Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (109 page)

357

expressly for her: Logan, p. 39.

358

Hold onto your chairs:
New York Times
review by Bosley Crowther, Sept. 1, 1956, p. 19.

358

effectively dispels: Arthur Knight, in the
Saturday Review of Literature
, Sept. 8, 1956.

358

one of the great: Logan, pp. 36, 48; also, Logan speaking in the documentary
Marilyn: Beyond the Legend
, dir. Gene Feldman/Wombat Productions, 1987; see also the
Los Angeles Daily Mirror
, Oct. 10, 1956.

359

For the meeting with Sukarno, see the
New York Times
, June 2, 1956, p. 13; for MM’s remarks on the encounter, see Rosten, p. 73.

359

Al Delgado’s letter to Jay Kanter, dated June 15, 1956, is included in MG III.

361

a live witness: Robins, p. 313.

361

Marilyn Monroe’s new romance:
Ibid
.

361
ff

Miller’s appearance in Washington and his statements before the HUAC were documented in, among many other journals and magazines, the
New York Times
on June 22, 1956, pp. 1, 9;
New York Daily News
, June 22, 1956, pp. 3, 6;
Chicago Tribune
, June 25, 1956, pp. 1, 9.

362

No question about it:
New York Sunday News
, July 1, 1956.

362

provided Marilyn agreed: Miller, p. 406.

362

and to be:
New York Mirror
, June 21, 1956
et alibi
. See also the important history in Eric Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968
(New York: Viking, 1971), p. 819.

362

Have you heard: Rosten, p. 34.

362

It was awfully: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992; Rupert Allan to DS, July 21, 1991.

363

Arthur was learning: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also
Marilyn and Me
, p. 105.

364

[Jean] was always: Maureen O’Sullivan, quoted in Golden, p. 158.

365

stand by in case: Milton Greene’s telephone call to Irving Stein is recorded in ILS dated June 29, 1956: MG XI.

365
–
366

The account of Marilyn’s hesitation at her marriage was provided to DS by Amy Greene, May 5, 1992.

366

Well, I hope: George Axelrod to DS, April 22, 1992; Axelrod’s statement was included in an essay on Miller by Kenneth Tynan, in
Profiles
(London: Nick Hern/Walker Books, 1989), p. 119.

367

Lee doesn’t care: ILS memorandum dated July 2, 1956: MG IV.

368

Perhaps later: ILS memorandum dated July 14, 1956: MG IV.

368

result in capital gain: ILS to MG, October 16, 1956: MG XI, 4.

368

he ought to stay out: Kay Brown, quoted in ILS memorandum dated Sept. 12, 1956: MG V, 3.

369

Yes, but:
Daily Telegraph
, July 16, 1956.

369

Unlike many other: Jack Cardiff to DS, May 26, 1992.

370

to take her: Quoted in
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, Aug. 5, 1982; similar remarks are recorded in MG VIII, 4, p. 3.

370

He tried to be: W. J. Weatherby,
Conversations with Marilyn
(New York: Mason/Charter, 1976), p. 84.

370

All you have: The remark is widely quoted by witnesses, among them Susan Strasberg to DS, April 23, 1990; by Amy Greene; by actress Maxine Audley,
et al
. Olivier never denied he said this.

370

suspicious, sullen: Rosten, p. 43.

371

The incident of Marilyn’s discovery of Arthur’s notebook was related to DS by Amy Greene, Susan Strasberg, Allan Snyder and Jack Cardiff.

371

It was something: Quoted in Bart Mills,
Marilyn on Location
(London: Pan/Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989), p. 108.

371

I think Arthur: Quoted by Rupert Allan to DS, July 15, 1991.

371

Miller looked on: Sidney Skolsky’s syndicated column for Nov. 25, 1961.

372

The Strasberg interference: The phrase, almost a motto at the time, was used in conversations with DS by Allan Snyder, Rupert Allan, Amy Greene and Jack Cardiff; its equivalent is much cited by Arthur Miller.

372

My mother had once: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also
Bittersweet
, p. 84.

