The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
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“Money! All he cares about is…”: Ibid., p. 130.
“I’ve got a real problem…”: Guiles, Legend, p. 339.
“Should I do my next…”: Rosten, p. 76.
“She had a tremendous sense of…”: Guiles, Legend, p. 342.
“Cut. You still haven’t got it…”: Ibid., p. 343.
The author was working at Goldwyn Studios during the production of Some Like It Hot, and was on the set during the filming of the flask sequence.
“I never heard such…”: The Listener (London), August 30, 1979.
The constant flubs: as observed by author.
“Marilyn was constantly late…”: Spoto, p. 399.
“Well, I think that’s…”: Marilyn Monroe to Richard Meryman, July 1962.
“Where’s the bourbon?”: I. A. L. Diamond, “The Day Marilyn Needed 47 Takes to Remember to Say, ‘Where’s the Bourbon?’” California, vol. 10, no. 12, December 1985, pp. 132–135; Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, p. 322.
The bourbon bit was observed by the author on the set.
“Twenty-nine days over…”: Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe, p. 324.
“I’m eating better…”: Ibid., p. 325.
“I made him sick?”: Pepitone, p. 139.
It had been another close call: Rosten, p. 75.
Chapter 44
“The pupil/student had…”: Rosten, p. 79.
“She would read…”: Miller, Timebends, p. 461.
“Marilyn was getting…”: Pepitone, p. 119.
“If she was so…”: Pepitone, p. 132.
“I’m not sure I…”: Gene Tierney, Self-Portrait, p. 147.
that big tease: Pepitone, p. 238.
Carl Sandburg and Marilyn Monroe: Look, vol. 26, September 11, 1962, pp. 90–94.
Montand and Signoret: Guiles, Legend, p. 362.
When Gregory Peck: Ibid., p. 365.
“She was always on time…”: Hutchinson, Marilyn Monroe, p. 74.
“If I can realize…”: Georges Belmont, Marilyn Monroe and the Camera Eye, p. 21.
At a dinner party: Rosten, p. 55.
Greenson/Kris correspondence: Greenson papers, Special Collections Department, UCLA Library.
“According to…Hildi…”: Lucy Freeman, Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe, p. 1.
Dr. Greenson found: Summers, p. 188; Farber and Green, Hollywood on the Couch, p. 93.
“As she becomes more…”: Summers, p. 189.
“My Jesus—My Savior”: Pepitone, p. 206.
Chapter 45
“She still has…”: Hollywood Citizen-News, Jan., 20, 1960.
“Next to my husband…”: Look, July 5, 1960, p. 96.
“Everything she do is…”: Ibid.
“If I was thinking of…”: Montand, p. 316.
“You know, Cukor’s not…”: Ibid., p. 318.
“I would knock…”: Ibid., p. 319.
“I guess it…”: Guiles, Legend, p. 370.
“She’s got so…”: Montand, p. 311.
“Such a perpetual orphan…”: Greenson papers, Special Collections Department, UCLA Library.
Another Ralph in…: int. Roberts, 1998.
“I’ll miss you”: Montand, p. 323.
“He’s leaving me with Marilyn…”: Guiles, Legend, p. 371.
“I couldn’t help her…”: Guiles, Legend, p. 371.
“Montand wasn’t the only one…”: int., Rosten, 1994; Summers, p. 185.
“I was touched…”: Montand, p. 327.
Chapter 46
“He was very taken…”: Kessler, The Sins of the Father, p. 314.
“Hell, Janet, Jack isn’t…”: Ibid., p. 377.
“I got into the…”: Ibid., p. 378.
Sinatra and Giancana: Kitty Kelley, His Way, pp. 263–267.
“Frank wanted to be…”: Ibid., p. 265.
“I’m not going to talk about…”: Ibid., p. 269.
“It is a known fact…”: The statement is included in Peter Lawford’s FBI file.
Describing the visit: Judith Exner, My Story, pp. 80–95.
“I sat next to Teddy…”: Ibid., p. 86.
The West Virginia primaries: Kelley, pp. 270–271; Kessler, pp. 375–376; Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 95–101.
the “Marilyn Monroe problem”: Hersh, p. 104.
MM joins the Kennedy bandwagon: Summers, pp. 218–220.
“he was the mastermind…”: Kessler, p. 383.
Pucini’s: int., Detective John St. John, 1993.
After the Coliseum: Ibid., p. 211.
“I couldn’t get the drift…”: Summers, p. 221.
