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35. Greenson, “Empathy and Its Vicissitudes,” paper read at the Twenty-first Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Copenhagen, July 1959; “The Working Alliance and the Transference Neurosis,” presented before the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, May 1963.
36. “Sleep, Dreams, and Death,” a public lecture given November 16, 1961, on KPFK, in Greenson—UCLA.
37. Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, August 21, 1962, in Greenson—UCLA.
38. LB, interview with Joshua Hoffs, February 4, 2010.
39. Michael H. Stone, “The Borderline Syndrome: Evolution of the Term, Genetic Aspects, and Prognosis,” in Michael H. Stone, ed., Essential Papers on Borderline Disorders: One Hundred Years at the Border (New York: New York University Press, 1986), 475–97.
40. LB, interview with Robert Litman; Murray and Shade, Marilyn: The Last Months, 40.
41. Greenson, “The Origin and Fate of New Ideas in Psychoanalysis,” presented at the Fourth Freud Anniversary Lecture, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, May 19, 1969, in Greenson, Explorations in Psychoanalysis, 333–57; Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Anna Freud: A Biography (New York: Summit, 1988), 371. My interpretation of Greenson differs from that of Douglas Kirsner, who I think misreads the sources. See Douglas Kirsner, “‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’: Ralph Greenson, Anna Freud, and Superrich Patients,” Psychoanalytic Psychology 24 (2007): 475–86.
42. Norman Rosten to Ralph Greenson, July 1962, AS collection.
43. Janice Rule, “The Actor’s Identity Crises (Postanalytic Reflections of an Actress),” International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 2 (1975). My thanks to UCLA professor Peter Loewenberg for this source.
44. On Pat Newcomb and her closeness to Marilyn, see AS, interviews with George Jacobs, William Woodfield, and Kendis Rochlin, in AS; and DS, interview with Susan Strasberg, in Spoto—AMPAS. On Fox and firing Newcomb, see the legal documents for Marilyn, 1962 Fox–UCLA.
45. Freeman, Why Norma Jeane Killed Marilyn Monroe, 171; Masters and Browning, The Masters Way to Beauty, 74–75.
46. Haspiel, Marilyn: The Ultimate Look, 186–89.
47. Greenson, “An MCP Freudian Psychoanalyst Confronts Women’s Lib,” April 27, 1972, presented at a benefit for the Reiss Davis Child Study Center, Women’s Division, Los Angeles. In 1955 Greenson had argued a strict Freudian position on the superiority of the vaginal orgasm in “Forepleasure: Its Use for Defensive Purposes,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Los Angeles, May 1955.
48. Carol Groneman, Nymphomania: A History (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), 80–81; Alvah Bessie, The Symbol (New York: Random House, 1967).
49. On Marilyn’s treatment of Eunice, see Joan Greenson, “Memoir of Marilyn,” 31, in Greenson—UCLA.
50. Murray and Shade, Marilyn: The Last Months, 23.
51. Joe Hyams, Mislaid in Hollywood (New York: P. H. Wyden, 1973), 139.
52. Frederick Vanderbilt Field, From Right to Left: An Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill, 1983), 299–305.
53. FBI Dossier on Marilyn Monroe, Freedom of Information Act, Declassified.
54. Stempel, Screenwriter, 171.
55. Brown, Let Me Entertain You, 55.
56. LB, interview with Noreen Nash, June 15, 2010. A number of Marilyn writers have accused Siegel of giving Marilyn “hot shots.” Noreen Nash, Siegel’s wife, possesses a number of affidavits signed by Siegel’s nurses, who assisted him during the years he treated Marilyn, stating that he had not given such a treatment to any patient. Once the studio fired Marilyn on June 9, Siegel was no longer her doctor, since he treated her through Twentieth Century–Fox.
57. Greenson describes this episode in “On Transitional Objects and Transference,” 1974, in Greenson, Explorations in Psychoanalysis, 493–96.
58. Dale McConathy, with Diana Vreeland, Hollywood Costume: Glamour! Glitter! Romance! (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976), 247.
59. The hairstyling by Kenneth Battelle, including pictures of Marilyn with the flip, is described in Amy Fine Collins, “It Had to Be Kenneth,” Vanity Fair, June 2003. Jackie’s tour of the White House is available on YouTube.
60. For the photo, see Banner and Anderson, MM—Personal, 196–97; on Marilyn taking Isidore Miller home, see Flora Rheta Schreiber, “Remembrance of Marilyn: The Memories of Isidore Miller,” in Wagenknecht, ed., Marilyn Monroe, 54.
61. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 590; AS, interview with Pete Summers, in AS.
62. LB, interview with Larry Newman, February 8, 2009. Mickey Song told the same story in interviews and in talks before the Marilyn Remembered Fan Club. He claimed that Bobby was angry because Marilyn’s hairdo so closely resembled Jackie’s. The best defense of Song against attacks that he wasn’t the Kennedys’ hairdresser is in Riese and Hitchens, The Unabridged Marilyn, 494.
