's love surgically terminated. In the wake of for the country. She found it, Miller her loss, an unyielding despondency felt soon after introducing her to it, a settled upon Marilyn during her hospi- way station at best. The everyday same- tal stay. Attempting to cheer her, Mil- ness finally got to her. She needed dis- ler told Marilyn that he was going to traction. write a movie for her, from his short And so they took an apartment on story, The Misfits. New York City's East 57th Street. Mari- Marilyn was delighted by this unex- lyn had it redecorated in white tones pected gift. It sustained her for several and had arranged a study for Miller. days, but when she was at home again She often shushed people and steered hopelessness returned and she began them away from the vicinity of the swallowing Nembutals to deaden its Im- workroom when he was closeted inside. pact, to make her days even remotely She resumed her classes with Stras- tolerable. berg. If Miller had reservations about Miller noticed late one afternoon that Strasberg, he also realized that the Marilyn had stumbled into a chair and director and his wife added something had immediately dozed off. Having important to Marilyn's self-confidence, roughly counted her Nembutals, and which had been badly bruised by her listening now to her labored breathing, miscarriage. he realized that her diaphragm was Marilyn was convinced she knew both becoming paralyzed by one pill too Strasbergs so well by now she had seen many. It was his initiation into the most their souls exposed—an intimacy that frightening aspect of his life with Mari- was rare in her life. lyn: there were times when the bleak- ' But her relationship with Milton ness of her outlook was so total that all Greene had soured altogether. Since external help was worthless and some she was deriving not the slightest bene- compulsive black spirit within her fit from the arrangement that she could would seek oblivion. see, she and Miller determined to take In such crises, Miller moved quickly steps to settle the situation. and with heightened efficiency. He A stockholders' meeting was called wasted no time in trying to rouse her by Marilyn in the offices of Miller's law- himself but sought immediate medical yers at which she issued a formal state- help. A crew with some apparatus from ment: "My company was not set up a nearby clinic was summoned to re- merely to parcel out 49.5 percent of my suscitate her. Miller's dispatch had earnings to Mr. Greene for seven years. saved her life then and it would again. My company was formed because I For several days following one of wanted to make better pictures, to im- those episodes, Marilyn's affection for prove my work, to secure my income, her husband, for the man who had 182 and to help others make good pictures," that Director Wilder was on the brink emotional pattern set by her grand- At the meeting, a new board of di- of losing his patience (after nearly fifty mother years earlier. rectors was named by Marilyn with the takes to get one line right), Marilyn At first Miller responded by com- help of Miller's lawyers, The board would be reduced to a state of absolute pliance and stoicism, but there were met and elected new officers of the terror. times later on when he could not re- company, and Greene was out as vice- "She tried to be real,- Miller later press his anger and frustration. One of presiden t, said, "to face enemies as enemies--- his killing glances was observed by A settlement was reached at last. Wilder was at the time an 'enemy'—and Billy Wilder during the filming of Some Greene was offered $100,000 to termi- it simply was tearing her to pieces." Like It Hot, and the director wondered nate his contract, a sum Miller's law- She wouldn't trust anyone on the set if perhaps Arthur didn't dislike Marilyn yers were surprised he accepted. They except makeup man Whitey Snyder, more than he did. had anticipated having to go much Paula Strasberg and a handful of others By February, 1960, when Marilyn went higher. But as Greene was to say to who worked for her. She needed them to Hollywood to fulfill yet another com- anyone who would listen, "My interest as a protective ring about her. mitment to Fox on her four-picture in Marilyn's career was not for gain. Marilyn had learned before leaving deal—her most unsuccessful starring She needed me at the time, and I put New York that she was pregnant again. vehicle, Let's Make Love—the Millers' at her complete disposal whatever abili- Determined that nothing was going to relationship had disintegrated to such ties I possessed." terminate this pregnancy before its an extent that Marilyn no longer con- The outside world moved in on the time, she retired early each evening fided anything of importance to her Millers again when Marilyn was hospi- after studying the next day's scenes. husband. talized in late spring, 1957. it was an- Some of this work was even done in And yet Miller was determined not to nounced that her disorder was gyne- bed to spare herself further. allow her to go to the coast alone. If cological, and so it was, but she was The company moved to the seaside they could not talk together, at least he also suffering from a depression so deep to shoot some exterior scenes. Marilyn could keep her pulled together enough she could not be left alone. was pleased to be working in the sun- to do the film, This had become his role Miller stoically resigned himself to shine and fresh air. She told Miller, in her life. the intrusion, while Marilyn's wounded "This will be great for the baby." By now she was seeking confidantes spirit seemed to find some balm in the Arthur Miller had sustained Marilyn outside her marriage. Very soon after thousands of cards and telegrams, flow- now through two films. While his in- they had settled in Hollywood she ers and other tokens of idolatry that tervention was sometimes foolish and phoned the actor and masseur, Ralph poured in to her bedside. After all, it ill-advised, it had become as necessary Roberts, and enlisted him in her en- wa; the love of the multitude that to her as Paula's presence near the tourage. had kept her going before she had mar- camera. On one occasion during the Roberts was playing a small role in a ried Miller. It had been her best de- filming of the Wilder comedy, Miller musical film. With Marilyn wanting a tense against Hollywood itself. had whispered to Wilder, "Marilyn is massage several times a week, he well For over a year the Millers divided pregnant. Can't you let her go home? might have become annoyed at the de- their time between New York and the It's nearly four o'clock." Wilder an- mands upon his time. But gradually he country. Marilyn insisted that they try swered, "Arthur, it is now a quarter to realized he was looking forward to the again to have a child to complete their four and I haven't got a shot." sessions with her. She told him things happiness. Meanwhile, there were Ar- Marilyn lost her second baby in No- she had never told before "to a living, thur's children, Jane and Bobby Miller, vember, 1958, this one almost in its breathing soul." He became a deposi- whom Marilyn had come to love as she third month. This loss was harder to tory of all her complaints, intimate and did Joe DiMaggio, Jr. She looked fore bear than the first. The loss, and a feel- otherwise. ward to their visits like a child to ing of some deep inadequacy, made her In that casual way, Ralph Roberts Christmas. fretful in private and more diffident became the advance guard of a small Miller had by now completed the than usual among strangers. platoon of trusted servitors with whom screenplay for The Misfits. Meantime, premiered in New Marilyn surrounded herself. Most of Marilyn had to fulfill a prior commit- York in March, 1959. Two months later, them would survive the breakup of her ment to make the movie, Some Like It Marilyn received her only acting award marriage and take the place of nearly Hot. In August, 1958, the Millers set- of any consequence, the David Di Dona- all the friends she had made as Mrs. tled into and tello statuette from Italy for her part Arthur Miller. once more the movie-making began. in The Prince and the Showgirl. The His wife's shifting moods were deep- Marilyn's troubles exhibited them- belated award provoked a positive re- ly disturbing to Miller. She seemed to selves early in the shooting, Director sponse in Marilyn that pulled her togeth- be accepting the disasters of her per- Billy Wilder recalls typical examples of er for a time. She made a valiant effort sonal life—her second miscarriage, the Marilyn's difficulty with even the sim- to wrest herself free from the dark grip unpredictable rages—with some sto- plest line of dialogue. One scene had to of her melancholia and entered New icism, but she reacted to the central be repeated forty times. In another, he York's Lenox Hill Hospital in June for tragedy of her life, her unhappy mar- remembers, "She had one line to say of corrective surgery so that she might riage to Miller, with such active venom four words: 'Where is that bourbon?' have the child she so desperately and contempt that she alienated forever as she goes through a drawer looking wanted. But a permanent strain was to people who were once close to her. Her for it. We finally pasted the line in- come between her and Miller before internist was among these. The doctor side the drawer. In another scene, her the summer had advanced very far. was to say of her confidences to him: "I co-stars, and , couldn't take it. All that bile. That are in a hotel bedroom. 