March 1: Marilyn makes an appointment at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, complaining of appendicitis, but director Howard Hawks insists that she return to the set of Monkey Business, and her operation is...
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 2: Filming of Niagara begins in Buffalo, with Marilyn playing Rose Loomis, the femme fatale murdered by her co-star, Joseph Cotten. Marilyn stays at the General Brock Hotel in Niagara Falls. Jose...
January 26: The studio suspends Marilyn again.
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: 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 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: Marilyn and Joe are photographed laughing over pages of Maurice Zolotow’s biography of her and are later photographed at Le Pavilion.
January 17: A terrified Montand, who does not know much English, works on his lines with his wife, the actress Simone Signoret. Marilyn suddenly informs the studio that she will not be coming in the n...
January 16: Arthur Miller arrives in Hollywood to work on a screenplay with his friend, director Elia Kazan. Marilyn meets playwright Arthur Miller on the set of her film, As Young as You Feel.
January 15: Marilyn’s lawyer sends a letter to Fox stating it has failed to honor its obligation to put her in a picture in 1957. She was now owed $100,000 for a picture she did not make, and she now...
January 15: Gladys is declared insane and committed to the Norwalk Mental Hospital.
January 13: Marilyn shows up at the studio for still shots, but then departs not wanting to be present for a discussion of her next production with screenwriter Nunnally Johnson.