Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (106 page)

232

She was terrified: Jane Russell to DS, March 18, 1985; likewise on
The Sally Jessy Raphael Show
, April 15, 1992. See also David Galligan, “ ‘Sex Symbol’ Jane Russell,”
Drama-Logue
, vol. 17, no. 7 (Feb. 13–19, 1986): 7.

232

Neither of us: Jamison,
art. cit
.

232

far more intelligent: Jane Russell,
Jane Russell: My Paths and My Detours
(New York: Franklin Watts, 1985), p. 137.

232

no makeup:
Ibid
.

232

that she was just: Jack Cole, quoted in Kobal, p. 605.

233

the most frightened: Hawks, in McBride,
op. cit
., p. 125.

233

I’m really eager: MM to Dick Williams,
Los Angeles Daily Mirror
, March 10, 1953.

234

On the auction of the Reinhardt materials, see the
Los Angeles Times
for Dec. 5 and 6, 1952.

234

Surely you will: Gottfried Reinhardt,
The Genius
(New York: Knopf, 1979) p. 396.

Chapter Twelve:
1953

236

Marilyn, this man: JWP/NL I, p. 19.

236

still very much: Sidney Skolsky’s column for Feb. 9, 1953.

236

She had to be: “Billy, Please Dress Me Forever,”
News of the World
, May 5, 1991, p. 5.

237

that looked as if: “Florabel Muir Reporting,”
Los Angeles Mirror
, Feb. 10, 1953.

237

burlesque show: Joan Crawford, in Bob Thomas’s Associated Press syndicated column (e.g.,
Hollywood Citizen-News
), March 2, 1953.

238

One thing that makes: Joan Crawford, quoted in the
Hollywood Citizen-News
, June 10, 1953.

238

Marilyn’s the biggest: Quoted in Aline Mosby, “ ‘They’re just jealous of Miss Monroe,’ says Betty Grable,”
Los Angeles Daily News
, March 16, 1953.

239

a love affair: Jean Negulesco,
Things I Did
 . . . 
and Things I Think I Did
(New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 219.

239

under the spell: Dorris Johnson and Ellen Leventhal, eds.,
The Letters of Nunnally Johnson
(New York: Knopf, 1981), p. 203.

239

By this time: Alex D’Arcy to DS, June 18, 1992.

239

On the Lytess-Monroe attachment delaying production, see
Los Angeles Times
, April 14, 1953.

239

Monroe cannot do: Charles K. Feldman, interoffice memo to staff at Famous Artists Agency dated Feb. 20, 1953. In the Charles Feldman Papers at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.

241

no meanness in her: Lauren Bacall,
By Myself
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 208.

241

Honey, I’ve had mine: Doug Warren,
Betty Grable: The Reluctant Movie Queen
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981), p. 189.

241

I don’t want: The incident is recalled in Anne Edwards,
Judy Garland
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975), p. 202.

244

trying to direct: Charles K. Feldman to MM, Aug. 10, 1953; from the Feldman Collection at the American Film Institute.

244

I pleaded with: Otto Preminger,
Preminger: An Autobiography
(New York: Doubleday, 1977), p. 128.

244

Marilyn, you don’t: JWP/NL I, p. 2.

244

Marilyn thought there: Robert Mitchum in the Gene Feldman/Suzette Winters television film documentary
Marilyn: Beyond the Legend
.

244

We put her through: Paul Wurtzel to DS, Feb. 19, 1992.

245
n
3

I wouldn’t accept: Luitjers, pp. 57–58.

245

Here are the: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

246

She thought they: Quoted in Bart Mills,
Marilyn on Location
(London: Pan/Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989), p. 150.

246
ff

Regarding news accounts of the Kinsey reports, see
Time
, Aug. 31, 1953.

250

She was superb: Jack and Joan Benny,
Sunday Nights at Seven
(New York: Warner, 1990), p. 243.

251

Success has helped: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column, “Hollywood Is My Beat,”
Hollywood Citizen-News
, Nov. 25, 1953. p. 15.

251
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252

For the circumstances of Grace Goddard’s suicide, see California State File number 53-087308.

252

As for Grace’s husband, he never saw Marilyn Monroe after 1945. Ervin “Doc” Goddard married twice more—first to Anna Alice Long and then to Annie Rundle, who died with him in an auto crash in Ventura on Dec. 4, 1972.

252

she had proved: Negulesco, p. 223; on the pre-theater party, see Johnson,
Letters
, pp. 205–206.

252

since Gloria Swanson: Mike Connolly, in the
Hollywood Reporter
, Nov. 6, 1953.

252

This is just: Quoted in Luitjers, p. 56.

253

For Marilyn’s observations and agent Hugh French’s reaction, see a letter from him to Charles K. Feldman dated Oct. 9, 1953, and preserved in the Feldman Collection at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.

253

convinced Marilyn: Ray Stark to Charles K. Feldman, memorandum dated Dec. 1, 1953, preserved in the Feldman Collection, American Film Institute, Los Angeles.

254

she cooperated: Hugh French to Charles K. Feldman, cable dated Dec. 19, 1953, preserved in the Feldman Papers, American Film Institute, Los Angeles.

Chapter Thirteen:
January–September 1954

257

pill-pals: Sidney Skolsky’s column for June 6, 1954 (in the
Hollywood Citizen-News
). Additional information on Skolsky supplying MM with pills was confirmed by Steffi Sidney Splaver to DS, June 5, 1992.

258

not fighting over: Loyd Wright, Jr., quoted in the
Los Angeles Times
, Jan. 6, 1954.

259

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.

259

I read the script: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column in the
Hollywood Citizen-News
, Feb. 1, 1954.

259

I couldn’t believe: Zanuck, quoted in Dick Williams’s column in the
Los Angeles Mirror
, Jan. 15, 1954.

260

Marilyn herself:
Time
, vol. lxiii, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1954): 108.

260

the inheritor:
Life
, vol. 36, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1954): 32.

261

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.

261

On the motel room, see Allen, p. 180.

261

It usually rents for: Quoted in Hedda Hopper, “DiMaggio and Monroe Hide for Honeymoon,”
Los Angeles Times
, Jan. 17, 1954.

261

radiant:
San Francisco Examiner
, Jan. 17, 1954.

261

solemn and tired:
Ibid
.

262

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.

262

my Slugger: Often throughout 1954, and reported, e.g., in Roger Manvell,
Love Goddesses of the Movies
(New York: Crescent, 1979), p. 116.

262
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263

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”).

263

went virtually unnoticed:
Time
, Feb. 15, 1954, p. 32.

263

like I was: Kahn, p. 255.

263

For O’Doul’s recollections, see Kahn,
ibid
.

263

The press conference was widely reported by wire services; see, e.g.,
Time, art. cit
.

264

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.

264
ff

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.

265

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.

265

She was Marilyn Monroe: Quoted in the
Los Angeles Times
, Feb. 20, 1954.