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I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I'm too old and too rich to go through this again!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>*     The moment that face comes on the screen, people drop their popcorn bags, believe me. You can't take away your eyes from her. You can't watch any other performer when she's playing a scene with somebody else.</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="22aa01e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="286" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   </B></I><I><IMG SRC="741d11a0.jpg" border=0 width="209" height="282" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <I>  Marilyn and Wilder </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn? Surely you are referring to Hollywood's Joan of Arc, aren't you? The myth? The legend? The ultimate Sacrificial Lamb?! She was the meanest woman I have met around this town. I am appalled by this cult. It's getting to be an act of courage to say anything but daintly things about her...I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen and that includes Garbo.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn Monroe was never on time, never knew her lines. I have an old aunt in Vienna. She'd be on the set every morning and would know her lines backwards. But who would go to see her?!</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">For what you finally got on the screen she was worth every hour you had to wait for her. How often do you have a face like hers that lightens up the screen? Even with the difficulties, I'd work again with her in a second if she were here. Anyone can remember lines, but it takes a real artist to come to the set and not know her lines and give the performance she did.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">She doesn't need to go to Actors' lab. She was born just as good as she'll ever be-and that's damned good! She should go to Railroad Enginers School and learn to run on time!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Jack Lemmon :</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="2210a2e0.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="302" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>(Marilyn and Lemmon on the set of SLIH)</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">As a director, Marilyn's bent for turning up late, or not at all, would have driven me nuts. But I was only acting in it, and to act with Marilyn was a joy.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Difficult? Yes...But she was a wonderful comedienne and she had a charisma like noone before or since...</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Robert Mitchum :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">She seemed like a lost child</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="223c3920.jpg" border=0 width="195" height="146" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I knew her from the time she was 15 years old and Iliked her. She was a really sweet, marvellous, funny girl. She thought the dumb sexpot role she played was ridiculous. She was bothered by all the attention, and she got upset every time anyone as much as opened a door for her. Every time a director yelled " Action! " she'd break out in a sweat...I mean it. She was scared.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Constance Bennet:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There is a broad with a future behind her.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Ann Baxter:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Wonderfully funny and she looked absolutely lucious- like a ripe bowl of peaches. She was really wide- eyed about everything, and as a result was naturally funny. You know, she really did want to be a great actress; to learn and make up for lost time.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>George Axelrode :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I thought she was a genius. The trouble was, she loved being a film star, but she couldn't act. She was a natural with no technique.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Joshua Logan:</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="225f8c90.jpg" border=0 width="248" height="201" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>(Marilyn with Josh Logan)</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Near genius as any actress I ever knew. She is an artist beyond artistry. She has this mysterious unfathomable mysteriousness of a Garbo.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Otto Preminger:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Directing her was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Sybil Thorndike:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn Monroe's delivery seemed so very strange and I couldn't hear what she was saying. It seemed dreadful and I thought:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>   " Well, if this is the american idea of acting and glamour, I'll just have                            to put up with it for the rest of the film "( "The Prince and the Showgirl"). Then Larry let me see the rushes, and Marilyn's timing and manner were delicious.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Noel Coward :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It is a sad comment on contemporary values that a beautiful, famous and wealthy woman of 36 should capriciously kill herself for want of a little self-discipline and horse-sense. Judy Garland and Vivien Leigh in their different ways are in the same plight. Too much too soon and too little too often.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Montgomery Cli</B></I><I><B>ft :</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="22784d60.jpg" border=0 width="132" height="214" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn was an incredible person to work with...the most marvellous I ever worked with, and I have been working for 29 years.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Ernest Haas :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">All the film who were on the film were misfits - Marilyn, Monty, Huston, and a little connected to carastrophe, Gable not saying much, just himself being Gable. It showed how some stars are like stars in heaven that are burnt out.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>John Springer:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">They treated her as a bubblehead - but she was very bright, very sharp.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Joan Crawford :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I have just come from the Actors' Studio where I saw Marilyn Monroe. She had no girdle on, and her ass was hunging out. She is a disgrace to the industry.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Bette Davis :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn Monroe was a girl who I just knew would go a very- very long way. The men on " All about Eve" disagreed. I'm glad I was right.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Mae West  :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The only girl who came near to me in the sex-appeal department was pretty little Marilyn Monroe. All the others had were big boobs.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Edith Sitwell (friend of A.Miller's ):</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">She has a daffodil beauty, but in repose her face is strangely tragic, I said to Arthur Miller that she should play Ophelia and he agreed.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>George Cukor :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Absolutely unafraid...she'd take on anybody if there was something she wanted. She was intelligent, highly articulate, but she could be imposed on and was.