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NARRATOR: If anybody ever asked
you what I was like,

What Marilyn Monroe was really
like, well, how would you

Answer them?

So much has been written about
Marilyn Monroe that details of

Her life become colored pieces
of glass in a kaleidoscope.

If you read enough and turn them
over enough, they fall

Into a pattern.

Relieve your mind now of all
the images that you have of

This person.

When I met her, she was a
simple, eager, young woman.

I was to know her perhaps
better than anyone

Had ever known her.

And yet I was to know
her not at all.

Sex was ice cream to her.

She haunts us with questions
that can never be answered.

All beauty is mystery.

NARRATOR: What do
I believe in?

What is truth?

I believe in myself, even
my most delicate

And tangible feelings.

NARRATOR: Last night I was
awake all night again.

NARRATOR: All this thought
and writing has

Made my hands tremble.

I just want to keep
pouring it out.

Oh, damn...

I wish that I were dead,
gone away from here.

For me to live decently and
productively, I must work.

Maybe I'll never be able to
do what I hope to, but at

Least I have hope.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Rolling.

This is the secluded Spanish
cottage in the exclusive

Brentwood section of Los Angeles
where actress Marilyn

Monroe died, a bottle of
sleeping pills near her bed.

Marilyn is gone.

She has slipped away from us
over the edge of the horizon

Of the last pill.

And now a force from outside has
proved stronger than her

Own power to weigh down
upon herself.

It is my conclusion that the
death of Marilyn Monroe was

Caused by a self-administered
overdose of sedative drugs and

That the mode of death
is probable suicide.

Of course, we don't know
if this is how she went.

She could easily have blundered
past the last

Border, blubbering in the last
corner of her heart and no

Voice she knew to reply.

She came to us in all of
her mother's doubt

And leaves in mystery.

Even if we don't believe that
Marilyn deliberately committed

Suicide, it's perfectly
reasonable to

Say we don't know.

We don't know what happened that
night, and we never will.

LEE STRASBERG OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn Monroe was a legend.

She created a myth of what a
poor girl from a deprived

Background could attain.

And I have no words
to describe the

Myth and the legend.

I did not know this Marilyn
Monroe, nor did she.

We talk about Marilyn as a kind
of Cinderella figure...

The little orphan girl who then
grows up to be the most

Beautiful princess and
goes to the ball.

And then the story takes a
tragic turn, and she dies and

She's alone.

It's a kind of modern
Greek tragedy.

The ancient Greeks have Oedipus,
and we have Marilyn.

[Cheering]

Monroe's personal and intimate
ability to inhabit

Our fantasies has
gone right on.

As I write this, she is still
better known than most living

Movie stars, most world leaders,
and most television

Personalities.

The surprise is that she has
really been taken seriously

Enough to ask why that is so.

As a small child intact first
desire was to be an actress.

And I spent years playacting
till I had jobs.

If I hadn't found a way to
work, I would be as I've been

Since consciousness, a fish out
of water, floundering and

Much, much more nervous,
hopeless.

There's nothing to hold onto,
but to realize the present.

Life starts from now.

My secretary rang and said,
Mr. Lyon, there's a very

Beautiful young girl here to see
you, but she doesn't have

An appointment.

I said, well, Mary, you
don't have to have an

Appointment to see me.

Send her in.

So a moment later, in walked the
most gorgeous young girl

You've ever seen in your life,
this golden hair, beautiful

Little print dress,
22 years old.

And I said, what's
your ambition?

She said, to be a film star.

I said, we've got to change
your name if you're

Going to be a star.

To me, you're a Marilyn.

And she said, that's
a lovely name.

I said, all right, that's
your first name.

We couldn't find her second
name, but she suddenly turned

To me and said, Mr. Lyon,
could I use my

Grandmother's name?

I said, what was that?

She said, Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Speed.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Camera.

We rehearsed my first
big scene.

And then I began the scene
and prayed silently.

This was my start...

The beginning of becoming a
motion picture actress.

This is what my big scene
consisted of.

I walked across the set, I had
to light a cigarette, inhale,

Then blow the smoke out, get
up, then go upstage, cross,

Look out a window, sit
down, come downstage,

And then exit set.

She would take dramatic lessons
for three hours.

She'd have lunch.

After lunch, she would take
dancing lessons for an hour,

Singing lessons for an hour,
fencing lessons for an hour,

And then go on the back lot
and ride horseback.

And I said to her one
day, Marilyn, why

Do you work so hard?

The other kids that are under
contract, I call sometimes at

11 o'clock, they're still
sleeping from being out the

Night before.

She said, well, Mr. Lyon, I
work hard because one day

Maybe opportunity will knock,
and I want to be prepared.

Must make effort to
do the following...

Take care of my instrument,

Personally and bodily exercise.

Try to find someone to
take dancing from...

Body work, creative.

If possible, take at
least one class at

University in literature.

Keep looking around, only much
more so... observing, but not

Only myself, but others
and everything.

Take things, it, for what
they, its, are worth.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: I
think she's a choreographer.

A choreographer?

Mr. Lewis?

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: I
believe she owns Harry's Bar.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
In Venice?

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Mr. Branford.

Could possibly this lovely lady
have something to do with

Marilyn Monroe?

Oh, Marilyn Monroe.

[Applause]

It began in 1948 when I was
employed as a dramatic at

Columbia Studio.

My employer telephoned me one
day to say he was sending a

New girl to see me.

Uh, her name is, um...

He hesitated, and I could hear
him rifling through the papers

On his desk.

Her name is Marilyn Monroe.

Just see what you
can do with her.

I was not impressed.

She was more than inhibited,
more than cramped.

She couldn't say
a word freely.

Her habit of speaking without
using her lips was unnatural...

Obviously superimposed.

And her voice, oh, a piping sort
or whimper that so got on

My nerves that I asked her not
to speak unnecessarily until

We had progressed.

But she loved the work, and
she came religiously

To work with me.

Must make much, much, much
more, more, more effort.

Natasha, like Tess, was
absolutely crucial to

Marilyn's acting.

She was with Marilyn for six
years and 22 pictures.

She developed the mannerisms,
the sort of whispery voice and

The wiggle.

She was trying to get her
to incorporate her body

Creatively into her acting.

Mr. Grunion, I want
you to help me.

I have a little sand left.

What seems to be the trouble?

Some men are following me.

Really?

I can't understand why.

I felt then, and I still
feel, that I put the

World at her feet.

People ask me if I paint
or write, and you

Know what I tell them?

Oh, sure I can paint.

I once painted a whole
apartment.

On writing?

I've written a few poems.

I keep them to myself.

They're personal...

All about just what
I've observed.

The girl had little education
and no knowledge except the

Knowledge of her own
experiences.

She was a simple, eager young
woman who rode a bike to the

Classes that she was taking...

A decent-hearted kid
that Hollywood

Brought down, legs parted.

All young actresses in that time
and place were thought of

As prey, to be overwhelmed
and topped by the male.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
She started having affairs.

She slept with photographers,
she slept with producers.

I mean, everybody knows... the
Hollywood studio system was

The casting couch system.

And if you wanted to
get a job, that was

What you had to do.

My god, how I wanted to
improve, to change, to learn.

I didn't want anything else...

Not men, not money, not love,
but the ability to act.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
She wasn't particularly

Apologetic about it.

She's quite pragmatic.

And she just says, yeah, of
course I slept with producers.

Everybody did.

And if you didn't, you knew that
there was another girl

Waiting outside the door
who was going to.

You look good.

Thank you.

You look good here too.

And here we have a
French cowgirl.

No one ever seems to have
disagreed with the estimate

That Darryl Zanuck liked to
put his meat into a star's

Meat so that the product
was truly stamped

20th Century Fox.

[Ringing]

Zanuck speaking.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Part of the problem with

Marilyn's film career was that
the studio head of Fox, Darryl

Zanuck, really didn't
like Marilyn, and he

Really didn't get her.

Marilyn simply did not fit his
concept of what to offer

The public, which is a
three-word secret formula of

Zanuck's which has brought in
great sums of money to 20th

Century Fox in the past.

The formula...

Make good shit.

