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Authors: Donald Spoto

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Delaney, Frank

Delgado, Al

Denny, Reginald

Dewey, Mrs. (orphanage administrator)

Diamond, I. A. L.

“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” (song)

Dickinson, Angie

Dietrich, Marlene

DiMaggio, Dorothy

DiMaggio, Joe

background
divorce from Marilyn
final decree
the press and
after divorce from Marilyn
Christmas 1961
Greenson and
July 1962
remarriage plans
end of Marilyn-Natasha relationship and
first meeting with Marilyn
after death of Marilyn
funeral
hospitalization of Marilyn and
marriage to Marilyn
breakup of
career issues
condescension of Joe
Japan, 1954 trip (1954)
Monroe-Hecht autobiography project and
Natasha Lytess and
physical abuse
Schaefer-Marilyn relationship and
The Seven Year Itch
There’s No Business Like Show Business
and
relationship with Marilyn before marriage
career issues
during
River of No Return
shooting
wedding to Marilyn
“Wrong Door Raid” and

DiMaggio, Joe, Jr.

Dinesen, Isak

“Do It Again” (song)

Don’t Bother to Knock

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Double Cross

Dougherty, Ethel

disapproval of Marilyn

Dougherty, James

alleged call by Norma Jeane to her father and
background
divorce from Norma Jeane
marriage to Norma Jeane (Marilyn)
after his return to California (1945)
during 1943 and 1944
ceremony and reception
Glady’s coming to live with Norma Jeane
household tasks
jealousy
his account of
marriage certificate
her modeling career and
origin of idea of
sexual relationship
social life
in Merchant Marines
physical appearance
premarital relationship with Norma Jeane
return to California (1945)
separation from Norma Jeane

Dougherty, Marion

Douglas, Paul

“Down in the Meadow” (song)

Dreiser, Theodore

Dudley, Fredda

DuMain, Ken

Dunne, Philip

Durgom, George

Duse, Eleanora

East of Eden
(film)

Ebbins, Milton

Eddy, Mary Baker

Eldridge, Florence

Eley, Gladys Pearl (other names: Monroe, Baker, Mortensen)

birth of Norma Jeane (Marilyn)
in a clinic-supervised boardinghouse
at Consolidated Film Industries
depression of
divorce from Baker
friendship with Grace McKee
grandfather’s death by suicide and
house purchased by (1933)
identity of Norma Jeane’s father
life with mother
in Marilyn’s will
marriage to Baker
marriage to Mortensen
mental illness and institutionalization of
attempt to escape from hospital at Norwalk
1946 institutionalization
money for care of
mother’s death
myth of family madness and
in 1946
1952 letter to Marilyn
relationship with Norma Jeane (Marilyn)
foster family, Norma Jeane placed in
Norma Jeane taken from Bolenders
visits by mother

Eley, John Stewart

Emerson Junior High School

Engelberg, Hyman

Engleburg, Charlotte

Enright, Dorothy

Evans, Reginald

Ewell, Tom

Famous Artists Agency

Farberow, Norman

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

file on Marilyn
Miller and

Feldman, Charles

breaking of contract with
Fox-Monroe contract disputes and

Feldman, Phil

Fell, Fifi

Fergus, John

Field, Betty

Field, Fred Vanderbilt

Fields, Leila

“Fine Romance, A” (song)

Fireball, The

Fishbaugh, E. C.

Fitzgerald, Ella

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flaherty, Vincent X.

Flanagan, Agnes

Flynn, Errol

Fox.
See
Twentieth Century–Fox

Fox, William

Franklin, Joe

French, Hugh

Freud, Anna

Freud, Ernst

Freud, Sigmund

Fried, William.
See
Fox, William

Frosch, Aaron

Frosch, John

Gable, Clark

Gable, Kay

Gang, Martin

Gardel, Bunny

Garland, Judy

Gaynor, Janet

Gazzo, Michael

Genn, Leo

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Giancana, Sam

Giesler, Jerry

Giffen family

Gifford, Charles Stanley

Gilels, Emil

Giventer, Harry

Glamour Preferred
(play)

Glass, Bea

Goddard, Eleanor (Bebe)

childhood
relationship with Norma Jeane (Marilyn)

Goddard, Ervin Silliman (Doc)

attempt to sexually abuse Norma Jeane
personal characteristics

Goddard, Grace McKee

death
Doc Goddard and
Jean Harlow as seen by
Gladys Monroe and
move back to California
Norma Jeane (Marilyn) and
Chicago visit by Norma Jeane
James Dougherty–Norma Jeane relationship
guardianship sought by Grace
Jean Harlow as model for Norma Jeane
letter of June 15, 1944, from Norma Jeane
marriage of Norma Jeane to Jim Dougherty
motives of Grace
move to West Virginia
movie star, Grace’s idea of Norma Jeane as
1946 contract with Twentieth Century–Fox
Norma Jeane sent to live with relatives (1937)
visits to orphanage
physical appearance

Goddard, Nona.
See
Lawrance, Jody

Goddess
(Summers)

Goldenberg Galleries (Beverly Hills)

Golden Boy
(Odets)

“Golden Dreams” calendar

1952 scandal over

Golden Globe Award (1962)

Goldschmidt, Lena

Goldstein, Robert

Goodman, Ezra

Goodwin, Richard

Goslar, Lotter

Gould, Milton

Grable, Betty

Graf, William

Graham, Sheilah

Grainger, Charles

Grandison, Lionel

Grant, Allan

Grant, Cary

Grauman, Sid

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
See
Chinese Theatre

Graves, Lyle Arthur

Greene, Amy

marriage to Miller and

Greene, Milton

addictions
affair with Marilyn
Arthur Miller and
Bus Stop
and
country home
disaffection and breakup of relationship with Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe Productions (MMP) and
Marilyn’s marriage to Miller and
1954–1955 photographs of Marilyn
The Prince and the Showgirl
and

Greenson, Daniel

Greenson, Hildi

Greenson, Joan

Greenson, Ralph

anger of
background
death of Marilyn and
departure for trip abroad
dismissal of, Marilyn’s contemplation of
drug taking by Marilyn and
Eunice Murray and
facial injuries of Marilyn and
house purchase by Marilyn and
Joe DiMaggio and

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