FOR THE BENEFIT OF fans who wish to find out more about Marilyn’s literary and philosophical tastes, the following is a list of works and people mentioned in this book that she read, studied, performed, admired, or listened to.
A Hatful of Rain by Michael Gazzo
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski
Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence by Bernard Shaw
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski
Bus Stop by William Inge
Captain Newman, M.D. by Leo Rosten
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Damn Yankees by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop
Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (based on the book by Anne Frank)
Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Fallen Angels by Noël Coward
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Focus by Arthur Miller
Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. by Richard Stoddard Aldrich
Golden Boy by Clifford Odets
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
House of Flowers by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Maiden Voyage by Paul Osborn
Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky
“Never Give All the Heart” by William Butler Yeats
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod
The Sleeping Prince by Terence Rattigan
The Smiling Rebel by Harnett T. Kane
The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick
The Thinking Body by Mabel Elsworth Todd
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov
Ulysses by James Joyce
Untitled biography of Albert Schweitzer
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? by George Axelrod
Albert Einstein
Aldous Huxley
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Bertha Spafford Vester
Carl Sandburg
Carson McCullers
Dame Edith Sitwell
Eleonora Duse
Fleur Cowles
Franz Kafka
Greta Garbo
Harold Clurman
Henrik Ibsen
Karen Blixen
Leo Tolstoy
Marie Dressler
Rudolf Steiner
Seán O’Casey
Sigmund Freud
Somerset Maugham
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Mann
Thomas Wolfe
Truman Capote
Walt Whitman
Earl Bostic
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Armstrong
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ottorino Respighi
Tomaso Albinoni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Auguste Rodin
Edgar Degas
Édouard Manet
Francisco José de Goya
Honoré Daumier
Michelangelo
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cézanne