The Genius and the Goddess (49 page)

16.
Bernstein, in
Marilyn: The Final Days
, Prometheus video, 2001, which includes about thirty rough minutes of the movie; Interview with Walter Bernstein.

17.
Kennedy, in Rollyson,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 194; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(1978; New York, 1979), p. 636; Interview with Billy Wilder, Beverly Hills, California, September 12, 1995;Tynan,
Profiles
, p. 144.

18.
Patrick McGilligan,
George Cukor:A Double Life
(New York, 1997), pp. 272–273; Emanuel Levy,
George Cukor: Master of Elegance
(New York, 1994), p. 272.

19.
Interview with Walter Mirisch;
Marilyn:The Final Days
, Prometheus video, 2001.

Something's Got to Give
was never completed. In 1963 the remake was remade as
Move Over Darling
, with Doris Day as a feeble stand-in for Marilyn.

Seventeen: Suicide

1.
Letter from Richard Meryman to Jeffrey Meyers, February 10, 2008;Monroe, FBI file, February 21,1962;Frost, "Provide, Provide" (1934),
Poetry
, p. 307.

2.
Lawford, in Leaming,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 425; Patricia Seaton Lawford and Ted Schwarz,
The Peter Lawford Story
(New York, 1988), p. 176; Shaw and Rosten,
Marilyn Among Friends
, p. 190; Rosten, in Wagenknecht, ed.,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 102.

3.
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness
, p. 246; Monroe,
My Story
, p. 66.

4.
Greenson, in Summers,
Goddess
, pp. 190, 243; Heymann,
RFK
, p. 312; Greenson, in Spoto,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 515.

5.
Thomas Noguchi, with Joseph DiMona, "Marilyn Monroe, "
Coroner
(New York, 1983), pp. 72; 74; Engelberg, in
Marilyn: The Final Days
, Prometheus video, 2001; Huston, in Wagenknecht, ed.,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 168.

6.
Noguchi,
Coroner
, pp. 72; 70, 80; 56; 79–80; 85.

7.
For the conspiracy theories, see Farber,
Hollywood on the Couch
, p. 105; Heymann,
RFK
, p. 325; Noguchi,
Coroner
, p. 83.

Ted Jordan claimed that he owned the Red Diary, which
contained Marilyn's secret thoughts but did not have any secret information. He was never able to produce that diary.

8.
Monroe, FBI file, July 9, 1963; Hersh,
Dark Side of Camelot
, p. 104; Frank Saunders, with James Southwood,
The Torn Lace Curtain
(New York, 1982), pp. 141–142.

9.
Letter from Ralph Greenson to Anna Freud, June 22, 1962; Letter from Anna Freud to Ralph Greenson, July 2, 1962, Library of Congress; Letter from Greenson to Norman Rosten, August 15, 1962, courtesy of Patricia Rosten Filan.

10.
Greenson, in Victor,
Marilyn Encyclopedia
, p. 132; Letters from Ralph Greenson to Anna Freud, August 20, 1962, January 13, 1963 and May 27, 1963, Library of Congress.

11.
Ralph Greenson, "On Transitional Objects and Transference, "
Explorations in Psychoanalysis
(New York, 1978), pp. 493–494.

12.
Cramer,
Joe DiMaggio
, p. 418; Gladys Baker, in Barris,
Marilyn: Her Own Words
, p. 157; Strasberg, in Conway,
Films of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 7.

13.
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p.553; Adams,
Lee Strasberg
, p. 27; Samuel Johnson, "The Vanity of Human Wishes" (1749),
Complete English Poems
, ed. J. D. Fleeman (New York, 1971), p. 85.

In the Monroe file, no date, the FBI reported that a " 'Frenchtype' movie depicted Marilyn Monroe, deceased actress, in unnatural acts with unknown male. . . . DiMaggio had attempted to purchase this film from *** and had offered him $25,000 . . . but he would not part with it."

14.
Miller, in Brater,
Arthur Miller
, p. 102; Miller,
Timebends
, p. 531; Weatherby,
Conversations with Marilyn
, p. 219; Miller, in Summers,
Goddess
, p. 314.

15.
Miller, in Guiles,
Legend
, p. 441; Bigsby,
Remembering Arthur Miller
, p. 60; Miller,
Timebends
, pp. 528; 242.

Eighteen: Miller's Tragic Muse

1.
Charles Baudelaire,
Selected Letters
, trans. and ed. Rosemary Lloyd (Chicago, 1986), p. 49; Henry Popkin, "Arthur Miller:The Strange Encounter,"
Sewanee Review
, 68 (1960), 56; Miller,
Timebends
, p. 326.

2.
Richard and Nancy Meyer, "
After the Fall
: A View from the Director's Notebook,"
Theatre
, 2 (1965), 57, 68; Arthur Miller,
After the Fall
: Final Stage Version (New York, 1964), p. 1, and Miller,
Timebends
, p. 536.

