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MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1962 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR SECTION A PAGE FIFTEEN MM N6V6r qurence OI'vfer Comments Chayefsky Film Was Based On Lost Hope Marilyn Was Victim Actress Was Film Symbol Marilyn's Life NEW YORK, Aug. 5 UP) Marilyn Monroe's life story For Bliss was said to have been the basis for a 1957 movie, 'The Of Movies' Ballyhoo Goddess, in which ironically enough the heroine has a bottle of sleeping pills in her hands just before the final He was in a squad car patrolling the north LONDON, Aug. 5 UP) Sir Laurence' 1 Marital Happiness Remained Her Dream HOLLYWOOD, Aug. But Publicity Was Her Undoing By BOSLEY CROWTHER 196J New York Times News Servlct Hollywood area when reached. Only 10 miles of mountains separated his beat from Brentwood where Marilyn died.

fadeout. Olivier Sunday night blamed Hollywood for making Marilyn Monroe "the complete victim of ballyhoo and sensation." The Paddy Chayefsky 5 W) Thrice-wed Marilyn Monroe never really lost her 'Popular opinion and all that goes to Dean Martin, who was her co-star on the NEW YORK, Aug. 5 For screenplay told of a beautiful girl with a sorry home life who grows up in the depres dream of marital happiness. ill-fated "Something's Got To all her acknowledged ability promote it is a horrible unsteady conveyance for life and she was exploited beyond anyone's means," the famous British actor "I just can't believe it. She was a wonder Only last February she told an interviewer in Mexico as a screen comedienne and, indeed, as an apt dramatic ful and warm girl.

I was anxiously hoping that we would finish the picture together." sion years, bhe feels so insecure she marries, at 16, the first man who gives her a City: said in commenting on her death in Holly actress in roles of a particular "I'm keeping my eyes wood. sort, Marilyn Monroe was not NEW YORK Marilyn Monroe's sudden second look. Olivier played with Marilyn in "The Sleep generally regarded as an ar open. Marilyn was there on vaca She leaves him, goes Holly ing Prince," her first British movie. death brought deep expressions of grief from a famous New York theatrical couple who tion.

She said she was happy Another British star, pop singer Frankie wood, becomes a screen sex bomb, makes millions of dol tist submerged in her art. She was popularly looked upon and thought of as a lustrous that her last spouse, Playwright Arthur Miller, had Vaughan, also asserted the promotion of Miss Monroe's career had a link with the knew her very well and through whom she met her third husband, Arthur Miller. lars, buys a showplace-type mansion but isn't haDDv. free body that floated above and only occasionally came in Lee J. and Paula Strasberg, mentors of She can't find herself.

She winds up an emotional "I learned a lot from him and I'm glad. I wish him the contact with the artistic ele ment of the screen. wreck Who has a bottle of state of mind that led to her tragic and premature death. "Hollywood has got to carry the can for this," he aid. "They built her up as a star, but forgot to build her as a human being.

Poor Marilyn, she was always acting a part the famed Actors Studio, had given Miss Monroe acting lessons, flew to her side in time of trouble, and were known to be among her closest friends. They said: best, she said. Although each of her mar- sleeping pills in her hands at the movie's end. riaees had failed, she said "I Its difficult to speak publicly on this too much. Don't Be haven't given up." Miss Monroe's first mar The persistence of this image of the exceptionally lovely movie star could be explained by the fact that she was more a symbol than an artist, in the common view.

Millions of ardent movie goers Vauehan played opposite Miss Monroe in occasion, ror us, Marilyn was a devoted friend, a colleague and a member of our family. We shared her pain and some of her joys. It is difficult to accept the fact that "Let's Make Love," in Hollywood two years riage, to James Dougherty, a SKINNY ago. In Rome, Italian film actress Gina Lollo-brieida said she hoped it was not the movies her zestful life has been ended. and even people who had never seen her, all over the "She was planning for the future and II I skinny, thin and underweight because of poor appetite or poor eating hafc-ita take Wate-On.

It a rich in weight building caloriea that killed Miss Monroe. 5ne aeciarea tne world movie industry "had suffered a grave expected to fly in next weekend. In her eyes and ours, her career was just beginning and she was looking forward to participating world, were impressed with the well-established notion of a voluptuous and frivolous It 3 loss." "I met Marilyn Monroe several years ago, in many exciting things which were planned. Marilyn Monroe. added the Italian actress, "and she con Mention her name or at quered me with her beauty and her sensi' bility as an actress.

