Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (105 page)

195

She fought: JWP/NL I, p. 20.

195

She wasn’t disciplined: Quoted in Ella Smith,
Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck
(New York: Crown, 1985), p. 233.

195

We don’t want: Bogdanovich, p. 82.

195

a forceful actress: Alton Cook,
New York World-Telegram & Sun
, June 20, 1952.

196

Natasha, I’m terrified: JWP/NL I, p. 15.

196

I didn’t think:
Ibid
.

198

surefire money attraction:
Variety
, Aug. 13, 1952.

198

We had a hell: Quoted in
Hollywood Studio Magazine
, vol. 20, no. 8 (August 1987): 35.

198

I’m trying to: Aline Mosby, “Actress has memory of heartbreak,”
Los Angeles Daily News
, Jan. 7, 1952.

199

dazzled by the richness : Miller to the editors of
Current Biography
, 1973, p. 297.

200

Dear Mr. Chekhov: Copy preserved in MG2 III, 4, p. 2.

200

For Nunnally Johnson’s recollections of MM, cf. Tom Stempel,
Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson
(San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980), pp. 168–174.

200

The more important: Howard Hawks, quoted in Pamela Trescott,
Cary Grant—His Movies and His Life
(Washington: Acropolis Books, 1987), p. 144.

201

But we’re not married: MM to Mort Jelline,
Los Angeles Daily News
, Feb. 26, 1952.

Chapter Eleven:
March–December 1952

204

I didn’t let: Quoted in Roger Kahn,
Joe & Marilyn
(New York: William Morrow, 1986), p. 18.

205

everybody who calls:
Ibid
., p. 44.

205

almost a mental:
Ibid
., p. 238.

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206

One of the most: Quoted in
Current Biography
, 1951, p. 163.

206

very slow:
Ibid
., p. 32; cited from an interview by Clay Felker with former player Andy High.

206

loner:
Current Biography
, p. 164; see also Maury Allen,
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
(New York: Dutton, 1975), 171ff.

207

I was surprised: MG2 VIII, 3, p. 14.

207

Joe is looking: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column for March 17, 1952; ironically, that evening Joe took Marilyn to her first baseball game—at Gilmore Stadium, where the Hollywood Stars (a minor-league professional team) were playing the Major League All Stars for a Kiwanis Club benefit. Joe played center field.

207

It’s like a: Quoted in Maurice Zolotow, “Joe & Marilyn: The Ultimate L.A. Love Story,”
Los Angeles Magazine
, February 1979, p. 240.

208

She got really: Quoted in Luitjers, p. 111.

208

I first met: JWP/NL II, p. 20.

211

although I really: Quoted by Rupert Allan to DS.

212

See Mosby’s article in the
Los Angeles Herald Express
, March 13, 1952, pp. 1 and 10.

213

I’ve been on: MM quoted in “Four For Posterity,”
Look
, vol. 18 (Jan. 16, 1962): 83. She was not pleased, however, when the calendar photo turned up on drinking glasses, ashtrays and cocktail napkins later that year. Lawyers for MM and Fox tried, without much success, to stop the flow of artifacts bearing her nude form.

213

the biggest news: Joe Hyams to DS, Sept. 19, 1991.

213

the way she: Halsman, quoted in Wagenknecht.

213

the successor to Harlow: see, e.g., Jim Henaghan, “So Far to Go Alone!”
Redbook
, June 1952, p. 43.

214

If anything was ‘wrong’: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.

215

Dear Marilyn: Gladys’s letter to MM was preserved and included in IMP.

216

I knew there was really nothing: A note appended by MM to the foregoing letter in IMP.

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1

get a complete: Grace Goddard’s letter to MM, dated Oct. 28, 1952, was preserved in IMP.

216

Unbeknown to me: Erskine Johnson, “Marilyn Monroe confesses mother alive, living here,”
Los Angeles Daily News
, May 3, 1952.

