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37. Rupert Allan, “A Serious Blonde Who Can Act,” Look, October 23, 1951.
38. Guiles, Legend, 205.
39. Reilly, Hollywood Costume Design by Travilla, 84.
40. Hank Fardell, “That Soul Doesn’t Belong in That Body,” Movie Fan Magazine, April 1953; LB, interview with Hal Schaefer, June 29, 2008.
41. Winters, Shelley II, 47. For a photo of Marilyn with Nick Ray, see “Stuff of Hollywood,” Photoplay, December 1952. On the brief affair with Brynner, see Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, 162–63, and Rock Brynner, Yul: The Man Who Would Be King (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989) 89–90; LB, interview with Joe Naar, December 3, 2008.
42. Doug McClelland, ed., Starspeak: Hollywood on Everything (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1987), 202.
43. AS, interview with Nico Minardos, in AS. Patricia Cox confirmed the Minardos involvement to me, June 17, 2010.
44. New York Mirror, August 11, 1962.
45. Jane Wilkie, Confessions of an Ex-Fan Magazine Writer, 76–77. In 1934, according to Ezra Goodman, in The Fifty Year Decline, 77, the studios cut the number of writers on their approved list from three hundred to fifty, keeping on their “white list” only those whose writing what they considered “clean.” Once Confidential, the first major Hollywood tabloid, appeared in 1952—and by 1955 had a circulation of three million—the “white list” began to break down. See Earl Wilson and Sidney Skolsky, “Marilyn Monroe: Tragedy’s Child,” New York Post, August 12, 1962, Skolsky—AMPAS.
46. “What’s Wrong with Sex Appeal?” Movieland, January 1952; Ellis Whitfield, “Sex Symbolism and Marilyn Monroe,” Why? The Magazine of Popular Psychology, June 1953; “Are Budgets Necessary?” Movieland, July 1951.
47. Tex Parks, “Lessons I’ve Learned in Hollywood,” Movieland, May 1951.
48. Jack Wade, “Too Hot to Handle,” Modern Screen, March 1952; Sidney Skolsky, “That’s Hollywood for You,” Photopla y, November 1953; Merry Lewis, “The Row About Monroe,” Movie Play, March 1954; “What’s Wrong with Marilyn?” Movie Life 1952–54, McCormick—USC; G. D. Sweeney, “MM: The Next Man She’ll Marry,” Movie Stars Parade, February 1956; Curtis Johns, “You’ve Gotta Stop Kicking This Kid Around,” Movie Fan, December 1953; Celia Paul, “Marilyn’s Hush Romance,” Movie Time, June 1954; Ben Maddox, “Peeking In on Marilyn as a Housewife,” Screenland Plus TV-Land, May 1954.
49. Goodman, The Fifty Year Decline, 236; John Crosby, “The Men Like Her Fine,” Washington Post, November 4, 1952; Bob Ruark, syndicated column, August 30, 1952, in SE; Rita Garrison Malloy, “Marilyn, Oh Marilyn,” Motion Picture Magazine, November 1954; “Who’d Marry Me?” Modern Screen, September 1951; “Home Life of a Hollywood Bachelor Girl,” Television and Screen Guide, August 1951.
50. Daniel Boorstin, The Image: Pseudo Events in America (New York: Vintage, 1992), 25.
51. Bernard, Requiem for Marilyn, 33; Randall Riese and Neal Hitchens, The Unabridged Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z (1987; London: Corgi, 1988), 2; Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, 167.
52. Jack Paar, P.S. Jack Paar (New York: Doubleday, 1983), 85; Macdonald Carey, The Days of My Life (New York: St. Martin’s, 1991), 178.
53. Brown and Barham, Marilyn: The Last Take, 375; Riese and Hitchens, The Unabridged Marilyn, 229.
54. Edwin Hoyt, interview with June Haver, in Hoyt, Marilyn: The Tragic Venus (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1965), 84.
