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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1962 A lieautig Scarred ft; Unhappincm iMarilyn Monroe in site Clark Gable in "The oyer one of her last roles, oppo- Misfits," made late in 1960. There was a light shining under the door jamb. The housekeeper, a plump for-tyish motherly woman, knocked gently on the door and whispered, "Marilyn, Marilyn." There was no answer. The feeling that something was wrong was stronger now. Mrs.

Murray ran out the front door of the house to the windows on the side which open on Miss Monroe's bedroom. Though the window was locked, the drapes were apart enough for Mrs. Murray to look in. What she saw! made her premonition of disaster horrible reality. Marilyn Monroe was lying face down under a champagne colored blanket on her king-sized her nudity partially obscured by the cascade of blond hair around her shoulders.

She looked like a still life por Marilyn and her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, beach in Bellaire, in 1961. Their 1 954 marriage Marilyn with her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, in New York in 1959. This was star's longest marriage. It lasted fom 1956 to 1961. Hooting Owl Mocks Marilyn's Last of Ebbing Life enjoy brief reunion on lasted 9 months.

the press, a police ambulance, Miss Newcomb and a few neighbors who came out of their homes in dressing gowns to see what was going on. It was no secret ra the neigh borhood, one of the swankiest in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, that Marilyn Monroe owned the house at 12305 Fifth Helena dr. She bought the white Mexican style huuse at ue of a dead end street six months ago for around $75,000. She was in the process of furnishing it herself with authentic Mexican pieces. A vine-covered, whitewashed brick wall, with a huge fresh-painted redwood double gate at the drive gives the house com plete privacy from the outside.

Miss Monroe was planning an orchard in the south in the yard Hours behind the pool, flanked by olive and palm streets. All the windows facing the courtyard are barred with wrought iron. The sturdiness and simplicity of the concrete structure and the bar on the front windows caused Miss Monroe to quip to a friend that she bought the house because it reminded ner so much of the orphanages she had been brought up in as a child. The house on Helena dr. was the first the actress had owned herself The police covered the actresses bedroom with large canvas evidence-preserving cloth, while the ambulance men wrapped the corpse from head to toe in a shroud made of a pale blue woolen blanket from the bed.

They placed the body on an ambulance stretcher, and tied it a storeroom, littered with coats, drafting tables and dust The girl who struggled all her life trying to find dignity as a human being was left alone ift the dark in a shed. There was no dignity in her death. She was not without friends nearby, however. Her grand- mother is buried in the small memorial park outside, and Marilyn herself had arranged for the burial of one of her many guardians there. 8:30 A.

M. It was quiet at 12305 Fifth Helena dr. A pipe- smoking policeman was standing guard in front of the house. The gates had been sealed with a paper which officially denied down with leather straps at the feet and waist. 7:30 A.

M. The queen of Hollywood now reduced to a blue-blanketed mummy was wheeled out of her bedroom through the front door of her home, and down the driveway to the gates and past the curious to a point about 50 feet from the house. There she was casually parked until Guy R. Hockett, coroner for West Los Angeles and managing director of the Westwood Village mortjary, drove up in a 1950 battered panel truck. Hockett and an assistant trundled the body into the truck and drove through the silent streets of Brentwood to the mortuary.

My last glimpse of Marilyn Monroe was as they wheeled her into mortuary side entrance, into I as Really Sick' Marilyn Could Find No Peace in Fame 4-s Sir I'm He smashed through a pane of glass, reached in and undid the window lock, then climbed in the window to the bedroom. The psychiatrist immediately determined that the actress was dead. He telephoned Dr. Hyman Engelberg, the actress' personal physician. 3:40 A.

M. Immediately after his examination, Dr. Engelberg filled out a report of death, "pos sibly accidental, pending an au topsy," and notified the Los Angeles county coroner's office, and Mickey Rudin, Miss Mon roe attorney, ine lawyer in turn notified Pat Newcomb, Miss Monroe's publicist and one of her closest friends. Inspector Ed Walker of the Los Angeles police department arrived, siren silent, in a police car at almost the same time as AP Wirepholo with a bottle of sleeping notes. wound up in a New York clinic that treats mental illnesses.

Be fore that, she had sought private psychoanalytic advice. In 1957, she lost her hoped-for baby nearly eight months before its expected birth. Miller said at the time: "Mari-: lyn has a lot of courage, more courage than anyone I have ever met. She is all right emotionally." The actress rose from the depths of a miserable childhood in which she was shunted from one foster home to another to become the movies' top blonde glamor girl since Jean Harlow, who died at the age of 26. The actress is survived by her mother, Mrs.

Gladys Baker Eley, and a half-sister, Mrs. Ber-nice Miracle, of Gainesville, Fla. Her Own Words By JOE IIYAMS Special to The Inquirer HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5. This is how it was at the end for Mari lyn Monroe, the troubled queen of filmdom.

2:55 A. M. (PDT) Housekeeper Eunice Murray awakened suddenly from a sound sleep with the ominous feeling that something was not right. She fought her sleep senses into focus, first listening intently to the sounds of the house. A lone dog was barking nearby and an owl in the palm tree by the pool had begun his nightly hooting.

