The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe (69 page)

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Mrs. Murray was unaware that Jack Schermerhorn had a tape recorder concealed under a hat on the table. Though the metal table and the hat distorted the sound, her revelations are preserved on the Schermerhorn tape. An edited version of the interview appeared in the New York
Post
on October 16, 1985, but it was not picked up by the press, its significance overlooked.

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The IATSE filed a civil suit against Murray and Sorrell, which is in the Los Angeles Hall of Records under civil case #446193.

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The German novelist Bruno Frank became a refugee immigrant in 1936. His wife would become Marilyn Monroe's drama coach in 1948.

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SLATE was identified by the California Senate Fact Finding Committee as a Communist front organization. It was SLATE that organized the violent demonstrations against the House Committee on Un-American Activities in San Francisco in May 1960.

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Clark, son of art historian Kenneth Clark, kept a fascinating diary of the production, which was published in England under the title
The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me
.

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For many years Miller had been a patient of Loewenstein, who was on the Communist Party's “approved list” of Marxist analysts. Loewenstein, a friend of Ralph Greenson, was also a disciple of Otto Fenichel. When Fenichel died it was Loewenstein who wrote his eulogy: see “In Memorium—Otto Fenichel” by Loewenstein in
Psychoanalytic Quarterly
15 (1946): Chapter 19.

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One evening at a poetry reading at the Rostens', a copy of Yeats was passed around for each person to open and read at random. At Marilyn's turn, she opened to “Never Give All the Heart.” “She read the title, paused, and began the poem,” Rosten said. “She read it slowly, discovering it, letting the lines strike her, surprised, hanging on, winning by absolute simplicity and truth. When she finished, there was a hush.”

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The Krises' son, Anton, became John M. Murray's analysand and delivered the eulogy at Dr. Murray's funeral.

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Lewis Fielding, who was a close friend and associate of Ralph Greenson's along with Norman Leites of the Rand Corporation, became Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist and was the object of a break-in by the “Plumbers” during the Nixon administration. It had become a matter of concern that the Pentagon Papers had appeared in Moscow before they appeared in the
New York Times
.

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After Dr. Hyman Engelberg's wife, Esther, divorced him in 1963, she married Albert Maltz.

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Probate records indicated that the money was repaid to DiMaggio from her estate.

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The Spoto interviews for
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
are housed at the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Many of the interviews substantiate the relationship between Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn; however, this material was excluded from Spoto's book.

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What Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn discussed became the subject of a national “security matter” in the FBI document dated July 13, 1962.

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When Kilgallen later conducted an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, she confided to intimates that she had discovered “explosive information” that would be published in her book
Murder One
. Kilgallen had just returned from a Dallas interview with Jack Ruby when she died under questionable circumstances on the night of November 8, 1965. The nearly completed manuscript of her Ruby interview vanished along with her notes. When Ron Pataki was asked if he had seen the manuscript, he indicated that he had. When asked what it revealed, he responded with the strange caveat, “Nothing anybody should know about.”

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The tapes, which were made by Fred Otash for Bernie Spindel, were seized during a raid in 1966 by New York District Attorney Frank Hogan. At that time, Hogan was a close associate of New York Senator Robert Kennedy. Kennedy was preparing his run for the presidency, and Spindel told
Life
magazine reporter John Neary, “Hogan really did Kennedy a favor by pulling that raid. They stole my tapes on Marilyn Monroe and my complete file.” For years Spindel, and then his widow, tried to have the tapes and other seized material returned through litigation, but without success. According to the New York district attorney's office, the material seized during the raid at Spindel's was destroyed.