Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (103 page)

99

naive but disturbing: André de Dienes,
Marilyn Mon Amour
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), p. 27.

99

So far: JWP I, pp. 7–8.

100

The truth is: MG2 VII, 4, unpaginated.

100

I longed to: de Dienes, p. 51.

100

The plain truth is: Alex D’Arcy to DS, June 18, 1992.

100

She needed: de Dienes, p. 71.

100

Come to me:
Ibid
., p. 67.

101

I’d like to come: MG2 XII, 23, pp. 11–12.

102

In my dreams: de Dienes, p. 70.

102

Isn’t this better: Golden, p. 178.

103

nearly went berserk: JWP I, p. 8.

104

the lost look: William Burnside, “My life with young Marilyn,”
The Observer
magazine, May 11, 1975; see also Kate Wharton, “Photos that echo a sad story of love,”
Today
(U.K.), April 23, 1986.

104

Her lyric was reprinted in
The Observer
magazine of May 6, 1984, p. 23; a copy is also in MG III, 3, unpaginated.

104

She liked: Earl Moran, in “A Marilyn for All Seasons,”
Life
, vol. 6, no. 7 (July 1983): 15.

105

a shy girl: Joseph Jasgur to DS, Feb. 7, 1992.

105

When she saw: Laszlo Willinger in Feldman/Winters documentary,
Marilyn: Beyond the Legend
.

106

where a female: Ken DuMain to DS, Aug. 26, 1992.

106

She wandered: Eleanor Goddard to DS, Feb. 21, 1992.

107

calculating: Dougherty, p. 105.

107

a woman without: JWP I, p. 11.

107

Regarding MM’s financial support of her mother: “Marilyn never shirked a responsibility she legally did not have,” according to Inez Melson, her business manager in later years. “No matter how little she made, she contributed to her mother’s care, and her will ensured that the care continued after Marilyn’s death.” See Inez Melson, quoted in
The Listener
(London), Aug. 30, 1979.

108

First she thought: JWP I, p. 8.

108

The dialogue between the Doughertys was told by Dougherty to Jane Wilkie: JWP II, pp. 1 and 11.

108

She thought we: Dougherty to DS, June 20, 1992.

108

extreme mental cruelty: Complaint, “Norma Jeane Dougherty, Plaintiff, vs. James Edward Dougherty, Defendant,” Case no. 31146 in the Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, Clark County, filed July 5, 1946.

109

I married and: Philip K. Scheuer, “Wolves Howl for ‘Niece’ Just Like Marilyn Monroe,”
Los Angeles Times
, Aug. 29, 1950.

111

She’d been: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992. Snyder also provided the subsequent quotation from Shamroy.

111

When I first: Leon Shamroy, quoted in Robert Cahn, “The 1951 Model Blonde,”
Collier’s
, Sept. 8, 1951, p. 51. See also Zolotow, pp. 60–61.

114

I know who you are: Ben Lyon to Earl Wilson, quoted in the
Los Angeles Daily News
, June 13, 1953, p. 10.

115

The dialogue is cited by MM in MG2 X, 8, pp. 22–23.

Chapter Seven:
September 1946–February 1948

116
ff

For a succinct history of 20th Century–Fox, see Joel W. Finler,
The Hollywood Story
(London: Octopus, and New York: Crown, 1988), pp. 88–113. A fair treatment of Darryl F. Zanuck may be found in Marlys J. Harris,
The Zanucks of Hollywood
(New York: Crown, 1989).

117

Zanuck had an aide: Ernest Lehman to DS, Aug. 29, 1992.

118

an energetic and: Philip Dunne, “Darryl from A to Z,”
American Film
, vol. ix, no. 9 (July–August 1984): 50.

119

She was very: Lipton in Wolper,
Legend
.

119

Desperate to absorb: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

121

When I told: Harry Lipton, in Wolper,
Legend
.

122

It was as: MG2 XVI, 4, p. 12.

124

crazy, destroyed: MG2 XVI, 4, p. 17.

