My journey ends here...
SCHAEFER Hal
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Date of birth : July 22nd 1925, New York.
Practise: singing teacher at the Fox.
Jack Cole's musical accompanist.
Place of living: since 1993, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Story
Composer and brilliant pianist, he started with Duke Ellington and included among his students in addition to Marilyn, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand.
He met Marilyn in 1952;
she took music lessons with him before the shooting of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
Then they collaborated in 1954 on Marilyn's insistance in "River of No Return" and
"There's No Business Like Show Business".
Letter about an agreement between them: 
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It often happened that they worked late at night at the studio, to Joe
DiMaggio's big vexation.
The rumors of an affair between them began to be spread, Marilyn
having already fallen in love with her singing teacher in 1948, Fred Karger. Those rumors increased when she rushed at his side, on July 27th 1954, at the Santa Monica Hospital where he had been admitted after having been found unconscious in his bungalow, on the land of the Fox.
He had swallowed a combination of Benzedrine, Nembutal and liquid corrector which could have been lethal.
Even if he didn't dwell on this incident, the biographers expressed the hypothesis that he could have wanted to committ suicide because DiMaggio had forced Marilyn to put an end to their affair, or because he had been greatly "advised" to stand apart. At that time, it was said that this banter had hastened Marilyn and DiMaggio's break-up, several months later.
During the event of the "raid on the wrong door", when Frank Sinatra, DiMaggio and some brawny sidekicks burst into an apartment, thinking to surprise an adulterous Marilyn with Hal Schaefer.
with Hal Schaefer
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www.halschaefer.com
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