55. Monroe and Miller, “Sex, Theatre and the Intellectual,” in Brandon, ed., Conversations with Henry Brandon, 186; Powdermaker, Hollywood: The Dream Factory, 219–21.
56. Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, 190.
57. Gloria Steinem, “The Woman Who Died too Soon,” Ms., August 1972, 38.
58. Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, 74.
59. “Interview with Henry Koster,” in Ronald Davis, ed., Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System (Jackson, Miss.: University of Mississippi Press, 2005), 16–20.
60. Bacon, Hollywood Is a Four Letter Town, 142; Patrick McGilligan, Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (New York: St. Martin’s, 1997), 389–94.
61. Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, 176; AV, interview with Rupert Allan, in Villani, “Hold a Good Thought for Me,” 79.
62. Marilyn Monroe, “Love Is My Problem,” Silver Screen, October 1951; Louella Parsons, “Joe and Marilyn Upset Gossips,” clipping, in Wilder—AMPAS; Paul Benedict, “How to Solve the Riddle of Marilyn Monroe,” Silver Screen, August 1957.
63. Lytess, “My Years With Marilyn,” in Zolotow—UT; Todd McCarthy, Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (New York: Grove Press, 1997), 494–99; John Kobal, “Howard Hawks,” in Kobal, ed. People Will Talk, 483–86; Kazan, Elia Kazan, 255.
64. Tom Wood, The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (New York: Doubleday, 1970), 3.
65. John Kobal, interview with Henry Hathaway, in Kobal, ed., People Will Talk, 615–17; Henry Hathaway interview, Hollywood Studio Magazine, August 1987; Ronald Davis, interview with Hathaway, in Davis, Just Making Movies, 149; interview with Henry Hathaway, in CUO; interview with Hathaway in Charles Hamblett, Who Killed Marilyn Monroe? Or, a Cage to Catch Our Dreams (London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), 142–44.
66. “Things They Never Told You About Marilyn,” Screen Stars, November 1954.
67. Joseph Cotten, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere (San Francisco: Mercury, 1987), 111.
68. Jean Negulesco, Things I Did … and Things I Think I Did (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 218, 223.
69. Crown, Marilyn at Fox, 142, 147. Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The King’s Speech (New York: Sterling, 2010), 42.
70. Holley, Mike Connolly, 6. LB, interview with Norman Brokaw, May 3, 2010. See also Morris Engelberg and Marv Schneider, DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight (St. Paul, Minn.: MBI, 2003), 240–41.
71. Marilyn Monroe, “The Men Who Interest Me,” Pageant, April 1954.
72. Roger Rosenblatt, “A Hero in Deep Center,” Time, March 22, 1999; Pellegrino D’Acierno, “Italian American Musical Culture,” in D’Acierno, ed., The Italian American Heritage (New York: Garland, 1999), 425.
73. On Joe DiMaggio, I have especially used Richard Ben Cramer, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), and Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio.
74. Gladys Eley to Inez Melson, May 4, 1965, and August 21, 1965; Gladys Eley to the Mother Church (First Church of Christ Scientist), undated, in LB. On journalist Erskine Johnson’s discovery of Gladys in Los Angeles, see Erskine Johnson, “Marilyn Monroe’s Mystery Mother,” Motion Picture, September 1952. According to Randy Taraborrelli, Johnny Hyde removed John Eley from Gladys’s life when he tried to blackmail Marilyn. But the Goddard family always called him Colonel, and Bebe Goddard contended that Gladys met him in a work program in Portland.
75. My information on John Eley comes from legal documents in RT.
76. Paul Weeks, “ExPress Agent Recalls Marilyn’s Magic Appeal,” Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1962.
77. Roberts, “Mimosa.”
78. Mel Tormé, It Wasn’t All Velvet: An Autobiography (New York: Viking, 1988), 162–65.
79. Earl Wilson, “M-m-m-my Marilyn,” Silver Screen, April 1953.
CHAPTER 7
1. JK, interview with Howard Hawks, in Kobal, People Will Talk, 496.
2. Robert Stack, Straight Shooting (New York: Macmillan, 1980), 184.
3. Monroe, My Story, 134. Maureen Turim argues that Monroe and Russell are partnered in the film to appeal to the common male fantasy of lesbian sex. See Turim, “Gentlemen Consume Blondes,” in Issues in Feminist Film Criticism, ed. Patricia Erens (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1990), 101–11.