Chapter 47
Marilyn arrives in Reno: James Goode, The Story of the Misfits, p. 19.
Trouble with the wig: int., Guilaroff, 1996.
“Desperately unhappy at…”: Spoto, p. 533.
Rumors quickly spread: Guiles, Legend, p. 386.
“She was very late…”: Ibid., p. 380.
“Astonishingly beautiful”: Mclntyre, Esquire, March 1961.
“La femme eternelle”: Goode, p. 101.
“Why is it that…”: Gregory and Speriglio, p. 134.
Gable’s heart condition: Ibid., pp. 134, 135; int., Whitey Snyder, 1994.
Clift’s problems: Patricia Bosworth, Montgomery Clift—A Biography, p. 315.
Seeds of discord: Guiles, Legend, p. 389.
“I told them that…”: Ibid., p. 383.
“I went to Reno…”: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 215.
“I can’t tolerate this…”: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 218.
Circled the flagons: int., Ralph Roberts, 1998.
“Marilyn sat on a…”: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 210.
Sinatra invited Marilyn: int., Ralph Roberts, 1998.
Sinatra’s acquisition of Cal-Neva: Kelley, pp. 314–317.
The Kennedys at Cal-Neva: int., Bill Roemer, 1994, 1996; Lawford’s FBI file.
“talk to Marilyn Monroe”: Hersh, p. 104.
Marilyn taken to Westside: Goode, p. 124; Summers, p. 194.
“Her incredible resilience…”: Miller, Timebends, p. 485.
The last scene at Paramount: Guiles, Legend, pp. 391, 392.
Chapter 48
“Mr. President, with a bit…”: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, pp. 33, 151; Reeves, A Question of Character, p. 214.
Bobby’s appointment: Reeves, pp. 225–226.
“What happened was…”: Hersh, p. 104.
Smathers recalled…: Ibid., p. 105.
“If anything untoward…”: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, p. 392.
Code name: Summers, p. 287.
Sinatra and Grace Kelly: Sarah Bradford, Princess Grace, p. 393.
The imminent divorce…Guiles, Legend, p. 396.
“He really wants to…”: Pepitone, p. 180.
“Oh, God, why…”: Ibid., p. 181.
“She was so gentle…”: Ibid., p. 182.
“No, no—let me die…”: Ibid., p. 183.
“Frank Sinatra and his…”: Miller, Timebends, p. 510.
“withdrawing like a sick…”: Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 224.
Driven to hospital: Marilyn’s stay at Payne Whitney is related in Guiles, Legend; Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography; Pepitone, Marilyn Monroe Confidential; and Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story.
“It was like a…”: Summers, p. 228.
The letter to the Strasbergs is quoted in Guiles, Legend, p. 402.
“take the hospital apart…”: Rosten, p. 93.
“Marilyn began screaming…”: int., Ralph Roberts, 1993, 1998; Strasberg, Marilyn and Me, p. 227.
“he was under terrific…”: Reeves, p. 260.
“I remember that he…”: George Smathers, Oral History, JFK Library.
“the least covert military operation…”: Pierre Salinger, Oral History, JFK Library.
Castro assassination plot: Reeves, p. 277; Church Committee, Interim Report, pp. 149–176.
Another person who: int., Robert Slatzer, 1994, 1997; Slatzer, The Marilyn Files, pp. 53, 55.
Marilyn’s note-taking: int., James Bacon, 1994; Summers, p. 123. Amy Greene told Summers: “Marilyn bought a small leather-covered diary, one with a clasp and a tiny key. She would carry it around the house making notes on conversations and magazine articles that caught her interest.”
of concern to CIA: It was counterintelligence chief Angleton who signed the CIA Monroe surveillance document. (See page 469.)
“completely dependent upon…”: Pepitone, p. 208.
“As a great intellect…”: Freeman, p. 67.
“This is my baby…”: Pepitone, p. 193.
Chapter 49
Hannah Weinstein and “Little Red Robin Hood”: Bernstein, p. 249.
Fox and Selznick and Weinstein: Rudy Behlmer, Memo from David O. Selznick, pp. 444–468.
When Weinstein arrived: Winters II, p. 430.
“pathetic yessing sessions”: Behlmer, p. 463.
“Money by itself…”: New York Times, July 18, 1960.
Brad Dexter and Sinatra: Kelley, pp. 334, 355.
“They were friends…”: int., Dexter, 1998.
