Milton never believed that Marilyn killed herself—none of her real friends did. “She took sleeping pills,” Milton insisted, “sipped champagne, then forgot how many pills she’d taken.” Toward the end of his life Milton began to think there hadn’t been an accident at all, that there were others involved, but he didn’t know who. Accident or murder, could he have changed things?

“You were right,” he moaned over and over to Amy. “I should have gone to her.”

“All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

MARILYN MONROE

Notes

Chapter One

“‘What the hell’” Joshua Greene, Milton’s Marilyn (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1994), 25.

“Not even a verbal one” Shelley Winters, Shelley II: The Middle of My Century (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 28.

Before Dylan left Ibid., 29.

“Or they maintained an aloofness” Greene, Milton’s Marilyn, 17.

“and it bothers me” Marilyn Monroe and Ben Hecht, My Story (Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006), 175.

“If it’s ever a question” Rita Garrison Malloy, “Marilyn, Oh, Marilyn, Motion Picture, November 1954, 63.

“I’ve never seen anyone” Ibid.

“I’m gonna be the head” Scott Feinberg interview with Amy Greene.

“drive-in hamburger joints” Maurice Zolotow, Marilyn Monroe (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 57.

Chapter Two

“Recently somebody asked me” Pete Martin, Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe? (New York: Doubleday, 1956), 100.

“We both liked to feel” Helen Bolstad, “Marilyn in the house” Photoplay (September 1955).

“I used to make her pancakes” Christopher Nickens and George Zeno, Marilyn in Fashion: The Enduring Influence of Marilyn Monroe (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2012), Kindle edition.

“I’d just get out of the room” Greene, Milton’s Marilyn, 37.

“She was fascinated” Anthony Summers, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Open Road Media, 2012), Kindle edition.

“She said nobody” Ibid.

“Isadora Duncan Week in Connecticut” Ibid.

Chapter Three

“I told her I was afraid” Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage (New York: Harcourt, 2005), Kindle edition.

“The time she came backstage” Ben Gazzara, In the Moment: My Life as an Actor (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004), 72.

“there was nothing cheap” Milton Berle, Milton Berle: An Autobiography (New York: Applause Books, 2002), 266.

“It was fun to watch” Greene, Milton’s Marilyn.

She took his arm George Carpozi, Marilyn Monroe: Her Own Story (New York: Belmont Books, 1961), 8.

“You could win the battle” Greene, Milton’s Marilyn, 44.

Chapter Four

“But I thought” Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons (New York: Vintage, 2012), Kindle edition.

“Well, she said” Ibid.

Chapter Five

“I’m continually off balance” Martin, Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe?, 58.

“When I worry about that” Ibid., 67.

“She’s running around without a top on” Ibid., 14.

“You know, those are the times” Sam Shaw and Norman Rosten, Marilyn Among Friends (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1988), 107.

Chapter Six

Robert Stein found the afternoon Robert Stein, “Do you want to see her?” American Heritage Magazine November/December 2005.

“Eventually the party” Elaine Dundy, Life Itself! (New York: Virago Press), 2012, Kindle edition.

Chapter Seven

“She wanted so badly” John Gilmore, Inside Marilyn Monroe: A Memoir (Los Angeles: Amok Books), 2007, Kindle edition.

“We’re her family now” Ibid.

“aroma of sex” Les Harding, They Knew Marilyn Monroe: Famous Persons in the Life of the Hollywood Icon (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012), Kindle edition.

“Gee, I thought you’d be much fuller” Ibid.

“Remember you can sit” Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment, Fragments (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 81.

“It was like she wanted to trade” Gilmore, Inside Marilyn Monroe, Kindle edition.

“And if they fired her” Ibid.