'It's me, Sugar.' The winter of 1959-60 was the last recrimination." Marilyn says at their door. Then one of season Marilyn and Miller spent togeth- Miller noted that after Marilyn's co- them says, 'Come in.' There were forty- er amicably. Miller attempted to analyze star in Let's Make Love, , seven takes. She was saying things like, what was happening to them, but the and his wife, , had 'It's Sugar, me.' I had to have the line closest he could come to any truth was been adopted into Marilyn's inner circle, put on a blackboard." that he, along with nearly everyone her habit of sedating herself during the Those around Marilyn had to pay a who had come into Marilyn's life, with day to level out her moods was for- high price for her emotional articula- the exception of the Strasbergs, repre- gotten part of the time. Miller could tion of the part. In a sense she was sented nothing more to her than a long only assume that his presence alone emotionally bankrupt—part of her dif- series of betrayals. was an irritant, but, as part of a more ficulty in remembering her lines and In rational moments, she could ques- harmonious quartet, he was acceptable. in getting to the set on time was due to tion her own behavior. Miller was still "Anyone who could make her smile her conscious or unconscious refusal to very much at the center of her life. came as a blessing to me," Miller said dig any deeper into the reserve of hurts What stability she had was through later about the close liaison that was and triumphs that made up her emo- him. Yet it almost seemed as though being forged between Marilyn and tional history. When site would notice she were following some dimly recalled Montand. continued on page 188 183 HOME STUDY MARILYN MONROE there to dress her hair and Sydney OE litiologreplts rev Hamilton Studios onoll ■pare.•1 hoe Iltronio or Guilaroff would style it. la continued from page 183 "1.1". '''7" She would also be surrounded by old of Photo Coloring "E""Ungburn and oulrllh lit .10Me. New elollnlIVO 1110117011 1/1111i1111. you for Wino/Mete earn- Marilyn was only doing what she had colleagues: Kevin McCarthy, Mont- ing.. Write lialsv for Free Malebo' - nark of MooDot. t' +f- ortes/I.." Hamillen Studies. Boa WK. decagon, 19703 done since she was sixteen years old. gomery Clift, and the King himself, Never having known a father, and be- , whom she worshiped. ing a deeply mistrustful human being, When she had, met Gable at a Holly- it see men lo lire !inroad. sue Calvert School rust educate year child with ap- she usually sought to have a man wood party almost ten years before, proved Caleart home-study StOn-co-.lap around who could fulfill several func- she had told him that as a child she had 1118 mutual. Eindlerainteti Pth grade, Start cot time. rsei by tens of thousands. Ideal fur an? 11441111, ,0.r •n1110-11• tions: l eassure her, satisfy her sexual felt he represented the kind of father time] esnerionvo of llw above-iarceita awe OV01111 NW yr. Callao,. Townley Rd., Ultimo's, MIL 2E00 needs arid take the place of her missing she wished she had had. A man with- father. Despite what Miller had once out any perceptible vanity, Gable meant to her, she was ready to dismiss laughed and loved her for it. • Chicago School of him now from her life, despite the risk Gable had made stiff demands on th. ■ management of The Misfits. In additic Interior Decoration flaws.tw Int an in' 'tuned n.""- that she might never find a partner so .6 tame. Test &owls kit f urnished. Diploma awarded. hole tuition willingly supportive and protective. to his salary of $750,000, he was to r end numeral. Mend for free booklet, China &heel el Inte- rior Deoorttion, EDS Divorsey. Don 510.017. Mikado -0 1.1 But leaving Marilyn, Miller found, ceive ten percent of the box-office re- was not as simple as taking a plane ceipts and, if the film moved beyond its East. There was The Misfits looming be- completion date (as it did), he was to fore the two of them. Not only were be paid nearly $58,000 in overtime. they legally committed to it, it was Unlike Huston, Gable had heard ru- SECOND CHANCE crucial to both their careers. Lees mors of Marilyn's problems and had Make Love, which was finally com- braced himself for a trying time. As pleted and released, was a clear failure. the precise nature of her difficulty re- FOR HIGH SCHOOL The Misfits would be Miller's first vealed itself during the first days of major work since his play. A View shooting, he felt an enormous compas- from the Bridge, In the role of Roslyn, sion for her. DROP-OUTS Marilyn faced the most original and off- The Millers had agreed that nothing beat role of her career. was to be said about divorce until the A high school diploma means a lot today With the collapse of her marriage film was completed. They would share — in prestige and IN CASH! It can be imminent, Marilyn seemed to disen- a suite in the Mapes Hotel—an ar- your key to gage herself from active participation rangement that brought Miller to the in life. Except for very brief spells, she verge of a breakdown. In the early • A better Job, higher pay was to remain in a state of apathy until stages of the film's production, they Greater social opportunities • her death. Her public emotional and made an occasional public appearance . More security — for you, your family sensual responses hid her inner de- together. Later, this concession to face- U.S. government figures show the aver- tachment. Miller and those intimate saving ceased almost entirely. age high school graduate earns $75,000 with her in those days realized fully From the first morning of shooting, more in a lifetime than the person who that she neither looked forward to the when Marilyn failed to show up for a didn't finish high school. film she was about to make or appeared brief scene with Gable, the truth began 4 All 3 FREE to care whether her affair with Mon- to seep through the company that she Clip coupon below for land ripened into a permanent rela- was terribly ill with insomnia and Academy's booklet on tionship. She existed in a state of sus- emotional problems, Her intake of how to finish high school at home, Gov- pension. as though waiting to turn Nembutal had risen from three or four ernment booklet with some corner that would change her life. a night to what would be a lethal dose advice for drop-outs Filming of The Misfits started in for the average person. She required and a wit-scoring test the help of several people to get her in of your general knowl- July. 1960, in Reno, Nevada. Marilyn edge. Mail today. began living two lives simultaneously: walking condition in the morning. When she was able to work, she 1 that of the cautious and fragile Roslyn, • ACADEMY FOR HOME STUDY whose inner being was explored each nearly made up for the frustrations 425 9. Maar born, Dept. 91.929, Chicago, 111. 