My journey ends here...
ROSTEN Hedda
Date of birth : January 6, 1915. Date of death : January 1984, New York.
Story
Psychology student at the University of Michigan, she was Mary Slattery 's room-mate, who would later become Arthur Miller's wife.
It was through Mary Slattery that she met Arthur Miller's friend, Norman Rosten, also student, who would become her husband :
She met Marilyn in 1955.
Marilyn spent a lot of time with them, in New York or in their country house in Long Island :
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She was a very helpful friend to Marilyn; she attended her wedding with Miller in July 1956 :
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Shortly after, she accompanied them in England for the shooting of "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957) and earned 200$ a week for a role as female companion and private secretary :
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She turned out to be a very efficient help : enlightened by her experience as a social worker in psychiatry, she thought that Marilyn's constant need was to analyze what she hadn't yet manage to do.
She kept on dealing with Marilyn's business in New York, when this one came back to Los Angeles in 1961.Memo from Cherie Redmond dated August 1, 1962 :
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On August 17, 1962
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