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Biography Of Marilyn Monroe

1 Aralık 2023
in Hollywood
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PART IV

 

On June 20, 1956, the New York Post ran the story of the imminent marriage between Marilyn and Arthur Miller. The civil ceremony was on June 29, followed by the wedding according to Jewish ritual on July 1, for which Marilyn had converted to Judaism. The marriage of America’s most famous contemporary playwright to the film star was an eruptive publicity event and made headlines around the world. The picture shows Marilyn and Arthur Miller at the turbulent press conference in front of their house in New York, where they officially announced their wedding plans.



After the marriage ceremony at the court house in White Plains, New York, Marilyn and Arthur Miller withdraw to Miller’s summer house in Roxbury, Connecticut. Here, too, they pose for the pursuing reporters.



On February 22, 1956, Marilyn sat for the photographer Cecil Beaton. The sitting, which Beaton had tried to arrange for three months, took place in the New York Ambassador Hotel. As usual, Marilyn arrived an hour and a quarter late. This photo, which shows Marilyn lying on a bed with a red carnation, was one of her favorites.



This picture was also taken at the portrait sitting by Cecil Beaton. Later, in his memoirs, he gave this description of the event: “She romps, she squeals with delight, she leaps on to the sofa. She puts a flower stem in her mouth, puffing on a daisy as though it was a cigarette. It is an artless, impromptu, high-spirited, infectiously gay performance. It will probably end in tears.”




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June 29, 1956 Marilyn weds Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony.

July 1, 1956 A marriage to Arthur Miller according to Jewish rites is held; Marilyn had converted to Judaism shortly before. At a press conference she reports: “We’re so congenial. This is the first time I’ve been really in love. Arthur is a serious man, but he has a wonderful sense of humor. We laugh and joke a lot. I’m mad about him.”



In July 1956 Marilyn and Arthur Miller arrived in London for the shooting of The Prince and the Showgirl, a movie already being advertised. The pictures show Marilyn with Laurence Olivier at their joint press conference at the London Savoy Hotel on July 16, 1956. The conference lasted about an hour, in a room crammed with two hundred and fifty journalists. Marilyn easily managed to beguile the most disdainful reporter. Winifred Carr of the Daily Telegraph reported: “I’ve had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence.”






July 14, 1956 The newlyweds arrive in London and hold a press conference with Sir Laurence Olivier to announce the newest project, the first of the Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc.: The Prince and the Showgirl.



Stills from The Prince and the Showgirl, taken by Milton H. Greene. Laurence Olivier later described his work with Marilyn: “It can be no news to anyone to say that she was difficult to work with. The work frightened her, and although she had undoubted talent, I think she had a subconscious resistance to the exercise of being an actress. But she was intrigued by the mystique and happy as a child when being photographed; she managed the business of stardom with uncanny, clever, apparent ease.”






A Marilyn craze has been sweeping England for weeks. But now the newspapers and magazines outdo each other with headlines and exaggerated inanities: “She walks. She talks. She really is as luscious as strawberries and cream.” (London Evening News) The reports on her arrival push the speech of Prime Minister Anthony Eden—a warning about the serious economic crisis—Marilyn’s dependency on medication becomes more acute during the difficult and emotionally trying filming, and her New York psychiatrist has to be flown in over the Atlantic after Paula Strasberg, Marilyn’s constant companion, returns to New York earlier than planned.



The Queen and the showgirl. At a Royal Command film performance on October 29, 1956, Marilyn Monroe and other actors were presented to Queen Elizabeth II.




October 29, 1956 Marilyn is presented to Queen Elizabeth II at a Royal Command Film Performance.



A final press conference at which the Millers, Laurence Olivier, and his wife, Vivien Leigh, appeared, was held before the Millers left London. At the time of Marilyn’s death years later. Sir Laurence commented: “She was the complete victim of ballyhoo and sensation. Popular opinion and all that goes to promote it is a horrible, unsteady conveyance for life, and she was exploited beyond anyone’s means.”



A farewell kiss for English reporters before boarding the plane on November 20, 1956.

November 20, 1956 Marilyn and Arthur Miller leave England after finishing shooting for The Prince and the Showgirl and finally set off to Jamaica on their belated honeymoon.

December 18, 1956 Marilyn is on a radio show in the Waldorf-Astoria.



Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe leaving Idlewild Airport on their arrival from London. To the very last moment Marilyn gave her attention to the photographers who had come to greet her.




