February 23: Isidore Miller writes to Marilyn, I can’t tell you how much your trip to Florida meant to me. I don’t ever remember having such a good time! The guests of the Sea Isle Hotel can’t get ove...
February 24: Marilyn is the honored guest at the home of Mexican actor, writer, and director Emilio Fernández Romo and his wife, Colunga. Marilyn is introduced to José Bolaños, a well-dressed, twenty-...
February 26: Grace McKee Goddard files papers to become Norma Jeane’s legal guardian.
February 26: Marilyn begins work on Monkey Business with director Howard Hawks. As usual, she is late to the set, but Ginger Rogers, in a starring role, said Marilyn always knew her lines. Billy Travi...
February 27: Pre-production work begins on Bus Stop.
February 28, 11:38 p.m.: Marilyn writes a love letter to DiMaggio, who has departed for work in New York City: I want someday for you to be proud of me as a person and as your wife and as the mother o...
February 8: Marilyn does her black sitting session with Milton Greene. Marilyn poses in black hat and fishnet stockings, her face partially in shadow. She also appears in a shot where she lies down, h...
February 9: Marilyn arrives at 6:00 p.m. for the photo shoot with Rizzo and apologizes, pleading extreme fatigue. Another appointment is scheduled for the next day.
Hazlitt, Swift, and Stendhal filled Michael with all sorts of conceits about the nature of love that grew to have for him a consecration of its own, perhaps best exemplified in Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris,...
I brought up Michael’s passionate support of Indira Gandhi. I read The Asian Age every morning, you know, Michael said by way of stressing his deep concern with Indian politics. Much to the outrage of...
January 15: Columnist Bob Thomas publicizes Marilyn’s doubts about the Something’s Got to Give script.
January 16: Time publishes Winner, an account of how Marilyn got the best of Fox in contract negotiations.
January 17: Epoca (Italy) publishes John Florea’s cover shot of Marilyn leaning out of the back seat of a car, dressed in her dancehall girl outfit from River of No Return.
January 18: Filming of Let’s Make Love resumes. Stern (Germany) shows Marilyn, all in black, during a number from Let’s Make Love.
January 19: Joe DiMaggio and photographer Sam Shaw help Marilyn move into the Gladstone Hotel on East 52nd Street near Park Avenue.
January 19: Marilyn and Arthur fly from Jamaica to New York.
January 21: Marilyn returns to New York and visits Lee Strasberg.
January 23: Joe Wolhandler of Rogers & Cowan, public relations, writes to tell Marilyn he has denied several rumors, including the report that she is—or is not—adopting a baby, and that she is enterin...
January 23: Niagara is released, making Marilyn a star. She plays Rose Loomis, a femme fatale. The picture features her 116-foot walk to the falls.
January 26: Marilyn arrives on the set on time at 7:00 a.m., but then departs abruptly in full makeup two hours later. Producer Buddy Adler looks at the rushes and is shocked. Marilyn looks overweight...
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