Cooper caught a break with a featured role as a doomed aviator in Wings (1927), but Walter remained on the periphery, observing the unwritten rule that extras did not consort with stars, yet taking pr...
March 5: Marilyn flies from San Francisco to Los Angeles for the Photoplay Awards dinner. Joe flies to New York on business.
January 20: Marilyn meets with Fox producer Henry T. Weinstein. Marilyn meets with the visiting Carl Sandburg, who demonstrates—holding books over their heads—a series of exercises intended to allevia...
May 24: Marilyn and Miller leave the Rauhs’ home and travel by train back to New York City.
Watching the nuances in Brennan’s performances—especially in roles that would seem to allow for little variation—is to appreciate once again his incomparable place in Hollywood history as the consumma...
May 21: Marilyn reports to Fox for color and wardrobe tests for Niagara.
In contemporary fiction, the criminal is usually the biographer.
I often thought of Boswell and Johnson during my stays with Michael Foot. In Michael’s company, I was very much a Boswell, keen to get the great man to talk. I recorded everything, compiling a hundred...
January 25: Marilyn is filmed singing My Heart Belongs to Daddy. It is a production number in which she is surrounded by a group of adoring men, who ferry her across the stage in a routine reminiscent...
Becoming a Biographer: Marilyn Monroe Made Me Do It
January 22: Dr. Marianne Kris calls her colleague Dr. Ralph Greenson, asking him to attend to Marilyn, who is having anxiety attacks. Greenson is well known because of patients such as Frank Sinatra,...
May 17–18: In her New York apartment, Marilyn practices singing Happy Birthday for the president.
May 20: Marilyn visits the Louella Parsons radio show.
Michael, by his own admission, was a hero-worshipper, and even when he admitted his hero’s faults, he could not seem to then re-factor his hero worship.
February 11: Andre de Dienes sends Marilyn a telegram calling her Turkey Foot, his nickname for her: STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF. GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. LET’S GO DRIVING AND HIKING THROUGH THE R...
I aim, as my introduction promises, to be resolutely indiscreet.
After dinner, Michael vouchsafed to me that he had had an encounter with Barbara Castle at a recent Tribune event: [MF] You told me about what she had done ... in your case. [Castle had asked for a fe...
It’s time to rip the veneer off the works and days of biographers’ lives.
January 20: Monroe divorces Miller in Juarez, Mexico, on the day JFK takes the oath of office.
May 26: Filming of Niagara begins.
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