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not fighting over: Loyd Wright, Jr., quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 6, 1954.
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I was put: Quoted in Marie Torre, “Marilyn Monroe,” New York Herald-Tribune TV and Radio Magazine (section 9), week of Aug. 14–20, 1955, p. 6.
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I read the script: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Feb. 1, 1954.
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I couldn’t believe: Zanuck, quoted in Dick Williams’s column in the Los Angeles Mirror, Jan. 15, 1954.
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Marilyn herself: Time, vol. lxiii, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1954): 108.
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the inheritor: Life, vol. 36, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1954): 32.
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I’d like to have: Widely quoted in the international press: see, e.g., Allen, p. 180; Kahn, p. 254; Los Angeles Examiner, Jan. 15, 1954.
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On the motel room, see Allen, p. 180.
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It usually rents for: Quoted in Hedda Hopper, “DiMaggio and Monroe Hide for Honeymoon,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 17, 1954.
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radiant: San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 17, 1954.
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solemn and tired: Ibid.
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I just bumped: “Marilyn and DiMaggio on Their Way to Japan,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 30, 1954. The story of the broken thumb was picked up by the Associated Press and widely reported.
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my Slugger: Often throughout 1954, and reported, e.g., in Roger Manvell, Love Goddesses of the Movies (New York: Crescent, 1979), p. 116.
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Airport officials: United Press International wire item dated January 30, 1955; see, e.g., the Los Angeles Times for Jan. 31, 1954, sec. I, p. 26 (“Hair-Tugging Mob Greets Marilyn, Joe”).
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went virtually unnoticed: Time, Feb. 15, 1954, p. 32.
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like I was: Kahn, p. 255.
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For O’Doul’s recollections, see Kahn, ibid.
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The press conference was widely reported by wire services; see, e.g., Time, art. cit.
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the marriage seemed: Quoted in Allen, p. 183; also see Gay Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero,” in Esquire, vol. 66, no. 1 (July 1966): 43.
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For accounts of MM’s tour of Korea, see C. Robert Jennings, “The Strange Case of Marilyn Monroe vs. the U.S. Army,” Los Angeles Magazine, August 1966, pp. 31–63; Allen, pp. 181–184; Kahn, pp. 255–256.
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There were seventeen: From the original draft of Hecht’s version of MM’s autobiography, Box HE, pages 133–136, in the Ben Hecht Collection at The Newberry Library, Chicago.
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She was Marilyn Monroe: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 20, 1954.
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She gave us: Ted Cieszynski to DS, Feb. 10, 1992.
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This is my first: Jennings, art. cit., p. 60.
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When I went to Korea: Skolsky, p. 212.
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It was so wonderful: Cited frequently—e.g., Talese, p. 43; Kahn, p. 256.
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Joe hates: Sidney Skolsky’s column, Hollywood Citizen-News, March 10, 1954.
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For the dialogue between MM and Skolsky, see Skolsky, p. 213.
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Marilyn wept: Ben Hecht to Jacques Chambrun, April 14, 1954. Ben Hecht Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
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Sit down and: Quoted by MM to Arthur Miller, Timebends (New York: Grove Press, 1987), p. 370.
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But you’re married: Quoted by Lucille Ryman Carroll to DS, Feb. 20, 1992.
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At night: JWP/NL II, p. 22.
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called me at two or three: JWP/NL I, p. 7.
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tired of having: Jack Gordean and Hugh French, memo to Charles K. Feldman reporting a meeting with Marilyn on or about June 26, 1954.
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It’s ridiculous: Hal Schaefer, quoted in Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 6, 1954, and in Confidential, vol. 3, no. 4 (September 1955): 56. The latter magazine, thought at the time to be a mere gossip tabloid, was in fact an impeccably researched and carefully written monthly, however sensational were the aspects of celebrities’ lives it chose to present. Confidential was, for example, the first magazine to challenge the Hollywood hypocrisy that there were no homosexuals in the film industry. Employing investigative reporters, attorneys, fact-checkers and established journalists, Confidential also delivered some of the most revealing stories of its time on executive mismanagement and studio fraud.
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It’s okay, baby: Confidential, p. 58. This event was confirmed to DS by producer Milton Ebbins, in an interview on Sept. 22, 1992.
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very unhappy when: Louella O. Parsons, “Joe Jealousy [sic] of Marilyn Told in Rift: Cites Visits to Voice Coach in Hospital,” Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 6, 1954, p. 1.
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She had very little: Hal Schaefer to DS, April 24, 1992.
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stupid part: MG IV, 3, p. 25.
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Breathe from your stomach: Quoted in Robert Cahn, “Marilyn Monroe Hits a New High,” Collier’s, Sept. 9, 1954, pp. 99–101.
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Miss Monroe’s wriggling: Bosley Crowther, in the New York Times, Dec. 16, 1954.
