Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (110 page)

390

It seems:
Los Angeles Times
, April 12, 1957, sec. III, p. 8.

390

He knows perfectly:
Ibid
.

390

The truth is: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.

390

Arthur was taking: MM to Amy Greene, quoted to DS, May 5, 1992.

391

screamed about me: Arthur P. Jacobs to Irving Stein: MG VI, memorandum for April 20, 1957.

391

She was ultrasensitive: MG XIII, 4; see also
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, Aug. 5, 1982.

392

She had no desire: Olie and Joe Rauh, as told to Harriet Lyons, “The Time Marilyn Monroe Hid Out at Our House,”
Ms
., August 1983, p. 16.

393

She loved children: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

393

a new kind: Miller, p. 457.

394

She knows how: Strasberg,
Bittersweet
, p. 122.

395

Arthur was writing: Olie Rauh,
art. cit
., p. 16.

395

If I shouldn’t: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; similarly, see
Marilyn and Me
, p. 170.

395

a façade of marital: Rosten, p. 79.

395

hiding:
Ibid
., p. 61.

395

The accident was reported by the Associated Press, dateline March 25, 1958.

395

floating off in: Rosten, p. 55.

396

The maid’s not: Quoted by John Moore to DS, August 23, 1992.

396

She shouldn’t wear: Associated Press story dated April 29, 1958.

396

But I’ve never: Quoted by John Moore to DS, August 23, 1992.

397
ff

For I. A. L. Diamond’s memoir of
Some Like It Hot
, see his article, “The Day Marilyn Needed 47 Takes To Remember to Say, ‘Where’s the Bourbon?’,”
California
, vol. 10, no. 12 (December 1985): 132–136.

398

because she gives me: MM, to Hedda Hopper in New York, April 1958. Heavily edited, the comments appeared as part of Hopper’s article, “Just Call Her Mrs. Miller!” in the
Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine
, June 22, 1958, p. 14.

398

because May: Vanessa Reis to DS, Feb. 16, 1992.

399
ff

The comments of Billy Wilder throughout this chapter were made to DS: Nov. 19, 1991.

400

She picked: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

400

Marilyn time: Rosten, p. 24.

400

I never heard: Quoted in
The Listener
(London), Aug. 30, 1979.

400

Well, I think: MM to Richard Meryman, July 1962.

401

organically: MM, quoted in the
Los Angeles Times
, July 9, 1958.

401

relaxing a little: MM, quoted in Luitjers, p. 63.

401

It seemed to me: In notes prepared by Leon Krohn, M.D., for Ted Landreth, during preparation for the BBC-TV documentary
Say Goodbye to the President
in 1984.

402

I have a feeling: MM to Norman Rosten, quoted in Rosten, pp. 76–77.

402

very easy to work: Avedon, in Wagenknecht, p. 59.

402

the spontaneous joy: Arthur Miller, “My Wife Marilyn,”
Life
, vol. 45, no. 25 (Dec. 22, 1958): 146.

403
–
404

Arthur Miller’s letter to MM was typed Friday evening, September 12, 1958, and sent via air mail that night. It arrived Monday at the suite of “Mrs. Marilyn Miller” at the Bel-Air Hotel. MM obviously thought the letter so important that she kept it until her death. It was among the personal papers gathered up by Inez Melson on Aug. 6, 1962, documents which subsequently were acquired by DS through a private purchaser in 1991.

404

more and more living with her: Rosten, p. 79.

404

For Olie Rauh’s opinion of Arthur’s arrival in California, see Rauh,
art. cit
., p. 16.

404

going through some: Jack Lemmon, quoted in McCann, p. 105.

405

Arthur told me: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.

406

I have discussed:
Ibid.;
see also Tom Wood,
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder
(New York: Doubleday, 1960), p. 158, and Maurice Zolotow,
Billy Wilder in Hollywood
(New York: Putnam’s, 1977), p. 265.

406

MM’s telephone call to Audrey Wilder was relayed by Billy Wilder to DS; see also Diamond,
art. cit
., p. 136; with slight variations, the anecdote is also recounted in Zolotow,
Billy Wilder in Hollywood
, p. 271, and in Wood, p. 162.

