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Actors Studio,

Adler, Buddy,

Allan, Rupert,

Allen, Angela,

Amerasia
,

Arnold, Dorothy,

Arnold, Eve,

Aronson, Boris,

Atchinson, Emma,

Atkinson, George,

Axelrod, George,

The Seven Year Itch
,

Bacall, Lauren,

Baker, Jackie,

Baker, John,

Barris, George,

Baudelaire, Charles,

Behan, Brendan,

Bellow, Saul,

meets Marilyn,

Bellow, Sondra Tschacbasov,

Bentley, Eric,

Bergman, Ingrid,

Bernstein, Walter,

Bigsby, Christopher,

Bishop, Elizabeth,

Blue Angel
,

Bolaños, José,

Bolender, Albert and Ida,

Boucher, François,
Miss O'Murphy
,

Bow, Clara,

Brand, Phoebe,

Brando, Marlon,

Breen, Joseph,

Brewer, Roy,

Brown, Joe E.,

Brown, Tina,

Brustein, Robert,

Burnett, W.R.,
The Asphalt Jungle
,

Burton, Richard,

Busch, Niven,

Calhern, Louis,

Campbell, Bhain,

Camus, Albert,
The Fall
,

Capote, Truman,

Dogs Bark
,

Music for Chameleons
,

Cardiff, Jack,

Carmen, Jeanne,

Carnovsky, Morris,

Carr, Virginia,

Cartier-Bresson, Henri,

Caute, David,

Chambers, Whittaker,

Chambrun, Jacques,

Chandler, Raymond,
Farewell, My Lovely
,

Chaplin, Charlie,

Great Dictator
,

Chekhov, Michael,

To the Actor
,

Clark, Colin,

Clift, Montgomery,

Clurman, Harold,

Cobb, Lee J.,

Coburn, Charles,

Coetzee, J.M.,

Cohn, Harry,

Colum, Padraic,

Columbia Pictures,

Communist Party,

Conover, David,

Conrad, Joseph,
Heart of Darkness
,

Cooper, Gary,

Copeland, Joan,

Cotton, Joseph,

Covici, Pascal,

Coward, Noël,

Crawford, Joan,

Crosby, Bing,

Cukor, George,

Curtis, Tony,

Davis, Bette,

Delany, Frank,

Dennehy, Brian,

Diamond, I. A. L.,

Diana, Princess of Wales,

Dickens, Charles,

Dienes, André de,

DiMaggio, Joe,

after divorce,

and Marilyn's funeral,

DiMaggio, Joe, Jr.,

Dinesen, Isak,

Disney, Walt,

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,
Brothers Karamazov
,

Dougherty, James,

Douglas, Paul,

Dulles, John Foster,

Eisenhower, Dwight,

Eldridge, Florence,

Eley, John,

Elizabeth II, Queen of England,

Empire News
,

Engelberg, Hyman,

Ewell, Tom,

Feldman, Charles,

Fiedler, Leslie,

Flynn, Errol,

Frank, Bruno,

Freud, Anna,

From Here to Eternity
,

Frost,

"Death of the Hired Man,"

"Provide, Provide,"

Fuchs, Klaus,

Gable, Clark,

Garrison, Lloyd,

Giesler, Jerry,

Giffen, Harvey,

Gifford, Stanley,

Gilels, Emil,

Gilman, Richard,

Glendinning, Victoria,

Goddard, "Doc,"

Goddard, Grace,

Goetz, William,

Goldberg, Robert,

Goodman, Ezra,

Goslar, Lotte,

Gottfried, Martin,

Grable, Betty,

Grant, Cary,

Greene, Amy,

Greene, Joshua,

Greene, Milton,

and Marilyn Monroe Productions,

Greenson, Hildi,

Greenson, Ralph,

and Marilyn's suicide,

Griffith, D.W.,

Group Theater,

Guilaroff, Sidney,

Guiles, Fred,

Halliday, E.M.,

Halsman, Philippe,

Harlow, Jean,

Hawks, Howard,

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
Scarlet Letter
,

Hayden, Sterling,

Hayworth, Rita,

Hecht, Ben,

and Marilyn's
My Story
,

Hecht, Rose,

Hellman, Lillian,

Hemingway, Ernest,
Green Hills of Africa
,

Old Man and the Sea
,

Sun Also Rises
,

"Cat in the Rain,"

"Fathers and Sons,"

