Norma Jean

Fred Lawrence Guiles

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• Performing Arts
• Biography
• Entertainment
• Autobiography
• Norma Jean

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• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 28 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781684424764
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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NORMA JEAN
The Life of Marilyn Monroe
ALSO BY FRED LAWRENCE GUILES:
Joan Crawford : The Last Word
Jane Fonda : The Actress in Her Time
Marion Davies : Hanging on in Paradise
Tyrone Power
Stan : The Life of Stan Laurel
NORMA JEAN
The Life of Marilyn Monroe
FRED LAWRENCE GUILES
Turner Publishing Company
Nashville, Tennessee
www.turnerpublishing.com
Copyright 1984, 2020 Fred L. Guiles
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Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
I. Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962. 2. Moving-picture actors and actresses-United States-Biography.
I. Title.
PN2287.M69G79 1984 791.43 028 0924 [B]84-40243
ISBN 0-8128-2983-2
9781684424757 Paperback
9781684424740 Hardcover
Printed in the United States of America
17 18 19 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Photo reproduction by Don Eckert Photography, Lancaster, Pa.
For Shirley Fliesser, Richard Jackson, and Inez Melson
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE. Early Reckonings
TWO. Marilyn: Her Life Begins
THREE. Fame
FOUR. Reality, INC .
FIVE. Marilyn Miller
SIX. Mayday
Epilogue
Filmography
Bibliography
Sources
Index
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Norma Jeane Mortensen, September 1926 Norma Jeane, summer 1927 Gladys Mortensen, Christmas 1931 C. Stanley Gifford
Consolidated Film Laboratories, December 1931
Norma Jeane s grandmother s home
Norma Jeane
Norma Jeane, circa 1930
Norma Jeane with the Bolenders
The Los Angeles Orphans Home Society
The playground at the orphans home
Jim Dougherty in high school
Jane Russell s yearbook photo
Jim Dougherty and Doris Drennan
The newlywed Dougherty s first cottage
Norma Jeane s collie, Muggsie
Emmeline Snively and Charles Collingwood
Norma Jeane modeling for Douglas Aircraft
Norma Jeane wearing four magazine covers
Marilyn and Fox talent chief Ben Lyon
Marilyn as a Petty Girl
Marilyn posing in a potato sack A typical sweater girl pose by Marilyn The famous calendar pose Actor John Carroll
A studio portrait from the late forties Freddy Karger
Joseph Schenck and David Wark Griffith Agent Johnny Hyde
Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Marilyn, and Bette Davis
Natasha Lytess and Marilyn
Drama teacher Michael Chekhov
Marilyn and columnist Louella Parsons
Four examples of Marilyn s pin-up phase
With Jane Russell and others in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
With Joe DiMaggio on their honeymoon, January 1954
Entertaining soldiers in Korea
Marilyn in There s No Business Like Show Business Billy Wilder approves Marilyn s position on a subway grate
resulting in this classic pose Marilyn on the set Marilyn in Bus Stop
Joshua Logan, Marilyn, and Hans Conreid
Marilyn with photographer Milton Greene
A photograph of Marilyn by Josh Logan
Marilyn, Arthur Miller, and his parents, July 1956
Arthur Miller with his children, Jane and Bobby
With Laurence Olivier and Arthur Miller
One of Miller s favorite photographs, by Jack Cardiff
Marilyn s favorite photograph, by Cecil Beaton
The Miller s farmhouse in Connecticut
Miller, Marilyn, and Frank Sinatra
Marilyn in Some Like It Hot
Sugar Kane s first appearance in Some Like It Hot
With Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
With Yves Montand in Let s Make Loue
Marilyn horseback riding, 1960
Frank E. Taylor with a poster for The Misfits
The Misfits company
With director John Huston and Arthur Miller With Thelma Ritter
With Clark Gable and Estelle Winwood With Clark Gable
Arthur Miller and Ralph Roberts with Marilyn With Arthur Miller
With Frank Taylor, Miller, and Nan Taylor With press agent Patricia Newcomb A George Segal work incorporating a shot of Marilyn Andy Warhol s Marilyn
Marilyn s Spanish-style home in Brentwood, February 1962
The pool to the rear of the house The living room
Singing Happy Birthday to President John Kennedy A photo by Bert Stern
Housekeeper and companion Eunice Murray Marilyn s memorial stone
Joe DiMaggio, his son, Inez Melson, and her husband Marilyn s dog, Maf Jim Dougherty
