Chapter 1
Chapter 1 relies on interviews conducted with Dom DiMaggio, Norman Mailer, William Ryan, Robert Solotaire, now called George Solotaire. (All references to George S. in this chapter are from the Robert Solotaire interview.)
“fed on sexual candy”: Norman Mailer interview. Also, Mailer uses this term in his bio of MM: Marilyn, A Biography.
“I felt as if I were stuck to the flypaper,” Joe told Marilyn: Dom DiMaggio provided many of the details from Joe’s youth in his interview.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 relies on interviews conducted with Tim Jeffries, Robert Solotaire, Shelley Winters.
“Your friend struck out”: Jill Isaacs, “Starlet Marries the Slugger: Nine Months of Turmoil,” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1999, p. 4.
One afternoon Joe joined Frank Sinatra for lunch at the Polo Lounge: The encounter between DiMaggio and the autograph seeker was overheard by then busboy Tim Jeffries.
“He has a big name”: Richard Ben Cramer, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life, p. 23.
“We’re like a good double-play combination”: Randall Riese and Neal Hitchens, The Unabridged Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z, p. 122.
Truman Capote: Author interview with Lester Persky, close friend of Capote’s. Marilyn Monroe also admitted her prostitution to newspaper columnist Earl Wilson. (See Wilson papers at Indiana Library, Department of Special Collections.)
“the unforgivable sin” of posing: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, pp. 70–71.
“You don’t have to be part of it”: Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht, My Story. All dialogue that follows is from the same source.
Richard Ben Cramer: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 328.
“If I die”: ibid., p. 326.
“she’d taped a note to her abdomen”: Lois W. Banner, MM Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe, p. 177.
“all those vultures”: JD would repeat the advice he gave MM to George and Robert Solotaire.
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 relies on interviews with Barbara Anthony, William Davies, Dr. Rose Fromm, Beebe Goddard, Dr. Judd Marmor, Susan Ryder.
“One of my patients”: Dr. Judd Marmor interview. Marmor’s papers are currently housed at UCLA (special collections) but as of 2011 had not yet been available to the public. It is not clear if they contained any notations on Marmor’s dealings with Monroe. There seems to be no record of Marilyn Monroe’s visits with Marmor in his papers at UCLA.
The doctor’s name was Rose Fromm: Dr. Rose Fromm interview. Dr. Fromm kept notes on her meeting with MM, and these notes were made available to the author.
Roxanne Smith (pseudonym).
At age twenty, Jim Dougherty: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, pp. 193–94.
she started to meet: ibid., p. 154.
“I never knew Marilyn Monroe”: Hollywood Couples: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, DVD, 2005.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 relies on interviews with: Truman Capote, Bill Dickey, Dom DiMaggio, Emerald Duffy, Tommy Henrich, Eleanor James, Dario Lodigiani, Phil Rizzuto, Robert Solotaire, Richard Widmark.
“You’d have been better off with Joan Crawford”: Fred Lawrence Guiles, Legend: The Life of Marilyn Monroe, p. 195.
claimed Joyce M. Hadley: Joyce M. Hadley, Dorothy Arnold: Joe DiMaggio’s First Wife, pp. 52–58.
Del Prado Hotel: ibid., p. 62.
They spent Christmas: ibid., pp. 69–70.
Roger Kahn: Roger Kahn, Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love.
Dorothy hired a private investigator: Hadley, Dorothy Arnold, p. 77.
divorce papers: Superior Court of the State of California and the County of Los Angeles.
Richard Ben Cramer: Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 333–34.
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 relies on interviews with Art Buchwald, Truman Capote, Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dario Lodigiani, Lester Persky, Sam Peters, Jane Russell, Robert Solotaire.
The first thing he did: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 334.
Dorothy claimed she knew: There was a series of articles in a variety of magazines, beginning November 10, 1952, chronicling the legal showdown between Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold.
