Marilyn Monroe

by Donald Spoto

  Moore, Robin and Gene Schoor. Marilyn & Joe DiMaggio. Manor Books, 1977.

  Morphos, Evangeline (editor). Lee Strasberg: A Dream of Passion. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

  Murray, Eunice. Marilyn: The Last Months. New York: Pyramid, 1975.

  Negulesco, Jean. Things I Did . . . and Things I Think I Did. New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984.

  Nolan, William F. John Huston: King Rebel. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.

  Olivier, Laurence. Confessions of an Actor. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

  ———. On Acting. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1986.

  Overholt, Alma. The Catalina Story. Avalon and Los Angeles: no publisher listed, 1962.

  Palmer, Edwin O. History of Hollywood. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.

  Parsons, Louella O. Tell It To Louella. New York: Putnam’s, 1961.

  Pepitone, Lena, and William Stadiem. Marilyn Monroe Confidential. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

  Pratley, Gerald. The Cinema of John Huston. Cranbury, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1977.

  Preminger, Otto. Preminger: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

  Rand, Christopher. Los Angeles: The Ultimate City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

  Ricci, Mark, and Michael Conway. The Complete Films of Marilyn Monroe. Secaucus: Citadel, 1964.

  Riese, Randall, and Neal Hitchens. The Unabridged Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1987.

  Robins, Natalie. Alien Ink. New York: Morrow, 1992.

  Rollyson, Carl E., Jr. Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

  Rosten, Norman. Marilyn: An Untold Story. New York: NAL/Signet, 1973.

  Russell, Jane. Jane Russell: My Paths & My Detours. New York: Franklin Watts, 1985.

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  Smith, Ella. Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck. New York: Crown, 1985.

  Spada, James, and George Zeno. Monroe: Her Life in Pictures. New York: Doubleday, 1982.

  Speriglio, Milo. The Marilyn Conspiracy. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.

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  Steinern, Gloria, with photographs by George Barris. Marilyn. New York: Henry Holt, 1986.

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  ———. Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends. New York: Warner, 1992.

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  ———. Marilyn Monroe: In Her Own Words. New York: Delilah/Putnam, 1983. (U.K.: Marilyn on Marilyn. London: Zachary Kwintner Books Ltd., 1983.)

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  Wilson, Earl. Show Business Laid Bare. New York: Putnam’s, 1974.

  ———. The Show Business Nobody Knows. Chicago: Cowles, 1971.

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  ———. Marilyn Monroe. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960.

  The Films of

  Marilyn Monroe

  The following abbreviations are used for the credits of Marilyn Monroe’s twenty-nine completed and released motion pictures:

  P: Producer

  D: Director

  Sc: Author of screenplay

  b/o: based on

  C: Cinematographer

  b/w: black and white (all others in Technicolor or DeLuxe)

  Rel: Release date

  Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!

  P: Walter Morosco for Fox. D/Sc: F. Hugh Herbert, b/o a novel by George Chamberlain. C: Ernest Palmer. Rel: April 1948. MM as Peggy; with June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Ann Revere, Natalie Wood, Henry Hull, Tom Tully.

  Dangerous Years

  P: Sol Wurtzel for Fox. D: Arthur Pierson. Sc: Arnold Belgard. C: Benjamin Kline, b/w. Rel: Dec. 1947: filmed after Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! but released first. MM as Eve; with William Halop, Ann E. Todd, Darryl Hickman, Jerome Cowan.

  Ladies of the Chorus

  P: Harry A. Romm for Columbia. D: Phil Karlson. Sc: Harry Sauber and Joseph Carol. C: Frank Redman, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1948. MM as Peggy Martin; with Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant.

  Love Happy

  P: Lester Cowan for United Artists (Mary Pickford). D: David Miller. Sc: Frank Tashlin and Mac Benoff, b/o a story by Harpo Marx. C: William C. Mellor, b/w. Rel: April 1950. MM as an unnamed client of Groucho Marx (as a private detective); with Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Eric Blore, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr.

