Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love (60 page)

In response to a barrage of questions
:
ibid.

“I voluntarily gave up”
:
UPI press release, October 27, 1954.

An intriguing footnote
:
interview with clerk of court, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA, May 2010.

“If I get hit”
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, pp. 370–71.

Roy Craft
:
Bigsby,
Arthur Miller, 1915–1962
, p. 300.

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 relies on interviews with and conducted by Truman Capote, Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Jane Duffy, Amy Greene, Iselin Simon, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Susan Strasberg.

Marilyn first met Greene
:
Spoto,
Monroe: The Biography
, p. 158

Marilyn Monroe Productions
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, pp. 307–10.

press got wind
:
Dom DiMaggio interview; cf. Spoto,
Monroe: The Biography
, p. 306.

“DiMaggio must have driven”
:
David Cataneo,
I Remember Joe DiMaggio: Personal Memories of the Yankee Clipper by the People Who Knew Him Best
, p. 98.

to avoid being critical
:
Completed auction archives, Hunt Auctions, 2003.

“I saw that”
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 501.

“For Dr. H—”
:
Marilyn Monroe: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
, ed.

Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment, p. 77.

Marilyn demonstrated
:
Steven Poser,
The Misfit
(ebook).

Harry Freud
:
Klaus Kamholz and Peter Swales, “Marilyn Monroe and Psychiatry,”
Profil
, July 1992.

“People took advantage”
:
Summers,
Goddess
: p. 129.

“A Beautiful Child”
:
Truman Capote,
A Capote Reader
, pp. 578–89.

In his 1994 autobiography
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 164.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 relies on interviews with Paul Baer, Gregg Sherwood Dodge, Lotte Goslar, Jim Haspiel, Suzanne McShane, Liz Renay, Liz Rohey, Robert Solotaire, Susan Strasberg, Ruth Warwick.

“There’s no reason”
:
JD letter to MM, June 24, 1955, confidential source.

“I no longer knew”
:
Arthur Miller:
Timebends
, p. 356.

“He seemed rather desperate”
:
Earl Wilson Notebook
, Indiana University Library, Manuscript Division.

Horace Stoneham
:
Jeffrey Lyons,
Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from “The Lyon’s Den,”
, p. 110.

“heart-throb”
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life,
p. 505.

Liz Renay
:
Liz Renay interview; cf. Darwin Porter,
Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back
, pp. 144–45.

Sir Cedric Hardwicke
:
Lyons,
Stories My Father Told Me
, p. 111.

Lee Meriwether
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, pp. 376–78.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12 relies on interviews with Cindy Adams, Maury Allen, Paul Baer, Saul Bellow, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Kurt Lamprecht, Iselin Simon, Robert Solotaire, Susan Strasberg.

“When I tell”
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 275. 

“Why the hell”
:
Joshua Logan,
Movie Stars, Real People, and Me
, pp. 111–12.

she made herself indispensable
:
ibid.

Lee Strasberg
:
Cindy Adams,
Lee Strasberg: The Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio
, pp. 269–72.

Maury Allen
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, pp. 374–75.

“I guess I was”
:
Claire Booth Luce, “What Really Killed Marilyn Monroe,”
Life
. August 7, 1964, p. 68.

“A good marriage”
:
Marilyn Monroe: Fragments,
ed. Buchthal and Comment, p. 219.

flirted with him
:
Joan’s Show
—a one-woman show at the Acorn Theater, August 2011.

“Why didn’t you”
:
Logan,
Movie Stars
, pp. 113–14.

“It was something about”
:
Bigsby,
Arthur Miller, 1915
–
1962
, p. 588.

“always been deeply”
:
Sam Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,”
Vanity Fair
, November 2010, p. 110ff.

Paula Fichtl
:
Luciano Mecacci,
Freudian Slips: The Casualties of Psychoanalysis from the Wolf Man to Marilyn Monroe
, p. 9.

“When she left me”
:
Kamholz and Swales, “Marilyn Monroe and Psychiatry.”

“a garnet-colored velvet gown”
:
Jeffrey Meyers,
The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
, p. 141.

“George, sweetie”
:
confidential source.

Chapter 13

Chapter 13 relies on interviews with Rupert Allan, Paul Baer, Truman Capote, Joshua Greene Jr., Kurt Lamprecht, Lena Pepitone, Delos Smith, Susan Strasberg.

“sophisticated enough”
:
Meyers,
The Genius and the Goddess
, p. 103.

“extraordinary child”
:
Bigsby,
Arthur Miller, 1915
–
1962
, p. 507.

“My company wasn’t”
:
Meyers,
The Genius and the Goddess
, p. 167.

According to Amy Greene
:
Marie Clayton,
Marilyn Monroe: Unseen Archives
, p. 237.

Patricia Rosten
:
The Patricia Rosten section is based on interviews and correspondence with Rosten, today Patricia Rosten Filan, and her essay “Patricia Rosten on Marilyn,” from the anthology
Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by Their Costars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends
, ed. Danny Peary.

“I am so concerned”
:
Sam Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” p. 110ff.

Ernest Hemingway
:
Lyons,
Stories My Father Told Me
, p. 111.

Lola Mason
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 376.

“A man and a woman”
:
Summers,
Goddess
: p. 172.