3.
Gottfried,
Arthur Miller
, p. 365; Miller,
After the Fall
, pp. 40; 39; 28; 29–30.

4.
Rebecca Buselle, "In Remembrance: Inge Morath,"
Aperture
, 171 (2003), 76; Miller,
After the Fall
, p. 22; Gottfried,
Arthur Miller
, p. 346.

5.
Albert Camus,
The Fall
, trans. Justin O'Brien (1956; New York, 1957), p. 70; Roudané,
Conversations with Arthur Miller
, p. 336; Miller,
After the Fall
, pp. 67 and 111.

6.
Miller,
After the Fall
, pp. 44, 47, 71, 72, 80 ("whereas"); 24, 77.

7.
Miller,
After the Fall
, p. 108; Roudané,
Conversations with Arthur Miller
, pp. 354, 357.

8.
Miller,
After the Fall
, pp. 44; 47; 82; 72.

See Mailer,
Marilyn
, p. 93, quoting her on the Communists: "They're for the people, aren't they?"

9.
David Savran,
Communists, Cowboys and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
(Minneapolis, 1992), p. 56; Roudané,
Conversations with Arthur Miller
, p. 79; Gottfried,
Arthur Miller,
p. 363; Arthur Miller, "With Respect for Her Agony – But with Love,"
Life
, February 7, 1964, p. 66.

10.
Meyer, "Director's Notebook," pp. 63, 65, 70; Kazan,
Life
, p. 630.

11.
Miller,
After the Fall
, pp. 96; 107; 83; 97.

12.
Robert Brustein, "Arthur Miller: Mea Culpa,"
New Republic
, 150 (February 8, 1964), 26, 28; Russell, in Jeffrey Meyers,
D.H. Lawrence and the Experience of Italy
(Philadelphia, 1982), p. 82; Richard Gilman, "The Stage: Still Falling,"
Commonweal
, 79 (February 17, 1964), 601; Noël Coward,
Diaries
, ed. Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Boston, 1982), pp. 557–558.

13.
Gussow,
Conversations with Miller
, p. 182; Miller,
Timebends
, p. 229; Oriana Fallaci, "A Propos of
After the Fall
,"
World Theatre
, 14 (January 1965), 79.

14.
Miller,
"Paris Review" Interviews
, p. 224; Letter from Heather Kenney, Roxbury Probate Court, to Jeffrey Meyers, October 11, 2007.

15.
Arthur Miller,
Broken Glass
(New York, 1994), pp. 7, 107; 63; 68; 69; 70.

Impotence is also a major theme in
A View From the Bridge
.

16.
Miller,
Broken Glass
, pp. 26; 83; 131; 137.

17.
Arthur Miller,
Mr. Peters' Connections
(New York, 1999), pp. 4; 53; 13; 22; 24; 54.

18.
Arthur Miller, "The Bare Manuscript,"
Presence
(New York, 2007), pp. 70; 90.

19.
Arthur Miller,
Finishing the Picture
, unpublished last play (2004), pp. 8; 42; Miller,
Timebends
, p. 385; Miller,
Finishing the Picture
, pp. 29; 21; 21; 24.

20.
Miller,
Finishing the Picture
, pp. 42; 92; 32, 94; Interview with Brian Dennehy.

I. Arthur Miller

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——, ed.
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——, ed.
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Bloom, Harold, ed.
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Brater, Enoch.
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Thames & Hudson, 2005.

Caute, David.
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Corrigan, Robert, ed.
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.
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Gottfried, Martin.
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Gussow, Mel.
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Hellman, Lillian, "Lillian Hellman Wants a Little Respect for Her
Agony,"
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, 4 (May 1964), 12–13.

Kazan, Elia.
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Koorey, Stefani.
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Mandelstam, Nadezhda, "Letters to Arthur Miller and Inge
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McCarthy, Mary. "Naming Names: The Arthur Miller Case."
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——. "The American Realist Playwrights."
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Meyers, Jeffrey."Review of Arthur Miller's
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——. "Arthur Miller."
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——."Miller's Outtakes,"
American Drama
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——. "Review of Arthur Miller's
Presence
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Globe and Mail
,
August 4, 2007, pp. D4–D5.

——."Marilyn and the Literati,"
Michigan Quarterly Review
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2008), 18–27.

——."Miller's Tragic Muse,"
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——. "Marilyn's Houses,"
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Miller, Arthur.
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——.
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——.
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——.
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——.
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——.
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——.
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——."Please Don't Kill Anything" (1960) and "The Misfits" (1957).
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——."
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——.
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——.
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——."My Wife Marilyn,"
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——.
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——.
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——.
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——.
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——."With Respect for Her Agony – But with Love,"
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7, 1964, p. 66.

—— and Serge Toubiana.
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Morgan, Edmund. "Arthur Miller's
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Moss, Leonard.
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Navasky, Victor.
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Berryman, Eileen.
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Carey, Gary, with Joseph Mankiewicz.
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Cramer, Richard Ben.
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Guiles, Fred.
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Hersh, Seymour.
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Hoyt, Edwin.
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Karasek, Hellmuth.
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Leaming, Barbara.
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Mailer, Norman.
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——.
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——."
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