124

She asked us:
Ibid
.

125

All I could think of: MG2 XVI, 4, p. 19.

125

she did all: Phoebe Brand, quoted in Zolotow, p. 72.

126

Movie stars were paid: MG2 XII, 3.

127

the look of: Lucille Ryman Carroll to DS, Feb. 20, 1992.

128

Marilyn was: Lee Strasberg, quoted in Cindy Adams,
Lee Strasberg: The Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio
(New York: Doubleday, 1980), p. 153.

129

MM’s comments on
Glamour Preferred
are recorded in MG2 II, 5, p. 26.

132

I was invited: MG VIII, 4, unpaginated; cf. also Meryman, 33; and the later expanded version of Meryman in
Life
, vol. 15, no. 8 (August 1992): 75.

132

If four or five: quoted in Neal Gabler,
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
(New York: Crown, 1988), p. 113.

133

Marilyn spoke: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.

Chapter Eight:
February 1948–May 1949

135

She was like: Jane Wilkie to DS, Oct. 20, 1992.

137

Not very much: MG2 XIV, 3, p. 2.

137

Marilyn was inhibited: JWP/NL I, p. 5.

137

There were days: MG2 II, 8, p. 12.

138

I took her: JWP/NL I, p. 5 and II, p. 9.

138

She was in love: MG2 II, 8, p. 2.

139

the one human:
Ibid
., p. 3.

139

I began to feed: JWP/NL II, pp. 8–9.

140

I felt like: MG2 XIV, 3, 24.

140

Please don’t do: JWP/NL II, p. 5.

141

but first of all: Milton Berle to DS, April 2, 1992.

141

She told me: Adele Jergens to DS, April 9, 1992.

142

the only security: JWP/NL I, p. 10.

142

Under Marilyn’s: Ezra Goodman,
The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), p. 234.

143

He said that: MG2 III, 7, p. 24.

145

Marilyn was beginning: JWP/NL II, p. 10.

146

I’m not going:
Ibid
., p. 11; see also MG2 III, 4, p. 15; and similar remarks cited to DS by Rupert Allan, Lucille Ryman Carroll and Amy Greene.

146

Johnny Hyde knew: Peter Leonardi to Earl Wilson, quoted in Wilson’s
Show Business Laid Bare
(New York: Putnam’s, 1974), p. 67.

146

She never had: Leon Krohn, M.D., spoke to producer Ted Landreth in 1984 for his BBC-TV documentary
Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President
.

147

He was willing: MM, quoted in Jane Corwin, “Orphan in Ermine,”
Photoplay
, vol. 45, no. 3 (March 1954): 109.

147

I knew nobody: JWP/NL I, p. 4.

147

chump: Elia Kazan,
A Life
(New York: Knopf, 1988), p. 403.

147

tramps and pushovers:
Ibid
., p. 406.

148

It’s amazing: Quoted in Roger G. Taylor,
Marilyn In Art
(Salem, N.H.: Salem House, 1984), n.p.

149

I began to see hope: JWP/NL II, p. 8.

149

Natasha was jealous: MG2 VIII, 2, p. 1.

151

I think I: Tom Kelley, quoted in “Marilyn: The Naked Truth!”
Los Angeles Magazine
, vol. 36, no. 6 (June 1991): 90.

151
ff

Whenever the topic of the calendars arose, Marilyn claimed she was “broke and behind in the rent,” or “hungry and behind in my rent.” See, e.g., Belmont, p. 18,
et alibi
.

152

I’m only comfortable: Wilson,
Show Business Laid Bare
, p. 67.

Chapter Nine:
June 1949–December 1950

154

I bought: MG VI, 3, p. 25.

155

Her shrewdness: JWP/NL I, p. 9.

156

It was the:
Ibid
., VI, 3, p. 29.

156

She had the: de Dienes, p. 91.

156

so they just: Earl Wilson’s syndicated column (e.g., in the
Los Angeles Daily News
) for July 30, 1949.