"I love champagne! Just give me champagne and good food and I'm in Heaven and love!"
Marilyn's favourites:
Colours: White, beige, red, black. Especially white.
Authors: Tenessee Williams, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Arthur Miller, J.Salinger, Thomas Wolfe, Walt Whitman, Percy Shelley.
Singers/musicians: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, L.V.Beethoven.
listening to records with Ella Fitzgerald
Actors: Cary Grant, Richard Widmark, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Marlen Dietrich, Eleonora Duso (an italian actress).
with Widmark
a cover Marilyn posing as Jean Harlow
Flower: Roses and delphinimiums.
Pastimes:
Talking on the phone:
reading:
dancing:
singing:
going to the theatre/movies:
cooking:
She didn't enjoy watching TV much and she didn't own a TV set.
Here's a Marilyn quote about cooking:
" For homemade noodles, I roll the dough out very thin, then I slice it into the narrow strips...then the book says: "Wait until dry". We (Marilyn and Arthur) were expecting guest for dinner. The guest arrived; I gave them a drink. I said:"You'll have to wait for dinner until the noodles dry. Then we'll eat". I had to give them another drink. In desperation, I went and got my little portable hair-dryer and turned it on. It blew the noodles off the counter, and I had to gather them all up and try again. This time I put my hand over the strips, with my fingers outspread, and aimed the dryer through them. Well..the noodles finally dried. So they do leave out a few instructions".
Drink: Champagne, preferably Dom Perignon.
Restaurant: Romanoff's
Personal "heroes": Albert Schweizer, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln.
Marilyn holding a photo of Lincoln.
Cuisine: Italian.
Store: Bllomingdale's.