Marilyn Monroe, much too
wicked for good shit.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN: He
really didn't respect her,

And he really thought that she
was just this brainless bimbo.

And in the early years, he
mostly cast her as a gold

Digger and just this
kind of sexpot.

What do you say we have
dinner together?

Wonderful.

Where?

Oh, someplace where
we don't have to

Dress, like your apartment.

Oh, by the way, this is my
daughter, Mrs. Denham.

Barbara, this is Joyce
Mannering.

How do you do?

Honey, your father's been so
divine with me that something

Even I feel like calling
him Daddy.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Aren't you here early?

Oh, yes.

Mr. Oxley's been complaining
about my punctuation so I'm

Careful to get here
before 9:00.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
If 1950 was the year that

Marilyn first began to be
noticed by audiences, 1952 was

The year that she
became a star.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN: They
called on the set, the

Publicity department,
and said, uh, did

You pose for a calendar?

And I said, yes.

Anything wrong?

I will not be punished for it
or not be loved or be afraid

Of my genitals being exposed,
known and seen.

So what?

Now, when 20th learns from her
lips that yes, she posed

In the nude, a novelist has
the right to invent the

Following dialogue...

You spread your legs?

No.

Is your asshole showing?

Certainly not.

Any animals in it with you?

I'm alone.

It's just a nude.

You're going to deny you ever
took those pictures.

Some other blonde did the job,
someone who has the misfortune

Of looking like you.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN:
There was great anxiety, and

[Inaudible] says, you all...
Don't say you did.

Say you didn't.

I said, but I did.

And they were very
unhappy about it.

And then she realized, wait
a minute, we can use this.

She tells the truth to a gossip
columnist, which is to

Say that she passes along the
living factoidal truth.

In 1949, she was just another
scared young blonde,

Struggling to find fame
in the magic city.

She posed, stretched out on
crumpled red velvet for the

Artistic photo three
years ago...

Because I was broke, and
I needed the money.

I was now 25 years old.

Then orders were issued by Mr.
Zanuck to all producers to

Find a part for me
in their films.

And I began to appear in
one film after another.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
She went from being a starlet

To being a big name
in America.

People knew who she was because
of this scandal.

But part of the scandal was
that Marilyn refused to

Apologize, she refused to be
ashamed, and she refused to

Deny it, which was the
most amazing part.

My body is my body...
Every part of it.

THOMAS SCHATZ OFF-SCREEN: The
world was ready for that.

Obviously the sexual mores are
changing, and she is at the

Vanguard of that.

She is anticipating a sexual
revolution that many people

Associate with Betty Friedan, et
cetera, a decade later that

Would not have happened without
Marilyn Monroe.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
By the time Hugh Hefner

Launched "Playboy" at the end
of 1953, Marilyn was an

Enormous star, and he purchased
the nude calendar

Pictures and launched "Playboy"
on the back of

Marilyn's nude photos
and never paid her,

Never thanked her.

But his fortune is very much
built on the foundations of

Those pictures for which
Marilyn got $50.

Hey, get out the fire hose.

In the film "Niagara,"

They had that one shot of her

Walking away from the camera,

And her derriere is just doing

The most miraculous
sexual things.

And I think it was that
moment that kind of

Everybody went, what?

What are we looking at here?

Nobody had ever seen
anybody walk like

That on camera before.

She created it, and she created
her whole persona.

This was Marilyn's book.

This book is called "The
Thinking Body." It's about the

Breath and the skeletal
structure.

From this, she got her
way of talking

And her way of walking.

This is the book that she
created herself out of.

There's an exercise in there
to walk as though there's a

String coming out of the top
of your head, and it's

Attached to a cloud.

And you walk like you're
hanging from a cloud.

I mean, it does something to
your body when you do that.

We were walking down the street
one day, and she said,

Do you want to see me be her?

I had no idea what she meant,
and I said, sure.

And suddenly she
did something...

I'm telling you, like, she
turned on a light bulb.

And suddenly, people were
going, oh my god, that's

Marilyn Monroe.

Oh, isn't that Marilyn Monroe?

We had to jump into a taxi to
get away because people

Started running after her.

LOIS BANNER OFF-SCREEN: She
created that Monroe figure on

Her own by makeup, hairstyle.

The clothes were sewn on her
to make them very tight.

Columnists were saying,
we've lost our

Reputation for sexiness.

The Italians are coming in with
the big-breasted babes

Like Gina Lollobrigida.

Marilyn read all that, and she
turned herself into the great

Sex symbol for the nation.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: She
learned when she could put on

The persona of Marilyn Monroe
for her own purposes, and she

Knew also when she
could put it off.

From time to time I make it
rhyme, but don't hold that

Kind of thing against me.

Oh well, what the hell,
so it won't sell.

What I want to tell is
what's on my mind.

Tain't dishes, tain't wishes.

It's thoughts, flinging
by before I die

And to think in ink.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN: One
of my best friends is a

Poet, and he always sends
me his poetry.

He says he knows that I'll
understand it, and I do,

Strangely enough.

We were mostly offstage
friends.

At film openings or official
receptions, she wore her mask.

I knew her without it.

She searched everywhere...

In life and books.

She liked poetry.

It was a shortcut for her.

She entered, at ease within
its complexity, at home in

Song and in feeling.

Oh damn, I wish that
I were dead...

Absolutely nonexistent,
gone away from here,

From everywhere.

But how would I do it?

There's always bridges.

The Brooklyn Bridge?

No.

No, not the Brooklyn
Bridge, because...

But I...

I love that bridge.

Everything is so beautiful
from there, and

The air is so clean.

Walking it seems peaceful, even
with all those crazy cars

Going underneath.

So it would have to be
some other bridge...

An ugly one and with no view.

Except I particularly like in
particular all bridges.

And besides, I've never
seen an ugly bridge.

We wanted her to win out, but
the world demanded more than

She could give.

Alone.

I am alone.

I am always alone,
no matter what.

Come on, baby.

Laugh and bounce it.

Give us love.

Save us.

Give us your sweet face against
our own black hearts.

Marilyn Monroe, the moviegoers
of America have

Voted you the most popular
actress of the year.

Marilyn, I'd like to present
to you the Look Achievement

Award as the most outstanding
feminine newcomer.

In recognition of your
sensational rise to stardom.

Oh, that's beautiful.

Look at all the nuts you
could put in there.

I want to thank all
of the public.

I thank you very much.

It's a great thrill, and I'm
very appreciative to all who...

Let's start again.

THOMAS SCHATZ OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn Monroe, between 1953

And 1955, becomes the top female
star in the business.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
OK, Marilyn.

It's a great thrill, and I'm
very appreciative to all who

Have made this possible.

THOMAS SCHATZ OFF-SCREEN: We
see her graduating from bit

Parts to eventually
starring roles.

Her big breakthrough roles
were "How to Marry a"

Millionaire" and
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."

Oh... did you ever,
anywhere, anything like it?

All are real stones.

How do you put it
around your neck?

You don't, lovey.

It goes on your head.

You must think I was
born yesterday.

JANE RUSSELL OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn never had a dressing

Room before, so they gave her
her first dressing room.

You had to be on the
set at 9 o'clock.

Well, Marilyn wasn't there,
and she'd been in

Since 5:00 or 5:30.

But she was afraid to
come out on the set.

She didn't know anybody out
there, and she was working

With someone that had made a
whole bunch of pictures.

THOMAS SCHATZ OFF-SCREEN: The
sense of insecurity always

Seemed to plague her throughout
her career.

And as she becomes a star and,
you know, she's carrying

Movies, the stakes are much,
much higher, and she's

Becoming more and
more insecure.

Remember, there is nothing
you lack, nothing to be

Self-conscious about yourself.

You have everything but the
discipline and technique which

You are seeking on your own.

After all, nothing was or
is being given to you.

You haven't had this
work thrown at you.

You sought it.

It didn't seek you.

[MUSIC - "DIAMONDS ARE A
GIRL'S BEST FRIEND"]

She never said that she was
ready to face that camera.

For that reason, she took two
hours to fix her lips or an

Hour and a half to
arrange her hair.

She wanted so much
to be so perfect.

But the moment she arrived in
front of the camera, there was

This romance, this love affair
between her and the lens.