4. Glenn Loney, Unsung Genius; Adrienne L. McLean, “The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole,” in Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, eds., Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 138–145.
5. Larry Billman, in a talk given to the Marilyn Remembered Fan Club, May 26,
2008; LB, interview with George Chakiris, November 26, 1998. Billman, who often danced in Cole’s productions, was a dancer in Let’s Make Love. Chakiris won an Academy Award for his dancing in West Side Story.
6. Adele Balkan oral interview, in AMPAS; Del Burnett, interview with Frank Radcliffe, in Burnett, “Marilyn: A Personal Reminiscence,” American Classic Screen, 1986.
7. Sheilah Graham, Hollywood Revisited, 125. AS interview with Billy Wilder, in AS.
8. Sammy Davis Jr., Hollywood in a Suitcase, 231; Jane Russell, “Foreword,” Belmont, Marilyn Monroe and the Camera, 9–10.
9. Jane Russell, An Autobiography: My Paths and My Detours (New York: Berkeley, 1986), 9–10.
10. MZ, interview with Jane Russell, in Zolotow—UT.
11. Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, 292.
12. Jane Russell, “That Girl Marilyn,” pamphlet, Affiliated Magazines, 1954. AS, interview with Jane Russell, in AS.
13. LB, interview with Patricia Traviss, February 27, 2010. According to Pat Traviss, Randy Taraborrelli’s tale that Marilyn took liquor to Rockhaven to drink with her mother is inaccurate. Gladys considered drinking a sin, and Marilyn never visited her. Taraborrelli also has Rockhaven mixed up with a nearby sanitarium, Kimball’s, which was larger and had more Hollywood-connected patients. Marilyn wasn’t present when Grace discussed placing Gladys at Rockhaven, and Gladys was taken to to Norwalk State Mental Hospital before Grace took her to Rockhaven some months later.
14. Bacon, Hollywood Is a Four Letter Town, 145.
15. Florabel Muir, Los Angeles Mirror, February 10, 1953; “Joan and Marilyn Talk to Louella Parsons,” Modern Screen, May 1953.
16. Marilyn Monroe, “I Live as I Please,” Motion Picture, June 1953.
17. Hildegard Johnson, “Hollywood vs. Marilyn Monroe,” Photoplay, July 1953; Sheilah Graham, “Sex Too Far,” Photoplay, February 1953; “Monroe and the Wild Life,” Modern Screen, November 1953. See also Time, November 17, 1952; Robert Heilbroner, “Marilyn Monroe: The Fabulous Story of Hollywood’s Biggest Buildup,” Cosmopolitan, May 1953.
18. Peter Bogdanovich, Who the Hell’s In It?, 488; Guiles, Legend, 216, 222.
19. Nora Johnson, Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979), 81; Jean Negulesco, interview with MZ, in Zolotow—UT.
20. The shape, not the size, of a penis counts for women in interourse, since it relates to the ability to stimulate the clitoris and to reach the G-spot, located not far from the clitoris. LB, interview with Rebecca Kuhn, M.D.
21. Jonathan Van Meter, The Last Good Time: Skinny D’Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City (New York: Crown, 2003), 62–67.