CHAPTER 13
1. Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story, 102–15. A copy of the receipt for the painting and the sculpture, dated May 9, 1962, is in Banner and Anderson, MM—Personal, 266. The owner of the gallery stated that Rodin had made twelve castings of the statue and Marilyn had number five.
2. James Spada, interview with Milton Ebbins, in Spada—ASU.
3. LB, interview with Lawrence Schiller, May 16, 2010.
4. See Prometheus Films and Van Ness Entertainment, Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days.
5. Murray and Shade, Marilyn: The Last Months, 158.
6. Weatherby, Conversations with Marilyn, 199, 203–204.
7. Stewart, The Peter Lawford Story, 161.
8. Wilson, Show Business, 67.
9. See Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe, The Last Sitting: Bert Stern’s Favorite Photos of an American Icon (Paris: Musée Maillol, 2006).
10. Richard Meryman, “Fame May Go By …” in Wagenknecht, ed., Marilyn Monroe, 3–15.
11. LB, interview with Larry Newman, February 18, 2009; AS, interview with Earl Jaycox, in AS. Jaycox was a technician working with Fred Otash who listened to the tapes.
12. AS, interviews with Rupert Allan, Jeanne Martin, Anne Karger, Henry Weinstein, George Durgom, George Chasin, Peter Dye, Lynn Sherman, and Ward Wood, in AS; James Spada, interview with Molly Dunne, in Spada—ASU; LB, interview with Janet DesRosiers, April 30, 2010; Lady May Lawford and Buddy Galon, Bitch! The Autobiography of Lady Lawford (Brookline Village, Mass.: Branden, 1986), 79; Earl Wilson, Sinatra: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1976); Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 590; AS, interview with Phyllis McGuire, in AS: McGuire maintained that Marilyn “was pressing Bob to make a decision about marrying her.” Janet DesRosiers was Joe Kennedy’s longtime mistress.
13. AS, interview with Harry Hall, in AS; LB, interview with Michael Selsman, November 13, 2009; Joan Greenson, “Memoir of Marilyn” in Greenson—UCLA; Peter Lawford, “Notes for an Autobiography,” in Lawford—ASU. According to Skinny D’Amato, Bobby, not Jack, was her serious involvement. Since the inauguration Angie Dickinson had been Jack’s major Hollywood girlfriend. Van Meter, The Last Good Time, 192. Ted Landreth, BBC documentary, Say Goodbye to the President. Rupert Allan: “She said that the Kennedys passed her around like a piece of meat.” Allan made a similar comment to Peter Evans, in Evans, Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle that Brought Down the Kennedys (New York: Regan, 2004), 80–81.
14. AS, interview with Inez Melson, in AS.
15. George Carpozi Jr., interview with Eunice Murray, in Mailer—UT; LB, interview with Patricia Lawford Stewart, November 19, 2007.
16. LB, interview with Gloria Romanoff; DS, interview with Ralph Roberts, in Spoto—AMPAS.
17. LB, interview with Michael Selsman, November 13, 2009.
18. Brown and Barham, interview with Rupert Allan, in Brown and Barham, Marilyn: The Last Take: “I heard that she was pregnant and that it was Bobby’s child. She told Agnes Flanagan about it” (469–470). (Flanagan was Marilyn’s pe
rsonal hairdresser.) Arthur James claimed that Marilyn told him about it. LB, interview with Arthur James, June 25, 2010; LB, interview with Michael Selsman, November 13, 2009; AS, interview with Michael Selsman, in AS.
19. On the Kennedy connection to Cal Neva, see Van Meter, Last Good Time, 175–91; and Sally Denton, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1974–2000 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).
20. LB, interview with Patricia Lawford Stewart, November 19, 2007.
21. Linda Leigh, testimony in BBC documentary Say Goodbye to the President; Roberts, “Mimosa.” Leigh was a singer on the entertainment program that weekend.
22. Ibid; LB, interview with Roberta Linn, October 10, 2009; LB, interview with Cami Sebring, July 3, 2009; LB, interview with Betsy Hammes, September 4, 2009.
23. Jill Adams interviewed William Woodfield’s wife, who saw the negatives. She said that Giancana was dressed and that Marilyn was in disarray. The negatives, however, were blurry, and the figures were hard to discern. LB, interview with Jill Adams, November 24, 2008. According to Donald Wolfe, Woodfield told him that the photos showed Giancana and Sinatra watching as several goons raped Marilyn; in Wolfe, The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe, 547. In his study of Marilyn’s death, The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe (London: JR Books, 2010), Keith Badman argues that Mafia henchmen gang-raped Marilyn, forced her to crawl around on the floor, and made her participate in a lesbian sex act with prostitutes. Since Badman has no footnotes, it is impossible to check his sources. Indeed, Badman disagrees with most of the painstaking interviews done by Anthony Summers and others, who cite sources. Thus I can’t consider him reliable.