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Satisfaction from first trial or money back. initials M. M. and the image "Marilvn was in love witn ner proiession She worked with profound passion her MILLER DIMAGGIO of the shapely, soft, blonde charmer would seductively swim into mind. It was not main characteristic was her extreme sensi Now it is all at an end.

Actress Edie Adams, who often imitated Marilyn on television, said: "I just feel terrible. Marilyn and I were good friends. She often called to talk over her problems with Ernie and me." She was referring to the late comedian Ernie Kovacs who was killed in an auto crash last Jan. 13. PARIS French writer Jean Cocteau blamed Marilyn's death on excessive Remember? bility.

Her principal preoccupation certainly was not money or notoriety, but the creation the vision or thought of vwy merchant sea- man, tooki place when she II! TViatr of a true work of art. sKinrui actress of the sort that the screen has often Marilyn Monroe was caught in this pose when she went io Korea In 1954 to entertain HOLLYWOOD "Pat (Kennedy) and I nourished a glowing star was io. were divorced in 1946. loved her dearly. She was a marvelous, warm sucn as oreta Garbo or Kath American troops stationed" there.

Miss Monroe, 36, was found dead Sunday in her home In Brentwood," a Los Angeles suburb. (AP Wirephoto) arine Hepburn or Vivien human being. Vwht vears I Leigh. It was the image of Thus spoke Peter Lawford, brother-in-law feminine allurement com of President Kennedy Sunday when he pounded of the silver-blonde learned of the death of Marilyn Monroe. later, in 1954, she wed baseball's all-time great, Joe Di-Maggio.

But 3699 E. BROADWAY EICON SHOPPING CENTER EA 7-7392 tresses, the wide-eved stare "This atrocious death will be a terrible lesson for those whose principal occupation consists in spying on and tormenting the film stars," he commented, adding: "I did not know her (Miss Monroe) but I am very sad because she had very much talent. Many young girls who dream of becoming stars should understand that their life is not like a fairy tale." And from everywhere came condolences MONTGOMERY WARD From police officer James E. Dougherty, me pouting lips, the babv-talk who was Marilyn's first husband when she DurDie in a nusky sme-sone iiJ PttS DOUGHERTY was 16: voice ana tne remarKably we "I'm sorry." Lunsiruciea Doay mat were VCI11U1C iaoi-vu only nine months. the physical attributes of Miss Monroe.

Tss than two years later. Ho prlt lilt Wordi tok prit! Ami tttardt uvinst boo The irony of this oomilar In 1956, she tried again. But tVii marriatre too ended in Marilyn Monroe Found image was that it tended to or WBr.ii on urifoj for room or on ontit ewl obscure in an excess of sheer sex symbolization the certain divorce last year. Playwright Miller married Ingeborg Mo-rath, an Austrian-born photog- skills and competences of the mnfcpr. in February of this Dead At Her Home star.

Although Miss Monroe nrtniA novpr rpmarriea from a bad angle, and her was not a brilliant actress with extensive creative skills, nor indeed was she an altogether fluid and finished and had been linked roman- (Continued from Page One) Monroe saga how she was placed in a Los Angeles orphanage, how she later was pinup photos sped to armed KCSSSS happy about that posi- forces around the world. Her bility. shunted from one foster home to another, beaten by studio press agents once ery Special myi nenine spreads II I any Intentions cf remarriage But thev remained friendly ThA actress had been de comedienne, she did bring to motion pictures a distinct personality and an ability to project a striking luster and a nressed since she was fired i iUa He was reported en route to wniivwriorl after hearing of argued that she would look good even in a potato sack and photographed her in one. from the turn in June dv me some of her new parents, adored by others. One family were strict religionists who threatened rich teminine quality.

iwiij her death. li -1 1 1 studio where she rose to fame, 2fith Centurv-Fox. In a curi FULL OR TWIN SIZE "Which of your marriages When it was revealed that she had posed in the nude ous throwback to her early fame as a calendar girl, sne was the happiest' a news man nnrp. inauired. for calendar art during her had performed a nude swim hungry years, she feared the her with eternal damnation if she ever smoked, drank or swore.