  A Ticket to Tomahawk

  P: Robert Bassler for Fox. D: Richard Sale. Sc: Sale and Mary Loos. C: Harry Jackson. Rel: May 1950. MM as Clara; with Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marion Marshall.

  The Asphalt Jungle

  P: Arthur Hornblow, Jr., for MGM. D: John Huston. Sc: Huston and Ben Maddow, b/o a novel by W. R. Burnett. C: Harold Rosson. b/w. Rel: May 1950. MM as Angela Phinlay; with Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore.

  All About Eve

  P: Darryl F. Zanuck for Fox. D/Sc: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. C: Milton Krasner, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1950. MM as Miss Caswell; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff.

  The Fireball

  P: Bert Friedlob for Fox. D: Tay Garnett. Sc: Garnett and Horace McCoy. C: Lester White, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1950. MM as Polly; with Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler.

  Right Cross

  P: Armand Deutsch for MGM. D: John Sturges. Sc: Charles Schnee. C: Norbert Brodine, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1950. MM as Dusky LeDoux; with Dick Powell, June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore.

  Home Town Story (not, as usually listed, Hometown Story)

  P, D, Sc: Arthur Pierson for MGM. C: Lucien Andriot, b/w. Rel: May 1951. MM as Iris; with Donald Crisp, Jeffrey Lynn, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale, Jr.

  As Young As You Feel

  P: Lamar Trotti for Fox. D: Harmon Jones. Sc: Trotti, b/o a story by Paddy Chayefsky. C: Joe MacDonald, b/w. Rel: Aug. 1951. MM as Harriet; with Monty Woolley, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Constance Bennett, Albert Dekker.

  Love Nest

  P: Jules Buck for Fox. D: Joseph Newm
an. Sc: I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a novel by Scott Corbett. C: Lloyd Ahern, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1951. MM as Roberta Stevens; with June Haver, William Lundigan, Leatrice Joy, Jack Paar, Frank Fay.

  Let’s Make It Legal

  P: Robert Bassler for Fox. D: Richard Sale. Sc: F. Hugh Herbert and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by Mortimer Braus. C: Lucien Ballard, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1951. MM as Joyce; with Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Robert Wagner, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates.

  Clash by Night

  P: Harriet Parsons for Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, RKO. D: Fritz Lang. Sc: Alfred Hayes, b/o the play by Clifford Odets. C: Nicholas Musuraca, b/w. Rel: June 1952. MM as Peggy; with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Keith Andes.

  We’re Not Married

  P/Sc: Nunnally Johnson for Fox. D: Edmund Goulding. C: Leo Tover, b/w. Rel: July 1952. MM as Annabel Norris; with David Wayne and (in other segments of this anthology film) Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor.

  Don’t Bother to Knock

  P: Julian Blaustein for Fox. D: Roy Baker. Sc: Daniel Taradash, b/o a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. C: Lucien Ballard, b/w. Rel: July 1952. MM as Nell Forbes; with Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jim Backus, Lurene Tuttle.

  Monkey Business

  P: Sol Siegel for Fox. D: Howard Hawks. Sc: Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by Harry Segall. C: Milton Krasner, b/w. Rel: Sept. 1952. MM as Lois Laurel; with Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe.

  O. Henry’s Full House

  P: Andre Hakin for Fox. D: Henry Koster. Sc: Lamar Trotti, b/o stories by O. Henry. C: Lloyd Ahern, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1952. MM as a streetwalker, in a segment of this five-part anthology film; with Charles Laughton, David Wayne.

  Niagara

  P: Charles Brackett for Fox. D: Henry Hathaway. Sc: Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard Breen. C: Joe MacDonald. Rel: Jan. 1953. MM as Rose Loomis; with Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Richard Allan, Denis O’Dea, Don Wilson, Lurene Tuttle.