Hersh, Seymour,

Hiss, Alger,

Hohenberg, Margaret,

Hollywood Ten,

Holm, Celeste,

Homolka, Oscar,

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,
Terrible Sonnets
,

HUAC,

Huston, John,

on Marilyn,

Asphalt Jungle
,

Freud
,

The Misfits
,

Under the Volcano
,

Huxley, Aldous,
Devils of Loudon
,

Hyde, Johnny,

Ibsen, Henrik,
Enemy of the People
,

Pillars of Society
,

Isherwood, Christopher,

Jack Benny Show,

Jacobs, Arthur,

Jaffe, Sam,

Johnson, Nunnally,

Karger, Fred,

Kazan, Elia,

and
After the Fall
,

friendship with Miller,

on Marilyn,

Kelley, Tom,

Kelly, Gene,

Kelly, Grace,

Kennedy, John,

Kennedy, Robert,

Khrushchev, Nikita,

Kinsey, Alfred,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
,

Kipling, Rudyard,

Knebelcamp, Enid and Sam,

Kotz, Florence,

Kris, Marianne,

Lang, Fritz,

Lange, Hope,

Lardner, Ring Jr.,

Lawford, Peter,

Leavis, F.R.,

Lederer, Charles,

Leigh, Vivien,

Lemmon, Jack,

Levant, Oscar,

Levathes, Peter,

Lewis, Robert,

Liebling, A. J., "The Mustang Buzzers,"

Life
,

Lipton, Harry,

Loden, Barbara,

Loew, Marcus,

Logan, Joshua,

Lonely Are the Brave
,

Lorre, Peter,

Los Angeles Orphan Home Society,

Lower, Ana,

Ludwig, Arnold,

Lytess, Natasha,

Mailer, Norman,

Making of "The Misfits"
,

Mankiewicz, Joseph,

All About Eve
,

March, Fredric,

Martin, Dean,

Martin, Ida,

Masters, George,

Mastroianni, Marcello,

Maugham, W. Somerset,

"Rain,"

McCarthy, Joseph,

McCarthy, Mary,

McCormick, Ken,

McCullers, Carson,

Melson, Inez,

Merkin, Daphne,

Meryman, Richard,

Method acting,

Metty, Russell,

MILLER, ARTHUR

Life

awards,

contempt of Congress,

dispute with Wilder,

earnings,

education,

family background,

FBI file,

friendships: Kazan,

Rosten,

HUAC testimony,

manual work,

marriages:

Mary Slattery,

Marilyn Monroe,

Inge Morath,

meets Marilyn,

script work,

views: acting,

Marilyn,

politics,

Character

cold,

courageous

dependable,

reserved,

self-righteous,

shy,

superior,

Work

inspired by Marilyn,

themes: autobiographical,

social responsibility,

Fiction

Focus
,

I Don't Need You Any More
,

"Bare Manuscript,"

"The Misfits,"

"Please Don't Kill Anything,"

Nonfiction

Situation Normal
,

Theater Essays
,

Timebends
,

Plays

After the Fall
,

All My Sons
,

Broken Glass
,

Creation of the World and Other Business
,

The Crucible
,

Death of a Salesman
,

Enemy of the People
(adaptation),

Finishing the Picture
,

Golden Years
,

Incident at Vichy
,

Italian Tragedy
,

Listen My Children
,

Man Who Had All the Luck
,

Mr. Peters' Connections
,

No Villain
,

Playing for Time
,

View from the Bridge
,

Screenplays

The Hook
,

The Misfits
,

composition of,

Miller, Augusta (mother),

Miller, Daniel (son),

Miller, Isidore (father),

Miller, Jane (daughter),

Miller, Mary Slattery (first wife),

Miller, Robert (son),

Minardos, Nico,

Miracle, Berniece Baker,

Mirisch, Walter,

Mitchum, Robert,

Moffat, Ivan,

Monroe, Della (grandmother),

Monroe, Gladys (mother),

MONROE, MARILYN

Life

addiction to pills,

autobiography,

drink problem,

early life: factory work,

family background,

molested,

orphanage,

"Fastest Rising Star" award,

FBI file,

friendships with writers,

funeral,

illnesses,

abortions,

depression,

miscarriages,

lovers,

Bolaños,

Conover,

Greene,

Hyde,

Karger,

Kazan,

John Kennedy,

Robert Kennedy,

Minardos,

Montand,

Schaefer,

marriages:

Jim Dougherty,

Joe DiMaggio,

Arthur Miller,

breakup,

meets heads of state,

meets Miller,

moves to NY,

names,

performs at President Kennedy's party,

poetry,

portraits of,

psychoanalysis,

religion,

residences,

suicide,

previous attempts,

travel: Japan,

Korea,

England,

will,

Character

ambitious,

cruel,

desire for child,

desire to learn,

distrustful,

emotionally unstable,

generous,

hedonistic,

insecure,

irresponsible,

isolated,

lateness,

loves animals,

loyal,

persona and identity,

remote,

self-destructive,

self-obsessed,

warmth,

wit,

Career

acting lessons,

acting style: comic gifts,

influence of Method,

mannerisms,

photogenic,

sensuality,

sexy walk,

agents,

couch-casting,

earnings,

entourage,

failure to memorize,

Marilyn Monroe Productions,

modeling,

prostitution,

stereotyped roles,

studio contracts,

Films

All About Eve
,

Asphalt Jungle
,

As Young as You Feel
,

Bus Stop
,

Clash by Night
,

Dangerous Years
,

Don't Bother to Knock
,

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