218

The notes taped by MM to her body were well publicized and copies kept in IMP.

220

She never had: Quoted in John Kobal,
People Will Talk
(New York: Knopf, 1985), pp. 615, 613.

220

If you wanted: Joseph Cotten,
Vanity Will Get You Somewhere
(London: Columbus Books, 1987), p. 110.

221

Am I making:
Ibid
., p. 111.

221

the best natural: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column for July 16, 1952.

222

marvelous to work with: Quoted in Kobal, p. 615.

222

A lot of guys: Maury Allen, p. 177.

223

It’s the seventh: Sidney Skolsky’s column in the
Hollywood Citizen-News
, July 24, 1952.

223

That’s why: Quoted in Kobal, p. 616.

223

I think I’ll: Jay Breen, “She just lets the conversation drift toward her,”
Los Angeles Daily News
, Sept. 9, 1952.

223

I didn’t want: MG2 IV, 4, p. 23.

224

nothing, but nothing: Earl Wilson’s syndicated column (e.g.,
Los Angeles Daily News
), Aug. 27, 1952.

224

but La Monroe: Quoted in Dick Williams’s column,
Los Angeles Mirror
, Sept. 18, 1952.

224

She did the same: George Hurrell, quoted in John Kobal,
People Will Talk
(New York: Knopf, 1985) p. 266.

224
n
2

with not a stitch: David Stenn,
Clara Bow
(New York: Doubleday, 1987), p. 179.

225

This picture might give:
Los Angeles Daily News
, Sept. 2, 1952, p. 26.

225

I am very:
Ibid
.

225

People were staring:
Newsweek
, Sept. 15, 1952, p. 50.

225

That dress was: UPI wire service item, Sept. 5, 1952.

225

Photographers stood: Sidney Skolsky’s column for Sept. 5, 1952.

227

some estrangement: See, e.g.,
Los Angeles Times
, Nov. 5, 1952.

227
n
3

for bringing in: Regarding Marilyn’s New York shopping spree with Ceil Chapman, see Earl Wilson,
Show Business Laid Bare
(New York: Putnam’s, 1974), p. 65.

228
n
4

Too bad: Will Fowler,
Reporters: Memoirs of a Young Newspaperman
(Santa Monica: Roundtable Publishing, 1991), n.p. Also, Will Fowler to DS, April 9, 1992.

228
n
4

Slatzer made a career: Allan Snyder to DS, July 3, 1992.

228
n
4

afraid of Joe: Robert F. Slatzer,
The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe
(Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1974), p. 166

228
n
4

just trying to help: Fowler, n.p.

228
n
4

I never believed: Allan Snyder to DS, July 3, 1992.

229
n
4

It’s the one photo: Kay Eicher, quoted in Alex Burton, “
Marilyn & Me
is all lies,”
The Star
, Oct. 1, 1991, p. 45; confirmed to DS, Dec. 4, 1992.

230

when she put: Ron Nyman to DS, July 24, 1992.

231

She was damned: Lionel Newman, in remarks dated Oct. 26, 1972, for liner notes to a collection of MM songs recorded on 20th Century Records (T-901), 1972.

231

I feel as though: Barbara Berch Jamison, “Body and Soul: A Portrait of Marilyn Monroe Showing Why Gentlemen Prefer That Blonde,”
New York Times
, July 12, 1953, sec. II, p. 5.

231

There wasn’t: Joseph McBride,
Hawks on Hawks
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), p. 124.

231

She loved to: Hal Schaefer to DS, April 24, 1992.

231

My great ambition:
New York Times
, Feb. 18, 1953.

231

I had to get out: MG2 I, 4, p. 14.

232

She wants to: Sidney Skolsky’s column (e.g., the
Hollywood Citizen-News
), Dec. 17, 1952.

232

I want to: MM to Irene Crosby, her stand-in on
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
, quoted in Skolsky for Dec. 17, 1952.