Motion picture producers were well aware of audiences who now looked to Walter Brennan to spice up the action, to do something that would entertain them in pictures that were otherwise commonplace. Ev...
May 8: Cukor shuts down production after Marilyn, with an obvious fever and chills, cannot control her shaking and rests on the set’s patio furniture. She again has a temperature of 101 degrees. Dr. S...
March 4: Elia Kazan sends a telegram to Fox promising to arrive on April 1 to work with screenwriter Calder Willingham on a film starring Marilyn. Fox officially notifies Marilyn that she is assigned...
March 2: Johnny Hyde has Marilyn sign with the William Morris agency. Johnny Hyde secures a walk-on part for Marilyn in Love Happy, a Marx Brothers movie. To her line, Men keep following me, Groucho,...
March 29: Marilyn writes to Lester Markel at the New York Times. She likes the Sunday piece on playwright Sean O’Casey. She provides her assessment of various contenders for the presidency, including...
March 11: Marilyn arrives at Greenson’s home and tells him she is going to Palm Springs. After memorizing Nunnally Johnson’s script for Something’s Got to Give, Marilyn learns it has been rewritten by...
Just then Michael was exercised about a letter he had received from Michael Scammell, Arthur Koestler’s authorised biographer, raising doubts that his subject had actually raped Jill. Certain of her f...
June 7: Norma Jeane leaves the Los Angeles Orphans Home to live with Grace and her husband, Doc Goddard, at 6707 Odessa Avenue in Van Nuys. Norma Jeane hears on the radio that Jean Harlow has died. A...
June 6: In a Los Angeles Daily News column, Ezra Goodman identifies Marilyn as a rising new talent. June
January 26: The Independent Theater Owners of Arkansas confer on Marilyn the State’s Most Popular Movie Actress award.
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...
January 25: Life publishes Merger of Two Worlds. Newsweek publishes Mr. And Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. Time publishes Storybook Romance. Marilyn’s lawyer tells the press that she has read the Pink Tights scri...
January 24: Stella Yusko writes to Arthur Miller asking if he and Marilyn might be interested in adopting a healthy and beautiful baby, and the mother feels that you people would really make a good ha...
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 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,...
January 20: Andre de Dienes’s color photograph of Marilyn on Mount Hood is on the cover of Vecko Revyn (Sweden). She is wearing a snow cap and a red sweater, and snow covers her pants and left leg, wh...
January 19–22: Marilyn works with Milton Greene in his Lexington Avenue studio on an all white series, with poses in fur and terry cloth.
January 19: Joe Wolhandler, vice-president of public relations firm Rogers & Cowan, writes Marilyn to tell her that the December 22, 1958, Life layout of her photographs sold more copies (6,300,000) t...
January 18: In the Lowell Sun, a DiMaggio friend is quoted saying Joe will remarry Marilyn, but her publicist John Springer insists the couple are just friends.
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.