Another foster father was a tipsy English actor who introduced her to a wild kind "The last two," Marilyn ronlipH ming scene tor tne mm 99 news would destroy her ca reer. Far from it. The revela The studio dismissed her Asked what she didn't like and sued for $2 million dam tion only added to her legend of life. She scrubbed floors about men, the actress sam. "Nothing I can think of.

and in later years she hap when she was 5. she was ages. It claimed she was ma-linoprino She said she had pily autographed copies of uu6.i."0. i ir nn lato crimp the pose, which had been taunted with cries of "orphan!" by other children. "How did I get through it?" she wondered in later years.

A "IS. printed millions of times. flCT times by hours, was not un-VLfffdlffJl mmmnn to Marilvn. She al- Psychiatrist Mainly it was Marilyn her hefnre had been for seir wno sailed her career This was not by any means entirely vulgar, as some observers of the Monroe image would have it seem, nor was it a mere emanation of sex suggestiveness. The Monroe personality as established and developed over the years was that of a generous young woman, healthy, good-humored, full of warmth and eager for honest self-improvement, despite intellectual limitations and crudities.

It was a highly potential personality, apt for satire as well as for farce and open, it seemed, for extension into drama and tragedy. But the pathos of her situation was that she too soon became a glowing and glorious Galatea of the tyrannical movie medium. From her first minor, memorable appearances in "The Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve," she was "Or maybe it wasn't really so bad? Maybe I just took it given for tardiness Was Called ahead. She sparkled in inter all too hard?" In recent weeks there had views, tossing off wisecracks She learned early that she been reports the film might that were quoted everywhere iti rpsume. with Miss Monroe When asked what she had llr.V- By Marilyn nlavine opposite Paul New was attractive.

The men and the boys she met in the foster homes impressed her with on when she posed for the man. Her original co-star, calendar, she replied: "The to Dean Martin, was unavail radio." LIMITED QUANTITIES Where or when have you seen handsome chenille bedspreads of this quality at this tiny price? Choose richly tufted hobnail or rippling patterns In washable, no-iron cotton. Favorite colors. Buy now. (Continued from Page One) 3 able.

Asked if she enjoyed sun unusual," the detective quoted baths, she commented, "No No word came from Miss Monroe during the stormy that. Seeking escape, she entered a hasty wartime marriage at 16 with an aircraft worker named Jim Dougherty, now a Los Angeles policeman. When he went Into the like to feel blonde all over. the housekeeper as saying. Rut.

the housekeeper awak weeks following her firing Marilyn's value as a movie ened, apparently involuntarily, at a a.m. and became con Her sole appearance in draw caught up with her pub nrint was a (Life) magazine lcity in films like "Niagara. 11V Y.W7 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' cerned when she saw the light still on in the bedroom. She triprl the door but it was fashioned into the female image that was soon flashed and "How to Marry a Mil Merchant Marine, she got a job as a paint sprayer in a war plant. Their marriage was never resumed and she got a divorce in 1946.

as a symbol around the world lionaire." locked. Striking at once as a "dumb Now she was on top, and "Somehow, it didnt seem rinht. It seemed strange and She was developing into an blonde" of the sort that gen tlemen prefer, she was nur she was to stay there unti article released this week. She didn't discuss the contract dispute, but she did reveal some of her inner turmoil. Of the stresses of fame she said: Everybody is always tugging at you.

They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. They kind of like to take niprps out Of VOU. I don't her death Sunday. Every tured, promoted, expanded SAVE! regular 4.98 thing she did was news, every unusual," the housekeeper said. "I went outside and looked in the window and saw Mic Monroe lvina on the unusually attractive young woman.

A photographer recognized this and took some shots of her at the war plant. and generally contained with facet or her personality was in tnis.roie. Mie was given analyzed. Her paralyzing the big glamour build-up, the bed. That's when I called Dr, This lead to a modeling i i BUOYANT FOAM LATEX PILLOW tardiness drew special atten kind of romance-publicity that tion.

has always been a part of the calculated commerce and con course in wnicn sne learnea to bleach her brown hair, lower her voice and smile. But Greenson. think they realize it, but it's Byron said when he arrived Hke Qm do thiSi Rrr do that; shortly afterwards, rigor mor- But dfJ want t0 stay jn. ihe couldn be on time She might keeD an inter us uau anvwwj act intaci anu vn iwu icci sequent culture of the screen. She was made to become a part of the image, and as the each viewer waiting an hour or two while she was in the next room, combing her hair again and again.

