My journey ends here...
1960
JANUARY
(
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), the director GeorgeCukor (
), the producer Buddy Adler (
).The reporter Dorothy Kilgallen (
) and the entertainer Milton Berle (
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) were also there.The Millers and the Montand-Signoret then had dinner together (
,
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).The 2 couples lived at the Beverly Hills Hotel : the Montand-Signoret at bungalow 22, the Millers at 21
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They often had dinner together (
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,
).Monday, January 18, beginning of the filming. Marilyn didn't appear during several days.
Stressed out and anxious, she met the psychiatrist Dr Ralph Greenson (
), that her New York psychiatrist, Dr Marianne Kris (
), had recommended to her.He visited her at the Beverly Hills Hotel and ordered a giving up of every drugs she was taken.
He asked her to be followed by the internist Dr Hyman Engelberg (
).Monday, January 25, Marilyn showed on the set 14 and filmed a part of the dancing and singing scene
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (
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Tuesday, January 26, she was again on the set (
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Paula Strasberg was still her coach (
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), and her faithful Allan Snyder
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) and Agnes Flanagan (
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) took care of her beauty.
Friday, January 29, another day of filming (
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During the filming she had the visit of her friend the reporter Sidney Skolsky (
) and the columnist
Louella Parsons (
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).
She received an invitation (
) for the 30th gala of the "Union des artistes français" on March 4, 1960, but being in the middle of the production, Marilyn couldn't attend.
FEBRUARY
) who had to direct "The Misfits" with Marilyn, based on Miller's screenplay.Marilyn, affected by her husband's leaving, didn't show on the set during several days.
She went back on Monday, February 22.
Arthur Miller came back from Ireland on Saturday, February 27.
MARCH
) for the "Best Actress in Musical or Comedyin 1959" in "Some Like It Hot". The award was attributed by the Foreign Press Association (
).The party took place at the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (
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). She was accompanied by her press agent Rupert Allan (
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). Her friend the actress Shelley Winters she had known as a starlet, was there (
,
).The production in Hollywood was blocked by a strike led by the American actors and authors union, against the movie studios and producers. The stake was the payment of an extra salary to the actors and the writers whose films were broadcasted on TV but only the studios received the benefit.
So the production of "Let's Make Love" was stopped until the end of the strike.
The Millers went back to New York.
APRIL
Monday, April 4 for the 32nd Academy Awards Ceremony at the Pantage Theater, Simone Signoret was awarded with the "Best Actress" oscar for her part in "Room at the Top".Friday, April 8, the strike ended and the the production started again.
Monday, April 11, the Millers went back to Los Angeles (
) and settled again at the Beverly HillsHotel (
,
).Saturday, April 16, with Yves Montand, she attended Josephine Baker's revue at the Hartford Theater,
Hollywood (
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).Their love affair started during this Spring.
MAY
Arthur Miller went back and forth between New York and Los Angeles (
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JUNE
Wednesday, June 1, party for her 34th birthday (
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).Tuesday, June 14, thank-you letter from the reporter Sammy Cahn Marilyn had invited to her birthday
(
).Monday, June 20, Marilyn filmed the last sequence of the movie. The production ended 28 days late.
Tuesday, June 21, premiere of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre (
,
).Sunday June, 26, she flew back to New York (
).JULY
Friday, July 8, costumes tests for "The Misfits" (
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).Monday, July 18, Marilyn was back in Los Angeles (
,
). She saw Dr Greenson again.Wednesday, July 20, arriving at the Reno Municipal Airport, Nevada. She had to start the filming of her next movie. Arthur Miller was already there since a few days, and welcomed her, so as Mrs Grant Sawyer, the Nevada governor's wife and their daughter Gail, Charles Mapes, the Mapes Hotel's owner and the city
councillor Charles Cowan who offered her the key of his town (
).
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The Millers stayed at the Mapes Hotel (
), room 614. Half of the rooms were occupied by the film crew.Thursday, July 21, first day of filming (
).Every Marilyn's close relatives attended this filming : Paula Strasberg (
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), her masseur Ralph Roberts (
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), her secretary May Reis (
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), her make-up man Allan Snyder (
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), her hairstylist Agnes Flanagan (
,
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), her understudy Evelyn Moriarty (
) and her dresserShirlee Strahm (
).The filming was the stage of tensions between Marilyn and Arthur Miller (
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), andMarilyn often took refuge beside Paula Strasberg (
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,). Wednesday, July 27, filmiNg at the Styx Ranch, Quail Canyon, 45 mn from Reno (
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AUGUST
Friday, August 5, birthday party for John Huston and Clark Gable's wife, at the Mapes Hotel
(
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).Saturday, August 13, Frank Sinatra's show at the Indian Room of the Cal Neva Lodge
(
), near the Tahoe Lake (
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).Tuesday, August 16, evening at the casino (
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).The Magnum agency has obtained the filming pictures exclusivity. Every 15 days, the photographers took turns.
The first to come were Inge Morath (
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) and Henri Cartier-Bresson (
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).The others to follow were Eve Arnold (
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), Elliott Erwitt (
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), Bruce Davidson (
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), CornellCapa (
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) and Ernst Haas (,
).At the end of August, Marilyn was tired and went back to have some rest in Los Angeles
(
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).From Sunday, August 28 to Monday, September 5, she stayed at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, room 204.
SEPTEMBER
Monday, September 5, back to Reno (
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). Frank and Nan Taylor welcomed them (
).Arthur and Marilyn lived at the Holiday Hotel, suites 846 and 850 (
).The filming went on in Nevada until October 18.
Thursday, September 8, release of "Let's Make Love" (
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).OCTOBER
Saturday, October 15, Marilyn and Montgomery Clift had dinner at the North Beach restaurant in San Francisco
(
); they went to a party at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco (
).Tuesday, October 18, last day of filming (
).From Wednesdaay, October 29 to Saturday, November 5, the Millers settled at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, room 304.
The last shots and sountrack took place on stage 2 at the Paramount Studios from Monday, October 24 to Friday, November 4.
Saturday, October 29, picture session with Eve Arnold in Los Angeles (
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).Her hairstylist Agnes Flanagan and her make-up man Allan Snyder attended this session
(
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).NOVEMBER
Friday, November 11, Marilyn was back to New York, and stayed at her apartment located 444 East 57th Street.
Arthur and Marilyn's break up was announced by her press agent from the Arthur Jacobs' agency, Patricia Newcomb.
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Pat Newcomb suggested to fix the divorce date on Friday, January 20, 1961, because this was the day of John Kennedy's investiture to the Presidency, and all the medias would be focused on it.
Saturday, November 12, the newspapers announced the Millers' break up.
Marilyn was chased by the photographers when she left her apartement to go to see Dr Kris
(
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).Wednesday, November 16, Clark Gable died. It was a great shock for Marilyn.
This day she received a letter from the reporter Earl Wilson (
) congratulating her for "The Misfits" and asking for an interview.
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