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  P: Sol Siegel for Fox. D: Howard Hawks. Sc: Charles Lederer, b/o works by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields. C: Harry J. Wild. Rel: July 1953. MM as Lorelei Lee; with Jane Russell, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Elliot Reid, George Winslow, Norma Varden.

  How To Marry a Millionaire

  P: Nunnally Johnson for Fox. D: Jean Negulesco. Sc: Johnson, b/o plays by Zoë Akins and Dale Eunson and a book by Doris Lilly. C: Joe MacDonald. Rel: Nov. 1953. MM as Pola Debevoise; with Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Alex D’Arcy, Cameron Mitchell, Fred Clark.

  River of No Return

  P: Stanley Rubin for Fox. D: Otto Preminger. Sc: Frank Fenton, b/o a story by Louis Lantz. C: Joseph LaShelle. Rel: April 1954. MM as Kay Weston; with Robert Mitchum, Tommy Rettig, Rory Calhoun.

  There’s No Business Like Show Business

  P: Sol Siegel for Fox. D: Walter Lang. Sc: Phoebe and Henry Ephron, b/o a story by Lamar Trotti. C: Leon Shamroy. Rel: Dec. 1954. MM as Vicky; with Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O’Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnny Ray.

  The Seven Year Itch

  P: Charles K. Feldman and Billy Wilder for Fox. D: Billy Wilder. Sc: Wilder and George Axelrod, b/o Axelrod’s play. C: Milton Krasner. Rel: June 1955. MM as The Girl; with Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Victor Moore and Robert Strauss.

  Bus Stop

  P: Buddy Adler for Fox. D: Joshua Logan. Sc: George Axelrod, b/o the play by William Inge. C: Milton Krasner. Rel: Aug. 1956. MM as Cherie; with Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Eileen Heckart, Betty Field, Hope Lange.

  The Prince and the Showgirl

  P: Milton H. Greene and Laurence Olivier for Warner Bros. D: Laurence Olivier. Sc: Terence Rattigan, b/o his play. C: Jack Cardiff. Rel: June 1957. MM as Elsie Marina; with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Jeremy Spenser, Richard Wattis, Esmond Knight, Maxine Audley.

  Some Like It Hot

  P, D: Billy Wilder for Walter Mirisch/United Artists. Sc: Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan. C: Charles Lang, Jr., b/w. Rel: March 1959. MM as Sugar Kane; with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee.

  Let’s Make Love

  P: Jerry Wald for Fox. D: George Cukor. Sc: Norman Krasner, Hal Kanter. C: Daniel L. Fapp. Rel: Sept. 1960. MM as Amanda Dell; with Yves Montand, Wilfrid Hyde White, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Madge Kennedy.

  The Misfits

  P: Frank E. Taylor for UA/Seven Arts. D: John Huston. Sc: Arthur Miller. C: Russell Metty, b/w. Rel: Feb. 1961. MM as Roslyn Tabor; with Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood, Ralph Roberts.

  Incomplete: Something’s Got to Give

  P: Henry Weinstein. D: George Cukor. Sc: Nunnally Johnson, Walter Bernstein, Hal Kanter et al., b/o the 1940 film My Favorite Wife. C: Franz Planer, Leo Tover, William Daniels. MM’s thirtieth film was canceled during production; extant footage shot from April to June 1962. MM as Ellen Arden; with Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Phil Silvers, Wally Cox. The production was formally shut down on June 12, 1962. Marilyn Monroe died on August 4, 1962. The film was rewritten, recast, reproduced and released in 1963 as Move Over Darling, with Doris Day and James Garner.

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

  Abernethy, R. J.