When she image grew into a symbol a the teacher failed to correct her curious, double-jointed walk, and it was later to help build her fame. Her success as a model brought the inevitable movie offers. She took one at 20th as well state here and now, bottles on a bedside stand. standardization there is no telling how much she allowed herself and her own life to be finally got the nerve, she Some had prescription laoeis "TVin would burst out with a warm I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden on ttipm.

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18x26" finished size. Her tardiness on movie sets Century-Fox, where talent scout Ben Lvon gave her a The dismal background and scription for nemDuiai, a grew worse as her career The end of her life was new name. Bvron said Dr. Engelberg maruP(4 inausniciouslv. A cor- frequent tempests of her life were discovered and exposed as fodder for popular curios progressed.

She drew the enmity of director Billy Wilder and co-star Tonv Curtis said he had re-filled the nem- oner-s representative covered Her first film was "Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay," and she had one line: "Hello." It was butal prescription two days ity, not to explain her artistry her body with a simple blue or, at least, her early ac cotton blanket and put in it for her continued lateness on "Some Like it Hot." later cut. In our last interview be knowledged and no doubt the cargo space of his blue station waeon. He drove to Clark Gable's widow said sincere pretensions to same. Her marriages, divorces, exhi a mortuarv in nearby West fore she was fired from "Something's Got to Give," she recalled those early days: wood Village, and later her body was taken to the county much of the strain on his last film, "The Misfits," was due to his waiting for Marilyn to appear on the desert I 1 1 bitions of temperament were widely publicized, phers, not the critics, to calculate what it did to her. morgue.

ALE! sheet blanket "I was fired from Fox at 22 and fired from Columbia at 23. They told me I should Marilyn's beginnings were humble. She was born illegiti go home. I told them I WAS mately in Los Angeles County As with so many movie stars before her, in the days when glamorization was more intense and more consistent home: I lived here! General Hospital on June KING-SIZE BLEACHED COTTON Her firing from "Something's Got to Give" was the first time any studio had taken disciplinary action against her. Studio aides said 1926.

Her mother was a ago with 50 pills. Marilyn's body was taken to the county morgue, where it was placed in Crypt 33. Her weight was listed at 117 pounds; height 65 '2 inches; hair blonde and eyes blue. The most famous blonde of a movieland era also was given a number Coroner's Case No. 81128.

Miller Declines Public Statement WOODBURY, Aug. (Playwright Arthur Miller declined to make a public statement Sunday about the tragic death of his ex-wife, motion picture star Marilyn Monroe. She giggled and continued: "Then came 'Asphalt Jungle' and "All About Eve." (Darryl) movie cutter named Gladys Baker. Her father was a hand-s Danish immigrant with the social environment than it might seen in this sophisticated age, Miss Monroe was a victim, as well as Zanuck signed me to a con named Edward Mortensen Reg. 2.98 she would appear in the morning for her makeup call, then stay in her dressing room until late morning.

tract because he decided I had a third dimension and this was before 3D. He a gainer, from the publicity He disappeared before ,3 each Mari vn was born and was aggrandizement of her job. It remains for the philoso thought it had something to do with sex, but he wasn't She would appear for about an hour's shooting, then after lunch might not appear at all, sending word that she was sure what it was." Not just an ordinary blanket, but famous Treasure Chest brand. Extra wide, extra long for comfort plus The Monroe buildup was WOMEN BOWLERS one of the greatest in Holly ill. Wards extra big savings this week only.

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The campaign came reported to have been killed in a motorcycle crash in Ohio in 1926. Marilyn's mother suffered a nervous breakdown after Marilyn was born and has spent a lifetime in and out of mental institutions. Her two parents died in asylums. Out of Marilyn's childhood she was born Norma Jean Baker came the fears that were to haunt her later life. The facts became part of the Every Morning Afternoon LADIES' LEAGUES Low Averages Beginners Diamond Pin Lanes E.

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