80805 day before the cameras; and her own surrounding that achievement. Her re- Rush FREE booklet on flnishing high school at home, also free Government booklet and life, insulated from feeling too keenly actions to Gable were like quicksilver, self-scoring test. No obligation. by the pills and protected by her well- but her presence, caught by the camera, Print was gauze-like. She seemed an ex- Name Age intentioned staff. who carefully hid any expression of annoyance with their hausted angel trapped among earth- Address charge. This protective attitude origi- lings. Huston observed that between City & her first major nated with Miller who, aware of Mari- , State Misfits, which was to be Zip lyn's precarious emotional balance, was film, and The County No J afraid she might suffer a complete her last, something disturbing had hap- breakdown. pened to Marilyn, but that, whatever it Director came to Ne- was, it had deepened her responses. vada with little knowledge of Marilyn's Her acting came from her insides. The If multiplying difficulties. Miller had not veil over reality she demanded off- YOUR ENGLISH LNAGc K given the director any particulars camera was entirely missing during I have bellied thousands of nice and woman about her. Perhaps he felt that a direc- her scenes. Huston felt, despite the to beam.. affective elnencens. write1.. and oouvereaufutallela. 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To get her on her feet, a few Many Finish in 2 Tears Every provision was made for her hours later, was virtually impossible. Co es rapidly ea your Limo and abilities permit. Course comfort and reassurance. Her trusted Gradually, Huston began shooting equivalent to reeldent school work —prepare. for college around her whenever she was indis- calla*. Standard IL S. teats sopplied. friends were in attendance; Ralph CCravat On It. e. seq.,. Omi, censtneted. sinuects ii posed. 4aufra. Blab sun* .aluestlua IN uorr nnoortaas fur &dramemu. Roberts was put on salary as company In bean... min (nnon.m oil .ociallr. Don't b• haaellosouea .1.111h0Srheeraitte. 11;111111. now, masseur; Whitey Snyder was on hand And it was a self-canceling cycle. 11.1.04 hen American School, Op t. 171;' I s, [keret at5gth, Chicago 60637 to do her makeup; Agnes Flanagan was Her body was becoming immune to the 188

Ends women's pills, and the nature of the drug was mine Marilyn's ability to finish the such that it sank her into profound picture. Greenson believed that she depression. She sought oblivion at such could work after about ten days of rest "once-a-month" times, and these occasions were be- and medication. But the psychiatrist coming alarmingly frequent. was upset by Marilyn's having got hold odor problem Miller spent as much time out of of such large amounts of Nembutal in their hotel suite as possible. But he the first place. "How did she get them?" was usually there when Marilyn was he asked. ready to begin her nightly ritual of the Huston, equally distressed, told how pills. If she were beside herself with his company doctor had given her one wakefulness in the middle of the night, night's supply after she had begged lot he would talk to her, carefully avoiding them. But the doctor had refused her anything that might irritate her. Often when she came back the next evening. during these small hours, Marilyn Marilyn had then scouted up a doctor on would lash out suddenly, her voice her own. "She told him of her woes," carrying far down the hall. Huston reported, "and he gave her a His hands half covering his face, prescription." Miller sat trembling on the sofa in their Marilyn returned to Nevada on Sep- suite, agonizing to friends over his situ- tember 5 after a stop in San Francisco ation. He confessed that he obviously to see DiMaggio. She seemed happy to was no help to Marilyn in seeing her be back. No one really believed that she was off the pills. The most reliable through these terrible nights. He had Every woman must constantly face the word was that the doctors had switched decided to take a separate room down special feminine problem of odor caused the hall, but still agonized about it. the chemical combinations in such a by body secretions and perspiration. For- "She needs care at night," he said, and way that she could manage with small- tunately you can now destroy these odors was then he seemed to defeat any hope of er, less debilitating doses. There with QUEST. It safely destroys odor on his own salvation by crying out, "But I every expectation that the film would your body ... under your clothes ...even care for her so much!" now be completed. on sanitary napkins! helps keep your whole body Marilyn's total collapse did not happen On September 1.4 the company passed (1) QUEST odor-free. And it's so safe you can use it overnight. A week before it occurred what had been the original completion date for the film. Shooting would not even in the most intimate areas. Huston conferred with Miller. "This (2) QUEST destroys odor on sanitary has to stop," Huston told him. "Marilyn be completed until November 4. The napkins as no ordinary deodorant can. has only had two afternoons before the production was a half million dollars Helps prevent odor where odor fingers cameras in a week." Miller agreed that over budget—the most expensive black- longest...under bras, girdles, panty-hose. drastic steps had to be taken. and-white movie ever made. Remember, QUEST is the special de- A few days later, when Marilyn was When the film finally finished, so too, odorant for a woman's special needs ... in a very real sense, was Marilyn's ca- for you, for your clothes ... even for san- driven to the set, it was almost noon Get easy-to-use QUEST. and the temperature had soared to 110 reer. Though • The Misfits had been itary napkins. degrees. She was helped out of the car. produced in an atmosphere of some Huston saw that someone had to lead affection and tolerance for her diffi- her to the camera location. "This is it," culties, Marilyn would never again find he decided. such a measure of forebearance among Marilyn looked -blankly at Russel professional movie people. Metty, the cameraman. At other times she used to joke with him even when Early in November, 1960, Marilyn and not feeling her best. Now, she looked Miller were back in New York. Their around dazedly. It was obvious she was marriage was over. not sure where she was. Someone Partially through Pat Newcomb's abil- helped her to the spot Huston had indi- ity to keep reporters at a safe distance, cated beforehand, and she turned in- and partially through the help of seda- stinctively toward the camera. tives, Marilyn, though close now to be- Metty moved his camera in for a ing physically ill, retained enough con- closer look at the star. Huston came trol to function. She even went to over to him. "It's hopeless," Metty Kennedy International Airport at this whispered. "Her eyes won't focus." time to intercept Yves Montand on his "We must shut down for a week or way to Europe. They spent several so," Huston told Marilyn's friend, and hours in her limousine drinking cham- the movie's producer, Frank Taylor. pagne, while he bid her farewell and This was not an opinion; it was a de- told her of his decision to stay with his cision. It would prove to be a costly wife. It was the last known contact be- one, but there was never any thought tween Monroe and Montand. An Easy Way of replacing Marilyn. She had to be At this time, Marilyn drew up a new Good Housekeeping Offers will—her last. She began thinking of rehabilitated, at least temporarily. From your own home, handle the magazIne sub. It was the end of August_ Marilyn her own family ties, distant though scrIplion renewals of your friends and neighbors was flown to Los Angeles and admitted they had become. Her half-sister, Ber- and earn up to 550.00 or more a month In your neice, in Florida, was first in line of spare time. Over 85% of families read one or to Westside Hospital. It was announced en. that she was suffering from exhaustion. heirs. Marilyn had only seen Berneice more magazines regularly. Save these folks half a dozen times but these occasions portant money while you earn more money for Yves Montand later said that Marilyn details. made an effort to see him at his hotel, included one reunion on the farm in Yourself and your home. Write for free No obligation. but that he was not in when she had Connecticut that had been especially congenial and "family like." Putting dropped by. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Dept. 769 Dr. , psychiatrist to a Berneice ahead of all others took some 250 W. 55th, N.Y.C.. N.Y. 10019 number of Hollywood personalities, of the edge off Marilyn's acute sense of Send me complete free details took care of her during this trying pe- having no real family to remember.