Don't you know that a man
being rich is like a girl

Being pretty?

You might not marry a girl just
because she's pretty, but

My goodness, doesn't it help?

Say, they told me
you were stupid.

You don't sound stupid to me.

I can be smart when it's
important, but most

Men don't like it.

One night, I called Marilyn.

I have wonderful news!

Oh, wait till you
here, she said.

I'm going to get married.

He comes all the way down from
San Francisco just to have

Dinner with me, she said.

And we haven't even
done it yet.

Who, I said.

Who are you talking about?

Joe, she said.

He's not like these
movie people.

He's dignified.

NEWSCASTER: Top romance
of the season...

The wedding at San Francisco
City Hall of movie actress

Marilyn Monroe to former Yankee

Baseball hero Joe DiMaggio.

Their marriage, though long
rumored, was a sudden affair.

Joe was divine.

He hit 56, 57 straight games.

NEWSCASTER: A swing,
a hit, a homer.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN: The
first time he called and said,

Hello, this is Joe DiMaggio,
I almost fainted.

He was a very conservative
Boston Italian.

GEORGE HARRIS OFF-SCREEN: He
loved her very much, but he

Possessed her too much.

He said, look, we'll have a big
family, a lot of bambinos.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: He
wanted a wife who would not

Have a career, who would
be there to cook

Pasta in the evening...

GEORGE HARRIS OFF-SCREEN:
Spaghetti and ravioli and all

That kind of stuff.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: and
be an Italian housewife.

Oops.

Sew up or clamp birds, put
chicken or turkey in 350 oven.

Cooks 30 minutes to one pound.

Vinegar, oil, onion, spices.

Let cook in own juice.

Put potatoes, mushroom-button
canned, peas fresh.

I hear that you're getting
to be quite a cook too.

Joe says you can really
broil a mean steak.

Well, I'm learning...
A little slow, but...

[Giggling].

I said to her, why
did you marry Joe?

He's not your type.

He doesn't understand the
business you're in.

He doesn't understand the
scandal you create every time

You step out of the door.

He doesn't understand
you at all.

And she looked at me and said,
he's terrific in bed.

I said, OK, that's the end
of that conversation.

Oh, do you feel the breeze
from the subway?

Isn't it delicious?

Oh, god... the famous night
of her skirt blowing up on

Lexington Avenue, I was
standing next to him.

I was wearing a sheer white
billowy sleeveless dress.

When the subway train rode
by, it would send up a

Blast of cool air.

This sent my dress flying waist
high, revealing my legs

And white panties.

A crowd had gathered even
though it was 2:00

Or 3:00 in the morning.

They consisted mostly of men
who somehow had heard about

Our late-night filming.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
They advertised in the

Newspapers that Marilyn Monroe
was going to stand over a

Subway grate and her skirt
was going to be blown up.

They held it in the middle
of the night.

There were 1,500 men there and
about 150 male photographers.

At first it was all
innocent and fun.

When Billy Wilder kept shooting
the scene over and

Over, the crowd of men kept on
applauding and shouting, more,

More, Marilyn. Let's see more.

Joe became upset, especially
when the director's camera

Kept coming in, focusing
only on my vagina.

The whistles and the yelling
from the male audience became

Too much for my husband.

It was like a burlesque show.

And what was meant to be a fun
scene turned into a sex

Scene, and Joe took off.

The man began to tremble.

He was so furious about his wife
showing off her panties.

He said to me, tell her...

Through clenched teeth...

Tell her I will meet her
back at the hotel.

She was having a good time.

And after each take, people
would clap and yell, and more

People would come and more
people would come.

Finally we had to
call the cops.

Joe got her back at a hotel,
and he really let her have it.

And the people next door heard
all that noise and screaming,

And they wondered if he
was hitting her or

Beating her or what.

I am not going to say anything
about Joe DiMaggio,

Because he is one of my gods.

So suffice it to say, he didn't
beat her up that night.

How do they know he beat
her up that night?

Maybe that's because
he was an Italian,

And Italians are
very possessive.

I tried to fight what with my
being I knew was true, due to

Pressures that have
come in my work.

It's funny...

I've always accepted
even the worst.

He could not endure.

He is from another land.

I've seen what he intends me
to see, and I am strangely

Calm with I catch my breath.

Let me know, fellas, when
you get the speed up.

Miss Monroe will have nothing
to say this morning.

All I can say, as her attorney,
is that this is what

We would say, with the
conflict of careers.

[MUSIC - "AFTER YOU GET WHAT YOU
WANT, YOU DON'T WANT IT"]

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn Monroe said at one

Time, people expect so much
of me as a sex symbol that

They've created in their minds
but that I've created too.

So she knew that she
had done this.

It wasn't something that
somebody had done to her.

And yet she felt
straitjacketed by it.

I'm MM.

I'm not permitted problems,
nervousness, humanness,

Blunders, mistakes, and
my own thoughts.

She's fighting the studio, and
they are fighting back.

She wants more money and the
right to choose her script and

Director, and they refuse.

By the end of 1953, "Niagara,"
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,"

And "How to Marry a Millionaire"
will gross $25

Million, and that's more than
any other movie star will earn

For a studio in those
12 months.

At a cost salary of $50,000
a year, she has

Brought back $25 million...

A return of 500 to 1.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
The accounting books of Fox

Studios show that in the 1950s,
when Fox was actually

In a lot of financial trouble,
two things kept Fox afloat...

Cinemascope and the films
of Marilyn Monroe.

And they never paid her
anything like what her

Commercial value would
suggest that she

Should have been paid.

And importantly, they were
paying other stars...

Most notably Elizabeth
Taylor...

Enormously larger salaries.

But also often her costars were
getting paid more than

She was in the films that
she was starring in.

They were under a lot of
pressure to get as many

Marilyn Monroe pictures as they
could, and there were

Often things that she
didn't want to do.

Cable to Darryl F. Zanuck,
January 25, 1954.

I finally received script...

Am exceedingly sorry, but
I do not like it.

Sincerely, Marilyn Monroe.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: She
lived with Milton Greene, a

Very famous photographer,
and his wife Amy

And their sons in
Connecticut.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN: This
will be my home from now

On, and when I retire, I'm going
to retire to Brooklyn.

That's my favorite place
in the world so far.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
She badly wanted New York.

She wanted to possess
its theater, its

Intellectual crowd.

She'd fallen in love with it.

We talked about actors
and acting.

Everybody says that
I can't act.

They said the same thing
about Elizabeth Taylor,

And they were wrong.

I'll never get the
right part...

Anything I really want.

My looks are against me.

They're too specific.

We talked some more about
Elizabeth Taylor.

She wanted to know if I knew
her, and I said yes.

She said, well, what
is she like?

What is she really like?

I said, well, she's a
little bit like you.

She wears her heart on her
sleeve, talks salty.

And Marilyn said, fuck you, and
said, well, if somebody

Asked me what Marilyn Monroe
was like, what was Marilyn

Monroe really like,
what would I say?

And I said, uh, that I'd have
to think about that.

Good evening.

I'm Ed Murrow.

The name of the program
is "Person to"

"Person." It's all live.

There's no film.

Tonight we'll be going first to
Weston, Connecticut, where

Photographer Milton Greene, his
wife, and their friend and

Houseguest Marilyn Monroe
will be waiting for us.

Uh, Amy, tell me, does
Marilyn know her

Way around the kitchen?

Is she help around the house?

Yes, she does.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN:
I was madly in love

With Edward R. Murrow.

Marilyn and Milton presented
Edward R. Murrow to me because

They knew that I had
a mad crush on him.

That's how this started.

Then it also involved that
that's where they announced

Marilyn Monroe productions.

Clever?

EDWARD R. MURROW OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn what's the basic

Reason for this corporation?

Why, merely to contribute to
help making good pictures.

EDWARD R. MURROW OFF-SCREEN:
Well, would it be fair to say

That, uh, you got rather tired
of playing the same kind of

Roles all the time and...
And wanted to

Try something different?

It's not that I
object to doing

Musicals or comedies.

In fact, I rather enjoy it.

But I would like to do also
dramatic parts too.

I guess that covers it.

EDWARD R. MURROW OFF-SCREEN:
Uh, have you had any offers yet?

