Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (111 page)

420

I liked her: George Cukor, quoted in the
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, Aug. 5, 1982, p. A-8.

421

She gave me: Quoted in Kobal, pp. 606–607.

421

there was a childishness: Inez Melson, in the television special
That’s Hollywood
, narrated by Tom Bosley; written and produced by Philip Savenick.

421
ff

On Ralph Greenson’s background and childhood, see Greenson’s incomplete and unpublished memoir, “My Father the Doctor,” in Box 12 of the Ralph R. Greenson Collection in the Department of Special Collections at the University of California at Los Angeles; henceforth, extracts from this collection are designated RRG.

423

The materials relevant to
Captain Newman
,
M.D
. are contained in RRG Box 15 and in the June 1962 supplement to his biography at the UCLA Medical School.

423

her dream house: Murray, p. 6.

424

a charismatic speaker: RRG, Box 1.

425

He wanted: Benson Schaeffer to DS, Dec. 28, 1992.

426

Only later was it: A highly respected California psychoanalyst requested DS to preserve his anonymity.

426

a hard-living man: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl,
Anna Freud
(New York: Summit, 1988), p. 371.

427

“Drugs in the Psychotherapeutic Situation”: RRG, Box 2, Folder 4. Other lectures cited on p. 426 are located in the same box.

427

“Special Problems In Psychotherapy With The Rich and Famous,” dated Aug. 18, 1978: RRG, Box 2, Folder 19.

428
ff

At a meeting held at Fox on June 8, 1962, during the troubled production of MM’s final film, studio executive Phil Feldman wrote: “Dr. Greenson advised that he would be able to get his patient to go along with any reasonable request and although he did not want us to deem his relationship as a Svengali one, he in fact could persuade her to do anything reasonable that he wanted.” From a memorandum in the Twentieth Century–Fox Studio archives headed “Marilyn Monroe Situation,” dated June 8, 1962.

428

I was going to be: The quotations attributed to Ralph Greenson are derived from a letter he wrote to Marianne Kris on Aug. 20, 1962. From the Ralph Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.

429

I’m thirty-four: Quoted in Eve Arnold, p. 85.

429

You’re both narcissists: Quoted by Esther Maltz (formerly Mrs. Hyman Engelberg) to DS, July 28 and Oct. 23, 1992.

429

prescribe medication for her: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.

430

I have lived: Alfred Hitchcock to DS, July 18, 1975.

431

Westerns and the West: Miller, p. 462.

431

This is an attempt: James Goode,
The Story of The Misfits
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), p. 17.

432
ff

On the making of
The Misfits
, see (in addition to Goode),
Time
, vol. 76, no. 6 (Aug. 8, 1960): 57; Arlene Croce, “The Misfits,”
Sight and Sound
, summer 1961, pp. 142–144; Alice T. McIntyre, “Making
The Misfits,” Esquire
, vol. 55, no. 3 (March 1961): 74–81; Rosten, pp. 82–89.

432
–
433

Each of the players: Goode, p. 17.

433

What makes you so sad?: Miller, p. 369.

434

desperately unhappy: Rupert Allan to DS, Aug. 17, 1991.

434

But the character: Sam Shaw to DS, March 7, 1992.

434

Miller’s was the: Shaw and Rosten, p. 186.

435

I have not: Quoted in “Mosaic for Marilyn,”
Coronet
, Feb. 1961.

435

I never really: Jon Whitcomb, “Marilyn Monroe—The Sex Symbol Versus The Good Wife,”
Cosmopolitan
, vol. 149, no. 6 (Dec. 1960): 54–55.

435

But I promised: McIntyre,
art. cit
., p. 79.

435

Harlow was always: Quoted in
Coronet
, February 1961.

435

by throwing a fit: Luitjers, pp. 67–68.

436

I had to: Most of these remarks were edited out of the 1962
Life
magazine interview by Meryman; the few remaining comments were much altered. As offered here, they are drawn from the original taped conversations.

436

She had considerable: Goode, p. 43.

436

I’m Mitzi Gaynor: Goode, p. 117.

