Read Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Online
Authors: Donald Spoto
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Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (114 page)
Everyone was aware: Walter Bernstein to DS, March 5, 1992. | |
The accounts of Greenson’s conduct with the actor-writer and another patient were provided by those who for obvious reasons have requested anonymity. | |
Correspondence between Greenson and John Frosch of the | |
She was disheveled: The citations from Michael Gurdin, M.D., are derived from the DS interview with him, Sept. 21, 1992. | |
with them: Feldman, June 6, 1962 memorandum. | |
the medical member: | |
I am convinced: | |
I went to see: Quoted in the | |
534 | Feldman, memorandum for June 8, 1962, pp. 1–3. |
was made necessary: Quoted in the | |
We’ve let the inmates: Quoted in the | |
Cleopatra | |
They just didn’t: David Brown to DS, Nov. 11, 1992. | |
Mr. Martin: Feldman, memorandum for June 11, 1962. | |
Mr. Rudin said: | |
since April 16: Complaint no. 797856, Twentieth Century–Fox Film Corporation, Plaintiff, vs. Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., Defendants. | |
When [Levathes]: Johnson and Leventhal, p. 209. | |
she had never: Quoted in Gerald Clarke, | |
There’s a future: Quoted in McCann, p. 173. | |
She was very natural: Bert Stern to DS, May 10, 1992. | |
she said: George Masters to DS, Aug. 8, 1992. | |
I’m thirty-six: In | |
To think of: Allan Snyder to DS, May 2, 1992. | |
Regarding the so-called “liver and vitamin injections,” the first Mrs. Hyman Engelberg told DS that she never heard of them: “Dr. Greenson used Hy to sedate [Marilyn].” Esther Maltz to DS, Oct. 23, 1992. | |
She asked to postpone: Richard Meryman, “A Last Long Talk with a Lonely Girl,” | |
but she implied: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992. | |
I have access: Esther Maltz (formerly Mrs. Hyman Engelberg) to DS, July 28, 1992. | |
so that I had nothing: Ralph Greenson to Marianne Kris, Aug. 20, 1962: RG Papers, Special Collections, UCLA. | |
The calls placed by MM to the Department of Justice are recorded on her GTE bill (documented above under the note on p. 527). Edwin Guthman, previously cited in this matter, provided for DS an account of how the calls were or were not put through to the attorney general, and how Angie Novello fielded them. | |
That Angie Novello talked with MM more often than RFK did, see Schlesinger, p. 591. | |
Regarding DiMaggio’s visits to MM, see “Joe’s Plan to Be Near Marilyn,” | |
For the history of MM’s gynecological problems and procedures, see above, on Leon Krohn’s notes. | |
Regarding DiMaggio’s termination with Monette, see Maury Allen, p. 197, and the | |
543 | MM’s remarks are excerpted from Meryman, |
What are you: Quoted by Murray, p. 115. | |
On plans for | |
As so often: Peter G. Levathes to DS, Feb. 21, 1992. | |
She didn’t want: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992. | |
There was absolutely: Alex D’Arcy to DS, July 1, 1992. | |
I was in Lake Tahoe: Betsy Duncan Hammes to DS, July 22, 1992. | |
He loved her: Quoted in Maury Allen, p. 197. Rupert Allan’s interview with DS, July 19, 1991. Privy to the secret wedding plans were, among others, Valmore Monette, Rupert Allan and (documented in Chapter 22, below) Bill Alexander. But MM and DiMaggio intended to keep the wedding secret until after the ceremony, to avoid the kind of publicity that had surrounded them in 1954. | |
She was fighting: Susan Strasberg to DS, June 4, 1992. | |
Regarding MM’s new will: Milton Rudin to DS, Oct. 31, 1992. | |
She was so happy: Quoted in the | |
| Chapter Twenty-two: |
because Marilyn has asked: Negulesco, p. 226. | |
a hurricane of glamour: | |
in great spirits: Evelyn Moriarty to DS, Feb. 26, 1992. | |
Notes on interviews with Leon Krohn were shared with DS by producer Ted Landreth, who interviewed Krohn for a BBC-TV documentary. MM’s telephone records confirm her call to Krohn (Los Angeles telephone number 662-9111) at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital that day. | |
being held by: Cherie V. Redmond to MM, July 30, 1962. | |
made her presence known: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992. | |
556 | The dismissal of Eunice Murray was well known to Newcomb, Roberts, Allan and perhaps to Joe as well. See also Guiles, |
Marilyn just: Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992. | |
Greenson’s connection: Ralph Roberts to DS, March 2, 1992. | |
“Special Problems in Psychotherapy with the Rich and Famous,” Box 2, Folder 19 (dated Aug. 18, 1978): RG Papers, Special Collections, UCLA. | |
I have a Spanish: Bill Alexander to DS, Aug. 27, 1992. | |
It was a difficult: John Bates to DS, Nov. 20, 1992. Also contributing to the accounts of that weekend were Nancy (Mrs. John) Bates and John Bates, Jr. A separate interview was conducted that same date with Ronald Snyder, the retired foreman of the Bates ranch, who was also with the Kennedys at the ranch that entire weekend. | |
I saddled: Roland Snyder to DS, Nov. 20, 1992. | |
I was fourteen: John Bates, Jr., to DS, Nov. 20, 1992. | |
Regarding RFK’s presence at Mass, see | |
563 | Greenson and Engelberg submitted bills for August 3. Norman Rosten summarized his conversation with MM in Rosten, pp. 120–121, Allen, p. 203 and Shaw and Rosten, pp. 189–190. The telephone calls to Ray Tolman and to Rosten appear on MM’s GTE telephone bill for that date. The calls to Courtney and Louis are noted by Murray, p. 122. Jule Styne discussed his telephone call to MM with DS on Nov. 25, 1992. Other material from Pat Newcomb to DS, Aug. 3, 1992, and it is also documented in Wilson, |
Engelberg told the district attorney of this prescription in the December 1982 report, the official title of which is: “Report to the District Attorney on The Death of Marilyn Monroe by Ronald H. Carroll, Assistant District Attorney; Alan B. Tomich, Investigator.” This final report was preceded by a series of investigative interviews conducted on August 16 and 20, September 3, 7 and 27, October 1, 12 and 18, and compiled as the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation, Investigator’s Report, File #82-G-2236. The interviews were conducted by Carroll and/or by Investigator Alan B. Tomich. Henceforth, the full report is designated as “DA 1982,” and the interviews as “InvRep.” The citation here is from DA 1982, p. 25. | |
The Engelberg divorce is Los Angeles County civil case #D-617021; additional information was provided by the former Esther Engelberg (later Mrs. Albert Maltz) to DS, Oct. 23, 1992. | |
Regarding the prescriptions by Greenson | |
Regarding the two physicians’ prescriptions for MM, Engelberg made a formal statement to investigators from the district attorney’s office on Sept. 27, 1982, in which he stated that he approved only one Nembutal a day for her, and Greenson claimed to the Suicide Prevention Team on Aug. 17, 1962 that a primary goal of his therapy with MM was to break her drug dependency. | |
She was very excited: Jule Styne to DS, Dec. 14, 1992. | |
Regarding MM’s deal with | |
My husband and I: Paula Strasberg, quoted in the |