</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="6dee6de0.jpg" border=0 width="230" height="222" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>Marilyn with Cukor and Miller</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Howard Hawkes :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn was just a frightened girl. She never felt that she was good enough to do the things she did. It was hard to get her to come out of her dressing room; when she got out there, it was easy. We had a lot of fun doing "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", but there were a lot of times I was ready to give up. Very strange girl. People wouldn't take her out. And yet she had this strange effect when she was photographed.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Henry Hathaway :</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="7efceef0.gif" border=0 width="206" height="239" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>with Hathaway</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">You don't have to hold an inquest to find out who killed Marilyn. Those bastards in the big executive chairs killed her.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">She was marvellous to work with, easy to direct and terrifically ambitious to do better. And bright, really bright. She may not have had an education, but she was naturally bright.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Joseph Mankiewicz :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The movies and her sudden staggering, inexplicable movie stardom did shape the finish of her, and hurry it. With the fantastic miracle of her career already a shambles ten years ago, can you imagine Marilyn Monroe today, alive - existing as what? Where? How? Think about it.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>John Huston :</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">She seemed in a daze half the time. When she was herself though, she could be marvellously effective. She was not acting - I mean, she wasn't pretending an emotion. It was a real thing.</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="22ea4d10.jpg" border=0 width="164" height="209" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>with Huston and Miller</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Arthur Miller:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">What she wanted most of all wasn't to judge but to win recognition from a sentimentally cruel profession, and from men blinded to her humanity by her perfect beauty. She was part queen, part waif, sometimes on her knees before her own body and sometimes despairing because of it.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn can imply the world in a look.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Eve Arnold:</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="a53ec080.jpg" border=0 width="236" height="264" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>Marilyn with Eve Arnold</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I found myself in the priviledged position of photographing somebody who I had first thought had a gift for the camera, but who turned out had a genius for it.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>(Lucille Ryman-MGM's casting director):</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Under Marilyn's baby-doll, kitten exterior she is tough and shrewd and calculating or she wouldn't be where she is today.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Harry Lipton(agent):</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marilyn has a fantastic quality - it's an elec</B></I><I><B>tricity- she turns on. She brings out the desire in people to protect her, to help her, to mother and father her. It's not a sex  thing at all. She's playing a role - this sex thing.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Lawrence Olivier:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">There were two entirely unrelated sides to Marilyn. You would not be far out if you described her as schizoid; the two people that she was, could hardly be more different..she was so adotable, so witty, such incredible fun and more physically attractive than anyone could have imagined - apart from herself on the screen.</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="2303cd20.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="210" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>with L.Olivier</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Her work frightened her, and although she had undoubted talent,I think she had a subconscious resistence to the exercise of being an actress. But she was intrigued by its mystique and happy as a child when being photographed; she managed all the business of stardom with uncanny, clever, apparent ease.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">(About "The Prince and the Showgirl":) A couple of my Hollywood friends, as a sort of joke after a dinner party, ran this now old picture, "The Prince and the Showgirl". At the finish everyone was clamorous in their praises. I was as good as could be and Marilyn Monroe was quite wonderful, the best of all.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Ann Margret:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I always admired Marilyn Monroe, and I was terribly disturbed that the critics never gave her credit for being a great comedienne. But what good is it to collect accolades post-humously? Why couldn't have they been so nice to her when she was alive and desperately needed their encouragement? She was trying so hard. There is another thing about Marilyn: a lot of women in show business are shells of women, most like soft men. But that lady was so feminine, so vulnerable.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Joseph Cotten:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Everything that girl does is sexy. A lot of people - the ones that haven't met Marilyn - will tell you it's all publicity. That's malarkey. They've tried to give a hundred other girls the same publicity build-up. It didn't take with them. This girl's really got it.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>William Travilla:</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="7a7c0f10.gif" border=0 width="192" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>with Travilla</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I was having dinner with a friend at a restaurant and I saw a woman across the room. She was very thin, and had no make-up on. My friend commented that the woman looked like Marilyn Monroe, and I said, "she wishes! It would take a lot of make-up". Then I heard her laugh. I went over to say "hi!", and she looked at me with no recognition. She was with Peter Lawford, his wife and someone else - a woman. Then, all of a sudden, she said,"Billy!". I left the table very hurt and upset. I was going to write her a nasty letter, but she was dead a few days later. I'm so glad i didn't write that letter.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Richard Avedon:</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="a5e6fa50.jpg" border=0 width="367" height="421" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>Marilyn with Avedon</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="a35fa6c0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="364" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <I>Marilyn by Avedon</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">She gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Tom Kelley:</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="a3684a80.jpg" border=0 width="132" height="168" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I>with Kelley</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c002a00f0cc66ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">I found Marilyn an extremely warm person with a strong desire to do good work and to make a career for herself in the entertainment industry.I considered her a friend.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>