My journey ends here...
1961
JANUARY
,
).
The main beneficiaries were her mother Gladys Baker (
), her half-sister Berniece Miracle (
), her private secretary May Reis (
), Lee Strasberg, Dr Marianne Kris (
), Patricia Rosten, daughter of her friends Norman and Hedda Rosten (
), and Xenia Tchekhov, Micheal Tchekhov's widow.Friday, January 20, Marilyn, her lawyer Aaron Frosch and Pat Newcomb (
) went to Juarez(Mexico) (
,
,
,
,
).
They traveled under the names Mr L. White and Mrs N. White, and
Mrs G.Heinz. During the stop-over in Dallas, Texas, they watched John Kennedy'sinvestiture ceremony (
).They arrived in El Paso, Texas at 7.00PM and crossed the border to reach Juarez, Mexico. Marilyn was representated by the Mexican lawyer Arthuro Sosa Aquilar. Arthur Miller, absent, was representated by Areliano Gonzalez Vargas. The divorce was pronounced by Judge Miguel Gomez Guerra.
Miller obtaind the the custody of their basset Hugo (
) and kept the farm in Roxbury.Saturday, January 21, back to New York where Lee Strasberg came to picke her up (
,
,
,
,
).Tuesday, January 31, preview of "The Misfits" with Montgomery Clift, at the Capitol Theater in New York
(
,
,
,
,
).Arthur Miller attended, along with his children, Jane and Robert (
). The producer Frank Taylor was also there.
FEBRUARY
;
,
).Friday, February 10, Marilyn's psychiatrist, Dr Marianne Kris, worried about a possible realization from a Marilyn exhausted and extremely depressed, made her admitted at the Cornell University New York Hospital
(
), under the name of Mary Miller (
). She was hospitalized at the PayneWhitney Clinic, the psychiatric ward of the hospital (
). When she realized that she was in a security ward, Marilyn collapsed : her worse nighmare was happening.She lived 48 hours locked up before she was able to have a letter brought to the Strasberg
(
).The Strasbergs had no power to make Marilyn out. So she called Joe DiMaggio: he arrived quickly from Florida where he trained the Yanhees in winter, and asked Dr Kris to let Marilyn out, and to entrist her to him.
Monday, February 13, her friend and masseur Ralph Roberts brought her back to her home, along with Dr Kris. Marilyn was very mad at her and that was thier last meeting. Marilyn, on Joe DiMaggio's advice, agreed to be hospitalized in a more comfortable and less threatening place.
Friday, Februray 17, Joe accompanied her to the Neurological Institute at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where she stayed until March 6, room 719. Joe DiMaggio visited her every day.
Monday, February 27, she received a supportive telegram from Marlon Brando (
).
MARCH
), the psychiatrist who had followed her in 1960,during the filming of "Let's Make Love" in Los Angeles (
,
,
,
,
,
).Monday, March 6, after a 23 days rest treatment, she went back to her New York apartment.
A bunch of reporters and admirers waited outside (
,
,
,
,
). Her agents Pat Newcomb (
,
,
), John Springer (
) and Warren Fischer (
) were there to support and accompany her.Wednesday, March 8, accompanied by May Reis, she attended Augusta Miller's funeral
(
,
,
). Monday, March 13, party given to the Actors Studio's benefit, at the New York Roseland Dance City.
She attended along with Lee and Paula Strasberg (
,
,
,
,
,
).Wednesday, March 22, she joined Joe in Florida (
,
). They stayed at the TidesMotor Inn in Redington Beach (
,
,
,
).It was a period of rest (
,
,
;
,
).They went to Fort Lauderdale, to attend the Yankees' training (
,
,
,
,
).
APRIL
Saturday, April 1, back to New York City (
,
,
,
,
).
Tuesday, April 11, base-ball match between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins, at the NEw
York Yankee Stadium (
,
,
,
).
).
MAY
She went to Los Angeles for professional appointments with the Fox.
She was hospitalized at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital where she had a surgery for the endometriosis she
suffered from, by Dr Leon Krohn (
).
She had may consultations with Dr Greenson.
Patricia Newcomb, her press agent, offered a Maltese named "Maf" (
,
.
She also spent time with Frank Sinatra and attended many parties at Peter Lawford's in Santa Monica
(
;
,
,
).
Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General had written "The Enemy Within" about the fight against the organized
crime he led (
). The producer Jerry Wald (
) had purchsed the book's rights to produce a movie adapatation.
Kennedy went in Los Angeles several times and met Marilyn at Peter Lawford's, who had married his sister, Patricia Kennedy.
Marilyn went to the Crescendo Club in Los Angeles (
) where she met Ray Charles
(
) and Ella Fitzgerald (
).
JUNE
Wednesday, June 7, Frank Sinatra performed at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas (
,
) and gave a special
show for his friend's Dean Martin (
,
).
Among the attendees were Peter and Pat Lawford (,
), Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher
(
,
),(
,
).
