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NOTES

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 relies on interviews conducted with Dom DiMaggio, Norman Mailer, William Ryan, Robert Solotaire, now called George Solotaire. (All references to George S. in this chapter are from the Robert Solotaire interview.)

“fed on sexual candy”
:
Norman Mailer interview. Also, Mailer uses this term in his bio of MM:
Marilyn, A Biography
.

“I felt as if I were stuck to the flypaper,” Joe told Marilyn
:
Dom DiMaggio provided many of the details from Joe’s youth in his interview.

Chapter 2

Chapter 2 relies on interviews conducted with Tim Jeffries, Robert Solotaire, Shelley Winters.

“Your friend struck out”
:
Jill Isaacs, “Starlet Marries the Slugger: Nine Months of Turmoil,”
Los Angeles Times,
March 9, 1999, p. 4.

One afternoon Joe joined Frank Sinatra for lunch at the Polo Lounge
:
The encounter between DiMaggio and the autograph seeker was overheard by then busboy Tim Jeffries.

“He has a big name”
:
Richard Ben Cramer,
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life,
p. 23.

“We’re like a good double-play combination”
:
Randall Riese and Neal Hitchens,
The Unabridged Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z
, p. 122.

Truman Capote
:
Author interview with Lester Persky, close friend of Capote’s. Marilyn Monroe also admitted her prostitution to newspaper columnist Earl Wilson. (See Wilson papers at Indiana Library, Department of Special Collections.)

“the unforgivable sin” of posing
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, pp. 70–71.

“You don’t have to be part of it”
:
Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht, My
Story.
All dialogue that follows is from the same source.

Richard Ben Cramer
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life,
p. 328.

“If I die”
:
ibid., p. 326.

“she’d taped a note to her abdomen”
:
Lois W. Banner,
MM Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 177.

“all those vultures”
:
JD would repeat the advice he gave MM to George and Robert Solotaire.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 relies on interviews with Barbara Anthony, William Davies, Dr. Rose Fromm, Beebe Goddard, Dr. Judd Marmor, Susan Ryder.

“One of my patients”
:
Dr. Judd Marmor interview. Marmor’s papers are currently housed at UCLA (special collections) but as of 2011 had not yet been available to the public. It is not clear if they contained any notations on Marmor’s dealings with Monroe. There seems to be no record of Marilyn Monroe’s visits with Marmor in his papers at UCLA.

The doctor’s name was Rose Fromm
:
Dr. Rose Fromm interview. Dr. Fromm kept notes on her meeting with MM, and these notes were made available to the author.

Roxanne Smith
(pseudonym).

At age twenty, Jim Dougherty
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, pp. 193–94.

she started to meet
:
ibid., p. 154.

“I never knew Marilyn Monroe”
:
Hollywood Couples: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio,
DVD, 2005.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 relies on interviews with: Truman Capote, Bill Dickey, Dom DiMaggio, Emerald Duffy, Tommy Henrich, Eleanor James, Dario Lodigiani, Phil Rizzuto, Robert Solotaire, Richard Widmark.

“You’d have been better off with Joan Crawford”
:
Fred Lawrence Guiles,
Legend: The Life of Marilyn Monroe,
p. 195.

claimed Joyce M. Hadley
:
Joyce M. Hadley,
Dorothy Arnold: Joe DiMaggio’s First Wife,
pp. 52–58.

Del Prado Hotel
:
ibid., p. 62.

They spent Christmas
:
ibid., pp. 69–70.

Roger Kahn
:
Roger Kahn,
Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love
.

Dorothy hired a private investigator
:
Hadley,
Dorothy Arnold
, p. 77.

divorce papers
:
Superior Court of the State of California and the County of Los Angeles.

Richard Ben Cramer
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, pp. 333–34.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 relies on interviews with Art Buchwald, Truman Capote, Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dario Lodigiani, Lester Persky, Sam Peters, Jane Russell, Robert Solotaire.

The first thing he did
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 334.

Dorothy claimed she knew
:
There was a series of articles in a variety of magazines, beginning November 10, 1952, chronicling the legal showdown between Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold.

Judge Elmer Doyle
:
Superior Court in the State of California and the County of Los Angeles.

single
:
Robert F. Slatzer,
The Marilyn Files.

“Good night, slugger”
:
Jane Ellen Wayne,
Marilyn’s Men: The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 67.

second spat
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life,
p. 336.

on Christmas Eve
:
Donald Spoto,
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography
, p. 235.

Early one morning
:
June DiMaggio,
Marilyn, Joe & Me: June DiMaggio Tells It Like It Was
, pp. 64–68.

