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MARILYN MONROE PRODUCTIONS

 

Settling in New York in December 1954 with Milton Greene's involvement, Marilyn founded with him, her own production company.

She organized a press conference for its launching, from the attorney Frank Delaney's house, on January 7, 1955.

The office was located at Milton Greene photo studio, 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City.


Pictures

arrival/departure 

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seated

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with reporters

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with Elsa Maxwell

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with Frank Delaney 

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with Marlene Dietrich 

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in the stairs ,                    


signing autographs 

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other

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Marilyn was named presidente with 51% shares and Milton Greene vice président with 49% shares.

Their lawyers were Frank Delaney, Irving Stein; the bookkeeper was Joseph Carr.

She celebrated the event at the Copacabana, a night-club where Frank Sinatra was performing.

By acting this way and for her own, she called the all-powerful studios into question; she was vilified by the press.

She prepared herself to a sabbatical year : she lived at the Greene's property, stayed at the Waldorf Astoria when she was in New York City, started to take some courses with Lee Strasberg and began a psychoanalysis.

Milton dealt with the financial development of the main capital of the society, prepared some movie projects and worked with his lawyers team who re negotiated Marilyn's contract with the Fox.

 

Pictures with Milton Greene 

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After a year, the society announced that they had negotiated a new non-exclusive contract with the Fox. 
The huge success of  "The Seven Year Itch" reinforced the Marilyn Monroe Productions's position, and Marilyn forced the Fox to submit. Her new contract included a check for the residual salaries, a new salary of 100 000$ for shooting 4 movies in 7 years and guaranteed her the Fox approval for all her personal projects. She also held a right of inspection on the screenplays proposed and also on the directors and directors of photography. 
Her victory was one the first breach in the great Hollywood studios system.

Her place as president of her own production society gave her a much more important power than the one of the most actresses of this era.

She started with 2 projects :"Bus Stop" (1956) in collaboration with the Fox, and "The Prince and The Showgirl" (1957) with the Warner, her first and last independent production.

 

March 1, 1956, agreement with the Warner 


with Jack Warner ,

                                                                  
with Jack Warner and Milton Greene
 

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1956, the relationships between the 2 partners slowly deteriorated. Arthur Miller wanted to be involved in his wife's professional projects.
 

in April 1957, before the release of  "The Prince and the Showgirl", she claimed that Greene had badly ran the society and held negotiations on his own and didn't inform her about it.


She suggested a new manager staff. Five days later, she replaced the lawyers of the society by Miller personal legal advisor, Robert H. Montgomery, Miller's brother-in-law, George Kupchnik, and one of his friend, George Levine.

 
George Carr spent his last years to work as a bookkeeper; Irving Stein, him, became president of the Elgin Watch Company. He died in 1966.

 
The Marilyn Monroe Productions didn't produce any other movie but survived for fiscal reasons and to run Marilyn's income. The financial authorities closely took an interest in the society, because they suspected Marilyn to have founded it in a tax avoidance purpose.

Letter about Milton Greene's break-up from the Marilyn Monroe Productions dated September 17, 1957

Checks of the Marilyn Monroe Productions

June 22, 1955  

and June 29, 1955  to A.J.Bauer & Co 


June 22, 1955 to the New York Telephone Company 


September 22, 1955 to the cleaning firm Mrs Apters


October 28, 1955 to furrier Bach-Cohen


listing of the purchase from August 5, 1955 to March 6, 1957  

listing of the purchase from October 20, 1955 to April 11, 1957  


March 22, 1956, payable to Inez Melson


June 29, 1956 payable to National Variety Artists 


November 20, 1956 payable to the Screen Actors Guild 


February 1st, 1957 from the Colonial Trust Company


April 8, 1958 payable to Cecil Beaton

October 15, 1958 payable to May Reis

June 16, 1959 payable to Hedda Rosten

November 16, 1959 payable to District Director of Interna Revenue


November 30, 1959 payable to Marilyn


December 4, 1959 payable to Hazel Washington


January 12, 1960 payable to Paula Strasberg 


May 6, 1960 to the Beverly Hills Hotel


March 8, 1961 payable to Internal Revenue Service 


May 26, 1961, payable to Hedda Rosten  


October 6, 1961, payable to Marjorie Stengel 


September 29, 1961 payable to Arthur Young & Company  


Letter from the Marilyn Monroe Productions to the Fox about Cherie Redmond  



Bank statement from May 8, 1957 to April 24, 1958 


Bank statement, December 1959

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