Judge Elmer Doyle: Superior Court in the State of California and the County of Los Angeles.
single: Robert F. Slatzer, The Marilyn Files.
“Good night, slugger”: Jane Ellen Wayne, Marilyn’s Men: The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe, p. 67.
second spat: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 336.
on Christmas Eve: Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, p. 235.
Early one morning: June DiMaggio, Marilyn, Joe & Me: June DiMaggio Tells It Like It Was, pp. 64–68.
They shoved off: ibid., pp. 80–85.
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 relies on interviews with: Paul Black, Bernie Kanter, Joe DiMaggio Jr., George Millman, Doris Lilly, Amy Lipps, Robert Solotaire, Shelley Winters.
Allan “Whitey” Snyder: All references in this chapter to Snyder are from an author interview with Snyder; cf. Snyder interview with Donald Spoto, July 22, 1992, at Marjorie Hendrick Library, Los Angeles.
“wanted to be an artist, not an erotic freak”: Anthony Summers, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, p. 51.
“Marilyn’s the biggest thing”: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 108.
“Café de Paris”: See also James Haspiel, Young Marilyn: Becoming the Legend, p. 84. Haspiel, having interviewed 20th Century–Fox costume designer Billy Travilla, describes a similar scene, also at the Café de Paris.
Ned Wynn: Ned Wynn, We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing up Crazy in Hollywood, p. 80.
Rumpelmayer’s: Interviews; cf. Morris Engelberg, DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight, p. 195.
Baja California: Joe Jr. interview; cf. Robert Huber, “Joe DiMaggio Jr. Would Appreciate It If You’d Leave Him the Hell Alone,” Esquire. June 1, 1999, p. 82; cf. Engelberg, Setting the Record Straight, pp. 191–96.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 relies on interviews with Truman Capote, Dom DiMaggio, Lotte Goslar, Hugh Hefner, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire.
“Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio”: Whitey Snyder interview; cf. Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 148.
members of his staff: Michelle Morgan, Marilyn Monroe: Private and Disclosed, p. 134.
Joe’s thirty-ninth birthday: Summers, Goddess: p. 140.
Alice Hoffman: Morgan: Private and Disclosed, p. 135.
In his autobiography: Elia Kazan, Elia Kazan: A Life, pp. 453–54.
“womanly woman”: Wayne, p. 112.
“I met a man tonight”: Summers, Goddess: p. 56.
“Bewitch them”: Christopher Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 497.
“As you probably read”: Letter from MM to Arthur Miller, January 7, 1954, confidential source.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 relies on interviews with Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Robert Solotaire, Whitey Snyder.
Marilyn looked “radiant”: Spoto, Monroe: The Biography, p. 261.
“I finally did it”: Summers, Goddess: p. 92.
as a gesture of good: Spoto, Monroe: The Biography, p. 261.
“marriage is now my main career”: Kahn, A Memory of Love, p. 255.
“We’re not going shopping”: ibid.
George H. Waple: See George H. Waple Papers, US Army Military History Institute. Waple also penned an autobiography, Country Boy Gone Soldiering, Airleaf Press, pp. 178–80.
“Dad”: the Joe DiMaggio Collection at Public Auction, Item 866.
Sidney Skolsky: Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem, Marilyn Monroe Confidential: An Intimate Personal Account, p. 55.
she knew it was chic: Marilyn Monroe: In Her Own Words, p. 46.
abstract, impersonal concepts: Kazan: A Life, p. 403.
substantial raise: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 362.
Chapter 9 relies on interviews with Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Jim Haspiel, Evelyn Keyes, Hal Schaefer, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire.
“I don’t resent”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 366.
“mob-connected fixers”: Cramer, pp. 314, 405–6, 415–16, 419.
“It’s ridiculous”: Riese and Hitchens. Unabridged Marilyn, p. 287.
became so perturbed: Jerome Charyn, Joe DiMaggio: The Center Fielder’s Vigil, p. 89.