They shoved off
:
ibid., pp. 80–85.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 relies on interviews with: Paul Black, Bernie Kanter, Joe DiMaggio Jr., George Millman, Doris Lilly, Amy Lipps, Robert Solotaire, Shelley Winters.

Allan “Whitey” Snyder
:
All references in this chapter to Snyder are from an author interview with Snyder; cf. Snyder interview with Donald Spoto, July 22, 1992, at Marjorie Hendrick Library, Los Angeles.

“wanted to be an artist, not an erotic freak”
:
Anthony Summers,
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 51.

“Marilyn’s the biggest thing”
:
Riese and Hitchens,
Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 108.

“Café de Paris”
:
See also James Haspiel,
Young Marilyn: Becoming the Legend
, p. 84. Haspiel, having interviewed 20th Century–Fox costume designer Billy Travilla, describes a similar scene, also at the Café de Paris.

Ned Wynn
:
Ned Wynn,
We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing up Crazy in Hollywood
, p. 80.

Rumpelmayer’s
:
Interviews; cf. Morris Engelberg,
DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight
, p. 195.

Baja California
:
Joe Jr. interview; cf. Robert Huber, “Joe DiMaggio Jr. Would Appreciate It If You’d Leave Him the Hell Alone,”
Esquire
. June 1, 1999, p. 82; cf. Engelberg,
Setting the Record Straight
, pp. 191–96.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 relies on interviews with Truman Capote, Dom DiMaggio, Lotte Goslar, Hugh Hefner, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire.

“Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio”
:
Whitey Snyder interview; cf. Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 148.

members of his staff
:
Michelle Morgan,
Marilyn Monroe: Private and Disclosed
, p. 134.

Joe’s thirty-ninth birthday
:
Summers,
Goddess
: p. 140.

Alice Hoffman:
Morgan
:
Private and Disclosed
, p. 135.

In his autobiography
:
Elia Kazan,
Elia Kazan: A Life
, pp. 453–54.

“womanly woman”
:
Wayne, p. 112.

“I met a man tonight”
:
Summers,
Goddess
: p. 56.

“Bewitch them”
:
Christopher Bigsby,
Arthur Miller, 1915

1962
, p. 497.

“As you probably read”
:
Letter from MM to Arthur Miller, January 7, 1954, confidential source.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 relies on interviews with Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Robert Solotaire, Whitey Snyder.

Marilyn looked “radiant”
:
Spoto,
Monroe: The Biography
, p. 261.

“I finally did it”
:
Summers,
Goddess
: p. 92.

as a gesture of good
:
Spoto,
Monroe: The Biography
, p. 261.

“marriage is now my main career”
:
Kahn,
A Memory of Love
, p. 255.

“We’re not going shopping”
:
ibid.

George H. Waple
:
See George H. Waple Papers, US Army Military History Institute. Waple also penned an autobiography,
Country Boy Gone Soldierin
g, Airleaf Press, pp. 178–80.

“Dad”
:
the Joe DiMaggio Collection at Public Auction, Item 866.

Sidney Skolsky:
Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem,
Marilyn Monroe Confidential: An Intimate Personal Account
, p. 55.

she knew it was chic
:
Marilyn Monroe: In Her Own Words
, p. 46.

abstract, impersonal concepts
:
Kazan:
A Life
, p. 403.

substantial raise
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life
, p. 362.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9 relies on interviews with Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Jim Haspiel, Evelyn Keyes, Hal Schaefer, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire.

“I don’t resent”
:
Cramer,
Hero’s Life,
p. 366.


mob-connected fixers”
:
Cramer, pp. 314, 405–6, 415–16, 419.

“It’s ridiculous”
:
Riese and Hitchens
. Unabridged Marilyn
, p. 287.

became so perturbed
:
Jerome Charyn,
Joe DiMaggio: The Center Fielder’s Vigil
, p. 89.

“Dear Joe, I know I was wrong!”
:
Joe DiMaggio Collection at Public Auction, #884.

“We used a friend’s apartment”
:
Hal Schaefer interview; cf. Summers,
Goddess
: pp. 109–110.


dopey blonde
”:
Susan Strasberg,
Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends.

“We went to the Palm”:
Robert Solotaire interview; cf. Engelberg,
Setting the Record Straight
, p. 250.

He had “the look of death”
:
Charyn,
Center Fielder’s Vigil
, p. 90–91.

“Why are you calling me?”
:
Lotte Goslar interview; cf. Charyn,
Center Fielder’s Vigil
, p. 91.

Donald Spoto
:
Spoto,
Monroe: The Biography
, p. 291.

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