Ooh, there's the
telephone, Ed.

That's another offer.

[Laughter]

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn's decision to break

Her contract with Fox Studios
was a really big deal.

It was very rare for a star to
become big enough and powerful

Enough to break with the studio
and to go independent.

EDWARD R. MURROW OFF-SCREEN:
Well, Marilyn, now that you're

A New Yorker, how do you
like this city anyway?

Oh, I love it.

Everyone's very friendly, and
it's a very optimistic,

Friendly city.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN: She
was a young woman who was

Absorbing life.

She was a sponge.

She knew that she had so
much more to learn.

That's why she moved
to New York.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
She had dropped out of high

School, and she was always
sensitive about that lack of

Formal education.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN: She
loved books, and she read and

Read and read.

Masaccio, 1401 to 1428,
father of modern art...

Reality, poverty, carelessness
about his paintings.

His work never recognized
until after his death.

Grande-nobles.

Giovanni Di Bicci, 1428.

Cosimo, Pater Patriae.

Lorenzo, 1424, first
public library.

Piero, Giovanni, Lorenzo the
Magnificent, Giuliano,

Machiavelli, 1469, 1527.

Botticelli.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN: The
thing I'd like the most is

To become a real actress.

And I realize more and more the
responsibility, and it is

A responsibility, to
be a good actress.

LEE STRASBERG OFF-SCREEN: She
always wanted to be an actress

And therefore felt somehow
unfulfilled.

The more success there was, the
more unfulfilled she was,

So that she wanted to
make the break.

The logic of a scene is what
would happen here if the scene

Wasn't written.

How would these people behave?

What would they really
want to say?

What would motivate me
to behave that way?

Must have the discipline
to do the following...

Z, go to class, my own, always,
without fail; X, go as

Often as possible to observe
Strasberg's other private

Classes; G, never miss my
Actor's Studio sessions; U,

Start attending Clurman
lectures... also Lee

Strasberg's directors lectures
at theater wing,

Inquire about both.

Words, find out their meaning.

To become a member of the
Actor's Studio was more

Important than getting
a job in Hollywood...

Even more important
than getting

Good reviews on Broadway.

To get into the Actor's
Studio was the max.

When Marilyn and people like
that were invited in, we

Resented that, quite frankly...

That these Hollywood people were
allowed in without the

Hard work we had
to go through.

SUSAN STRASBERG OFF-SCREEN:
Here was a girl who was this

Huge star and put herself into
an acting class with beginning

Acting students who had
contempt for her

And looked down on her

And that takes a certain kind
of courage and guts.

The women looked stern and
critical, unfriendly, and cold

In general.

Remembering when I couldn't do
a god damn thing and then

Trying to build myself up with
the fact that I have done

Things right that were even
good, and I've had moments

That were excellent.

But the bad is heavier
to carry around.

While I paid the check, she
left for the powder room, and

I wished I had a book to read.

Her visits to the powder room
sometimes lasted as long as an

Elephant's pregnancy.

After 20 minutes had passed,
I decided to investigate.

I found the ladies' room and
knocked on the door.

Inside she was confronting
a dimly lit mirror.

I said, what are you doing?

She said, looking at her.

ELLEN BURSTYN OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn created that wonderful

Character, Marilyn Monroe.

But that wasn't her,

And Lee saw that.

He had kind of X-ray vision.

He could go beyond what you
present to what's behind what

You present and see that
and address it.

The way Lee taught, which was
using sense memory, where you

Create all of the sensory
elements of the experience,

You don't try and go for the
emotion of the experience, but

You go for the time of day and
where the sun was or where the

Light was coming in the window,
any smells that were

In the room, the clothes you
were wearing... you get all of

Your senses activated.

And then the memory
comes alive.

Giving all... you give
everything away.

And it's exactly what
is not to be done.

That's mechanical.

So what should I do?

The brain, the brain, the brain
has to get into there.

I've been working on it.

It's not working on it,
darling, because...

How can you say that?

Every day I work on
it, and every day

I'm not getting further.

Because you've got to become
aware of when you're doing

What, darling.

Sharp pain...

Pick a specific part of the body
where you've experienced

A sharp pain so the mind knows
where to focus concentration.

Now, try to recreate
that sensation.

Let the pain spread throughout
the whole body, not just the

Isolated area.

This is challenging, because
in life we try to rid

Ourselves of pain, not relive
and prolong it.

One of the things that Lee
Strasberg was doing with

Marilyn was to get
in touch with her

So-called tragic self.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Strasberg insisted that she go

Into therapy.

PATRICIA BOSWORTH OFF-SCREEN:
He would coach her about four

Times a week.

She would first go to her
session, and then she would go

To Lee for her emotional
memory exercises.

He hoped that he could literally
pull it out of her.

She was one of the two or three
most sensitive and most

Talented people that
I've seen in my life.

One of the others is
Marlon Brando.

To me, she had the same
kind of sensitivity.

PATRICIA BOSWORTH OFF-SCREEN:
At one point, Lee wanted her

To do this emotional memory
about when a relative almost

Suffocated her with a pillow,
and she could

Not stand doing that.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: She
becomes, obviously, more

Keenly aware in analysis of
the demons that have been

Driving her throughout
her life.

NEWSCASTER: Marilyn Monroe was
an illegitimate child.

Her father disappeared
when her mother

Announced her pregnancy.

Her mother became mentally
ill, was sent to an
institution.

The child's life became a series
of psychological jolts.

She bounced from foster home to
orphanage to foster home.

The lack of any consistent
love and caring...

A mistrust and fear of the
world was the result.

There were no benefits except
what it could teach me about

The basic needs of the young,
the sick, and the weak.

She was a well-behaved child.

We took her to Sunday
School with us.

She was a youngster who
looked as though she...

She wasn't well-cared for.

Her clothes separated her
a little bit from

The rest of the girls.

She just seemed like a...

A nice child, but...

But not very outgoing and
not very vibrant.

SUSAN STRASBERG OFF-SCREEN: I
remember she painted these two

Self-portraits.

One is this sort of
sensual cat-woman.

And the other looks like this
little orphan girl with one

Sock falling down.

So you see there the
split in her.

Everyone's childhood
plays itself out.

No wonder no one knows the
other or can completely

Understand.

How do we know the pain of
another's earlier years, let

Alone all that he
drags with him?

I think to love bravely is
the best and accept as

Much as one can bear.

You're not a scared,
lonely girl anymore.

Remember, you can sit
on top of the world.

It doesn't feel like it.

You can have any help you want
personally or in your work or

Anything else.

Dear Lee, thank you
for your patience.

Everyone else I speak
with begins to

Think I'm off my rocker.

Dear Lee, one of the most
personally helpful things I've

Heard so far in my life was what
you said in class Friday.

Dear Lee...

Dear Lee...

Dear Lee...

SUSAN STRASBERG OFF-SCREEN:
Our home became one of her

Second homes.

She was sleeping in my brother's
room, and I'll never

Forget one night going, and...

And I looked through the door
which was open, and my father

Was holding Marilyn
in his arms and

Singing Brahms' Lullaby.

He just cradled her in
his arms, and she

Embraced him back.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN: Lee
Strasberg has changed my

Life more than any other human
being that I've met.

SUSAN STRASBERG OFF-SCREEN: He
was one of the first people

To say to her that she had real
talent as an actress.

But it seemed to exacerbate
her insecurities

Rather than alleviate them.

Best finest surgeon, Strasberg,
to cut me open,

Which I don't mind, since Dr.
H has prepared me, given me

Anesthetic and has also
diagnosed the case and agrees

With what has to be done in
operation, to bring myself

Back to life and to cure me of
this terrible dis-ease...

Whatever the hell it is.

They cut me open, and there is
absolutely nothing there.

Strasberg is deeply disappointed
but more even

Academically amazed that he
had made such a mistake.

He thought there was going to
be so much more than he had

Ever dreamed possible in almost
anyone, but instead

There was absolutely nothing.

All this thought and writing
has made my hands tremble.

I just want to keep pouring it
out until that great pot in

The mind is, though
not empty...

Relieved.

What do I believe in?

What is truth?

I believe in myself, even
my most delicate

And tangible feelings.