436

Cut!: Goode, p. 182.

437

a mean streak: Anjelica Huston to Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, Nov. 6, 1991.

437
ff

For the account of the perils of making
Moby Dick
in 1955, see Michael Freedland,
Gregory Peck
(New York: Morrow, 1980), pp. 137–138, and Axel Madsen,
John Huston
(New York: Doubleday, 1978), pp. 149–150.

437

I want you: Madsen, p. 149.

437

What I didn’t know:
Ibid
., p. 150.

438

I’m doing this one: For the account of Gable’s stunts in
China Seas
, see Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph Ross,
The Motion Picture Guide
(Chicago: Cinebooks, 1985), vol. 2, p. 417.

438
ff

For an account of Gable’s stunts in
The Misfits
, and for Dunlevie’s remark, see Jack Scagnetti,
The Life and Loves of Gable
(Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David, 1976), p. 152.

438

You can all: Gable’s remark and the incident are recounted in Goode, pp. 208–209.

438

They don’t care: Gable, quoted in Lawrence Grovel,
The Hustons
(New York: Avon, 1989), p. 494.

439

had begun staying: Miller, p. 474.

439

But I like: Huston, quoted in Gerald Pratley,
The Cinema of John Huston
(Cranbury, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1977), p. 130.

439

Well, I ran: Quoted in
Newsweek
, Sept. 12, 1960, p. 102;
ibid
. for Huston’s gambling schedule.

439

I spent a lot: John Huston,
An Open Book
(New York: Knopf, 1980), p. 287.

439

The telltale sign: Grobel, p. 496.

440

losing steadily: Goode, p. 48; see also pp. 31, 35, 61, 73, 82, 159. Huston’s gambling habits are also detailed in William F. Nolan,
John Huston: King Rebel
(Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965), pp. 184–185.

440

What should I ask: The dialogue is recorded in Goode, p. 246 and repeated by Grobel, p. 496.

440

For details of Paula Strasberg’s illness, I am grateful to Susan Strasberg, who discussed the matter in several interviews during June and October 1992.

440

I think we’re doing: Goode, p. 126.

441

I was almost: Miller, p. 477.

441

MM’s doctor-administered injections of Amytal were gruesomely recounted by Miller, p. 481: these were, he wrote, enough to sedate her for a major operation. See also Miller, pp. 528–529.

441

It took so long: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992.

441

On Huston’s loss of $16,000 on August 16, see Goode, p. 108.

441

the one great lesson: Often quoted—e.g., in Lyn Tornabene,
Long Live The King
(New York: Putnam’s, 1976), p. 361–362.

442
ff

The relevant daily production history of
The Misfits
can be determined from Goode, pp. 115–124, from call sheets preserved by members of the cast and crew, and from the reminiscences of Evelyn Moriarty, Allan Snyder, Rupert Allan and Ralph Roberts.

442

I think she: Hedda Hopper’s column for Sept. 1, 1960; prepared the previous day at her office by wire service.

443

On Huston and Miller, see Miller, p. 485. Huston’s account was unvarying: “Drugs ravaged her, and she broke down. I had to send her to a hospital for a week” (in Wolper,
Legend
).

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3

August 27: Goode, p. 124.

444

And with that: Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 17 and Aug. 9, 1992.

444

When the press: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992.

445

My guess is: Hyman Engelberg, quoted in the
New York Times
, Aug. 30, 1960, p. 24.

445

looking wonderfully: Miller, p. 485.

445

when she was told: Goode, pp. 257–258.

445

I
know
Arthur’s: Quoted in Charles Hamblett,
Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 128.

446

All my life: Henry Hathaway, quoted in Kobal, p. 613.

447

serious, accurate: Paul V. Beckley, in the
New York Herald Tribune
, Feb. 3, 1961.

448

I can’t do it: Grobel, p. 498.

448
ff

Detailed information on Greenson’s increasingly bizarre relationship with MM, and his family’s relationship with her, came collectively from Rupert Allan, Ralph Roberts, Susan Strasberg, Pat Newcomb, and from three sources close to the Greenson family who requested that DS preserve their anonymity.