riod. She had sought his help several May Reis, too, was generously remem- Name times before her Nevada breakdown. In bered. Marilyn no longer thought of Address May as just her secretary but rather as the months to come she became even City closer to Greenson and, in fact, to his the kind of mother she had always lip entire family. sought. State Huston met with Greenson to deter- Finally, after other bequests had 189 been taken care of. Marilyn wanted Lee kindly as she could that he stay out of from tension and exhaustion, two days Strasberg to have whatever remained, it, that he was no longer a part of Mari- after the film had been completed. In him she had found the father she lyn's life and must accept the fact. It was always easy for Marilyn to had pursued as a phantom. But in After three days of alternating fits of accept guilt because she had been odd- Strasberg he was embodied as solid, hysteria and despondency as she gazed ly insensitive to it, but this was more reachable. Perhaps most important of through the glass pane toward the busy than she could handle. She dropped the all, Strasberg believed, as Marilyn corridor and then back to the dismal newspaper and opened her living-room never dared, that her talent was some- barred room, Marilyn finally was al- window as wide as she could and thing rare. lowed to make one call. She used it to leaned out. At the moment, death ap- On January 20, 1961, Marilyn and her ask DiMaggio for help. parently seemed easier to face than life. lawyer, Aaron Frosch, flew to Juarez, DiMaggio, then in Fort Lauderdale, Marilyn told a member of her staff Mexico. The divorce was painless. But assured Marilyn that he would fly to later that day that she had squeezed the thought of the lonely life suddenly New York that evening and do all he her eyes shut at the open window, her stretching before her must have been could. Early the next morning, clutch- fists clenched, trying to summon cour- terrifying for Marilyn. Given her acute ing tenaciously to DiMaggio, Marilyn age. She recalled reading somewhere mistrust of people and her near total emerged secretly from the clinic, that suicides from heights lost con- dependency upon those for whom she Arrangements for a change of hospi- sciousness before they hit the ground. was a meal ticket, this isolation was tals had been made swiftly through She prayed that it was so, When she disastrous. DiMaggio's intervention. Marilyn went looked down, she saw a woman walking As Marilyn's ability to function col- at once to a private room in the Neu- along the sidewalk. Marilyn, certain she lapsed further under the weight of the rological Institute, a unit of Columbia- knew the woman, turned away from sedatives she was taking, Dr. Marianne Presbyterian Hospital. the window. She was shaking with Kris suggested that she enter the frustration. Payne-Whitney Clinic, a New York in- Word of Marilyn's attempt flew from stitution concerned mainly with mental one friend to the other, and they de- and nervous disorders. WHAT OUR GUARANTY cided that she should be persuaded to Marilyn was not told that she was MEANS TO YOU leave her apartment. Marilyn agreed. being taken to a section of the clinic The reality of New York—without that housed the mentally ill. She Uecause we satisfy ourselves that every Miller at her side—was more than she agreed that she needed hospital care, product we advertise is good, Goma HOUSE. could take, She would sooner lose her- however, and went inside with Dr. KEEPING offers you the protection of our self in the unreality of Hollywood. Kris. As they proceeded through the Consumers' Guaranty (see page 61. If you Marilyn's Hollywood in 1961 was not hospital, iron doors slid open and then find that any product you buy does not live only crowded with ghosts of her un- slammed shut behind them. Marilyn up to the advertising claims made for it is pleasant past but a graveyard of gleam- was frightened. "What are you doing to our pages, we invite you to write 10 our ing white doctors' offices, pharmacies, me?" she asked. "What kind of a place and hamburger palaces. For Marilyn, Director of Consumer Affairs, Gape is this?" food was no longer something planned Admission was completed and Mari- HOUSEKEEPING, 959 Eighth Avenue, New in advance for friends at her apartment lyn, under the name of Faye Miller, York, N.Y. 10019. You will hear from him or country house. It was something she found herself in a room barren of any Promptly. caught on the run between visits to her of the comforts which had made her internist, her analyst, or her drugstore. previous hospital slays something of a The faces of her past were not long in respite from the limelight. The win- making their appearance. Pat Newcomb dows were barred; the door had a After less than three weeks of rest had returned with her and settled into transparent glass pane so patrolling and withdrawal from the pills, Marilyn a comfortable apartment about ten nurses could observe at all times the felt well enough to ask to he discharged. minutes away from Marilyn's place on celebrated occupant within. Pat Newcomb accompanied her to her Doheny Drive. When Pat was not by Within two clays, Marilyn's state of apartment—where there was relative Marilyn's side, she stayed close to the high nervous tension had degenerated peace following the madness of the re- telephone. In late summer of that year, to one of hysteria. What she had hoped porters who surrounded her car when an important call came. might be her salvation had turned into she left the hospital—and it seemed for "Please, Pat! Come over right away. a nightmare, a brief time that she was almost as keen I've just heard from my father!" Mari- John Springer, the press agent who about her life in the city as when she had lyn sounded panicky, gasping between took over so Pat Newcomb could con- first arrived in 1955. words. centrate on Marilyn herself, announced She slowly attempted to pick up the When Pat entered the apartment, to the press: "Marilyn was admitted for pieces. The National Broadcasting Com- Marilyn showed her an expensive greet- a period of rest and recuperation fol- pany contacted her about a TV special. ing card made of embossed silk. It read: lowing a very arduous year in which When a deal could not be arranged to "Best wishes for your early recovery." she completed two Rims and bad to include Lee Strasberg as director, Mari- It was signed: "From the man you tried face marital problems.... It is expected lyn refused the oiler , to see nearly ten years ago. God for- her stay will not be prolonged." With the television production give me." Reporters kept a constant vigil at the shelved, Marilyn felt restless. She ac- clinic. At least once they were able to cepted an invitation from DiMaggio and Marilyn quickly explained to Pat how corner one of the doctors in charge. He went to Fort Lauderdale, where the she had driven to Hemet, California, in told them she was not under restraint. Yankees were in pre-spring training. 1951 and tried to reach her reputed fa- "And she is completely rational, here Skies were sunny, and the change did ther. She knew he had once worked of her own free choice." But the specu- her more good than she had thought with her mother and that his name was lation, much of it absurd, continued in possible. She made contact with her C. Stanley Gifford. Her last information the world press. half-sister Berneice in nearby Gaines- on him was that a friend of her mother's Miller, who had tried to persuade ville, She and DiMaggio went surf- had seen him on the Paramount lot. In himself that Marilyn was a closed chap- fishing along the beach. When she grew this way Marilyn had traced him to a ter in his life, heard and read the many impatient, Marilyn flew back to New dairy farm in a rural village near Palm stories about her condition and phoned York. Springs, She had asked her drama coach Mrs. Frank Taylor late one night. "Eve Before she could get deeply involved and friend, Natasha Lytess, to accom- thought a lot about it," he told her with her career again, Marilyn read in pany her. "and Marilyn doesn't seem to have any- a newspaper column that Mrs. Clark "I'm going to do it," Marilyn insisted. one around who means anything to her. Gable purportedly believed that Marilyn "I'm going to see my father." I feel I should make contact and see had caused her husband's death—that Natasha wanted to know if Marilyn what I can do." prolonging the picture for weeks had had been in touch with him, Mrs. Taylor suggested to Miller as brought on Gable's fatal heart attack, "Oh no! That's the whole point," 190