Sunday, June 11, christening of Clark Gable's son, John Clark (
,
,
,
) at the St Cyril of Jerusalem Church in Encino.
Patricia Newcomb accompanied her (
).
Wednesday, June 14, at Frank Sinatra's (
).
The week of Monday, June 26, she was back in New York City (
,
).
She suffered from abdominal pain.
Wednesday, June 28, accompanied with Joe DiMaggio and May Reis, she was hospitalized at the Manhattan
Polyclinic Hospital , New York (
;
,
) under the name of Norma Jean Baker.
Thursday, June 29, she had a gallbladder's surgery, the cause of her pain, operated by Dr Richard Cottrell.
Joe DiMaggio was by her side (
).
JULY
Tuesday, July 11, she left the hospital and was assaulted by a bunch of admirers, reporters and photographers
(
,
,
,
,
).
Her friend and masseur Ralph Roberts (
) and her new-yorker agent, John Springer (
,
), were also there.
She got some rest at home, in her apartment located 444 East 57th Street.
Kenneth Battelle, the hairstylist, came to take care of her hair (
,
,
).
AUGUST
Monday, August 7, she was back to Los Angeles, under the name of Miss Reis. Only Joe DiMaggio known about her return and went ot pick her up at the airport.
Marilyn had got in touch with Jane Ziegler, the daughter of Violet Mertz, the former owner of the apartmenet located 882 Doheny Drive, where she had lived in 1952. She moved in one of the free apartment
(
). To preserve her intimacy, her mail box was under the name of Marjorie Stengel
(
), Montgomery Clift's former secretary.
She asked Ralph Roberts to join her and she rented him a room at the Château Marmont Hotel.
He helped her to settle, and drove her for her daily appointments with Dr Greenson.
Marilyn often spent time with Sinatra and his gang, the Lawfords, Dean Martin (
), and
spent a week-end on the yacht of the restauurant owner Mike Romanoff (
,
,
,
,
,
).
She visited Anna Karger
,
-
,
-
,
,
Friday, September 22, she was back to New York City. The plane had a technical problem and had to returned back to Los Angeles, before leaving a few hours later. During this interval, she sent a telegram to Joe
DiMaggio (
).
Tuesday, September 26, Marilyn accepted the project proposed by the Fox, "Something's Got to Give", a remake of "My Favourite Wife", a 1959 comedy.
Sunday, October 1, back to Los Angeles.
Monday, October 16, the director George Cukor gave his oral agreement to direct "Something's Got to Give".
He would sign the contract on Sunday, November 26.
The filming would start on Wednesday, November 15, but Marilyn asked for several changes : the replacement of David Brown, the producer, her agreement about the publicity pictures before their distribution in the press, her agreement for the male leading role, the hiring of the cameramen Franz Planer and Billy Daniels, of the costume designer Jean-Louis, and the hairstylist Sydney Guilaroff.
Monday, November 13, Milton Rudin (
), Marilyn's lawyer and incidentally Dr Greenson's brother-in-law, informed the Fox that his client wouldn't show on the set before having the last version of the screenplay.
Between May 1961 and January 1962, there had been at least 5 screewriters who worked on that screenplay.
Friday, November 17, picture session with the photographer Douglas Kirkland (
,
-
,
). He worked for Look magazine, which would published a special issue for its 25th birthday.
The session took place at the John Engstead's studio on Santa Monica Boulevard. Agnes Flanagan her hairstylist
and Allan Snyder he make-up man, prepared her for this session (
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
).
Sunday, November 19, she was invited for dinner at the Lawford's where she met the President Kennedy
(
,
).
Screenplay dated November 22, 1961 by Arnold Schulman (
).
Picture session with Eric Skipsey at the Beverly Hills Hotel, with her dog Maf (
,
,
,
,
).
At the end of the month, Dr Greenson introduced her to Eunice Murray (
),
the former owner of the house he lived in, who would serve as Marilyn's housekeeper and driver, 3 days a week.
During this month, she received a new screenplay, rearranged for her but not yet final.
The last couple of weeks she went to New York.
She met the poet Carl Sandburg she admired. The meeting took place at photographer Len Steckler's place
(
,
,
,
).
For Christmas, she was back to Los Angeles and spent the festivities with Joe DiMaggio, in her apartment in Doheny Drive.
The production of "Something's Got to Give", because of the screenplay's reworkings, was postponed and would start on Thursday, January 14, 1962.
,
,
,
,
).Tuesday, April 11, base-ball match between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins, at the NEw
York Yankee Stadium (
,
,
,
).
).MAY
She was hospitalized at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital where she had a surgery for the endometriosis she
suffered from, by Dr Leon Krohn (
). She had may consultations with Dr Greenson.
Patricia Newcomb, her press agent, offered a Maltese named "Maf" (
,
.She also spent time with Frank Sinatra and attended many parties at Peter Lawford's in Santa Monica
(
;
,
,
).Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General had written "The Enemy Within" about the fight against the organized
crime he led (
). The producer Jerry Wald (
) had purchsed the book's rights to produce a movie adapatation. Kennedy went in Los Angeles several times and met Marilyn at Peter Lawford's, who had married his sister, Patricia Kennedy.