22. Lee Server, Robert Mitchum (New York: St. Martin’s, 2001), 249–51.
23. Shelley Winters, Shelley: Also Known as Shirley, 428–37; talk given by Stanley Rubin to the Marilyn Remembered Fan Club, August 5, 2010; Foster Hirsch, Otto Preminger, The Man Who Would Be King (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
24. Sidney Skolsky, August 6, 1962, in Skolsky—AMPAS. LB, interview with Noreen Nash, November 10, 2010.
25. Andrea Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (New York: Basic, 2009), 56–68.
26. Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 25, 1980, Sheree North clipping file, in AMPAS; Kotsibilis-Davis ed. Greene, Milton’s Marilyn, 72. On taking pills to parties as presents, see DS, interview with Milton Rudin, in Spoto—AMPAS. On pills as chips in poker games, see LB, interview with Patricia Newcomb, September 25, 2007. On pills being handed out at story conferences, see Kotsibilis-Davis ed. Greene, Milton’s Marilyn, 72–73. When Maurice Zolotow looked in Marilyn’s bathroom medicine cabinet in her studio suite, he found mostly medications for pain, as well as ergotrate to slow down bleeding.
27. Mailer interview with Amy Greene, in Mailer—UT; Strasberg, Marilyn and M e, 94.
28. Sammy Davis Jr., Hollywood in a Suitcase, 238.
29. Lipton, “Marilyn’s the Most!,” Motion Picture, May 28, 1956, 65. Interview with Roy Craft, in Crown, Marilyn at Fox, 35; Sammy Davis Jr., Hollywood in a Suitcase, 236–39. LB, interview with John Strasberg, June 11, 2007; Mailer, interview with Amy Greene, in Mailer—UT; AS, interview with Frank Neill, in AS; Neill was a Fox publicist on Love Nest and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. According to John Huston, drinking wasn’t Marilyn’s problem; drugs were. AS, interview with Huston, in AS.
30. JK, interview with Jack Cole, in Kobal, ed., People Will Talk, 605.
31. LB, interview with Rosemary Rau-Levine M.D., a specialist in immune system disorders, October 3, 2011; LB, interview with Steffi Skolsky Slaver, Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, 113; Amy Greene, Mailer—UT.
32. For more details on Inez, see Anderson and Banner, MM—Personal, passim.
33. On Inez’s relationship with Enid Knebelkamp, see Gladys Eley to Inez Melson, August 8, 1965, in LB; see also “Transcript of Inez Melson Interview with Barry Norman, BBC,” for The Hollywood Greats, in Banner and Anderson, MM—Personal, 54.
34. Rita Garrison Malloy, “Marilyn, Oh Marilyn,” Motion Picture Magazine, November 1954; Mac Phillips, “A Very Pure Person in a Very Impure World,” June 1, 1965, in Starr—ASU.
35. Mailer, interview with Amy Greene, in Mailer—UT; “Milton Greene,” B & W: Black and White Magazine, Spring 1949.
36. “Milton Greene,” in Mrs. Joe DiMaggio, “The Men Who Interest Me,” Pageant, April 1954. Greene and Greene, But That’s Another Story, 45.
37. Milton described the affair in his interview with Mailer, in Mailer—UT.
38. Negulesco, Things I Did, 222.
39. See William Barbour, “Why Joe Let Her Go,” Modern Screen, January 1955.
40. Crivello, Fallen Angels, 258.
41. Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century–Fox (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988), 64–88.
42. Elsie Lee, “Why Women Love Marilyn Monroe,” Screenland Plus TV-Land, July 1954.
43. AP wire service, January 29, 1954, in SE.
44. United Press wire service, September 15, 1952, in SE.
45. “400 GIs Stampede at Sight of Marilyn Monroe,” Los Angeles Times, February 18, 1954; C. Robert Jennings, “The Strange Case of Marilyn Monroe vs. the U.S. Army,” Los Angeles Magazine, August 1966.
46. AS, interview with Henry Rosenfeld, in AS; AS, interview with Gladys Whitten, in AS.
47. Mrs. Joe DiMaggio, “The Men Who Interest Me,” Pageant, April 1954; LB, interview with Hal Schaefer, June 29, 2008; AS, interview with Hal Schaefer, in AS; DS, interview with Hal Schaefer, in Spoto—AMPAS.
