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SPRINGER John

 

Date of birth : April 25th 1916, Rochester, State of New York.

Date of death : November 1st 2001, New York City.

 

Story:

Head of the publicity magazine of the Fox at the beginning of the 50's.

He left the Fox and joined the public relations agency of Arthur Jacobs who managed Marilyn's business from 1955 until her death.

Pat Newcomb, employee of the agency, becoming more Marilyn's private secretary than her press agent, in the strict sense of the word, Springer waspersonally in charge of Marilyn's interviews during the last years of her life.

They had met in 1952. He then worked at the RKO publicity department, where Marilyn was shooting "Clash by Night" (1952).

On March 5th 1961, he accompanied her when she left the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, in New York :

On March 13th 1961, he attended, with her, a party to the benefit of the Actors Studio at the Roseland Dance City, New York City : 

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On July 11th 1961, he accompanied Marilyn who left the Polyclinic Hospital after her gallblader surgery :  

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Springer organized the famous interview of Marilyn with Richard Meryman, the Life magazine reporter. They had met, all the three, during Marilyn's last stay in New York, at the Savoy Plaza Hotel.

 

He took pictures on the set of "Let's Make Love" (1960):.

 

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