Spring 1957 Her business partnership, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., as well as her friendship with Milton H. Greene, falls apart. Greene’s comment on the failure: “I thought I’d seen them all; being in the business I’d seen so many models and actresses. But I’d never seen anyone with that tone of voice, that kindness, that real softness. If she saw a dead dog in the road, she’d cry. She was so supersensitive you had to watch your tone all the time. Later I was to find out that she was schizoid—that she could be absolutely brilliant or absolutely kind, then, the total opposite.” Marilyn’s detached reply: “My company was not set up merely to parcel out 49.4 % of all my earnings to Mr. Greene for seven years!” (Time, April 29, 1957)



Publicity stills for The Prince and the Showgirl, taken by Richard Avedon.






June 13, 1957 The premiere of The Prince and the Showgirl is held at Radio City Music Hall, New York.

August 1, 1957 Marilyn suffers a miscarriage after a two-month pregnancy. The loss of the child evokes a new emotional crisis, and she makes her first suicide attempt.



For the 1958 Christmas edition of Life, Richard Avedon photographed Marilyn in the typical poses of five famous stars in motion-picture history: Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Russell, and Jean Harlow. But during this sitting she also posed for him—unmistakably as the picture opposite shows—as Marilyn Monroe.



One of photographer Philippe Halsman’s special gags was to ask famous personalities to let him take pictures of them jumping in the air. As some of these photos were about to be published in Life, the editors wanted Marilyn’s jump on the cover.



She was therefore asked, this time officially, to appear in the studio. She was, of course, as the photographer noted, exactly three days too late and ten minutes too early, but the sitting produced numerous photos from which the picture from appeared on the cover of Life. Photographs are from 1959.




August 4, 1958 Shooting begins for Some Like It Hot. Marilyn’s contradictory behavior, exaggerated and uncooperative, surpasses her previous misconduct on sets. Scheduled to shoot at midday, she often doesn’t appear until 6.00 P.M., if at all. She objects to the movie being filmed in black and white, instead of in color. She blames the studio for having replaced Frank Sinatra with Jack Lemmon. She doesn’t like working with Tony Curtis. She has problems with the director. Billy Wilder, who managed to survive The Seven Year Itchfour years earlier, goes through hell for the next four months—for a film that becomes the most successful comedy ever on screen.



After a break of two years, Marilyn appeared before the camera as Sugar Kane in the film Some Like It Hot in the summer of 1958. Her partners were Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis; the director, Billy Wilder. This picture, which was taken during the filming, shows Marilyn in an unusual pose as a diva with wind-touseled hair.




September 19, 1958 Marilyn is admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for “nervous exhaustion.”



A still from Some Like It Hot by Richard C. Miller, for whom Marilyn had already posed for photo ads in 1946. During the filming, which had to be interrupted several times, Marilyn was so difficult that Miller asked director Billy Wilder why he put up with Marilyn if she only caused trouble. Wilder’s reply: “It’s like somebody who can play one note on an instrument. They play it perfectly, though they cannot play anything else.” Wilder’s inexhaustible patience paid off; Some Like It Hot was his most successful film. A still from Some Like It Hot.



Publicity stills for Bus Stop by Milton H. Greene.




November 6, 1958 Filming of Some Like It Hot is completed.

December 17 1958 Marilyn has a second miscarriage.



Henri Dauman photographed a beaming Marilyn Monroe on her arrival for the premiere of Some Like It Hot in New York on March 29, 1959.




March 29, 1959 Some Like It Hot premieres.



A publicity still with Yves Montand for the film Let’s Make Love, 1960. Yves Montand was given the part at the last minute after both Gregory Peck and Rock Hudson had declined. Montand and his wife, Simone Signoret, had already appeared in plays by Arthur Miller. The love affair that obviously unfolded between the two leading actors during the course of the filming evoked this reaction from Simone Signoret: “If Marilyn is in love with my husband, it proves she has good taste.”



Publicity stills for Let’s Make Love. The choreographer Jack Cole was responsible for the numerous dance numbers in the film.





This impressive portrait of Marilyn lost in herself was taken on the set for Let’s Make Love. Photograph by Bob Willoughby.




Early 1960 Filming of Let’s Make Love, a comedy directed by George Cukor, begins. The leading male role is played by Yves Montand, after refusals by Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson. A love affair with Yves Montand ends in November.

March 8, 1960 Marilyn Monroe receives the Golden Globe Award as “Best Actress in a Comedy” for her role in Some Like It Hot.



The filming of The Misfits, with a script by Arthur Miller, began in Nevada in July 1960. Under the direction of John Huston, Marilyn appeared with Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach. The photo agency Magnum bought the exclusive rights for still photos and picture stories on the filming. Every two weeks the agency sent two new photographers to the location to relieve the previous two. The reason was to ensure sufficient variety in reporting and at the same time to reduce the photographers’ disturbance of the filming as much as possible.