I am both of your directions,
life, somehow remaining,

Hanging downward the most.

But strong as a cobweb in the
wind, I exist more with the

Cold, glistening frost.

But my beaded rays
have the colors

I've seen in a painting.

Ah, life.

They have cheated you.

Marilyn will be in New York
more than a year before she

Goes back to Hollywood.

"The Seven Year Itch" will
come out to rave reviews,

Movie crowds waiting in lines,
thereby demonstrating to 20th

How desperate they had better
be to get her back.

It took one year from the time
we started this until the

Contract was signed, and she
had picture approval,

Publicity approval, director
approval...

Which she had never
had before.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER OFF-SCREEN:
We only know the

Rumors we hear, you know.

I would rather say, uh, that
I have director approval,

And that is true.

Well, I hardly know how to
answer that, since they

Misinterpret that, meaning...

In inches or something.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER OFF-SCREEN:
I'm not talking about that
[Laughter]

She used and abused 20th
Century Fox as much as they

Used and abused her.

She just went off and got
suspended, and Fox got... gave

Her a bigger contract
when she came back.

So she knew how to play them.

She knew how to play
the bosses.

I think I'm about the same.

No, I'm the same person.

But it's a different suit.

[Laughter]

"Bus Stop" was an important
film for Marilyn because it

Was the first film that she made
on her new contract with

Fox, where she would get a
decent salary and would have

Some control over
the material.

What she'd been always fighting
against were these

Very flat and very simplistic
comedic roles, whereas Cherie

Is a full character and
she's got a backstory.

I've been trying
to be somebody.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN: It
was the first film that she

Made after she had
started studying

At the Actor's Studio.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Lee's wife, Paula Strasberg,

Became Marilyn's coach.

When Lee wasn't with her,
Paula was with her.

Do you think you can
ever forgive me?

I guess I've been treated
worse in my life.

Well, I reckon that's all
there is to be said.

I wish you luck, Cherie.

I wish you the same, Bo.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Her costar, Don Murray, who

Was a respected Broadway actor,
said that she was

Blowing him off the screen
because she knew

How to act on screen.

I think she is one of the most
extraordinary actresses

That ever lived.

I think she is a
combination of

Greta Garbo and
Charlie Chaplin.

When I do trust myself about
certain things I do fully.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: She
made the cover of "Time"

Magazine, which proclaims,
surprise, this is a major

Actress of significant
depth and talent.

I'm still unorganized, but
glimpsing faintly my

Responsibilities mostly
to myself, I must and

Miraculously do endure.

You will be best known as
a playwright, of course.

You might be second best
known as one of

Marilyn Monroe's husbands.

You were married
for five years.

I don't suppose there's a man
who ever laid eyes on her that

Can't remember vividly
his first reaction.

Do you remember yours?

Well, actually, she was weeping
when I first saw her.

And, uh, I thought she was
one of the saddest

People I had ever seen.

I sensed that she
had a troubled

Heart from the beginning.

One night, Charlie Feldman
gave a party for Arthur Miller

Who had won the Pulitzer Prize

And was a celebrity now.

I asked Art to cover for
me with Marilyn.

When he called to tell her he'd
pick her up, she said,

No, she'd... she'd, uh, take a
taxi and meet us, him and me,

At Feldman's.

Art wouldn't allow it.

He'd come and pick her up.

Again she demurred.

He said, don't worry about it.

She's used to that.

But Art insisted.

And... and the first thing that
impressed Marilyn about her

Future husband was that he
refused to let her come to the

Party in a taxi.

How little these glamour girls
expect out of life, I thought.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Kazan sort of handed her off

To Miller, at least,
as the story goes.

And Miller really was a
romantic, and he fell deeply

In love with her.

She saw in him a father,
a man with

Knowledge, a creative person.

Arthur writes me every day.

I can't get used to the fact
that he loves me, and I keep

Waiting for him to stop
loving me, though I

Hope he never will.

I took her at her own
evaluation, which very few

People did, because she
generally was thought of as

Being a rather lightheaded,
if not silly, human being.

I thought she was a very
serious girl way back.

That's 'cause I loved
her, so I took that

Attitude toward her.

And, uh, so the best of her
she thought was in my eye.

Therefore the hope she
had was with me.

When I arrived, I could see
that need had met need, and

The lovely light of desire
was in their eyes.

I watched them dance...

Art was a good dancer...

And how happy she
was in his arms.

Not only was he tall and
handsome in a Lincolnesque

Way, but he was a Pulitzer
Prize playwright.

All of her doubts about her
worth were being satisfied in

One package.

On your testimony inside, sir,
have... did you say that

You've never been under
Communist discipline?

Absolutely.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Arthur Miller was called to

The McCarthy hearings, and he
was asked to testify about

Past Communist behavior and
past association with

Communists.

His passport was going
to be taken away.

He was being accused of
being un-American.

He was going to go up in
front of the committee.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
And Marilyn threw all of the

Weight of her popularity
behind him, and she was

Immensely popular at this
point, and stood by him.

Mr. Miller, Representative
Wallace said this afternoon

He'll have to cite
you for contempt.

Have you heard that?

No, I haven't.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
A lot of people

Were running for cover.

It was a very frightening
time.

And so it was genuinely
courageous of her.

When he was being investigated
by the Senate

Un-American Activities, he was
playing with something in his

Hands like the Greeks play
with worry beads.

And a senator said, what is
that in your answer, sir?

And he said, earrings
of the woman I love.

Who is the woman
you love, sir?

Marilyn Monroe.

He got his passport
in two days.

I'm so concerned about
protecting Arthur.

I love him, and he is the only
person I have ever known that

I could love not only as a man
to which I am attracted,

Practically out of my senses
about, but he is the only

Person that I trust
as much as myself.

She thoroughly admired him.

She thought he was
a great writer.

I'm afraid, I think,
he used her.

The way he announced her
engagement was, uh, bizarre.

Mr. Miller, why did you file an
application for a passport?

I want to go to England?

For what reason?

- You guess.
- We'd like you to...

I wanted to be with the woman
who is going to be my wife.

- You mean Marilyn Monroe?
- That's correct.

He announced it to the press
in Washington when he was up

There for the House on
Un-American Affairs Committee

And then telephoned her
in New York and told

Her what he'd done.

Have you been engaged long?

No, just a few days.

Yes, he announced it
to the press first.

I didn't want to bring that up.

Yes.

When did the idea of marriage
first come up?

Just, um, the last
few months.

How long ago did you decide
to get married?

Was there talk about it before
the formal engagement?

Well, it, um...

A little, maybe.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN:
How did she feel?

How does anyone...
I mean, she cried.

That's when I said, you're
gonna marry this creep?

And I said, don't tell
me he's terrific in

Bed because I don't...

I doubt it.

We were in a car,
and this French

Journalist was chasing us.

And we were trying
to lose them.

And we made one turn,
and they didn't make

It, and they crashed.

And then she became
hysterical.

It's all my fault.

That was the week before
the wedding.

And she figured at the beginning
of the marriage with

Arthur, there was a death.

I feel as if it's all happening
to someone right

Next to me.

I'm close.

I can feel it, hear it, but
it's not really me.

I'm not going to say where we
will be married because, uh,

I think it's time enough for
everybody to know when it

Happens and to leave us
with a little bit of

Peace until it happens.

So that's about it.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
It's interesting how

Contemporary the debates about
her marriages feel.

Something very modern happens,
which is that there begins to

Be this story about whether
she can have it all.

Can you work and have a family
at the same time?

Mrs. Miller, do you think your
marriage plan is going to

Change your career any?

Well, uh, I don't think so.

I mean, he's known
as a playwright.

I think he would like for me
to be a good actress too.

Do you intend to continue
your career?

July 15 I'm going to England.

Yes.

Is Mr. Miller going with you?

I hope he'll be with me.
Yes.

Suppose Mr. Miller doesn't
get a passport.

Are you prepared to
change your plans?

There's no change of plans.

No change of plans.

Then after this picture, do
you intend to continue your

Work here in this country?

Well, that... that depends.

Probably so.

When are you planning to
have some children?

Well, I'm not married
yet, dear.

