Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (104 page)

156

a pretty dull: Earl Wilson,
The Show Business Nobody Knows
(Chicago: Cowles, 1971), p. 288.

157

You know: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column in the
Los Angeles Citizen-News
, Sept. 30, 1952.

158

They showed me: “The Men Who Interest Me . . . By Mrs. Joe DiMaggio,”
Pageant
, vol. 9, no. 10 (April 1954): 53.

158

Why, you’re: This little dialogue has been attributed to their meeting in 1953, which Milton and Marilyn put forth as the official time of their meeting and which most people accepted—including Amy Greene (who married Milton that year). But Rupert Allan heard it in his home in 1949.

158

painting with the: Often in MG: e.g., I, 4, p. 31; see also Al Morch, “The photographer who captured Marilyn Monroe,”
San Francisco Examiner
, July 13, 1981, p. D5.

159

Telegram to MG from MM preserved in MG I, 1.

159

sad to see Milton: Rupert Allan to DS, June 17, 1991.

160

voluptuously made: Quoted in Lawrence Grobel,
The Hustons
(New York: Avon, 1989), p. 334.

160

When she finished: John Huston,
An Open Book
(New York: Knopf, 1980), pp. 286–287. With minor variations, this is the account reported also by Grobel; by Axel Madsen; and by Gerald Pratley (see Bibliography).

160

But she was: Quoted in the
The Daily Mirror
(London), April 1, 1980.

161

For the better: JWP/NL II, p. 9.

161

She impressed me: John Huston in Wolper,
Legend
.

161

It was the first: JWP/NL II, p. 10.

162

I don’t know:
Ibid
., p. 9.

163

Body control: Quoted by George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.

163

For the reminiscences of Agnes Flanagan, see Crivello, p. 250.

166

eager young hustlers: Nunnally Johnson, quoted in Rollyson, p. 33.

166

Almost everybody thought: MG XII, 3, p. 14.

167

Joe sponsored: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.

168

had done a good: Joseph L. Mankiewicz,
More About All About Eve
(New York: Random House, 1972), pp. 76–77.

169

Every now and then:
Ibid
., p. 78.

169

very inquiring: George Sanders,
Memoirs of a Professional Cad
(New York: Putnam’s, 1960), pp. 70–71.

169

but somehow she: Mankiewicz, p. 79.

170

soft-spoken: Fredda Dudley Balling to Constance McCormick, quoted in the Constance McCormick Collection in the Film Archives of the University of Southern California.

170

because I wanted: MG2 IV, 3, p. 22.

171

She fed Josefa: JWP/NL I, p. 11.

171

was a channel: JWP/NL II, p. 10.

171

I signalled:
Ibid
., p. 11.

173

He had a tendency: Steffi Sidney Splaver to DS, June 5, 1992. There is also an amusing account of Skolsky’s place in Hollywood history in Goodman, pp. 46–49 and 392–395.

173

Do you think: Quoted by Skolsky in Goodman, p. 394.

174

From then on: Sidney Skolsky,
Don’t Get Me Wrong—I Love Hollywood
(New York: Putnam’s, 1975), p. 214.

174

He had confidence: “The Men Who Interest Me . . . By Mrs. Joe DiMaggio,”
Pageant
, vol. 9, no. 10 (April 1954) 53.

175

I don’t know: MG2 VIII, 5.

176

I saw: JWP/NL I, p. 13.

176

Joe Schenck was: Sam Shaw to DS, March 8, 1992.

177

Natasha often accused: MG2 III, 3, p. 9.

177

just by standing:
Life
, vol. 30, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1951): 37.

Chapter Ten:
January 1951–March 1952

178

It wasn’t until: JWP/NL II, p. 16.

179

She said she:
Ibid
.

180

she was frightened: Quoted in “MM Remembered,”
Playboy
, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1964): 191.

180

She can’t stop: Quoted in Kazan, p. 404.

180

Every time:
Ibid
.

180

She hadn’t even:
Ibid
., p. 403.

181

technique of seduction:
Ibid
., p. 404.

181

a simple, decent-hearted:
Ibid
., pp. 404–405.

181

Marilyn simply wasn’t: Kazan, p. 415.

183

I’m not interested: Many times in her life: e.g., the incident here, cited in Pete Martin, “The New Marilyn Monroe,”
Saturday Evening Post
, May 5, 1956, p. 150.

183

the shock of: Arthur Miller,
Timebends
(New York: Grove Press, 1987), p. 303.

184

When Miller withdrew his script from Hollywood rather than alter its premise, he received a telegram from Harry Cohn complaining that “THE MINUTE WE TRY TO MAKE THE SCRIPT PRO-AMERICAN YOU PULL OUT” (see Miller, p. 308). The wheels were set in motion for the absurd charges of anti-Americanism against Arthur Miller.

185

the air around: Miller, p. 306.

185

not only by:
Ibid
.

185

was something like:
Ibid
., pp. 307, 327.

186

She fell in love: JWP/NL I, p. 9.

186

if I had stayed: Arthur Miller, quoted in James Kaplan, “Miller’s Crossing,”
Vanity Fair
, vol. 54, no. 11 (November 1991): 241.

186

Most people: MM to AM, March 9, 1951; she kept a working copy (MG2 III, 3).

186

If you want: AM to MM, March 13, 1951, cited in Fred Lawrence Guiles,
Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe
(New York: Stein and Day, 1984), p. 173.

186

It scared hell: Kazan, p. 427.

187

you could hear: Sidney Skolsky, “Hollywood Is My Beat,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, May 2, 1951.

187

hardly enough room: Quoted in Robert Cahn, “The 1951 Model Blonde,”
Collier’s
, Sept. 8, 1951, p. 50.

187

the whole crew: June Haver in “MM remembered,”
Playboy
, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1964): 190.

187

she grabbed: Jack Paar, on the television program
Donahue
, May 5, 1983.

187

one of the brightest: Ezra Goodman in the
Los Angeles Daily News
, June 6, 1951.

187

Marilyn Monroe is superb:
New York Times
, Aug. 3, 1951, p. 10.

188

Our bodies: He was citing the epigraph to the first chapter of his book; cf. Michael Chekhov,
To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting
(New York: Harper & Row, 1953), p. 1.

189

I am going: Chekhov, p. 6.

189

Merely discussing:
Ibid
.

189

artists of such magnitude: Chekhov, p. 163–166.

191

She is particularly concerned: Cahn,
art. cit
.

191

She’s the biggest: Quoted in Goodman, p. 234.

191

How much of the story: Skolsky, p. 220.

192

The studio: Richard Meryman, “A Last Long Talk With A Lonely Girl,”
Life
, vol. 53, no. 7 (Aug. 17, 1962): 33.

192

Like a famous predecessor: Cahn,
art. cit
.

193

terribly late: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 1, 1991.

193

the brightest star: Rupert Allan, “Marilyn Monroe . . . a serious blonde who can act,”
Look
, vol. 15 (Oct. 23, 1951): 40.

193

Nothing happened: Robert Wagner, in
Remembering Marilyn
, 1988 TV documentary, narrated by Lee Remick; dir. Andrew Solt. Vestron Video/Image Entertainment LaserDisc.

194

indifferent, amusing: E.g., Wanda Hale, in the
New York Daily News
, Nov. 7, 1951.

194

Hold a good thought: E.g., Skolsky, p. 216; also Susan Strasberg to DS, Aug. 29, 1992.

194

Every element had to be: Marjorie Plecher Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

195

scared as hell: Quoted in Peter Bogdanovich,
Fritz Lang in America
(New York: Praeger, 1967), p. 81.