406

Anyone can remember lines: Quoted in Mills, p. 122.

407

Could I have: Rosten, p. 72.

407
ff

Incomplete records of Dr. Kris’s prescriptions for MM are attached to her bills and to pharmacy invoices through 1957 (and are so preserved in MG III, IV and VI, since they were items for her accountant’s perusal); for 1959, some records remained in MM’s possession at the time of her death and were collected by Inez Melson, whence they passed to a private collector and, in 1991, to DS.

407

Susan Strasberg’s comments on 1959 were shared with DS in June 1992; see also
Marilyn and Me
, pp. 187–189.

408

warm and plain: “Tribute to Marilyn Monroe from a friend . . . Carl Sandburg,”
Look
, vol. 26 (Sept. 11, 1962): 90–94.

408

uncomfortable: Mervin Block to DS, Oct. 6, 1992. Other details of the press junket were provided by John Moore to DS.

408

For Miller’s creative stasis during this time, see Allan Seager, “The Creative Agony of Arthur Miller,”
Esquire
, vol. 52, no. 4 (October 1959): 123–126.

409

I guess: Quoted in Gloria Steinem, “Growing Up with Marilyn,”
Ms
., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 38.

410

He told me: Kenneth Tynan,
Profiles
(London: Nick Hern/Walker Books, 1989), p. 146.

411

I’m sure he accepted: Arthur Miller, quoted in Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman,
Tu vois, je n’ai pas oublié
(Paris: Seuil/Fayard, 1990), p. 499.

411

He looked at me: Rosten, p. 21.

411

She was always: Frankie Vaughan, quoted in Hutchinson, p. 74.

412

un titre prémonitoire:
Signoret’s description, cut from the final published edition of her memoirs, is cited in Hamon and Rotman, p. 503.

Chapter Eighteen:
1960

413

Marilyn was a: Sidney Skolsky in the
Hollywood Citizen-News
, Jan. 20, 1960.

413

Next to my husband: Widely quoted—e.g., in “Marilyn meets Montand,”
Look
, vol. 24 (July 5, 1960): 96.

413

Everything she do:
Ibid
., p. 93.

414

There was no script: Quoted in Goode, p. 202.

414

a sacrifice of great blocks: Miller, p. 466.

414

came running: Hervé Hamon et Patrick Rotman,
Yves Montand: Tu vois, je n’ai pas oublié
(Paris: Seuil/Fayard, 1990), p. 512; trans. DS. See also Zolotow,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 347.

415

Arthur Miller, the big liberal: Skolsky, p. 227–228.

415

was a terrible ordeal: Quoted in Kobal, p. 606.

415

There was something: Vanessa Ries to DS, Feb. 16, 1992.

415

no real communication: Gavin Lambert,
On Cukor
(New York: Putnam’s, 1972), pp. 174–175.

416

The incident with Frankie Vaughan and his son was documented by Vaughan in Paul Donovan, “The day Marilyn cried on Frankie’s shoulder,”
Today
(U.K.), June 2, 1986.

416

I saw Marilyn: Quoted in Kirk Crivello,
Fallen Angels
(Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1988), p. 261.

416
ff

For the shared fears that drew MM and Montand together, see his memoirs, pp. 519ff.

417

a whole succession: Simone Signoret,
Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be
(London: Grafton, 1979), pp. 322–323.

417

Comments by Jack Cole and Jerry Wald may be found in
Life
, vol. 49, no. 7 (Aug. 15, 1960): 68, and in Kobal, pp. 605–607.

417

Is there anything: Frank Radcliffe, quoted in Del Burnett, “Marilyn: A Personal Reminiscence,”
American Classic Screen
, March 1981, p. 14.

417

What am I afraid of: MM’s notes, scribbled on a pad, were found by a journalist who published them in the
American Weekly
on May 1, 1960.

419

I’ll miss you: Hamon and Rotman, p. 531.

419

I bent over:
Ibid
., pp. 531–532ff.