FROM GH- Marilyn told her. "I'm go:ner up to his all to put some order into her life, to farm and see him, talk to him." end her drifting. She enlisted the help Natasha had little to say to this. She of analyst Dr. Ralph Greenson. What- MORE knew Marilyn well enough to realize ever the consequences. she would begin that opposition or advice frequently a new life, and Greenson would help MARVELOUS GIFTS made her more determined. With some her establish it. reluctance, Natasha agreed to accom- In February of the following year, TO MAKE FOR pany her. 1962, Marilyn began searching for a After serving in World War II, C. house to buy. She seemed to be malting HOME AND BAZAAR Stanley Gifford had married for the some progress in her therapy and Dr. second time. Through some luck in in- Greenson had urged her to put down vestments, he had a considerable sum roots and she had elected Los Angeles These four GH booklets contain com- of money at the time. His new wife County. She found a small but luxuri- plete instructions and patterns for died of cancer within a few months and ous one-story "hacienda" in Brent- dozens of great gift items. he began having heart trouble. He suf- wood. It had ten-foot brick walls sur- fered two attacks within a period of a rounding the front and, being on a few months. In between these two ill- dead-end, offered maximum privacy. Presents They'll Prize, GHN 757. nesses, he married once again. His third She was seeing DiMaggio regula ly. 30 winning gifts for all ages, includ- wife, a few years younger than he, ran Through an accretion of bravely met the dairy after his second attack. but ill adventures she was becoming as ing baby cap-and-mitten sets, terry Marilyn was unaware of most of this solitary as he. Her garden and her cloth animals, a child's pinafore, history. home were her joys. drawstring shift, a woman's hat and Natasha recalled that Marilyn was si- The problems of everyday life were muff set. 50 cents lent much of the way, almost in a daze, her primary concern now; making but it did not appear to affect her driv- movies had taken second place. But ing. scripts piled up in corners of her living Gift Making Time, GUN 762. A gold- At one point, Marilyn pulled up at a room and study; most of them were mine of gift ideas-46 in all—in- highway phone booth. "I'm going to read and sometimes deals were dis- cluding shells, aprons, felt slippers, call him," she said. "I can't just cussed. tote bags, a man's traveling case, a barge in on him this way." Not long after she was settled in the pincushion, an unusual bird-shaped As she watched Marilyn place the call, new house, Dr. Greenson urged her to kite. 50 cents Natasha prayed silently, "Treat her take a companion-housekeeper, Mrs. kindly." Murray, a family friend of the Green- Marilyn repeated the jarring conver- sons, had retired from part-time inte- Gifts They'll Be Glad You Made, sation later to one of her trusted confi- rior decorating and, though she had GUN 770. A collection of 25 gifts— dantes: "Is Mr. Gifford there?" she had never been a housekeeper before. she many baby asked. was available. Mrs. Murray was to keep items, plus sweaters, a "Who's calling him?" a woman in- in constant touch with Dr. Greenson. jeweled overblouse, a quick-to-knit quired sternly. Marilyn knew of this arrangement, but lacy-patterned dress. 75 cents 'This is Marilyn. I'm his child . . I she was so deeply involved with her mean, the little girl years ago. Gladys attempt at emotional recovery she did Baker's daughter. He's sure to know not protest. Thoughtful Gifts to Make, GHN 774. who I am." There was a flurry of activity, deco- 46 people-pleasing gifts, including "I don't know who you are," the rating the house. During this period, man's barbecue apron, popcorn- woman said, "but I'll tell him you're on Marilyn heard yet again from her fa- stitch sweater, children's toys, a rib- the phone." Natasha recalls that there ther. She was with Ralph Roberts when bon evening bag, felt potholders and then followed a minute or two of si- the call came. Roberts had come to give sachet hangers. 75 cents lence, during which Marilyn leaned her a massage and she had asked him back, eyes closed, seemingly fighting to stay for dinner. A nurse in a Palm an impulse to hang up. Springs Hospital told Marilyn she was Send order to : Finally the woman came back to the calling for "your father." The nurse phone. "He doesn't want to see you." spoke in hushed tones, Marilyn told Good Housekeeping she said to Marilyn. "He suggests you Roberts afterward, and said it seemed Bulletin Service see his lawyer in Los Angeles if you likely that her patient, Mr. Gifford, 959 Eighth Avenue have some complaint. Do you have a would not survive his heart attack. His New York, .N.Y. 10019 pencil?" condition was grave. One of his strong- "No," Marilyn said in a defeated tone, est desires was to see her. "He keeps Enclosed is $ "I don't have a penciL Good-bye." She talking about it all the time," the for the fol- walked back to the car and slumped woman told Marilyn. lowing booklets: over the wheel. Roberts remembers that Marilyn looked uncertain only for a moment. ❑ Presents They'll Prize, Now, the fancy card in her hand, Then she spoke clearly into the phone: GHN 757 50 cents Marilyn turned to Pat Newcomb. "What 'Tell the gentleman I have never met does it mean?" she asked. "It's all too him. But if he has anything specific to ❑ Gift Making Tints, late." tell me, he can contact my lawyer. GHN 762 50 cents Marilyn was so upset Pat stayed with Would you like his number?" her all that day and night. The next The nurse must have been shocked ❑ Gifts They'll Be Glad You morning, nothing was said about the into silence for she declined to take the Made, GHN 770....75 cents card, which apparently had been sent lawyer's number. Then Marilyn glanced to Marilyn's hospital in New York and at Roberts as though to say: "You see? ❑ Thoughtful Gifts to Make, then forwarded. I can be tough too, sometimes." During the next three weeks, Dr. But the call may have upset her more GHN 774 76 cents Hyman Engelberg, Marilyn's internist, than she let on. She had begun seeing supervised a regimen of rest and diet Dr. Greenson several times a week and, Name to prepare her for a gallbladder oper- while it cannot be corroborated, she ation. The operation was done in June, probably discussed the phone call with Address in New York, and Marilyn returned to him. Roberts and others observed some Hollywood. contrition in her over her rejection of a City Recovery gave her time to think. to man she was told was dying—the man State ZIP Code make some plans. She wanted most of she was certain was her real father. She