“The very idea”
:
Donald H. Wolfe,
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
, pp. 307–8.

John Strasberg
:
John Strasberg,
Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity
, pp. 21–22. In addition to reading his memoir, the author attempted to interview J.S., who declined to be interviewed.

refreshments had been served
:
Inez Melson, to Marilyn Monroe, December 5, 1954, confidential source.

Chapter 14

Chapter 14 relies on interviews with Paul Baer and Joe DiMaggio Jr.

Thanksgiving break
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, pp. 385–87.

5-5-5
:
Charyn,
Center Fielder’s Vigil
, p. 102.

V. H. Monette
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 401.

Chapter 15

Chapter 15 relies on interviews with Rupert Allan, Art Buchwald, Dom DiMaggio, Patricia Rosten Filan, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lotte Goslar, Bernie Kamber, Lena Pepitone, Rob Saduski, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Susan Strasberg, Jack Tilden.

“I’d love”
:
Bigsby,
Arthur Miller, 1915
–
1962
, p. 604.

“Help, help, help”
:
Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” p. 110ff.

“Had you, dear Arthur”
:
Tony Curtis,
Tony Curtis: The Autobiography
, p. 162.

a British journalist
:
confidential source.

“My first meeting”
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 315.

“Marilyn is a simple girl”
:
ibid., pp. 317–18.

Chapter 16

Chapter 16 relies on interviews with Paul Baer, Truman Capote, Nancy Dickerson, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Kurt Lamprecht, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Lena Pepitone, Whitey Snyder, George Smathers, Dr. Milton Wexler, John White.

Monroe’s addictions
:
Bigbsy,
Arthur Miller, 1915
–
1962
, p. 651.

Paula answered
:
ibid., p. 626.

Last Year
:
Poser:
The Misfit
(ebook).

“Oh Paula”
:
Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” p. 110ff.

“I could not place”
:
Miller,
Timebends
, p. 306.

Chapter 17

Chapter 17 relies on interviews with Paul Baer, Hans Bickel, Joey Bishop, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Peter Lawford, Mickey Mantle, Lena Pepitone, Janet Ramos, Ralph Roberts, Hal Schaefer, Earl Wilson.

therapy sessions
:
Greenson’s patient notes. 

seven-page letter
:
letter from Marilyn to Greenson in Greenson Archives at UCLA.

“Dr. Kris has had me put”
:
Spoto,
Monroe: The Biography
, p. 364.

“Leave the lady alone”
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 396.

Miller had taken
:
Bigsby,
Arthur Miller, 1915–1962
, p. 518.

Sinatra
:
Much of the information about Sinatra throughout comes from Riese and Hitchens
, Unabridged Marilyn
.

“Dear Dad Darling”
:
Marilyn Monroe telegram to JD, Completed Auction Archive #27, 2003.

she felt happy
:
Ralph Roberts interview; cf.
Marilyn’s Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death
, p. 205.

“I love you, Joe”
:
telegram from MM to JD, January 1, 1962. Confidential source.

Chapter 18

Chapter 18 relies on interviews with Joan Braden, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Sidney Guilaroff, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Pierre Salinger, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Mickey Song, Donald Spoto.

financial situation
:
Banner,
MM Personal
, p. 290. Banner’s figures differ slightly from those derived from current author.

12305
:
Gary Vitacco-Robles,
Cursum Perficio: Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood Hacienda—The Story of Her Final Months.
pp. 16–20.

“like a young girl”
:
Norman Rosten,
Marilyn: An Untold Story
, p. 107.

“she never came back”
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 406.

“Come on in”
:
Lyons,
Stories My Father Told Me
, p. 111.

“From the man”
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 175.

lashed out at
:
Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham,
Marilyn: The Last Take
, p. 186.

“a no-good Jew bastard” and hung up on him
:
C. David Heymann,
RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
, p. 307.

Chapter 19

Chapter 19 relies on interviews with Jeanne Carmen, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Amy Greene, Daniel Greenson, Lotte Goslar, Peter Lawford, Richard Meryman, Chuck Pick, Ralph Roberts, Pierre Salinger, Arthur Schlesinger, George Solotaire, Mickey Song, Donald Spoto, Bert Stern.

“deeply paranoid”
:
Dr. Ralph Greenson Archives, UCLA.

Dr. Eric Goldberg
:
a pseudonym. The Santa Barbara physician, now in his nineties, wishes to remain anonymous.

Chapter 20

Chapter 20 relies on interviews with Joe DiMaggio Jr., Milt Ebbins, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Lotte Goslar, Kurt Lamprecht, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Mickey Rudin, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Connie Stanville.

Norman Rosten
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 364.

“I’d moved in”
:
In an interview with the author, Peter Lawford originally claimed that Marilyn threatened RFK with a kitchen knife; he then revised the anecdote to indicate instead that she threw a glass of champagne at him.

“To be honest”
:
Mickey Rudin interview; cf. Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, pp. 411–14.

“Dear Joe”
:
Gulies:
Legend
, p. 274.

“Last rites”:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 417.

“Marilyn Monroe was a legend”
:
New York Times,
August 9, 1962.

“I love you, I love you, I love you”
:
Cramer,
The Hero’s Life
.