June 21: Marilyn consults with her attorney, Aaron Frosch, and Lee Strasberg about Rain.
June 23: Reporters stake out Marilyn’s apartment, responding to rumors that she and Miller will marry that night.
June 24: Marilyn appears at the studio to watch her scenes with Montand. John Huston leaves New York to look at locations in Nevada for The Misfits.
June 26: David Conover photographs Norma Jeane for Yank magazine.
June 27: Sidney Fields is the first columnist to write about Marilyn, commenting in the New York Mirror: Marilyn is a very lovely and relatively unknown movie actress. But give her time; you will hear...
June 3: Life publishes Unlikely Pair Make Great Match.
Just then I felt I must confront the question of whether I was to do Michael’s biography as well as Jill’s. From our first meeting, Julie had been urging me to do so, to make sure I got my place in li...
Like Drums Across the River, Bad Day at Black Rock (January 7, 1955), is a revisionist work—this time examining the seamy side, the racism and thuggery—of postwar America. Brennan, looking much slimme...
Walter also became a hotelier, western style. A brochure touted Walter Brennan’s Indian Lodge Motel. The Motel of Distinction. Enjoy Your Vacation In The Switzerland of America. Fishing—Hunting—Swimmi...
The picture was Brennan’s, but it was no good to him if Cooper, his co-star, did not hold his own. It was characteristic of Walter Brennan to want Cooper not only to be happy making the picture, but a...
The real acting parts go to the character actors. —DANA ANDREWS
The world seemed to turn on Michael’s likes and dislikes—as I learned when I mentioned I was giving a talk about Dr. Johnson at Cambridge. Michael objected to him as though Johnson was just another To...
Then he landed the part of Old Atrocity. For the first time, Brennan brought home a whole script, just as he had promised his family he would do one day. He cried, and as his daughter remembered on Th...
Then we got round to Michael’s health. He’s reached a rather difficult stage, Julie said and began to talk about Michael’s digressions, his seeming inability to get to the point or stay on it. It was...
There is value, too, in showing the rough edges of biography, the stops and starts, in an unapologetic fashion. I wonder if there has ever been a biography that has treated a British political and lit...
To Rio Bravo, Brennan brought his own brand of realism. He explained his reaction to the script to reporter Steven H. Scheuer: They tell me I’m playing a crippled old man who’s got a rifle built into...
To say that Ruth Brennan was at the center of her husband’s life is no understatement. He never disparaged her supporting role, never spoke like some men do of the wife, as if referring to a possessio...
Under contract to Sam Goldwyn for a decade beginning in 1935, he nevertheless saw himself as independent—in part because so many studios used him, and he was not part of the star machine If you’re not...
Ursula wanted to know about how Michael was coping with Jill’s death. Ursula knew that he had a regiment of women looking after him. I told him about Emma, the housekeeper-cook who had been married to...
[CR] This book is about how marriages stay together, even when there are these strains and tensions. [MF] That’s right.
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