Film still from The Misfits, with Clark Gable.



With Nevada’s magnificent scenery in the background, Marilyn in a flesh-colored bikini emerges like Botticelli’s Venus from the waters of Pyramid Lake. A passionate love scene with Clark Gable follows. Photographs by Eve Arnold.






July 18, 1960 Filming of The Misfits begins in Nevada. Arthur Miller wrote the script for Marilyn; John Huston is the director. With Marilyn in the leading roles are her idol, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift. During the shooting of the film Marilyn makes a pact with her friend and press agent Rupert Allan: if one of them is thinking of suicide, that person agrees to call the other to talk him or her out of it. In case the other person is not in and a message has to be left, they decide on the password “Truckee River.” Marilyn makes a similar suicide pact with Lee Strasberg.



The great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who with Inge Morath (later to become Arthur Miller’s wife) was sent by Magnum for the first two weeks of filming for The Misfits, took this picture of Marilyn Monroe.



Ernst Haas, another Magnum photographer, was responsible for this shot, which best expresses Marilyn’s attitude toward The Misfits. Marilyn saw the film as a men-and-mustang story and felt more and more neglected the longer the filming stretched on.



The star and the floodlights: Marilyn, thoughtful and alone, with the set equipment. Photograph by Ernst Haas, 1960.




August 26, 1960 Marilyn Monroe suffers a nervous breakdown during the shooting for The Misfits and is flown to West-side Hospital, Los Angeles.

September 5, 1960 She returns to location.

November 4, 1960 The Misfits is completed.

November 11, 1960 A press bulletin announces that the marriage to Arthur Miller is to be dissolved.

November 16, 1960 Death of Clark Gable. During the Christmas holidays, the thirty-four-year-old Marilyn alarms her lawyer by asking him to draw up a new will.



January 20, 1961 The divorce from Arthur Miller is granted in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

January 31, 1961 Premiere of The Misfits. Many critics are less than generous in their reaction to Marilyn’s performance as Roslyn Tabor, an unhappy divorcee. Details other mental problems, her dependence on medication and alcohol reach the public.

February 7 1961 Admitted to Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic of New York Hospital. She calls Joe DiMaggio in Florida who immediately comes to New York to get her out. On the evening of the fourth day she is smuggled out of the clinic through the cellar.

February 11, 1961 She spends the next three weeks in the psychiatric division of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.



On March 7, 1961, Marilyn Monroe was accosted by reporters while leaving Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Although she had spent a month psychiatric treatment, and in spite of the unusually noisy hounding by the reporters, Marilyn still found enough time and energy for a smile.



After Marilyn’s divorce from Arthur Miller and her release from the psychiatric clinic, Joe DiMaggio once again looked after her. This snapshot taken through a windshield by a paparazzo shows an alert and harassed-looking Marilyn.




March 7 1961 As Marilyn leaves the clinic, she is beseiged by a horde of reporters and camera teams to an extent unparalleled in all the years of reporting on her private life. Marilyn has to be escorted through a cordon formed by sixteen policemen and hospital security personnel to her waiting limousine. Joe DiMaggio is Marilyn’s chief support at this time. She flies to Florida where Joe is coaching his former team, the New York Yankees. This year Marilyn is not able to work; two more hospital stays follow.






November 19, 1961 At Peter Lawford’s beach house in Santa Monica she meets President Kennedy. Rumors spread that she has sexual relationships with him and his brother Robert.

Early February 1962 Marilyn finds a house in the exclusive section of Brentwood (California). The secluded house on a dead-end street is not far from doctors and friends, like Dr. Greenson and Peter Lawford. Marilyn continues to see the Kennedy brothers in Lawford’s villa.

February 1, 1962 Dinner in honor of Robert F. Kennedy.



Style 1; Style 2; On March 5, 1962, Marilyn received the Golden Globe Award as “the world film favorite of 1961.” At the presentation her companion was José Balanos, a Mexican scriptwriter.




March 1962 Marilyn Monroe receives the Golden Globe Award as the World’s Film Favorite.

April 23, 1962 Filming for Something’s Got to Give begins. Henry Weinstein, producer of the film and friend of the Greenson family, is horrified to see the poor emotional and physical state that his superstar from Hollywood is in.



On May 19, 1962, Marilyn had left the filming of Something’s Got to Give without permission to appear at the birthday gala for John F. Kennedy in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Here, too, she arrived about forty minutes late. Peter Lawford’s ambiguous introduction was: “Mr. President, the late Marilyn Monroe . . .” John F. Kennedy thanked her for the song by saying, “I can now retire from politics after having had ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way.”