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later took the trouble to discover that Aware of her film commitment, no one little shrill. A huge birthday cake, glit- he had recovered from the attack. on the planning committee was sure tering with several dozen sparklers, A shooting date in early April had she would make it, But Marilyn seemed was dollied in. Marilyn wept. been assigned to a film she had agreed to look upon the honor as equivalent to Most of the following week, she was in 1956 to make for Twentieth Century- a command performance. She plainly talking with her lawyer and seeing Fox, Something's Got To Give. She felt that it took precedence over her her two doctors. All three were con- would have to face her public again. obligation to Fox. cerned about the strain she was under. When she was withdrawn, as she had Producer Henry Weinstein learned of Marilyn had been fired from the pic- been for sixteen months, she'd ne- her departure on Friday afternoon. De- ture and had gone into seclusion. Only glect her hair and seldom wash her face. parture was not the term he would in the evening did she come out to her But when she was in contact with the have used; defection was more to the living room and sit in a chair, listening public, she looked every bit the star. point. Although his production of as Pat Newcomb intercepted the numer- She became anxious about her Something's Got To Give had been re- ous calls. Marilyn had been crying and house. She wouldn't be able to touch it written by as a ve- now, emotionally drained, she sat in a during the twelve weeks or so it would hicle for Marilyn, Weinstein now seeming stupor. take to do the movie, and "It has to be began to take definite steps toward dis- Despite her efforts to distract herself, finished up some way," she said. charging her from the film. Marilyn felt alone and especially des- She was beginning to take great On the night of Kennedy's birthday perate; her will to go on had collapsed. pride in her home. She called friends celebration, actor . then a She phoned her friends, cabled them. to ask them when they were coming to relative of the President by marriage, Frank Sinatra, reached in Monte Carlo, see it. Nearly everyone she knew and made an insider's joke about Marilyn's was appalled by what Fox had done: "A was still in touch with was invited to reputation for tardiness and, after hav- girl as sick as that! A girl who needs her snug sanctuary at least once; it was ing the lighting crew throw a spot on help as much as she does!" the most successful enterprise of her empty space two or three times, he That summer many were quick to last year of life. finally introduced her as "the late say that Marilyn was through, that her When the first call to work on the Marilyn Monroe." A little giddy from career was in a steep decline. They film came, Dr. Engelberg was treating several glasses of champagne, Marilyn were wrong. As it turned out in July, her for a viral infection. At the same began singing as sultrily as she could she wasn't even through with the film time, Dr, Greenson was still seeing her manage. The audience loved it, and from which she had been discharged. several times a week. It would seem John F. Kennedy, grinning broadly, In fact, after the initial shock that re- clear that he considered her detach- acknowledged the tribute from Marilyn verberated from Hollywood to New ment from the swirl of activities about before making his address to the 17,000 York, a reappraisal was made that was her a deepening case of melancholia. Democrats in the crowded Garden. favorable to her. When Marilyn had She was very much in her doctors' Just before the President went on said it was not her fault, she was par- hands and neither believed she would stage, he spoke for a few minutes with tially right. The fault really lay buried be able to perform for the studio. Marilyn and her ex-father-in-law, Isi- in the past. But studio pressures mounted, and in dore Miller. Kennedy and Marilyn had Marilyn did not remain completely in mid-April Marilyn appeared, wan and met socially some months earlier in seclusion as she had during her similar remote, for hair and makeup tests. The New York. The elder Miller, alone of break with Hollywood and her studio following week she came onto the set all the family and close friends of Ar- in 1955. Then she had not only with- for her first scenes. Whitey Snyder and thur Miller, had kept in close, regular drawn from the public eye, but from Agnes Flanagan, again part of Marilyn's contact with Marilyn. "She is like my the social whirl as well. She had chosen staff, saw at once that she was ill. Word own daughter," he often said, and to be alone to reassess her life and to reached , whom Marilyn Marilyn returned his affection by calling recover her strength. This time she had approved as her director. him at least once a week and seeing chose privacy because she was involved Cukor is known as a ladies' director. him whenever she could manage it with a married man. He was not in the He is gentle and resilient. With Mari- when in the East. movie industry; he was an Easterner lyn, he was something more. He was When Marilyn returned to the coast, with few ties on the coast. He had come sensitive to her moods and states of she did not report at once to the studio West mainly to work out the details of health. Cukor knew that something had but called attorney Rudin to learn a film production of a literary property to be done. He could not state this to what had happened in her absence. in which he had had a hand and to her boldly, for this would ruin any Now her behavior began to seem more escape the pressures of his work as a chance of bringing her through. defiant and less dependent upon the lawyer and public servant. Marilyn's co-star, Dean Martin, whom state of her physical health, which had If anyone was to "blame" for the she had personally selected, agreed with considerably improved. Her salary of relationship that developed during his Cukor that they should attempt to run $100,000 especially galled her. She felt California stay, it was his host, who on Marilyn's erratic schedule, shooting she was worth many times this and was connected with films and knew around her when she was unable to be that the studio was taking gross advan- Marilyn well enough to realize how on the set, and pray that somehow they tage of an old contract. Rudin advised vulnerable and exposed she was that could get most of the necessary foot- her to continue the picture. summer. He knew her doctors and was age on her. Within the next two weeks. Marilyn aware that her hold on reality was Marilyn knew she was in bad health managed to appear on the set at least tenuous. For the attorney, his holiday and she took her temperature several six more days. on the West Coast was a lark, a vaca- times a day. An agreement was reached On the first of June, Marilyn's thirty- tion from his wife and children. He and whereby she could go home if it sixth birthday, she made what was to Marilyn were discreet, almost never climbed to 103 degrees. It hovered be- he her final appearance on Stage 14 at venturing beyond the stuccoed wall tween 100 and 101 degrees. Fox. The day's shooting seemed to go surrounding his friend's beach house. Well into May, they were still shoot- well, except that Marilyn was more The alliance was surprising, even ing mostly around her; she had been on nervous than usual, her laughter a shocking, to those who were in daily the set less than six days. contact with Marilyn. Marilyn seemed On the weekend of May 18, Marilyn alert only to distraction, something to p6361:_~C36SCIMIiJeW6WOMMIM flew to New York. There was no doubt kill the long days and quite a few of about the risk she was running with the nights. her studio after racking up approxi- OLD SAW, NEW TEETH Their relationship had nowhere to mately a million dollars in excessive go. Publicity about the affair might costs because of her illness. She had He whose laughs la.st, lasts destroy all his chances for an impor- been invited by Peter Lawford to sing best. tant political career. How sensitive he "Happy Birthday" to President John F. —Raymond J. Cvikota was to Marilyn's precarious emotional Kennedy at a massive birthday cele- state is difficult to assess. Within days bration in Madison Square Garden. 