24. LB, interview with Phyllis McGuire, March 18, 2009. The stories of sexual abuse come mostly from Mafia members. Vincent “Jimmy Blue Eyes” Alo, an associate of Meyer Lansky, told Gus Russo he was at Cal Neva that weekend and Peter and Frank kept her drugged every night. When the FBI listened to a tap on Giancana’s phone, they heard Johnny Roselli say to him, “You sure get your rocks off fucking the same broad as the brothers, don’t you.” Gus Russo, The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2001), 432. Harry Hall made a similar statement to Joe DiMaggio. See also LB, interview with Thomas Sobeck, April 22, 2010. Sobeck was a “wise guy” who told me a similar story.
25. Engelberg and Schneider, DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight, 248.
26. LB, interview with Gloria Romanoff, December 13, 2008.
27. AS, interview with Jeanne Martin, in AS, May 20, 2009. LB, interview with Gloria Romanoff, December 13, 2008.
28. DS, interview with Milton Ebbins, Spoto—AMPAS.
29. Suzanne Finstad, Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood (New York: Harmony Books, 2001), 245; “Interview with Whitey Snyder,” Runnin’ Wild, January 1992.
30. LB, interview with Steffi Skolsky Slaver, September 14, 2006. LB, interview with Patricia Newcomb, September 25, 2007. On the incidents surrounding Marilyn’s death, I have often relied on David Marshall, The DD Group: An Online Investigation into the Death of Marilyn Monroe (New York: iUniverse, 2005), although I disagree with him about the time of death.
31. LB, interview with Dolores Nemiro, April 7, 2009. James Spada, Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets (New York: Bantam, 1991).
32. Matthew Smith, interview with Fred Otash, in Smith, Marilyn’s Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), 179.
33. Guilaroff, Crowning Glory, 166.
34. James Spada, interview with Milton Ebbins, in Spada—ASU; James Spada interview with William Asher, in Spada—ASU.
35. The Ben Hecht Papers contain the same statement, written by Marilyn in 1954 and not addressed to anyone. Marilyn often jotted notes and sentiments down late at night on scraps of paper.
36. AS, interview with William Woodfield, in AS; James Spada, interview with Fred Otash, in Spada—ASU.
37. Brown and Barham, Marilyn: The Last Take, 479.
38. Susan Bernard, Marilyn Monroe: Intimate Exposures (New York: Sterling, 2011), 186–87.
39. Smith, Marilyn’s Last Words, 273.
40. Lynn Franklin, The Beverly Hills Murder File (1999; Bloomington, Ind.: First Books, 2002), 108–09. Franklin didn’t refer to this episode in his first book on his career, Sawed Off Justice, with Maury Allen (New York: Putnam, 1976).
41. AS, interview with Peter Lawford, in AS; C. David Heymann, interview with Peter Lawford, transcript, in Heymann, SUNY–Stony Brook. See also C. David Heymann, RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy (New York: Dutton, 1998), 305–06, 320–22.
42. Patricia Lawford Stewart repeatedly asked Heymann for the tape through her lawyer, but he never provided it. LB, interview with Patricia Seaton Lawford Stewart and Daniel Stewart, May 10, 2011. See also Daniel K. Stewart to Paul Mahon, September 21, 1998, requesting to listen to the tape. Mahon was Heymann’s lawyer. The James Spada Papers at Arizona State University include a letter from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to Spada, contesting many of the allegations about Bobby Kennedy in Heymann’s biography. On the highly debatable charge that Greenson killed Marilyn, see Jay Margolis, Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder (Bloomington, Ind,: iUniverse, 2011).
43. Sam Giancana and Chuck Giancana, Double Cross (1993; New York: Sky-horse, 2010), 413–17. Antoinette Giancana, Sam Giancana’s daughter, told Matthew Smith that Double Cross was a fabrication. Smith, Marilyn’s Last Words, 273.
44. Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (New York: Putnam, 1993), 301.
45. AS, interview with Henry Rosenfeld, in AS; AS, interview with Jean Louis, in AS.
46. Thomas Noguchi, Coroner at Large (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), 65–85.
AFTERWORD
1. Woodard and Marshall, Hometown Girl; interview with Angelo Deluco, in Allen, Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio; Bob Considine, in Herald Examiner, clipping, n.p., n.d., in Starr—ASU; Dorothy Manners, filling in for Louella Parsons, August 13, 1962, in SE.
2. Descriptions of Marilyn’s funeral were written by individuals who attended it. The term “in one big wave” comes from Lotte Goslar, What’s So Funny?, 119. LB, interview with Patricia Rosten, March 12, 2008.
3. Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story, 21.
4. Kazan, Elia Kazan, 790–98.
A Note on the Author
Lois Banner was a founder of the field of women’s history and cofounder of the Berkshire Conference in Women’s History, the major academic event in the field. She was the first woman president of the American Studies Association, and in 2005 she won the Bode-Pearson Prize of the American Studies Association for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of ten books, including her acclaimed American Beauty and most recently MM—Personal, which reproduces and discusses items from Marilyn’s personal archive. Banner is a major collector of Marilyn artifacts. She is also a professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Monica.
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