Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (113 page)

491

They all came over: Eunice Murray, quoted in the
Chicago Tribune
, Sept. 11, 1973, sec. 2, p. 1.

493

The man: Wilson, p. 56.

493

There was no doubt:
Ibid
., p. 84.

494
ff

MM’s telephone message logs, kept in longhand and then typed by Cherie Redmond, were turned over to DS in 1992 by a purchaser who had obtained them after MM’s death from Inez Melson.

494

According to Redmond’s message logs (for Feb. 5, March 8, May 9, June 12, 22, 29 and July 6), Eunice’s repeated requests for cash advances continued throughout that year constituted a habit MM found annoying—as she did the housekeeper’s demand for a signed check
without the amount filled in
for her son-in-law Norman Jefferies, who performed odd jobs about the house (Redmond log for Feb. 5, 1962).

495

For Isadore Miller’s brief recollections of the Florida visit, see Wagenknecht, pp. 52–54.

495

On MM’s freedom from drug dependence during her Mexican trip, see Murray, p. 59ff.; also Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.

496

Whenever she was: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992. See also George Masters and Norma Lee Browning,
The Masters Way to Beauty
(New York: NAL/Signet, 1978), pp. 68–83.

496

Regarding MM’s dress at the Golden Globe ceremony: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.

497

drunk, barely: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 3, 1992; see also
Marilyn and Me
, p. 239.

497

vitamin shots: Murray, p. 78.

497

It was irresponsible: Arnold Abrams, M.D., to DS, Nov. 2, 1992.

498

During and after: Ralph Roberts to DS, Mar. 2, 1992.

498

It is hard: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992; see also Guiles,
Legend
, p. 441.

498

The details of MM’s visit to Greenson on March 3, 1962 were provided by two sources who requested anonymity—one a medical colleague of Greenson, the other a person close to him.

498

I don’t know: Nunnally Johnson to Jean Negulesco, quoted in Negulesco, p. 223.

499

the studio simply: Arnold Shulman to DS, July 7, 1992; see also Shulman’s comments in Strasberg,
Marilyn and Me
, pp. 240–242.

499

an artist who: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.

500

loved and admired: Milton Rudin to DS, Oct. 31, 1992.

500
ff

out of line: The doctor present in the Greenson house was under supervision by Greenson for psychotherapeutic training that year, and he was an eyewitness to the DiMaggio event. Still in practice in Los Angeles, he has requested that his name not be used as a source for this event. In fact, there was a second witness, also a physician still in practice in Beverly Hills.

501

Henry, don’t you pay any attention: Quoted by Weinstein to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.

501

I think that Ralph: Henry Weinstein to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.

502

She was a poor creature: Quoted in McCann, p. 176.

503

executives were not: Walter Bernstein to DS, March 5, 1992; see also his reminiscences in “Marilyn Monroe’s Last Picture Show,”
Esquire
, vol. 80, no. 1 (July 1973): 104–178; published in the UK in the
Observer Review
, Sept. 9, 1973.

503

She was very charming: Bernstein to DS, March 5, 1992.

504

based on the fact: Murray, p. 71.

504
ff

Regarding Eunice’s management of Marilyn’s home and life, and her choice of workmen, see her book, pp. 72ff.

504

It’s not particularly: Cherie Redmond to Hedda Rosten, April 27, 1962.

505
n
9

Not in her worst: Susan Strasberg to DS, Nov. 5, 1992.

506

For the injection by Seigel, see Bernstein,
art. cit
.

506

Seigel was: Ernest Lehman to DS, Aug. 29, 1992.

506

every few days: Murray, p. 78.

506

Regarding the gift to Agnes Flanagan: see Crivello, p. 250.

507

The arithmetic:
Close-Up
, vol. 5, no. 21 (June 14, 1962): 5. The producer is unnamed.

507

an agent: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992.

507
ff

Receipts detailing each hour of Marilyn’s appointments from April through June were preserved by Carey Cadillac. They were signed and dated by the driver, Rudy Kautzky, and bear invoice numbers 21703 through 22005.

509
ff

For Cukor’s opinions, DS interviewed (on April 20, 1992) Richard Stanley, the director’s assistant during the last seven years of Cukor’s life.