[Laughter]

The very inappropriateness of
our being together was to me

The sign that it was
appropriate.

She was sensuous and
life-loving, it seemed, when

In the center of it, there was
a darkness and a tragedy that

I didn't know the dimensions
of at the time.

NEWSCASTER: A honeymoon couple
arrive at London Airport...

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller.

Mrs. Miller is better known
as Marilyn Monroe.

Arthur is one of America's most
brilliant playwrights.

He wrote "Death of a Salesman."
Marilyn's come to

England to film with Sir
Laurence Olivier, who's here

With his wife to meet them.

A marriage of brains and beauty,
but don't let anyone

Tell you Arthur's got
all the brains.

Oh, it would have been
marvelous, but, um, it wasn't.

She was a very difficult girl.

I think she had a deep-seeded

Resistance to being an actress.

She had no resistance
to being a star.

But I think there was something
about acting that

Innately frightened her that
she didn't know about.

I can't really stand human
beings sometimes.

Ah, Miss Marina, won't you
have some champagne?

Oh, I don't know, your
Grand Ducal.

You really think I ought?

Well, maybe just a sip.

Maybe just up to...

Wow!

I beg your pardon?

You said something?

Oh, no.

Just playing a little game
over here all by myself.

Good.

Cheerio.

She acted Laurence Olivier
right off the screen.

He gave one of his few
bad performances.

She was simply magical.

Dear, I do not altogether
understand you, Miss Marina.

Oh, now don't pull the
Grand Duke with me.

You made a pact, and
I turned it down.

That's all that happened.

We can still be friendly.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: Milton
was there trying to

Control everything.

Paula Strasberg, Lee's wife,
was there, not being very

Helpful, unfortunately.

She became ill and wasn't
at her best.

COLIN CLARK OFF-SCREEN: If
Marilyn had had a very hard

Day filming, she and Paula would
ring Lee in New York,

And Lee would try and give her
some advice and encouragement.

Don't ever entirely rely
on the director.

He can't control your thoughts
or emotions.

In our work, we encourage the
actor to create independently

Of the director.

Olivier saw this as a
tremendous act of sabotage.

He felt that he had to reassert
his authority over

Marilyn all the time.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Early on in the filming, she

Asked for some direction
about her motivation.

He said, just be
sexy, Marilyn.

Isn't that what you do?

She was so angry at him.

And after that, any possibility
that they might

Have had a cordial working
relationship was over.

And she later said, I started
being bad with him.

She punished him by
not showing up,

Not knowing her lines.

She was an extraordinary
character, very interesting.

But very painful if you
had to get a day's

Work done with her.

I tried to tell him for his
own good that you can't

Approach Marilyn technically
or mechanically.

She's not that kind
of an actress.

She works our way.

If you just explain to her what
you want emotionally,

She'll give it to you.

He was rather annoyed with me.

He acted as if I were pretending
to tell him how to

Direct, and as a result, they
had terrible difficulty.

Oh, she came off very
well, and he...

He should've come off equally
well, but he didn't.

Fraud, from the first five
minutes, because I should have

Agreed she was a joke...

A beautiful piece trying to
take herself seriously.

Why did I lie to her?

I swear to you, I did get to
where I couldn't imagine what

I'd ever been ashamed of,
but it was too late.

I wanted to face the worst
thing I could imagine...

That I could not love.

And I wrote it down, like
a letter from hell.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn found Arthur's

Notebook, and she opened it
and leafed through it and

Found some extremely derogatory
comments about her.

And it made her work immensely
difficult.

My husband, the great American
playwright, Arthur Miller,

Thinks I'm dumb and incapable.

And she'd work herself
into insomnia.

Oh, silence, you stillness,
hurt my head, jars my head

With the stillness of sounds
unbearable, unendurable.

On a screen of pitch darkness,
the monsters come, my most

Steadfast companions.

Oh, peace, I need you...

Even a peaceful monster.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN: She
always suffered from insomnia.

There were good nights
and bad nights.

But Arthur was when
she started to

Get addicted to pills.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Miller was supposed to be her

Savior, yet she felt more
and more inadequate.

She had so much power and in
such a vacuum, it's no wonder

The three men, each possessed
with their own artistic

Integrity, would compete
to fill that vacuum.

Arthur Miller, Milton Greene,
and Lee Strasberg jockeyed one

Another for the control
of her mind and

Possession of her life.

AMY GREENE OFF-SCREEN: Arthur
made Marilyn Monroe

Productions break up because
he was jealous of Milton.

They spent too much time
together for Arthur.

When it came time to break the
contracts, Milton cruised

Arthur and said, Arthur,
you're a schmuck

And walked out.

Marilyn called within an hour
and said, I'm so sorry, and

They were both crying
on the phone.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: This,
then, meant that she was

Once again literally out of
work and trying to support

Arthur Miller.

So they came back to Hollywood,
and she made "Some"

"Like it Hot," one for her
most popular films.

Mr. Arthur Miller,
444 East 57th Street,

New York, New York.

Straight telegram.

Telegram, February 12, 1959,
9:04 AM, Bill Wilder.

Dear Arthur, this having been
my second picture with

Marilyn, I understand
her problems.

Her biggest problem is that she
doesn't understand anyone

Else's problems.

Marilyn was frustrated because
the part of Sugar Kane

Is another dumb blonde.

She couldn't believe she was
playing a blonde who was so

Dumb that she didn't even
realize that the two women she

Was with were guys.

I'm not very bright, I guess.

I wouldn't say that.

Careless maybe.

No, just dumb.

If I had any brains, I wouldn't
be on this crummy

Train with this crummy
girl's band.

BILLY WILDER OFF-SCREEN: She
had a gift of creating

Complications and...

And spreading a little misery.

We would have, like, 300 extras,
and she would show up

At 2:00 in the afternoon.

And I said, what happened.

And she says...

She said, I lost my way.

I recall one typical morning
when she showed up 2 and 1/2

Hours late, carrying a copy of
Thomas Payne's "The Rights of"

"Man." And when a second
assistant director knocked on

Her dressing room door and
humbly asked if she was ready,

Her humanity shone through, and
she replied, quote, "Drop"

Dead," unquote.

She's not the first actress who
must follow her own path

To a performance.

Given her evident excellence,
it was your job as director

Not to reject her approach
because it was

Unfamiliar to you.

She did not have the...

The disposition, the evenness

Or the, uh... the talents
of some other actors.

There's no question.

But what she was doing was
fighting and using more of

What she had.

It was more of a
struggle for her.

I think that the help that she
got from her studies with

Various acting groups, I think,
only confused her.

We believe that the actor
becomes the character.

Actress must have no
mouth, no feet.

Actress must have no mouth,
feet, shoulder...

Everything, though.

Actress must have no mouth,
feet, shoulders.

Girdle hangs light...

So loose, so...

No.

Actress must have no mouth,
feet, shoulder, girdle hangs

Light, so loose.

Everything focused on
partner, feelings in

The end of my fingers.

Billy had given her every
conceivable kind of

Direction...

Using obstacles, counterpoints,
relating to

Your grandmother's raincoat...

Whatever.

I have never heard such
brilliant, marvelous,

Diversified direction given
to one actor in my life...

All of them legitimate, all of
them within the realm of

Legitimate behavior of that
character in that

Circumstance.

Nothing worked.

Still it would be, sorry.
And the hands would go again.

There was just some demons
inside her that was

There all the time.

The sensitivity is so full and
so strong it is dangerous,

Because the emotions can
and do rule everything.

You do things out of fear, and
you must start to do things

Out of strength.

My question, where do
I get the strength?

Had you, dear Arthur, been not
her husband but her writer

And director and been
subjected to all the

Indignities I was, you'd have
thrown her out on her can,

Thermos bottle and all, to avoid
a nervous breakdown.

I did the braver thing.

I had a nervous breakdown.

Respectfully, Billy Wilder.

We sat and talked, and Marilyn
said, I hate funerals.

I'm glad I won't have
to go to my own.

Only I don't want a funeral...

Just my ashes cast on waves
by one of my kids

If I ever have any.

She talked publicly and
privately about her desire to

Have a child.

When she suffered two
miscarriages while married to

Arthur Miller, the press made
much of this anomaly...