11.16..%100~6110610061616:90010.1616:00M of their meeting he and Marilyn became 192 QUICK EMBROIDERY nearly constant companions, a rela- decided to part but remained together tionship interrupted only by his flights in the same hotel suite; the Marilyn BIRTHDAY PICTURES to New York or Washington when who was the friend of Yves Montand called on some business that could not as well as of his wife, Simone Signoret. I be resolved over the telephone. This was not duplicity but a neat split- It is doubtful that Marilyn at first ting of self, possibly because of her informed her psychiatrist of her grow- quick and unconscious shifts in atti- ing intimacy with the man. But the tude and behavior. complications caused by her increasing Now, when she opened the door of .;g:**esscils dependency upon the relationship must her Brentwood home, she appeared to have impelled her to coefide something be the Marilyn her friends remembered, to Dr. Greenson—in a plea for help and only thinner, perhaps, than she had reassurance. ever been. Often, with these friends, During what was her final summer, she became animated in discussion of Marilyn confided to a friend that Dr. her career and the possibilities of ad- Greenson was attempting to make her vancing it after her bondage to Fox had more independent and less insecure in ended. It seemed evident to all that she her opinions. She volunteered this in- wanted to succeed as a dramatic film Were you born June 21 to July formation when asked why she was actress. 22? If so, say astrologers, you cutting herself off from several old and New scripts arrived daily, and Mari- are home-loving, economical, trusted friends. lyn read some of them. Her prior com- sympathetic and sensitive. If Marilyn's new friend had been free mitments about to be filled, she'd soon Your astrological sign: Can- of family obligations, he might have be a free agent, probably able to com- cer. It makes a handsome pic- filled admirably the void in her per- mand from $500,000 to a million dollars ture (above) when embroi- Banal life. But he only served to deep- per film. , en her anxieties while temporarily re- But the future as a viable proposi- dered in colorful yarns. To lieving her sense of feeling unwanted. tion was beginning to seem curiously order embroidery kits for this I A. letter from his sister in the East, dis- remote to Marilyn. She had no peace of and other signs, listed below covered after Marilyn's death, made mind. With the exception of seven days in calendar order, use the clear to Marilyn that she (the sister) in July, she was seeing Dr. Greenaon at coupon below. and most of the family would welcome his office or at her house every single .'er if she came East with her brother. day. Her ego was badly bruised, her Even this must have failed to diminish belief in herself was profoundly shaken T Each kit includes decorator fab- Marilyn's sense that she had blundered and sleep eluded her. And there was ric stamped with design; em- into an affair that could only end badly. the man, phoning Marilyn that he was broidery yarns; complete in- The entire Greenson family at- back in town and asking if she could tempted to help. As the end of June structions for embroidering one come by for a drink and maybe dinner, picture. Cut size for each pic- approached, both the Strasbergs and Or possibly it was his host, who, in the Greensons, from opposite ends of Marilyn's view, acted as a buffer be- ture is 16" by 20". The finished size is 12" by 16". Price of each the country, were attempting to save tween them and those forces antago- kit: $6 ppd. Marilyn from disaster. The Strasbergs, nistic to their affair. She was appar- although far away, nevertheless sensed ently beginning to see the hopelessness Frame is shadow-box type, wal- that Marilyn was in serious difficulty. of her alliance; still, a phone call from nut with gold-leaf trim. Approx- It was almost as though the past four- him would alter whatever else she had imate overall size: 1314" by teen years of growth had been de- planned for the evening and she would I.7ta". Price per frame: $9.98 stroyed overnight and that the same go to him. ppd. guileless gift for attracting trouble had She made brave attempts to face ad- surfaced again. Her stubborn innocence versity. Reporters and photographers Send order to: through all temptations, both resisted came to the Brentwood house expect- Good Housekeeping and indulged, had inspired Arthur ing to find her crushed, and were sur- Bulletin Service Miller to write about "her spirit shin- prised to see what they believed to be ing through everything she does." Now the old Marilyn coming to greet them. 959 Eighth Avenue her spirit was not so visibly radiant Something's Got To Give was to resume New York, N,Y. 10019 and it worried, her few friends in the in early September or later in the fall. film colony: the late Clifton Webb, the Joe DiMaggio was on the phone with Enclosed is my check or money Dean Martins, singer Connie Francis her almost every day. He was now her order for ; and Frank Sinatra. They knew how staunchest ally in a world gone sour. close to defeat Marilyn was. They saw In late July, when word reached Please send me the following how, rather than fighting back, she DiMaggio of Marilyn's interest in the kits, each $6 ppd. seemed to be courting annihilation. Easterner, they had a bad row. He had In late June, Marilyn's lawyers were reason to be alarmed and angry. Pos- CI CANCER 0 Capricorn having daily conferences with Fox sibly afraid of permanently losing 0 Leo 0 Aquarius studio executives to resolve the dispute DiMaggio as her most valued friend, 0 Virgo p Pisces and get Something's Got To Give roll- Marilyn sat down and wrote him that 0 Libra 0 Aries ing again. Her distaste for the script if she could only succeed in making was pushed to the background. She him happy, she would have succeeded 0 Scorpio 0 Taurus had been moved by co-star Dean in the biggest and most difficult thing 0 Sagittarius 0 Gemini Martin's defense of her and felt an obli- she could imagine—that of making one Please send me picture gation not to let him down. Her attor- person completely happy. She con- neys had advised her to complete the cluded by informing him that his hap- frames, each $0.98 ppd. film to reinstate herself as an insurable piness meant her happiness. property for Future films. The letter was unsigned and Lament Name Marilyn continued to see her summer —discovered in her desk. friend. She was living the sort of dou- Word reached at least one member of Address ble life she had lived several times Arthur Jacob's press office staff that before—in the Dougherty family home, Marilyn feared she was pregnant. Con- City when she was attempting to be at once firmation of the fact is hard to pin a dutiful daughter-in-law and launch down. While friends were told that her modeling career; with the company Marilyn had gone for a long weekend State 'LIP Cede of The Misfits, when she and Miller had to , it is said that sbe was 193 PRINTED IN TNt U. I. R. IV INC TUNIS PUDE, INC.