511
ff

Seigel’s reports are preserved in the production files for the film, on reports for April 30 through May 4, and in the documentary
Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give
(Fox Entertainment News, 1990), ex. prod. William K. Knoedelseder, Jr., prod., wr., narr. Henry Schipper. Fox Video #1955.

511

Marilyn did
not:
Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 17, 1992.

511

Marilyn was shattered: Johnson and Leventhal, p. 208.

512

The president’s birthday gala in May had, of course, been planned for months: Marilyn told Rupert Allan, among others, that the invitation to her was issued personally by JFK in March, and as filming approached, she also made it clear to Fox that she would have to be released for two days in New York that May. The studio would not, of course, object to a star appearing at so prestigious an event.

512

nothing, absolutely:
Life
, June 1987, p. 70.

512

It might have been: Murray, p. 101.

512

At 4:00: Daily log for May 1 kept by Cherie V. Redmond, from the Redmond/Melson papers delivered to DS in June 1992.

514

Evelyn Moriarty’s meeting with Eunice Murray was told to DS by Evelyn on Feb. 17, 1992.

515

Hildi was afraid: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1992: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA.

515

When I left: Ralph Greenson, Folder 4, Box 2: Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA. This material was the rough draft form of what became a portion of chapter twelve of his book
Drugs in the Psychotherapeutic Situation
, pp. 204–205. MM is not specifically mentioned as the patient, but the only five-week summer vacation he took from 1959 to his death in 1979 was in 1962. With no other woman patient was he so involved, and the language of this passage is virtually a copy of his descriptions of MM in his August 20 letter to Marianne Kris. Even if the patient were
not
MM, the words and tone of this passage is frighteningly self-referential, not to say frankly sexual. One need not be trained in the fine points of Freudian language to be astonished at Greenson’s lack of discretion.

515

By this time: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992.

517

I had no idea: Milton Gould to DS, Nov. 10, 1992.

517

The Weinstein-Ebbins dialogue was reconstructed for DS by Milton Ebbins, Aug. 6, 1992.

518

The whole thing: Henry Weinstein to DS, Dec. 10, 1992.

519

Peter Levathes firmly denied (to DS, Oct. 8, 1992) the absurd allegation set down by some writers to the effect that he received a telephone call from Robert Kennedy, ordering the release of MM from work so she could come to New York on May 17.

519

became more and more: recounted to DS by Ralph Roberts on March 2, 1992.

520

We kept working: William Asher to DS, Sept. 25, 1992.

520

skin and beads: Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 590.

521

I’d like you: Quoted in Wagenknecht, p. 54.

521

Marilyn came: Mathilde Krim, on
The Class of the Twentieth Century
, A & E Cable Television Network, 1991. Narrated by Richard Dreyfus.

521

reveled in that: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992.

521

Regarding the presidential gala: for years there has circulated the rumor that after the reception at the Krim residence, MM joined Kennedy for a tryst in his bedroom at the Carlyle Hotel. “This is absolutely impossible,” recalled Ralph Roberts. After Milton Ebbins and two other guests left the Krim residence on East Sixty-ninth Street with Marilyn, they delivered her to her apartment at about two o’clock, and there Roberts awaited to give her pre-arranged massage. “When I departed, it was almost four and she was asleep” (RR to DS, March 2, 1992).

Chapter Twenty-one:
May–July 1962

524
ff

MM was attended at home for her ear infection and resulting insomnia by Dr. Milton Uhley, then on call for Engelberg. He billed her for three visits to her home: the evening of May 27, after midnight on May 28–29, and from one to four the morning of June 3.

526

What happened: Henry Weinstein, in the Schipper documentary
Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give
, 1990.

527

a dangerous arsenal: Murray, p. 107.

527
ff

Henceforth, all details of MM’s telephone calls are derived from the complete records of General Telephone and Electronics for the two numbers installed at her residence, 476-1890 and and 472-4830. These were provided to DS through the mediation of producer-director Ted Landreth, who obtained them from Neil Spaatz, Senior Detective with the Los Angeles Police Department and later head of security for Playboy Enterprises.

528
ff

Details of the telephone calls and meetings involving Weinstein, Feldman, Levathes, Rudin, Greenson and Gang were all set down in nine pages of studio memoranda by Phil Feldman titled “Marilyn Monroe Situation” and dated June 6 through 11, 1962. DS obtained them in early 1992 from a private source. Henceforth these documents are designated “Feldman.”