“We were having…”: int., Carmen, 1998.
Roberts became: int., Roberts, 1993, 1997.
The doctor/patient relationship: Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, pp. 146–147.
“I made his back feel…”: int., Roberts, 1993, 1998; Roberts interview on canceled 20/20 segment.
“Elizabeth and I…”: Fisher, p. 203.
“For several months…”: Miracle, p. 148.
“I can’t finish this…”: Ibid., p. 164.
“I told him…”: Rosten, p. 91.
“Frankie wouldn’t expect…”: Pepitone, p. 227.
“Marilyn flew into the room…”: Ibid., p. 228.
“She was very open…”: int., Carmen, 1997.
“After the party…”: Summers, p. 266.
“He was very nice…”: Rosten, p. 119.
“Frank would smile…”: Kelley, p. 291.
Sinatra’s visit to the White House: Kelley, pp. 291–293.
Rosselli/Giancana wiretap: From the Giancana files of the FBI.
“Dr. Greenson thinks you…”: int., Roberts, 1993, 1998.
“My name is Eunice Murray”: Murray, p. 12.
Chapter 50
“primarily to drive Marilyn…”: Murray, p. 13; Spoto, p. 592.
“I wasn’t crazy about…”: Slatzer, Marilyn Files, p. 69.
“I do dishes very well…”: Freeman, p. 16.
Danny as a member of SLATE: Capell, p. 71; Report of Un-American Activities in Calif., 1961.
Cultural pleasures: Freeman, p. 18; Greenson Oral History, Greenson Papers, Special Collections Dept. UCLA Library.
Unorthodox therapeutic procedure: Freeman, pp. 25, 26.
Dr. Greenson maintained: int., Jefferies, 1993.
Several appeals have been filed over a period of years with the FBI Freedom of Information Act to review the highly redacted Greenson File. Thus far the FBI has not responded to the appeal process.
Under Greenson’s coordination: Greenson’s involvement in the Hollywood Writers Mobilization was confirmed by an associate of Greenson’s who attended many of the Writers Mobilization meetings. Noted in Greenson’s FBI file.
At a hearing of the Un-American Activities Committee, Louis Budenz, former editor of the Daily Worker, named Frederick Vanderbilt Field as a Soviet agent and the fund-raiser for the Arts, Sciences, and Professions Committee. On pages 219–220 of his book, Men Without Faces, Budenz describes the organization of the Writers Mobilization at UCLA, stating, “They had ordered the comrades in the Writers Mobilization, led by John Howard Lawson, to work out a Writers Congress. Under the direction of Trachtenberg, Jerome and the Politburo, the comrades of the Coast had persuaded Dr. Robert Sproul, president of the University of California, to lend them the campus for a meeting place and let them use the university’s name as a co-sponsor….”
the National Arts, Sciences, and Professions: Budenz, p. 219.
Dr. Oner Barker’s testimony regarding Dr. Engelberg is found on page 266 of the Un-American Activities in California Report of 1948. Dr. Engelberg is named as a principal speaker at the Thought Control Conference, held on July 11, 1947, by the Hollywood Arts, Sciences, and Professions Committee; HUAC 1948 Report, p. 346.
One of the expatriates: Norman Jefferies stated that the association between the Murrays and Field began sometime in the forties and that Eunice Murray corresponded with Field during the fifties and for several years after Marilyn’s death. In a letter to genealogist Roy Turner, dated in 1968, Eunice Murray talks about a recent correspondence with “Fred Field.” Field discusses his association with Churchill and Eunice Murray in his book From Right to Left, pp. 295–305.
The Capell quotation: Capell, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, addenda, p. 71.
Testimony regarding psychoanalysts: Senate Fact Finding Committee Report, 1947.
“Marilyn lived a myth…”: Murray, p. 152.
Chapter 51
388–89 Fox commitments behind her: Summers, pp. 267, 268.
Greenson’s involvement with production: Brown and Barham, p. 47; Fox memos from the Brown Archives.
389–389 David Brown and Weinstein: D. Brown, Let Me Entertain You, pp. 54, 55.
“So you think you can get…”: D. Brown, p. 55.
The Kennedy Library retains the correspondence file of John Loeb and Samuel Rosenman; Rosenman obituary, New York Times, June 25, 1973.
In the Manhattan Corporate Records Department of the State of New York, Joe Kennedy is listed as one of the founding partners, and Gould is listed as an officer of Rhoades and Company.