May 19, 1962 At John F. Kennedy’s birthday celebration in Madison Square Garden, fifteen thousand Democrats cheer their president. Jack Benny, Henry Fonda, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and Maria Callas make appearances. Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday” and “Thanks for the Memory”:

“Thanks, Mr. President,

For all the things you’ve done. The battles that you’ve won.

The way you deal with U. S. Steel, And our problems by the ton, We thank you—so much.”



Portrait study by Willy Rizzo for Paris Match, spring 1962.




May 28, 1962 Shooting of the famous swimming pool scene for the film Something’s Got to Give. The first nude photos since her famous calendar pinups are taken. The news that Marilyn has posed in the nude immediately hits the press with welcome publicity for the studio and approving comments on Marilyn’s well-preserved figure.

June 1, 1962 Marilyn’s birthday is her last full working day at 20th Century-Fox and her last public appearance.



Publicity still for Something’s Got to Give. Filming was suspended on June 8, 1962, because Marilyn was perennially late and finally did not show up at all on the set.




June 8, 1962 The production of Something’s Got to Give is interrupted because Marilyn continually arrives too late or not at all. She justifies her absence by referring to the unfinished script and the viral infections she has contracted. Marilyn is fired by Fox. In an ad in Variety the studio employees and other actors in the film sarcastically thank Marilyn for the loss of their jobs due to her arbitrary behavior. The studio sues Marilyn for half a million dollars in damages. When Dean Martin refuses to work with another actress, he too is sued. In a telegram Marilyn expresses her regrets to all concerned. The studio soon realizes that Marilyn cannot be replaced, withdraws its charges, and begins to negotiate with her. The film is planned to be finished by the end of the year.



On June 23, 1962, a three-day sitting began with Bert Stern at the Los Angeles Bel Air Hotel, arranged by Vogue.




June 23, 1962 The three-day photo session with Bert Stern, commissioned by Vogue, begins. Of the twenty-seven hundred photographs that are made, only eight appear in Vogue. In 1982 all the remaining pictures are published in Germany in book form (Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe. The Complete Last Sitting).

June 28, 1962 Marilyn meets with leading representatives of 20th Century- Fox to discuss her future work in Something’s Got to Give.



Nearly twenty-seven hundred pictures were taken, from which Vogue editors decided to publish eight. This was the first time that Vogue reported on Marilyn Monroe.



The agreement between Bert Stern and Marilyn Monroe stipulated that all pictures be presented to her for her approval. When Stern received the pictures from her, more than half were crossed through, including this shot. Bert commented that it was as if she had crossed out herself and not the pictures.



This fashion photograph by Bert Stern for Vogue shows a pensive Marilyn. In her last interview, which Lifepublished a week before her death, a strong detachment came through: “Fame to me is only a temporary and partial happiness, that’s not what fulfills me. It warms you a bit, but the warming is temporary. It might be kind of a relief to be finished. It’s sort of like you don’t know what kind of yard dash you’re running, and then you’re at the finish line and you sort of sigh—you’ve made it. But fame will go by—and so long. I’ve had you, fame. I’ve always known it was fickle.”




August 3, 1962 Last Life cover story before Marilyn’s death.

August 4, 1962 Marilyn Monroe’s last day. In the afternoon U. S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy visits her, together with a doctor who gives her a tranquilizer to calm her down. The list of telephone calls for this day disappears. Peter Lawford states that he talked with her a few hours before her death.



August 5, 1962. The sign on the building of the New York Times at Times Square flashed news of the death of Marilyn Monroe.




August 5, 1962 On the morning of this day, Dr. Greenson finds Marilyn dead in her house. The Associated Press reports the next day: “HOLLYWOOD—Blonde and beautiful Marilyn Monroe, a glamorous symbol of the gay, exciting life of Hollywood, died tragically Sunday. Her body was found nude in bed, a probable suicide. . . . The long-troubled star clutched a telephone in one hand. An empty bottle with sleeping pills was nearby.” Joe DiMaggio, Mrs. Bernice Miracle, and Inez Melson arrange for a private funeral.



August 8, 1962 Marilyn is buried in a crypt in Westwood Memorial Park Chapel. On the ribbon of an anonymously donated wreath is the text of a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including the lines:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. . . . I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.



August 18, 1962 Press bulletin of the “suicide investigation team” confirms that Marilyn died of an overdose of barbiturates. The investigation into the cause of death is halted. The press refers to mysterious pressure on the investigating authorities to end their inquiries.

August 28, 1962 The death certificate is issued.

 

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