Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

‘She did originate something. She was the first person I know of who was truly unconventional. She was a sixties person before it started—way before it started—like ten years.’
—ARTHUR MILLER

Marilyn Monroe Pictures
‘I saw that what she looked like was not what she really was, and what was going on inside was not what was going on outside, and that always means th

‘She did originate something. She was the first person I know of who was truly unconventional. She was a sixties person before it started—way before it started—like ten years.’
—ARTHUR MILLER

Marilyn Monroe Pictures
‘I saw that what she looked like was not what she really was, and what was going on inside was not what was going on outside, and that always means there may be something there to be worked with. It was almost as if she had been waiting for a button to be pushed, and when it was pushed a door opened and you saw a treasure of gold and jewels. She was engulfed in a mystic-like flame, like when you see Jesus at the Last Supper and there’s a halo around him. There was this great white light surrounding Marilyn.’
—LEE STRASBERG, MONROE'S ACTING TEACHER

‘Oh, yes, there is something there. She is a beautiful child. I don’t think she’s an actress at all, not in any traditional sense. What she has—this presence, this luminosity, this flickering intelligence— could never surface on the stage. It’s so fragile and subtle, it can only be caught by the camera. It’s like a hummingbird in flight; only a camera can freeze the poetry of it. But anyone who thinks this girl is simply another Harlow or harlot or whatever, is mad. I hope, I really pray, that she survives long enough to free the strange lovely talent that’s wandering through her like a jailed spirit…’
—CONSTANCE COLLIER, MONROE'S ACTING COACH

‘You’re right about her not being easy to know. One sees her with intensity—sees her more than one sees almost anyone; but then one discovers that that isn’t knowing her.’
—HENRY JAMES "The Wings of the Dove"
‘I can’t tell the whole story…Talk to Robert Kennedy.’
—DR RALPH GREENSON, MONROE’S PSYCHIATRIST

"...twenty years later, in 1982, the Los Angeles District Attorney reopened inquiries into a case that had never ceased to be the subject of rumor and controversy. His brief was limited. Was there sufficient evidence to open a criminal investigation? Could Monroe have been murdered? After four months the DA was advised that the evidence ‘fails to support any theory of criminal conduct.’ This, though, had been only a ‘threshold investigation.’ It was indeed; the investigators did not even interview the detective who attended the scene of the death[...]The 1982 report acknowledged that ‘factual discrepancies’ and ‘unanswered questions’ had surfaced during the Monroe inquiry. Privately, officials today make it clear that they felt they had stumbled into a morass of untruth and obfuscation. Marilyn Monroe may, they surmise, have died by her own hand. Yet they feel something was indeed covered up in 1962."

"‘I got a call from Joe Schenck. He said, “I’m indebted to her, and if you can give her twenty-six weeks, I’d appreciate it.” I went to see Harry Cohn, and he said, “Well, if he needs it that bad, give it to him. Put the girl on.”’ Amy Greene, Marilyn’s close friend in the mid-fifties, said, ‘She did give me the impression she slept her way to her start.’ Marilyn talked of this time, said Greene, using an obvious allusion: ‘I spent a great deal of time on my knees.’ The final word on this subject should be Marilyn’s. When British writer W. J. Weatherby asked her whether the stories about the casting couch were true, she responded, ‘They can be. You can’t sleep your way into being a star, though. It takes much, much more. But it helps. A lot of actresses get their first chance that way. Most of the men are such horrors, they deserve all they can get out of them!’"

"‘People tried to make me into a lesbian. I laughed. No sex is wrong if there’s love in it.’ Earlier, speaking of her life in 1948, she said the sexual side of relations with men had so far been a disappointment. ‘Then it dawned on me,’ she said, ‘that other people — other women — were different than me. They could feel things I couldn’t. And when I started reading books I ran into the words “frigid,” “rejected,” and “lesbian.

At the Actors Studio, in NYC, Marilyn would appear in baggy sweater and jeans, without makeup, and seek out the most obscure place in the room. Actor Kevin McCarthy hardly noticed her at first, as they sat side by side watching a badly acted scene from Chekhov’s Three Sisters. When he did recognize her, he observed Marilyn’s disconcerting ability to switch her Monroe persona from ‘off’ to ‘on,’ from obscurity to the white light of Strasberg’s perception. ‘This tousled piece of humanity was sitting on my right,’ McCarthy remembered, ‘looking like nothing. Then, fifteen minutes later, after I’d interrupted the scene with some fairly rude comments, I looked again. I realized that a breathing, palpitating Marilyn Monroe had developed out of that nothing … I remember looking and thinking, “My God, it’s her” — she’d just come to life.’

The Many Faces Of Marilyn:



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Marilyn with Joe DiMaggio:


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Marilyn with Arthur Miller:



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Marilyn with Marlon Brando:

Marilyn with Ronald Reagen

Marilyn with Robert Mitchum on set:

Marilyn with Clark Gable:

Marilyn with Lee Strasberg: (Acting Coach Two)

Marilyn With Johnny Hyde

The only surviving image captured by a lens of Marilyn with Bobby Kennedy, The Attorney General, along with Jack, his brother, The President Of The United States. Notice Harry Belafonte in the background:

Ratpackers
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Frank Sinatra with John F. Kennedy:

The Kennedy Brothers:

Peter Lawford, his Kennedy wife Pat, Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe at Lawford's beach house, a few doors down from Marilyn's home:

Drinking


Three Of The Last Friends To Talk With Her: Brando, Bolanos and Lawford
Marlon Brando

Marilyn with José Bolanos:

Marilyn Monroe and José Bolaños Pictures
Marilyn Monroe—Addict? Jilted Lover? National Security Risk?
The Funeral—Her casket flanked by Joe DiMaggio who assumed the care and custody of Marilyn's body:

Her Crypt