48. Negulesco, Things I Did, 224.
49. Amy Greene and Joshua Greene, eds., But That’s Another Story, 174.
50. Shaw, Joy of Marilyn, 76; LB, interview with Gloria Romanoff, December 13, 2008; Vivien Brown, “What’ll It Be: Curves or Straightaway?: A New U.S. Woman is Emerging,” Oakland Tribune, January 3, 1954 (syndicated column).
51. Ralph Roberts, “Mimosa.”
52. Mailer, interview with Milton Greene, in Mailer—UT.
53. For a photo of Joe and Marilyn boarding the airplane, see Joseph Bannon, Susan McKinney, and Joanna Wright, eds., Joe DiMaggio: An American Icon (New York: Daily News, 2000), 189.
54. Stacy Eubank Collection.
55. Skolsky, Don’t Get Me Wrong, 22; reporters were aware that Marilyn was ambivalent about Joe. See William Barbour, “Why Joe Let Her Go,” Modern Screen, January 1955; and Henaghan, “My Romance with Marilyn Monroe.”
56. Richard Baer, I Don’t Drop Names Like Marilyn Monroe Just to Sell Books: A Memoir (New York: iUniverse, 2005), 5–6; AS, interview with Amy Greene, in AS.
57. AS, interview with Sheila Stewart, in AS.
58. “Life Goes to a Party,” Life, November 29, 1954.
59. Jerry Lewis (and James Kaplan), Dean & Me: A Love Story (New York: Doubleday, 2005), 224–26. Sammy Davis Jr., Hollywood in a Suitcase, 230.
60. Tormé, It Wasn’t All Velvet, 165–66, 226.
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. Donald Bogle, Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography (New York: Amistad, 1997), 256; LB, interview with Audrey Franklin, November 5, 2008. Franklin was Ella Fitzgerald’s business manager for twenty-seven years.
62. Mike Boehm, “North’s Touches with Stardom,” Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2000.
63. Samuel Bernstein, Mr. Confidential: The Man, His Magazine, & the Movieland Massacre That Changed Hollywood Forever (New York: Walford, 2006).
64. McClellan, The Girls, 366.
65. Talk given by Stanley Rubin to the Marilyn Remembered Fan Club, August 5, 2010; Los Angeles Daily Mirror, March 10, 1953; Louella Parsons, “Love Can Wait,” Sunday Pictorial Review, Boston Globe, May 31, 1953.
66. In going through the Marilyn Monroe papers in the Hecht files at the Newberry Library in Chicago, I found many items overlooked by previous Marilyn biographers. The papers contain a draft manuscript of the autobiography and notes that Hecht took during the interviews with Marilyn in his own hand. The papers also include letters to publishers and lawyers about the projected memoir. Hecht’s secretary, Nanette Herberveux, transcribed the interviews in stenographic notes as Hecht was doing them with Marilyn, but those notes have been lost.
67. See William MacAdams, Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend (New York: Scribner, 1990); Doug Fetherling, The Five Lives of Ben Hecht (Toronto: Lester and Orpen, 1977): Florence Koven, Ben Hecht Story & News vol. 3, 2001.
68. Ben Hecht to Loyd Wright, May 19, 1954, in Hecht–NL.
69. DS, interview with Lucille Ryman, in Spoto—AMPAS; People Today, March 24, 1954.
70. Ben Hecht to Ken McCormack, late spring 1954; Rose Hecht to Loyd Wright, June 2; 1954, Rose Hecht to Greg Bautzer, September 23, 1962, in Hecht—NL; Hedda Hopper in Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1954.
71. National Police Gazette, autumn 1954; Erskine Johnson, “Overheard in Hollywood,” Motion Picture, October 1954; “Too Hot to Handle,” Movieland, December 1954.
72. Ben Hecht to Jacques Chambrun, April 14, 1954, in Hecht—NL.
73. Alice Finletter, “Don’t Call Me a Dumb Blonde,” Modern Screen, April 1955; Judith Martin, “A Tug-of-War Hitched to Marilyn Monroe’s Star,” Washington Post, May 8, 1954, clipping, in Mailer—UT.