The sex goddess who could
not bear children.

I think I am very lonely.

My mind jumps.

I see myself in the mirror
now, brow furrowed.

If I lean close, I'll see what
I don't want to know...

Tension, sadness,
disappointment.

My eyes dulled, cheeks flushed
with capillaries that

Look like rivers on a map,
hair lying like snakes.

My mouth makes me the saddest,
next to my dead eyes.

There is a dark line between
the lips and the outline of

Several waves in a
turbulent storm.

It says...

It says, don't kiss me.

Don't fool me.

I'm a dancer who cannot dance.

What makes you so sad?

I think you're the saddest
girl I ever met.

You're the first man
that ever said that.

I'm usually told
how happy I am.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
It was supposed to be a

Valentine for her, but actually,
she was incredibly

Disappointed in the character.

The character was
called Roslyn,

Spelled L-Y-N, like Marilyn.

It's this woman as muse, but not
as a thinking human being

Who has her own ideas.

Marilyn read the script and
thought, this is supposed to

Be my valentine.

This... this is what
you think of me?

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: More
than that, he made it

Virtually into a template,
or a stencil, of Marilyn

Monroe's own life.

Oh, you've changed
things around.

And, uh, how do you like it?

Oh, don't look at those.

They're nothing.

Gay just hung them
up for a joke.

The idea that he would have
her say of her own persona

That it's just a joke and shut
the door on it, I think it's

Really unkind.

Come on, let's have
lots of drinks.

Come on.

She treated Miller very
badly on the film.

They even shared a flat,

And then he moved out.

And she was very unhappy during
that whole period.

A dream had gone.

When one wants to stay alone,
as my love, Arthur, indicates

The other must stay apart.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
There were days on end where

She wouldn't emerge
from her trailer.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN:
Meantime John Huston, he's

Going to the tables and dropping
$10,000 a night,

Which puts the whole production
in jeopardy,

Because the studio is giving
John money to gamble.

And they have to shut down the
film for three weeks because

They have no money to pay
the cast and crew.

How are they going to explain
this to the stockholders of

The studio?

Easy...

Marilyn Monroe was
uncooperative.

We had to stop the picture.

She was a very sick girl.

They took her to a hospital in
Los Angeles, and she was under

Care of a psychiatrist to
get her off the drugs.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Some biographers, notably

Donald Spoto, have argued that
basically Marilyn was fine and

That the studio was
scapegoating her.

And I think there's
something to that.

But you can see it
in her face...

She's not well.

Help.

Help, help, help, help,
help, help, help...

I feel life coming closer
when all I want

To do is die, scream.

You began and ended in air,
but where was the middle?

You eat those pills to blind
yourself, but if you could

Only say, I have been
cruel, this

Frightening room would open.

If you could say, I have been
kicked around, but I have been

Just as inexcusably vicious to
others, called my husband

Idiot in public.

I have been utterly selfish
despite my generosity.

I have been hurt by a
long line of men.

But I have cooperated
with my persecutors.

Marilyn was ill physically.

She was distraught
psychologically.

Everything was coming to a
crisis at the same time she

Was having to do the first
dramatic role she'd

Ever tried to do.

It was precisely at that time...
It was a very difficult

Time... when you met Inge Morath,
who has become your

Wife and who you've lived
with ever since.

She was... you met her on the set
of "The Misfits," didn't

You, at that very moment?

She was one of several
photographers who came out to

Photograph "The Misfits." We did
meet there, and then I met

Her again some months
later in New York.

By this time, I...

I was no longer with Marilyn.

I guess I've always been deeply
terrified to really be

Someone's wife, since I know
from life that one cannot love

Another ever really.

MALE INTERVIEWER OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn, what's the reason for

The breakup?
Can you tell us?

I'm sorry.

I'm...

I...

I...

I can't talk about
my personal life.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Things were starting to unravel.

Marilyn started seeing a couple
of psychoanalysts.

On the East Coast, she started
seeing a woman called Marianne

Kris and a well-known Hollywood
psychoanalyst called

Ralph Greenson, who's kind of
psychoanalyst to the stars.

I was her therapist, the
good father who would...

Who would not disappoint her,
who would bring her insights.

And if not insights,
just kindness.

I had become the most important
person in her life.

Dear Dr. Greenson, I'm having
May Reis type this because

It's not very clearly written,
but I have also included these

Notes, and you will
see when I mean.

MM...

March 2, 1961.

Last night I was awake
all night again.

And sometimes I wonder what
the nighttime is for.

It almost doesn't
exist for me.

It all seems like one long,
long, horrible day.

Anyway, I thought I'd try to be
constructive about it, and

I started to read the letters
of Sigmund Freud.

She sinks into a depression
so severe that

Her analyst is worried.

Perhaps there is a
suicide attempt.

She is admitted to
Payne Whitney, a

Hospital for mental disorders.

Until now, she has
not been told

Anything about this hospital.

What are you doing to
me, she cries out.

What kind of place is this?

When she came in to
my floor, I was...

I was not expecting her.

Her outside doctor had lied to
her and told her she was just

Coming into a nice,
quiet, you know,

Hotel-like place for a rest.

The moment the door closed and
locked behind her, she

Panicked and pounded
on the door and

Pleaded with me to let her out.

She just kept saying it very
quietly and in a very

Controlled fashion.

She'd say, open the door
and let me out.

I won't cause any trouble.

Just open the door, and
I'll go quietly.

Please.

Dear Lee and Paula...

Doctor Kris has had me put into
the New York Hospital,

Psychiatric division, under the
care of two idiot doctors.

They both should not
be my doctors.

You haven't heard from me
because I'm locked up with all

These poor, nutty people.

I'm sure to end up a nut if
I stay in this nightmare.

Please help me, Lee.

This is the last place
I should be.

Maybe if you called Doctor Kris
and assured her of my

Sensitivity and that I must
get back to class.

Please help me.

If Doctor Kris assures you that
I am all right, you can

Assure her that I am not.

I do not belong here.

I love you both.

Marilyn.

NURSE OFF-SCREEN: The most
important thing was to watch

Her for suicide and to take
her off barbiturates.

My understanding is that she
got out of them during her

Marriage to Arthur Miller.

She had no ego to start with,
and it left her less.

This is right after
the separation.

He didn't write, call, cable...

Nothing.

He left her there, and he
knew she was there.

There was no empathy
at Payne Whitney.

It had a very bad effect.

And they asked me, after
putting me in a cell...

I mean, cement blocks and all
for very disturbed, depressed

Patients, except I felt I was in
some kind of a prison for a

Crime I hadn't committed...

And they asked me why I
wasn't happy there.

They asked me why I
wasn't happy there.

Everything was under lock and
key... things like electric

Lights, dresser drawers,
bathrooms, closets.

I answered, well, I'd have to
be nuts if I liked it here.

They asked me to mingle with
the patients, to go out to

Occupational therapy.

I said, and do what?

They said, you could sew or play
checkers, even cards, and

Maybe knit.

I tried to explain that the day
I did that they would have

A nut on their hands.

They asked me why I felt I was
different from the other

Patients, I guess.

So I decided, if they were
really that stupid, I must

Give them a very
simple answer.

So I said, I just am.

Soon, gossip is blazing
like brush fire.

Then the press hold vigil
outside Payne Whitney's walls.

NURSE OFF-SCREEN: There were,
like, 500 photographers and

Reporters in the lobby, and they
were following the nurses

Home, and it was chaos.

You can't very well have
somebody get well under these

Conditions.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN:
Finally she was able to get a

Letter out to Joe, who came
and took her home.

He went to the hospital and
said, if you don't release her

Into my care, we'll
take this building

Apart, brick by brick.

March, 1961...

Joe said he pulled himself up
by his own bootstraps after

The divorce, but he told me also
that if he had been me,

He would have divorced
him too.

Christmas night, he sent a
forest full of poinsettias.

I asked who they were from.

My friend said, I don't know.

The card just says...

Best, Joe.

So I said, well, there's
just one Joe.

I called him up and asked him
why he had sent the flowers.

He said, first of all, because
I thought you would

Call me to thank me.

And then he said, besides,
who in the hell else

Do you have in the world?