secretly hospitalised an July 20 in about the prescription. Then she drove with them (his wife was away at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, where the to a pharmacy. time). Marilyn was angered by the remained for four days. Pat was already in her bathing suit suggestion. She told an intimate friend If indeed she was pregnant, It may when Marilyn returned from the drug- who phoned minutes later that she have been tubular—like her first preg- store. Marilyn did not join her. She was had been asked to join them and that nancy—and if so could not have gone never known to swim in the pool, al- she had told him "no thanks." beyond its fifth or sixth week without though she had a simple pride in its The invitation must have been espe- the gravest complications. being there—one of her few traits in cially upsetting to Marilyn for it shat- Attempting to regain her strength in common with the newly affluent—and tered the benefits of the session her Brentwood home, Marilyn began to always urged her friends to use it. Pat she had had with Dr. Greenson. But, dip into a tomorrowless world. She was came inside and the two women chatted as usual, there were phone calls pinned to each day like a moth to a for a while in the living room, Marilyn every half hour or so, and one or two panel. Who were her enemies, who sitting on the rug. Since there was revived her spirits briefly. Nearly all were her friends? She sought sleep, nothing in the house to eat, they de- of her life as Marilyn Monroe the phone oblivion. One night in late July when cided to dine at a nearby French res- had been her ally against loneliness. the pills Dr. Engelberg had prescribed taurant. Friends would often get calls halfway failed to work, she phoned her masseur, Saturday had begun early for Mari- through the night just for a chat, some Ralph Roberts. It was almost 2 A.M. lyn. She had a poor night The Nembutal words—however foolish or sleep- "I feel terrible, Ralph. I'm about to pills she had promised Dr. Engelberg drugged—which were reassurance, Joe jump out of my skin. Can you come she would take in normal doses had DiMaggio, Jr., telephoned sometime be- over?" not worked, fore eight o'clock. Their conversation Roberta arrived about fifteen min- During breakfast, she sat in front of lasted for several minutes. She finally utes after the call. He spent nearly art Pat silent and distant. Conversation was emerged from her bedroom and told hour with her, giving her back and a strain. Marilyn stared into space and Mrs. Murray that the young man who neck muscles a deep massage. She be- traced patterns on the table with her had been her stepson had broken his gan to relax. He had to do his work in finger. engagement. But she added, "He total darkness because any light would Expecting several callers, Marilyn sounded so relieved, I'm happy for him," defeat his purpose—Marilyn could continued taking pills to calm her Then she said, "Good night, honey," never sleep with the least glimmer of jumpy nerves. Pat saw nothing unusual and closed her bedroom door. light in a room—but he knew the bed- either in this or in the way Marilyn In her bedroom—where there was room so well by now that he could looked or behaved, for she had seen her room only for her oversized bed, a move about without fumbling. in much worse states on other occa- night stand, - ' "This is a lot better than pills," Mari- sions, as•Atsa 1APA C lyn mumbled, her face buried in the Those closest to Marilyn were caught graph, which was an the floor near is.• pillow. in a paradox. During that long, melan- bed. A stack of Sinatra records was Friday, August 3, was what had be- choly summer it was dangerous to already on the spindle. Somewhat re- come a normal day for Marilyn that leave her altogether alone, and yet she lieved, Mrs. Murray heard a record summer of 1962. She appeared to have found solitude therapeutic. "3 restore start to play. made some headway, with the help of myself when I'm alone," she had said Between ten and eleven that eve- Dr. Greenson, toward resuming the more than once. ning, panic must have aroused Marilyn business of living each day at least a When Mrs. Murray arrived, Pat must from the stupor that always preceded step away from the abyss. have been relieved. She was anxious to an overdose. If she attempted to phone She arose late, pulled a wrapper get home, at least before evening. The Pat Newcomb or one of her doctors, around her, and prepared her own housekeeper brought with her some she was unsucceseful in reaching them. coffee and grapefruit. Then she went articles she might need if she stayed But she did get through to the two men outside to the guesthouse to let out over. who had invited her out that evening, Maf, a white poodle given to her by When Dr. Greenson drove up to the and she told one of them that she had Frank Sinatra. Marilyn was dressed in house for his session with her, Marilyn, just taken the last of her Nembutals slacks by the time Mrs. Murray arrived. on hearing the car door slam, ran to- and she was about to slip over the line. Renovation of the guesthouse into ward the bedroom, "That must be One of them attempted to phone living quarters for the people she loved, Ralph," she told Pat. Since house calls Mickey Rudin. Marilyn's Hollywood like the Straebergs and her ex-father- were not as usual as her office visits, it attorney, but he was out for the eve- in-law, Isidore Miller, was much on is not known whether Marilyn or the ning, Why such indirect means of sum- Marilyn's mind, She had invited them housekeeper had phoned him. moning help were chosen will never be on numerous occasions. During her Pat prepared to leave. As she moved known. Oddly enough, it occurred to weekly phone conversation with the toward the front door, Marilyn looked no one who was aware of what was elder Miller, she had repeated the in- out from the bedroom hallway, a ques- happening, to inform the police. vitation to him. tion mark in her glance, She seemed to In a la-it conscious attempt, Marilyn Marilyn got a call from Pat Newcomb, be asking forgiveness for some failure dialed yet another number. Ralph who said she had a severe case of on her part. Pat smiled and said she Roberts' answering service reported to bronchitis and didn't think she could would phone Marilyn in the morning. him that he had received a call from a spend the weekend with Marilyn as Dr. Greenson was to say later that he woman who sounded fuzzy-voiced and planned. "But this is just the place to found Marilyn very despondent when troubled, but had left no name or num- get rid of it," Marilyn told her. "You can he arrived. He spoke with her for an ber. In all likelihood, Marilyn's last lie out by the pool for a while. We'll hour or so and suggested that she drive contact with a human being was the bake those germs right out of you." over to Pacific Coast Highway, which voice of an operator informing her that Pat agreed to come later in the after- she had enjoyed before. However, she Mr. Roberts was out for the evening. noon and sleep over. did not heed his advice that evening. When Marilyn's body was found in the After she got dressed, Marilyn put When Dr. Greenson left, Marilyn early hours of that Sunday morning, Maf back in the guesthouse and drove wandered about the house. A neighbor the phone was still clutched in her over to Beverly Hills to Dr. Engel- saw her briefly in the yard behind the hand. berg's office. She asked him to give her house, playing with Maf for a few min- a new sleeping pill prescription. After utes in the gathering dusk. Finally she Coroner's Case No. 81128—"probabie he was convinced that the drug she was handed the small white poodle to Mrs. suicide"—lay unclaimed at the Los taking—chloral hydrate—was not work- Murray and told her to put him to bed. Angeles County Morgue on a slab in a ing, he agreed to prescribe twenty-five As Marilyn went into the house, the chilled storage vault where unidenti- tablets of Nembutal. phone rang. It was the Easterner's host fied bodies await burial, Marilyn was Continuing on her medical rounds, asking if Marilyn would join them for dead and there seemed to he no one to she stopped by Dr. Greensan's office the evening, Apparently he mentioned claim her. Her life had ended as it had and talked a while. She said nothing that they had a couple of young 'ladies begun. • 794