For a Dead Lady by Edwin Arlington Robinson
No more with overflowing light
Shall fill the eyes that now are faded,
Nor shall another s fringe with night
Their woman-hidden world as they did.
No more shall quiver down the days
The flowing wonder of her ways,
Whereof no language may requite
The shifting and the many shaded.
The grace, divine, definitive,
Clings only as a faint forestalling;
The laugh that love could not forgive
Is hushed, and answers to no calling;
The forehead and the little ears
Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
The breast where roses could not live
Has done with rising and with falling.
The beauty, shattered by the laws That have creation in their keeping,
No longer trembles at applause,
Or over children that are sleeping;
And we who delve in beauty s lore Know all that
we have known before Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
PREFACE
America has developed several distinctive qualities that make it unique but have become, at the same time, eminently exportable. It has contributed the sound and beat of modern jazz, and when one hears a syncopated riff floating out of a bistro from whatever corner of the world, one thinks instantly of America. It has made virtues of naivete and open friendliness.
Through America s jazz, through its air of innocence, and through its open sexuality given worldwide acceptance by way of its Theda Baras, its Swansons, Crawfords, and Harlows, and finally its singular Marilyn, it made the world tolerate without much alarm or protest the awesome fact that it had become the most powerful nation on earth.
This amalgam of innocence and power is central to the life story of Norma Jeane Mortensen Dougherty, who was to become Marilyn Monroe. And that same mix of naivete and muscle would take her from unparalleled acceptance to terminal frustration and finally to elevation as folk heroine. Few chronicles are so peculiarly American and so affectingly distressing.
Lancaster County, Pa., 1984
Fred Lawrence Guiles
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The genesis of this book occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago, when Marilyn was shooting her last complete movie, The Misfits , near Virginia City, Nevada, and I had gone there wholly ignorant of the film production. My first glimpse of her was one evening in early October (1960) when she was driven into town for dinner by Clark Gable in his silver Mercedes. Her look then was more lunar than radiant. I learned that she had returned to location from a long hospital stay in early September. The twenty months separating this production from that of Billy Wilder s Some Like It Hot had encompassed so many changes, large and small disasters, that she was now almost literally pinned together and needed constant emotional and even physical support.
I was to come away from Virginia City obsessed with Marilyn s story and spend a good part of the next decade piecing it together. Two people in publishing in New York were critical in getting a book out of this disorganized material-Frank Taylor, who had produced The Misfits at Marilyn s personal request but who was really a book publisher on leave, and Jean Todd Freeman, then with The Ladies Home Journal , who waited patiently as I hurriedly got everything assembled into a readable manuscript (she published her condensation of the book nearly two years ahead of its hardcover appearance).
That first book, Norma Jean , was published in June 1969, not quite seven years after Marilyn s death. It had many of the flaws of other first books, but Marilyn s story came through despite the occasional awkward phrasing. Its publication provoked a fierce controversy about her life and especially about her final summer and her death. In one sense it became a political work, since so many critics of the Kennedy family seized upon the mention of the anonymous lover Marilyn had during her last months, most of them implying that it was Robert Francis Kennedy. At the time of writing the book, I chose to give Kennedy anonymity because he was then a presidential contender (the first condensation of the book appeared in November 1967, and Robert F. Kennedy was killed in June 1968), and I saw no reason to do him needless damage with this disclosure. In the back of my mind, too, were his young children. Those children now are grown, and the liaison with Marilyn, which my book doubtless exposed despite my precautions, has been written about over and over again.
The present book is not a revision