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
She was in intense therapy

With Greenson.

In what we would now consider
very bad therapeutic practice,

He invited Marilyn into his home
and started to create yet

Another surrogate family
for Marilyn.

Rich and famous people need the
therapist 24 hours a day.

Psychiatrists must be willing to
become emotionally involved

With their patients if they hope
to establish a reliable

Therapeutic relationship.

He was under her spell,
thrilled to be Marilyn

Monroe's doctor and I think was
willing to give her any

Shots, any prescriptions
she wanted.

The administering of the pill
was an attempt to give her

Something of me to swallow, to
take in, so that she could

Overcome the sense of terrible
emptiness that would

Depress and infuriate her.

For years, I've been struggling
to find some

Emotional security with...

With little success.

My work is the only trustworthy
hope I have.

My work is the only trustworthy
hope that I have.

It is April, 1962.

She has four months to live.

And work is ready to start on
a film she will do for 20th

For her contract.

It will be called "Something's
Got to Give."

It was going to be her last
film for the 20th Century Fox

Studios under a seven-year
contract.

It's questionable whether she
was ready to go back to work

After an incredibly
difficult year.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Lights, camera.

Ww...

Can we start again?

Yes.

I can do my work as
fully as I wish.

I will be as sensitive as I am
without being ashamed of it.

Go this way?

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
No, no, no.

This way.

Always this way.

All right.

All righty?

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: 365.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Lights, camera.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: 683.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Speed.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Lights, camera.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: 699.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
[Inaudible].

OK.

Rolling?

OK.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Everyone that worked with

Monroe understood the downside

Counterbalanced with the upside.

And I would not put George
Cukor in that category.

Marilyn's finally gone
around the bend.

She doesn't remember her lines
and acts as though she were

Underwater.

In the afternoon, she's
under alcohol.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: 74.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Speed.

All right, now start
real hard work.

There were enormous costs
already piled up against the

Picture... five or six scripts by
expensive writers, 34 days

Over the shooting schedule
in the first quarter of

Production, further weakening
the already shaky position of

20th Century Fox.

20th Century Fox was going
bankrupt because of a little

Movie called "Cleopatra."

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: It
was a huge, expensive star

Vehicle that became the most
expensive movie ever made.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
They shut down virtually every

Other production except
"Something's Got to Give" and

"Cleopatra." Elizabeth Taylor
was making $1 million, as

Opposed to Marilyn's 100,000,
and Marilyn was acutely aware

Of the difference
in the way that

Elizabeth Taylor
was being treated.

Here, Jeb.
Jeb.

Watch it.

Jeb, speak.

Jeb, speak.
Speak.

Speak, boy.

Come on, speak.

Jeb.

Jeb, Jeb.

Speak.

Come on, speak.

Here, Jeb.

Come on.

Jeb.

Come on, Jeb.

Whether anything will come of
this project I do not know,

But it certainly diverts
me to think about it.

It would be the definitive
Hollywood story.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Here, Jeb.

Watch it.

Speak.

Jeb, speak.

Speak.

Come on, speak.

Speak.

[Barking]

Oh, for the good old days of
the industry when the studios

Arranged things so adroitly and
were not so hit and miss

And confusing.

I start like...

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: 382.

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN:
Marilyn went down for three

Weeks with a high fever
and a sinus infection.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN:
You have a cold?

How dare you have a cold?

I mean, the executives can get
colds and stay home for...

You know, forever
and phone it in.

But how dare you get a cold?

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
The straw that broke the

Camel's back was her decision
to appear at Madison Square

Garden to sing that little
birthday song.

Mr. President, the late
Marilyn Monroe.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Remarkably, Fox had told her

That she couldn't go.

From her point of view, going
to sing "Happy Birthday" for

The President was something
she was not going to miss.

We were both astonished
that she had gone.

Cukor particularly was angry.

You know, he was starting
to feel,

I think, a kind of, uh,
helplessness.

[MUSIC - "HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO YOU"]

DONALD SPOTO OFF-SCREEN: 20th
Century Fox accused Marilyn

Monroe of insubordination and
of leaving the production

Without permission,
and she was fired.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
She was devastated.

It was the worst thing that
could happen to her, because

Her acting career
would be over.

She was deemed not employable.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
The studio began a smear

Campaign after it fired her to
say that the footage that they

Had was unusable, that she'd
been in such a fog that they

Couldn't possibly have continued
to work with her.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: So
she was the big bad wolf.

And Fox thought they got
away with almost murder.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
She mounted a counter offense.

She basically fought back.

She started taking pictures to
show how good she looked, and

She started giving interviews.

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN: I
mean, the things they sent out

About me, that this corporation,
who I'm prepared

To leave nameless, we're
not machines.

No matter how much they want
to say we are, we are not.

If I am a star, the people
made me a star.

It was no studio
and no person.

I would like very much
to be a fine actress.

I would like to be happy, but
trying to be happy is almost

As difficult as trying
to be a good actress.

SARAH CHURCHWELL OFF-SCREEN:
Only about 10 or 15 years ago

It was discovered in the Fox
archives a contract that they

Had rehired her for $1 million,
for the money that

She had been fighting
for so hard.

They rehired her just a few
days before she died.

Dear Lee, this is an important
personal letter, and

Please don't start to read it
until you have the time to

Give it your careful thought.

This letter concerns my future
plans and therefore concerns

Yours as well, since my future
development as an artist is

Based on our working together.

My attorneys and I are
planning to set up an

Independent production unit, in
which we have envisaged an

Important position for you.

As far as I'm concerned,
the happiest time

Of my life is now.

There's a future, and I can't
wait to get to it.

My love to all of you.

Marilyn.

The light was leaving.

She seemed to fade with it,

Blend with the sky and clouds,

Proceed beyond them.

I wanted to lift my voice louder
than the seagulls'

Cries and call her back...

Marilyn, Marilyn.

Why did everything have to
turn out the way it did?

Many of us remember the precise
moment on August 5,

1962 when we first heard
of her death.

We remember where we were,
what the room looked

Like, who was there.

It's a sense memory usually
reserved for the death of a

President or a member
of our own family.

One simple reason for her life
story's endurance is the

Premature end of it.

When the past dies, there is
mourning, but when the future

Dies, our imaginations are
compelled to carry it on.

The more I think of it,
the more I realize

There are no answers.

Life is to be lived.

And since it is comparatively
so short...

Maybe too short, maybe
too long...

The only thing I know for
sure, it isn't easy.

Now that I want to live and I
feel suddenly not old, not

Concerned about previous things
except to protect

Myself, my life, and
to desperately

Pray tell the universe...

I trust it.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Do you, uh, keep a

Diary, by the way?

MARILYN MONROE OFF-SCREEN:
Well, not exactly a diary.

Sometimes when things
used to happen, I

Used to write it down.

But then I used to tear it up.

I'm gonna read it like this.

This is what you want, right?

Like this.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: Three
echo, take one, 80 mark.

Not a scared lonely little
girl anymore.

Not a scared lonely...
Not a scared

Lonely little girl anymore.

Please don't talk
about me... no.

Please don't talk about
me when I'm gone.

God.

Oh.

It's good to be back.

I'm flattered.

I'm honored.

FEMALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: So
you're a happy girl now?

Yeah.

I'm MM.

Let's take that one more time.

I got a little turned
up... here we go.

Internal, internal, internal.

OK, starting...

I used to appear on...
When I was modeling...

On, uh, men's magazine covers,
such as, uh, I don't know,

"Squint," "Peep," "Pick-a-Peep,"
all those...

[Laughter]

Let me go back.

I'm good, though.

I'm good.

I'm sorry.

Ah!

Shall we start over?

Shabby sounding.

Let's do it one more time.

I think Judge Griffith was
right in penalizing me.

I don't really believe in
ignoring traffic citations.

Dear Darryl, I got
your script.

It stinks.

Love you, Marilyn Monroe.

Oh, that almost made me cry.

That's so sweet of her.

I trust it.

That sucked.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: Would
you say that you take

Acting very seriously?

I'm afraid I do.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN:
Thanks, Marilyn.

Thank you very much.

Bye.

MALE SPEAKER OFF-SCREEN: Bye.

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