“She went through a severe…”: Summers, p. 243.
“DiMaggio seemed doting…”: Ibid., p. 243.
House hunting with Murray: Murray, p. 33; Redbook, August 1962.
Hanna Fenichel’s address and phone number at 12403 Third Helena Drive were accidentally discovered in a book from the Greenson Library donated to the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. That she was living there in 1962 was confirmed by neighbors.
“Off the record…”: Newcomb tape in the Special Collections Department of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library.
“Goddamnit, I’m going…”: Summers, p. 244.
“Guess who’s standing next…”: Ibid., p. 247.
“Marilyn would follow…”: int., Bacon.
“Marilyn Monroe stayed just…”: int., Mack McSwane, 1998.
MM’s visit to Mexico: Murray, chapters 6 and 7; Field, chapter 29.
“Marilyn’s companion, Mrs. Eunice…”: Field, p. 295.
Bolaños as friend of E. Howard Hunt: Dalton Trumbo papers, Special Collection Department, UCLA Library.
“man of left-wing pretensions…”: Summers (Signet ed.), p. 458.
“She said that at a party…”: Field, p. 302.
FBI document: In 1986 Anthony Summers obtained a copy of the FBI’s “105C” file. (“105” designating “foreign counterintelligence matters,” and “C” designating “communist.”) Under the Freedom of Information appeals process the document was reviewed for Summers by the chief of the FBI’s Appeals Unit. He informed Summers and FOIA Attorney James Lesar that the Marilyn Monroe file was voluminous and that the file contained thirty-one “105C” files that were totally redacted. Thirteen heavily censored pages were shown to Lesar, including the document dated March 6, which concerned her conversations with Frederick Vanderbilt Field relating to confidential information she had learned in conversations with the president and attorney general.
Chapter 52
“It had been kind of…”: Spada, p. 326.
“We are out front…”: Kelley, p. 300.
“Sam Giancana has been a guest…”: Ibid., p. 326.
“Frank was livid…”: Spada, p. 327.
It was rumored: The story
of the Sinatra/Lawford feud was widely circulated in Harry Drucker’s Beverly Hills barbershop where Drucker was the barber to Sinatra, Johnny Rosselli, Lawford, and the author.
“Frank just wrote Peter off…”: Spada, p. 327.
Hoover was denied: The Presidential appointment logs at the Kennedy Library indicate only nine meetings between JFK and the Bureau Chief. One such meeting is logged on March 22, 1962.
Marilyn emerged from: Murray, p. 86.
“Peter paced back and forth…”: Ibid., p. 87.
“The president was wearing…”: Summers, p. 228; Brown, p. 72.
“I’ve been arguing with…”: Ralph Roberts on canceled 20/20; Summers, p. 72; Brown, p. 73.
“He was a wonderful person to…”: Brown, p. 252.
“It was noon…”: int., Rosten, 1994; Rosten, pp. 113–115.
Chapter 53
“She went East for…”: Brown, p. 67.
“She’s not ready yet…”: Spada, pp. 335–336.
“I wanted to tell you…”: Brown, p. 77, from transcripts of his Weinstein interviews.
“Details of MM’s illness: Found by Peter Brown on microfilm in the Fox Studio Archives.
“Everyone knew that unless Marilyn…”: Brown interview with Weinstein.
“Marilyn woke up each…”: Murray, p. 91.
Marilyn’s illness: Slatzer, The Marilyn Files, pp. 87–91.
“She knew she was sick…”: int., Roberts, 1993, 1998.
Greenson’s departure: Spoto, pp. 514, 515; Murray, p. 107.
The White Knight: Greenson, Explorations in Psychoanalysis, pp. 493–495.
“It was made of…”: int., Jean Louis, 1993.
Norman Jefferies remembered: int., Jefferies, 1993.
“In the event that…”: Brown, p. 133.
“highly placed political leaders…”: int., Landreth, 1997.
“I mean, here’s a girl…”: Brown, p. 135.
a deafening whine announced: Brown, p. 131; Bernstein, “Monroe’s Last Picture Show,” Esquire, July 1973.
“While I was working…”: int., Song, 1994; Spada, p. 336.
“By the way…”: Brown, p. 147.
“Oh I think she’ll…”: Spada, p. 338.
The gala was replayed in the Wolper television documentary, The Legend of Marilyn Monroe.
“I was very worried about…”: Brown, p. 150.
“There was at once something…”: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, p. 590.