“Dear Joe, I know I was wrong!”: Joe DiMaggio Collection at Public Auction, #884.
“We used a friend’s apartment”: Hal Schaefer interview; cf. Summers, Goddess: pp. 109–110.
“dopey blonde”: Susan Strasberg, Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends.
“We went to the Palm”: Robert Solotaire interview; cf. Engelberg, Setting the Record Straight, p. 250.
He had “the look of death”: Charyn, Center Fielder’s Vigil, p. 90–91.
“Why are you calling me?”: Lotte Goslar interview; cf. Charyn, Center Fielder’s Vigil, p. 91.
Donald Spoto: Spoto, Monroe: The Biography, p. 291.
In response to a barrage of questions: ibid.
“I voluntarily gave up”: UPI press release, October 27, 1954.
An intriguing footnote: interview with clerk of court, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA, May 2010.
“If I get hit”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 370–71.
Roy Craft: Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 300.
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 relies on interviews with and conducted by Truman Capote, Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Jane Duffy, Amy Greene, Iselin Simon, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Susan Strasberg.
Marilyn first met Greene: Spoto, Monroe: The Biography, p. 158
Marilyn Monroe Productions: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, pp. 307–10.
press got wind: Dom DiMaggio interview; cf. Spoto, Monroe: The Biography, p. 306.
“DiMaggio must have driven”: David Cataneo, I Remember Joe DiMaggio: Personal Memories of the Yankee Clipper by the People Who Knew Him Best, p. 98.
to avoid being critical: Completed auction archives, Hunt Auctions, 2003.
“I saw that”: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 501.
“For Dr. H—”: Marilyn Monroe: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters, ed.
Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment, p. 77.
Marilyn demonstrated: Steven Poser, The Misfit (ebook).
Harry Freud: Klaus Kamholz and Peter Swales, “Marilyn Monroe and Psychiatry,” Profil, July 1992.
“People took advantage”: Summers, Goddess: p. 129.
“A Beautiful Child”: Truman Capote, A Capote Reader, pp. 578–89.
In his 1994 autobiography: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 164.
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 relies on interviews with Paul Baer, Gregg Sherwood Dodge, Lotte Goslar, Jim Haspiel, Suzanne McShane, Liz Renay, Liz Rohey, Robert Solotaire, Susan Strasberg, Ruth Warwick.
“There’s no reason”: JD letter to MM, June 24, 1955, confidential source.
“I no longer knew”: Arthur Miller: Timebends, p. 356.
“He seemed rather desperate”: Earl Wilson Notebook, Indiana University Library, Manuscript Division.
Horace Stoneham: Jeffrey Lyons, Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from “The Lyon’s Den,”, p. 110.
“heart-throb”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 505.
Liz Renay: Liz Renay interview; cf. Darwin Porter, Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back, pp. 144–45.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke: Lyons, Stories My Father Told Me, p. 111.
Lee Meriwether: Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 376–78.
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 relies on interviews with Cindy Adams, Maury Allen, Paul Baer, Saul Bellow, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Kurt Lamprecht, Iselin Simon, Robert Solotaire, Susan Strasberg.
“When I tell”: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 275.
“Why the hell”: Joshua Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me, pp. 111–12.
she made herself indispensable: ibid.
Lee Strasberg: Cindy Adams, Lee Strasberg: The Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio, pp. 269–72.
Maury Allen: Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 374–75.
“I guess I was”: Claire Booth Luce, “What Really Killed Marilyn Monroe,” Life. August 7, 1964, p. 68.
“A good marriage”: Marilyn Monroe: Fragments, ed. Buchthal and Comment, p. 219.
flirted with him: Joan’s Show—a one-woman show at the Acorn Theater, August 2011.
“Why didn’t you”: Logan, Movie Stars, pp. 113–14.
“It was something about”: Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 588.
“always been deeply”: Sam Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” Vanity Fair, November 2010, p. 110ff.