Marilyn went to the Crescendo Club in Los Angeles (
) where she met Ray Charles (
) and Ella Fitzgerald (
).JUNE
,
) and gave a specialshow for his friend's Dean Martin (
,
).Among the attendees were Peter and Pat Lawford (,
), Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher (
,
),(
,
).Sunday, June 11, christening of Clark Gable's son, John Clark (
,
,
,
) at the St Cyril of Jerusalem Church in Encino. Patricia Newcomb accompanied her (
).Wednesday, June 14, at Frank Sinatra's (
).The week of Monday, June 26, she was back in New York City (
,
). She suffered from abdominal pain.
Wednesday, June 28, accompanied with Joe DiMaggio and May Reis, she was hospitalized at the Manhattan
Polyclinic Hospital , New York (
;
,
) under the name of Norma Jean Baker.Thursday, June 29, she had a gallbladder's surgery, the cause of her pain, operated by Dr Richard Cottrell.
Joe DiMaggio was by her side (
).JULY
Tuesday, July 11, she left the hospital and was assaulted by a bunch of admirers, reporters and photographers
(
,
,
,
,
).Her friend and masseur Ralph Roberts (
) and her new-yorker agent, John Springer (
,
), were also there.She got some rest at home, in her apartment located 444 East 57th Street.
Kenneth Battelle, the hairstylist, came to take care of her hair (
,
,
).AUGUST
Monday, August 7, she was back to Los Angeles, under the name of Miss Reis. Only Joe DiMaggio known about her return and went ot pick her up at the airport.
Marilyn had got in touch with Jane Ziegler, the daughter of Violet Mertz, the former owner of the apartmenet located 882 Doheny Drive, where she had lived in 1952. She moved in one of the free apartment
(
). To preserve her intimacy, her mail box was under the name of Marjorie Stengel(
), Montgomery Clift's former secretary.She asked Ralph Roberts to join her and she rented him a room at the Château Marmont Hotel.
He helped her to settle, and drove her for her daily appointments with Dr Greenson.
Marilyn often spent time with Sinatra and his gang, the Lawfords, Dean Martin (
), andspent a week-end on the yacht of the restauurant owner Mike Romanoff (
,
,,
,
,
).She visited Anna Karger
,
-
,
-
,
,
SEPTEMBER
Friday, September 22, she was back to New York City. The plane had a technical problem and had to returned back to Los Angeles, before leaving a few hours later. During this interval, she sent a telegram to Joe
DiMaggio (
).Tuesday, September 26, Marilyn accepted the project proposed by the Fox, "Something's Got to Give", a remake of "My Favourite Wife", a 1959 comedy.
OCTOBER
Sunday, October 1, back to Los Angeles.
Monday, October 16, the director George Cukor gave his oral agreement to direct "Something's Got to Give".
He would sign the contract on Sunday, November 26.
The filming would start on Wednesday, November 15, but Marilyn asked for several changes : the replacement of David Brown, the producer, her agreement about the publicity pictures before their distribution in the press, her agreement for the male leading role, the hiring of the cameramen Franz Planer and Billy Daniels, of the costume designer Jean-Louis, and the hairstylist Sydney Guilaroff.
NOVEMBER
Monday, November 13, Milton Rudin (
), Marilyn's lawyer and incidentally Dr Greenson's brother-in-law, informed the Fox that his client wouldn't show on the set before having the last version of the screenplay.Between May 1961 and January 1962, there had been at least 5 screewriters who worked on that screenplay.
Friday, November 17, picture session with the photographer Douglas Kirkland (
,
-
,
). He worked for Look magazine, which would published a special issue for its 25th birthday.The session took place at the John Engstead's studio on Santa Monica Boulevard. Agnes Flanagan her hairstylist
and Allan Snyder he make-up man, prepared her for this session (
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
).Sunday, November 19, she was invited for dinner at the Lawford's where she met the President Kennedy
(
,
). Screenplay dated November 22, 1961 by Arnold Schulman (
).Picture session with Eric Skipsey at the Beverly Hills Hotel, with her dog Maf (
,
,
,
,
).At the end of the month, Dr Greenson introduced her to Eunice Murray (
),
the former owner of the house he lived in, who would serve as Marilyn's housekeeper and driver, 3 days a week.DECEMBER
During this month, she received a new screenplay, rearranged for her but not yet final.
The last couple of weeks she went to New York.
She met the poet Carl Sandburg she admired. The meeting took place at photographer Len Steckler's place
(
,
,
,
).For Christmas, she was back to Los Angeles and spent the festivities with Joe DiMaggio, in her apartment in Doheny Drive.
The production of "Something's Got to Give", because of the screenplay's reworkings, was postponed and would start on Thursday, January 14, 1962.
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