  Abrams, Arnold

  Academy Awards

  1951

  Acting classes

  at Actors Lab

  at Actors Studio

  with Michael Chekhov

  with Lotte Goslar

  with Natasha Lytess. See also Lytess, Natasha, as acting coach

  with Lee Strasberg

  Actors Laboratory (Actors Lab)

  Actors Studio (New York City)

  Adams, Casey

  Adler, Buddy

  Adler, Richard

  “After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It” (song)

  Ainsworth, Helen

  Albright, Lola

  Alexander, Bill

  All About Eve

  Allan, Richard

  Allan, Rupert

  Allan, Ted

  All My Sons (Miller)

  Anderson, Maxwell

  Anna Christie (O’Neill)

  Anthony, Ray

  Antinosa, Bart

  Arens, Richard

  Arledge, Roone

  Arliss, George

  Armstrong, Charlotte

  Arnold, Eve

  Arnow, Max

  Asher, William

  Asphalt Jungle, The

  As Young As You Feel

  Atkinson family

  Avedon, Richard

  Awake and Sing! (Odets)

  Axelrod, George

  Bacall, Lauren

  Backus, Jim

  Bacon, James

  Baker, Berniece Inez Gladys. See Miracle, Berniece Baker

  Baker, Gladys (née Monroe). See Eley, Gladys Pearl

  Baker, Jack

  Baker, John Newton

  Baker, Roy

  Ball, Lucille

  Bancroft, Anne

  Banks, Maggie

  Bara, Theda

  Barham, Patte

  Barnhart, Sylvia

  Barris, George

  Barsocchini, Reno

  Basehart, Richard

  Bates, John

  Baumgarth, John

  Beardsley, Mrs. Gavin

  Beaton, Cecil

  Bello, Mama Jean

  Bement, Illinois

  Benny, Jack

  Bergen, Edgar

  Berle, Milton

  Berlin, Irving

  Bernstein, Walter

  Billionaire, The (original title of Let’s Make Love)

  Blackmer, Carolyn Joerndt

  Bliss-Ha
yden Miniature Theater

  Block, Mervin

  Blue Angel, The

  Blue Book Agency

  short silent film made by

  Blum, Albert

  Bodrero, Lydia (later Reed)

  Bogart, Humphrey

  Bohnen, Roman

  Bolaños, José

  Bolender, Albert and Ida (foster family)

  discipline

  material conditions

  religion and morality

  Bouillet, Walter

  Brackett, Charles

  Brand, Harry

  Brand, Phoebe

  Brando, Marlon

  Breen, Joseph

  Breen, Richard

  Bretherton, David

  Brewer, Roy

  Bromberg, J. Edward

  Brooklyn, New York

  Brooks, Rand

  Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky)

  Brothers Karamazov, The (film)

  Brown, David

  Brown, Harry

  Brown, Joe E.

  Brown, Kay

  Brown, Peter Harry

  Budenz, Louis

  Burnett, W. R.

  Burnside, William

  Bus Stop

  house rented during shooting of

  illness of cast members during shooting of

  plot

  Paula Strasberg and

  weekends with Arthur Miller during shooting of

  Byron, Robert E.

  Cahn, Robert

  Campbell, John

  Campbell, Mabel Ella

  Camp Pendleton (California), performance at (1952)

  Capell, Frank A.

  Capote, Truman

  Captain Newman, M.D.

  Cardiff, Jack

  Carmen, Jeanne

  Carnovsky, Morris

  Carr, Joseph

  Carrington, Howard

  Carroll, John and Lucille Ryman

  Lucille and The Asphalt Jungle

  Lucille and Monroe-Hecht autobiography project

  money given to Marilyn by

  as surrogate parents to Marilyn

  Carroll, Madeleine

  Carroll, Ronald

  Castro, Fidel

  Chambrun, Jacques

  Chaplin, Charles

  Charisse, Cyd

  Chasin, George

  Chayefsky, Paddy

  Chekhov, Michael, acting classes with

  Chekhov, Mrs. Michael

  Chevalier, Maurice

  Child, Nellise

  China Seas