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For Irving Berlin’s comment, see Manvell, p. 117.
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I had a code: JWP/NL I, p. 6.
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If Marilyn wasn’t: Rita Moreno, on The Class of The 20th Century, Merrill W. Mazuer, prod. for CEL Communications, Inc./The A & E Network (US cable television), 1991.
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I’ve heard: Susan Strasberg, Bittersweet (New York: Putnam’s, 1980), pp. 55–56.
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I kept: MM, quoted on MG dictabelt #4, dated April 11, 1957.
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What the hell: Quoted in Graham McCann, Marilyn Monroe (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988), p. 46.
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He has the grace: MM, quoted in Pageant, vol. 9, no. 10 (April 1954): 55.
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He wouldn’t speak: Quoted in Maurice Zolotow, “The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe,” American Weekly, Oct. 23, 1955, p. 30.
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When I married: Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story (New York: Signet/NAL, 1973), p. 104.
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I have too many: Quoted in Gloria Steinem, “Growing Up with Marilyn,” Ms., vol. 1, no. 2 (August 1972): 38.
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But although she was: George Axelrod to DS, Nov. 6, 1991.
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the shot seen: Cited often—e.g., by photographer Sam Shaw, in “Runnin’ Wild,” no. 9 (Jan. 1993).
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She was shaking: Tom Ewell, quoted in the Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 5, 1954, p. 51.
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The location work: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.
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Wilder and Wurtzel confirmed the production schedule to DS in interviews on (respectively) Nov. 19, 1991 and Feb. 19, 1992.
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It would make: The entire dialogue was published by Winchell in his syndicated column just days after MM died: see, e.g., the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Aug. 8, 1962.
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look of death: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
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The violence between Marilyn and Joe was widely reported by witnesses: see McCann, p. 46.
Chapter Fourteen: October 1954–January 1955
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On MM’s illness, see the Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 30, 1954.
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I hope you: Quoted in the Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 5, 1954, p. 51.
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I knew she: Tom Ewell, quoted in Hollywood Studio Magazine, vol. 20, no. 8 (Aug. 1987): 33.
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Others could give: Darryl F. Zanuck to Billy Wilder, letter dated Sept. 20, 1954, preserved in the Charles K. Feldman Papers at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
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I have to sleep: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992; see also Shaw and Rosten, Marilyn among friends, p. 16.
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When you got her: Billy Wilder to DS, Nov. 19, 1991.
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I wanted so much: MG V, 3.
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letter perfect: George Axelrod to DS, April 22, 1992.
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For the neighbors’ recollections of Marilyn’s nighttime walks, see the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Oct. 6, 1954.
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because of incompatibility: For the news release and subsequent statements to the press, see, e.g., Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 1954; Time vol. 75, no. 16 (Oct. 18, 1954): 47; and newswire services from October 4 through 7, 1954.
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grievous mental suffering: Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 1954.
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common as political: Ibid.
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It is my home: Los Angeles Mirror, Oct. 6, 1954; see also Beverly Hills Newslife, Oct. 7, 1954.
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Miss Monroe will: Quoted in Beverly Hills Newslife, Oct. 7, p. 1; also on newsfilm worldwide, and on both the United Press International and Associated Press newswire services.
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The marriage was: Ray Parker and Roby Heard, “What Made Marilyn and Joe Bust Up?” Los Angeles Mirror, Oct. 5, 1954, p. 4.
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Now at last: Ibid., Oct. 7, 1954, part 1, p. 6.
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Joe is a sweet guy: Quoted by Aline Mosby in “Marilyn, Joe Rift Widens,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Oct. 7.
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Bored: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 2, 1992.
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Joe DiMaggio bored: Skolsky, p. 225.
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He didn’t like: MG III, 4, unpaginated.
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I feel alive: Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Oct. 8, 1954.
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I can’t understand: Quoted in the Newark Evening News, Oct. 18, 1954.
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But Marilyn’s determination: Skolsky, p. 224–225.
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Mr. DiMaggio: Quoted in the Newark Evening News, art. cit.
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She has been: Charles K. Feldman to Darryl F. Zanuck, letter dated October 21, 1954, preserved in the Feldman Collection at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
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I feel like: “Life Goes to A Select Supper for Marilyn,” Life, vol. 37, no. 22 (Nov. 22, 1954): 162; this was picked up from Skolsky’s column of Nov. 9.
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that the so-called elite of: Sidney Skolsky’s column, “Hollywood Is My Beat,” Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 9, 1954.
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I have come: Quoted in Shaw and Rosten, p. 78.
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I’ve always admired: MM told the exchange to Skolsky, who included it in his column dated Nov. 9.
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It’s because of: Ibid.
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for correction of: Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 8, 1954; Los Angeles Daily News, Nov. 9, 1954.
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There’s no chance: MM to Aline Mosby, quoted in the Hollywood Citizen-News, Nov. 8, 1954.