372

poisonous and vacuous: Kaplan,
art. cit
., p. 242.

372

nearly religious: Miller, p. 423.

372

Miller’s comments on Paula were spoken to Fred Lawrence Guiles,
Legend
, p. 316.

372

Greene thought: Guiles, p. 309.

373

it was important: Jay Kanter to DS, April 15, 1992.

373

getting involved: Albert Maysles to DS, March 30, 1992.

373

wrecking her: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

373

two months supply: MG to ILS, Sept. 27, 1956: MG VII.

374

Too many people: Quoted in Hutchinson, p. 78.

374

had been wrong: Margaret Hohenberg to ILS, reported to MG in telephone call on Dec. 27, 1956 and so dated in ILS: MG IV.

375

she had some: Letter from MG to Joe Carr and ILS, dated Sept. 27, 1956: MG IV.

375
ff

ILS memoranda dated September 1–3, 1956: MG IV and VI.

376

thoroughly ill-mannered:
Daily Express
, May 22, 1980.

376

It was a: Henry Brandon, “Sex, Society and the Theatre,”
The Sunday Times
(London), March 20, 1960, p. 15.

376

She’s quite remarkable: Quoted in
Time
, Aug. 6, 1956, p. 31. That the citation from Hopkins was a favorite line of Marilyn was reported to DS by Ralph Roberts (to whom she often quoted it), May 1, 1992.

376

You did well: Quoted in Sidney Skolsky’s column for June 14, 1957; and in Taylor,
Marilyn in Art
, n.p.; see also Miller, p. 426.

378

No one had: Laurence Olivier,
On Acting
(New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 316; and the same author’s
Confessions of an Actor
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 213.

Chapter Seventeen:
1957–1959

382

I was off: Miller, p. 460.

382

I felt an urgency: Miller, pp. 458–459.

382

a mere child: Miller, p. 448.

382

a rose-tinted: Kazan, p. 540.

382

For Norman Rosten’s recollections of Marilyn’s never-ending struggle for the perfect home design, see
Marilyn: An Untold Story
, p. 67.

382

I love them: MM to Richard Meryman in a taped interview for
Life
magazine in July 1962.

383

You must excuse me: the anecdote with the neighbor and the new coat is documented in Wagenknecht, p. xvii.

383

Michael Korda to DS, June 30, 1992.

383

But there was another: Amy Greene to DS, May 5, 1992.

384

adopted daughter: Michael Molnar,
The Diary of Sigmund Freud
(New York: Robert Stewart/Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), p. 174.

385

some of the most: Edward A. Gargan, “Tribute to Marianne Kris,”
New York Times
, Dec. 8, 1980. See also Henry Nunberg, “In Memoriam Marianne Kris,”
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
, vol. 38 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 1–7 (Kris, as it happened, was Nunberg’s aunt); and the obituary in the
New York Times
on Nov. 25, 1980, p. D-23.

386

as if I were: MM, quoted by Rupert Allan to DS, June 10, 1991.

387

too stand-offish: Comments by Miller’s brother, sister and in-laws are cited in Robert J. Levin,
art. cit
., p. 95.

387

For Kazan’s estimation of the Monroe-Strasberg connection, see Kazan, p. 540.

387

Lee makes me think: Rosten, p. 49.

388

Whether it was: Strasberg,
Marilyn and Me
, p. 103.

388

It is not: MM drafted the letter in early April but kept it for reflection and revision; it was cabled to Jack Warner on April 22, 1957; see the production files for
The Prince and the Showgirl
in the Warner Bros. archives at the University of Southern California.

389

MM’s statement through Miller’s attorney was issued April 11 and was noted in the next day’s edition of the
New York Times
, p. 22.

389

absolutely irrational: Robert H. Montgomery, Jr., to John Wharton, memorandum preserved in MG IX, memorandum for April 1957.

389
ff

For the news accounts of the reorganization of MMP, see:
New York Times
, April 17, 1957, p. 36;
Los Angeles Times
and
Los Angeles Examiner
, April 17, 1957;
Time
, vol. 69, no. 17 (April 29, 1957): 94.