Paula Fichtl: Luciano Mecacci, Freudian Slips: The Casualties of Psychoanalysis from the Wolf Man to Marilyn Monroe, p. 9.
“When she left me”: Kamholz and Swales, “Marilyn Monroe and Psychiatry.”
“a garnet-colored velvet gown”: Jeffrey Meyers, The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, p. 141.
“George, sweetie”: confidential source.
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 relies on interviews with Rupert Allan, Paul Baer, Truman Capote, Joshua Greene Jr., Kurt Lamprecht, Lena Pepitone, Delos Smith, Susan Strasberg.
“sophisticated enough”: Meyers, The Genius and the Goddess, p. 103.
“extraordinary child”: Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 507.
“My company wasn’t”: Meyers, The Genius and the Goddess, p. 167.
According to Amy Greene: Marie Clayton, Marilyn Monroe: Unseen Archives, p. 237.
Patricia Rosten: The Patricia Rosten section is based on interviews and correspondence with Rosten, today Patricia Rosten Filan, and her essay “Patricia Rosten on Marilyn,” from the anthology Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by Their Costars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends, ed. Danny Peary.
“I am so concerned”: Sam Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” p. 110ff.
Ernest Hemingway: Lyons, Stories My Father Told Me, p. 111.
Lola Mason: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 376.
“A man and a woman”: Summers, Goddess: p. 172.
“The very idea”: Donald H. Wolfe, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, pp. 307–8.
John Strasberg: John Strasberg, Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, pp. 21–22. In addition to reading his memoir, the author attempted to interview J.S., who declined to be interviewed.
refreshments had been served: Inez Melson, to Marilyn Monroe, December 5, 1954, confidential source.
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 relies on interviews with Paul Baer and Joe DiMaggio Jr.
Thanksgiving break: Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 385–87.
5-5-5: Charyn, Center Fielder’s Vigil, p. 102.
V. H. Monette: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 401.
Chapter 15
Chapter 15 relies on interviews with Rupert Allan, Art Buchwald, Dom DiMaggio, Patricia Rosten Filan, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lotte Goslar, Bernie Kamber, Lena Pepitone, Rob Saduski, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Susan Strasberg, Jack Tilden.
“I’d love”: Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 604.
“Help, help, help”: Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” p. 110ff.
“Had you, dear Arthur”: Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis: The Autobiography, p. 162.
a British journalist: confidential source.
“My first meeting”: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 315.
“Marilyn is a simple girl”: ibid., pp. 317–18.
Chapter 16
Chapter 16 relies on interviews with Paul Baer, Truman Capote, Nancy Dickerson, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Kurt Lamprecht, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Lena Pepitone, Whitey Snyder, George Smathers, Dr. Milton Wexler, John White.
Monroe’s addictions: Bigbsy, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 651.
Paula answered: ibid., p. 626.
Last Year: Poser: The Misfit (ebook).
“Oh Paula”: Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” p. 110ff.
“I could not place”: Miller, Timebends, p. 306.
Chapter 17
Chapter 17 relies on interviews with Paul Baer, Hans Bickel, Joey Bishop, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Peter Lawford, Mickey Mantle, Lena Pepitone, Janet Ramos, Ralph Roberts, Hal Schaefer, Earl Wilson.
therapy sessions: Greenson’s patient notes.
seven-page letter: letter from Marilyn to Greenson in Greenson Archives at UCLA.
“Dr. Kris has had me put”: Spoto, Monroe: The Biography, p. 364.
“Leave the lady alone”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 396.
Miller had taken: Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 1915–1962, p. 518.
Sinatra: Much of the information about Sinatra throughout comes from Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn.
“Dear Dad Darling”: Marilyn Monroe telegram to JD, Completed Auction Archive #27, 2003.
she felt happy: Ralph Roberts interview; cf. Marilyn’s Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death, p. 205.
“I love you, Joe”: telegram from MM to JD, January 1, 1962. Confidential source.