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Regarding the end of the Schaefer affair and the dialogue at the Villa Capri between MM and Joe, see Louella Parsons in the Los Angeles Examiner, Nov. 9 and 16, 1954.
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She wanted me: Ella Fitzgerald, quoted in Gloria Steinern, Marilyn (New York: Henry Holt, 1986), pp. 90–91.
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He, too, wanted: Michael Korda to DS, June 30, 1992.
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Background material on the formation of MMP is found in MG (all files and folders) and was also provided by Jay Kanter (MM’s MCA agent in New York from 1955) to DS, April 15, 1992.
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For a brief outline history of Lew Wasserman’s extraordinarily powerful career, see “Lew!”, California, vol. 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1985): 95–144.
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never had a chance: MG I, 2, p. 3.
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With us she had: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
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Marilyn seemed to me: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.
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because of their: Irving L. Stein, corporate memorandum dated Feb. 2, 1955, in MG II. Hereinafter, Stein’s corporate memoranda, letters, etc., are designated ILS.
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We will go: New York Times, Jan. 8, 1955; New York Daily News, Jan. 8, 1955.
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The account of the night at the Copacabana was recalled by Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
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It is the damndest: ILS to Aubrey Schenck, Jan. 13, 1955: MG II.
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You’re looking good: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column (e.g., Hollywood Citizen-News) for Jan. 12, 1955.
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It might be fatal: ILS, Jan. 27, 1955: MG II.
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Get Joe DiMaggio: ILS, Jan. 31, 1955.
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only while DiMaggio: ILS, Feb. 2, 1955: MG IV.
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Is this a: Earl Wilson, “Marilyn, Joe Tryst Hints Reconciliation,” syndicated column (e.g., Boston Mirror-News), Jan. 25, 1955.
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Regarding Marilyn’s ease in wandering the streets of New York if she did not make herself up: this she discussed on Edward R. Murrow’s CBS television show Person to Person on April 8, 1955.
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Regarding RCA’s promotion for her recordings in Variety, see the issue dated Feb. 16, 1955, p. 43.
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For accounts and histories of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio, see Evangeline Morphos, ed., Lee Strasberg: A Dream of Passion (Boston: Little, Brown, 1987); Cindy Adams, Lee Strasberg: The Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio (Garden City: Doubleday, 1980); and Steve Vineberg, Method Actors (New York: Schirmer, 1991). Much important information also came to DS in several interviews with Susan Strasberg during 1989, 1990 and the spring and summer of 1992.
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We were like: Eli Wallach, quoted in Joanne Kaufman, “Studio System,” Vanity Fair, vol. 55, no. 11 (November 1992): 238.
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We were dedicated: Shelley Winters, ibid., 272.
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He sometimes got: Anne Jackson, ibid.
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Lee was enshrined: Kazan, p. 539.
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It made me: Marlon Brando, quoted in the New York Times’s obituary of Lee Strasberg, Feb. 18, 1982, p. D20.
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Lee-you-should-excuse: Quoted in Adams, p. 3.
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Crying, after all: Quoted in Viner, p. 109.
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All this talk: Laurence Olivier, quoted by Basil Langton to DS, May 11, 1990; see also Maurice Zolotow, “The Olivier Method,” New York Times, Feb. 7, 1960, sec. 2, p. 1.
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On Strasberg’s insisting that MM submit to psychoanalysis: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3 and 10, 1992; see also Susan Strasberg, Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends (New York: Warner Books, 1992), p. 31.
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Milton did more: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.
Chapter Fifteen: February–December 1955
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I had teachers: MG VI: 4.
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It seemed to me: ILS, Feb. 28, 1955.
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My problem is: Her remarks have three sources: Belmont, p. 19; MG III, 3, 17, in notes taken at a meeting with Stein on March 10, 1955; and MM to Susan Strasberg, quoted to DS, June 3, 1992.
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The incidents and dialogue with the Rostens are recounted in Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story (New York: Signet/NAL, 1973), pp. 11–12, 27–28.
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When she came: Norman Rosten, quoted in Kahn, p. 67.
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and the resulting: Miller, p. 354.
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It was wonderful: James Kaplan, art. cit., 242.
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It meant a lot: MM on Edward R. Murrow’s CBS-TV show Person to Person, April 8, 1955.
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The circumstances of the Murrow television broadcast are derived from Amy Greene’s account to DS, May 5, 1992; and from a study of the program, preserved in the archives of the Museum of Television and Radio, New York City.
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Imagine what you: Eve Arnold, on the BBC-TV documentary Eve and Marilyn (1987).
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For Susan Strasberg’s contributions, see Marilyn and Me, pp. 143, 145; also, Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992.
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She wore: Stanley Kauffmann, “Album of Marilyn Monroe,” American Scholar, vol. 60, no. 4 (autumn 1991): 568.