Chapter 18
Chapter 18 relies on interviews with Joan Braden, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Lotte Goslar, Sidney Guilaroff, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Pierre Salinger, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Mickey Song, Donald Spoto.
financial situation: Banner, MM Personal, p. 290. Banner’s figures differ slightly from those derived from current author.
12305: Gary Vitacco-Robles, Cursum Perficio: Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood Hacienda—The Story of Her Final Months. pp. 16–20.
“like a young girl”: Norman Rosten, Marilyn: An Untold Story, p. 107.
“she never came back”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 406.
“Come on in”: Lyons, Stories My Father Told Me, p. 111.
“From the man”: Riese and Hitchens, Unabridged Marilyn, p. 175.
lashed out at: Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham, Marilyn: The Last Take, p. 186.
“a no-good Jew bastard” and hung up on him: C. David Heymann, RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy, p. 307.
Chapter 19
Chapter 19 relies on interviews with Jeanne Carmen, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Amy Greene, Daniel Greenson, Lotte Goslar, Peter Lawford, Richard Meryman, Chuck Pick, Ralph Roberts, Pierre Salinger, Arthur Schlesinger, George Solotaire, Mickey Song, Donald Spoto, Bert Stern.
“deeply paranoid”: Dr. Ralph Greenson Archives, UCLA.
Dr. Eric Goldberg: a pseudonym. The Santa Barbara physician, now in his nineties, wishes to remain anonymous.
Chapter 20
Chapter 20 relies on interviews with Joe DiMaggio Jr., Milt Ebbins, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Lotte Goslar, Kurt Lamprecht, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Mickey Rudin, Whitey Snyder, Robert Solotaire, Donald Spoto, Connie Stanville.
Norman Rosten: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 364.
“I’d moved in”: In an interview with the author, Peter Lawford originally claimed that Marilyn threatened RFK with a kitchen knife; he then revised the anecdote to indicate instead that she threw a glass of champagne at him.
“To be honest”: Mickey Rudin interview; cf. Cramer, Hero’s Life, pp. 411–14.
“Dear Joe”: Gulies: Legend, p. 274.
“Last rites”: Cramer, Hero’s Life, p. 417.
“Marilyn Monroe was a legend”: New York Times, August 9, 1962.
“I love you, I love you, I love you”: Cramer, The Hero’s Life.
The problem: Joe DiMaggio also seems to have discussed this subject with Lotte Goslar, who conveyed the quote to the author, as did Joe DiMaggio Jr.
Chapters 21 and 22
Chapter 21 relies on interviews with Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio Jr., Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Norman Mailer, Robert Solotaire, Louis Wolfson. Chapter 22 relies on material gleaned from the sources listed below.
several hypodermic: Summers, Goddess, p. 147.
“I could count”: confidential source.
“It had to happen”: Arthur Miller quoted in the New York Post, September 15, 1962.
Vincent Marotta: Linda Wertheimer interview.
According to Morris Engelberg: This and most of the quotes in this section are from Engelberg, Setting the Record Straight.
writer Ben Cramer: This and the anecdotes that follow are from Cramer. Hero’s Life.
Chief executive Frank Sacco: Bob LaMendola, “Joltin’ Joe,” South Florida Sun Sentinel, March 9, 1999, p. 1A.
“very, very lonely life for a long time”: Buzz Bissinger, “For Love of DiMaggio,” Vanity Fair, September 2000, pp. 362–376.
“we were from different planets”: This and and other quotations from Joe DiMaggio Jr. come from Larry King interview with Joe DiMaggio Jr. on CNN.
“You know, I never got the words”: Greg Garber, “Joe DiMaggio Jr.: In the Shadows,” Seattle Times, March 21, 1999, p. D-3.
through still in a ponytail: Richard Jerome, “Joe DiMaggio: The Quiet Man,” People, March 29, 1999, p. 110–113.