The feeling that something was wrong persisted, however. Mrs. Murray put on a housecoat and slippers, sleepily noted the time on the bedroom clock and padded down the white-carpeted hallway to the bedroom of her employer, Marilyn Monroe. Sleep Pills Kill Miss Monroe; Death Probed By SEYMOUR KORMAN Continued from First Page Byron after preliminary investi gation. "There is nothing to indi cate definitely that this was sui cide.

There were no notes." Coroner Theodore J. Curphey said a special "suicide team' will be enlisted to help determine if Marilyn's death was suicide or accident. Members of the team are Dr. Robert Littman, a psy chiatrist, and Dr. Norman Far berow, a psychologist.

The latter has written books and case stu dies on suicide. DRl'G STUDY ORDERED "We can make a presumptive opinion that death was due to an overdose of a drug," Dr. Curphey said. "Further toxicological and microscopic studies of the blood and vital organs will be made to identify the drug. "Doctors Littman and Far- berow will make a psychiatric approach to the case.

This will involve delving into Miss Mon roe's personal history. I am par ticularly interested in investigating cases that on the surface might appear to be suicide." Joe DiMaggio, the all-time baseball great of the New York Yankees, who was Marilyn's sec-: end husband, flew in from San Francisco. His sister had heard the news of the actress' death in a radio bulletin in San Francisco and notified DiMaggio. United Airlines held up a flight for several minutes so he could rush here. RECONCILIATION TALK Marilyn and DiMaggio were dt-1 vorced in 1954 after a marriage of less than 10 months.

They had remained friends, had dated again recently, and there had been rumors they mignt remarry. Marilyn's last husband, whom she divorced in 1961, was Arthur Miller, the noted playwright. Her first marriage, when she was 16, was to Jim Dougherty, who is now a Los Angeles policeman. One of the first arrivals at I fit trait of a little girl who had fallen asleep while talking on the tele phone the receiver was still in her hand. Mrs.

Murray, nearly in a panic by then, ran back into the living room, searched through Marilyn's personal telephone book and called Dr. Ralph Greenson, the actress' psychiatrist who lives nearby. 3:10 A. M. Dr.

Greenson, a tall, white-haired man, with a trim white mustache, who looks like the movie version of a psychiatrist, pushed past Mrs. Mur ray at the doorway to the house, and directly to Marilyn's bedroom. Getting no answer, he tried to shoulder the locked door open. Failing that he went into the living room, took a poker from the fireplace, and rushed to house. the window at the side of the would take a ride to the beach but might take a ride nearby if: she couldn't sleep," Byron said.

Then she went into her room with a cheerful "Good night, honey," to Mrs. Murray. In her career, Miss Monroe starred in some of Hollywood's most famous pictures, including "The Asphalt Jungle," in which a bit part brought her fame; "All About Eve," "Clash by Night," "Monkey Business," "0. Henry's Full House," "Niagara," "Bus Stop," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "How To Marry A Millionaire," "River of No Return," "There's No Business Like Show Business," "The Seven-Year Itch" and "The Prince and the Showgirl." Last year, "feeling blue" over her divorce from Miller, she Hariltjn's Story in Success a NEW YORK, Aug. 5 Marilyn Monroe recently said, "It might be kind of a relief to be finished." In an interview with associate editor Richard Meryman pub lished in the Aug.

3 issue of Life magazine, the film star recalled the time when her then-husband, playwright Arthur Miller, was on trial for contempt of Congress. She said "a certain corporation executive" threatened that either Miller would "name names" or Miss Monroe was finished as an actress. "It might be kind of a relief to be finished," the actress said. "It's sort of like I don't know what kind of a yard dash you're 'r 59, a a I Bedroom in which screen beauty was found dead, pills nearby. Police said Miss Monroe left no letter or entrance to any but authorized persons.

The owl had stopped hooting, but in the distance the dog could be heard MARILYN'S studio, 20th Cen-turv-Fov whirh lnnct had put up with Marilyn's delays didn't find her tardiness appealing on "Something's Got to Give." When her work schedule showed that she had put in a total of five full days of work in seven weeks of production, she was fired. Marilyn couldn't understand. "I really was sick, really sick," she said. "My agent notified them I was coming back to work Monday. I really was." True, Marilyn thought she' was, but Fox felt that it would be the same old story again.

"It's something that Marilyn no longer can control," one of her studio bosses said. "Sure, she's sick. She believes she's! sick. She may even have a fever, but it's a sickness of the mind. "Only a psychiatrist can help' her now." HOLLYWOOD is a jungle that makes even the strongest of men insecure.

Marilyn, spawned in insecurity, was shocked into most overnight stardom. Soon she was doing scenes with Sir Laurence Olivier, who had spent years in the repertory theater sharpening the tools of his trade. She was hack to the Actor's Studio in New York, hoping to 1 become an actress now that she already was a star. "I think Marilyn Monroe some day will become one of the great est actresses this country has ever seen," said Paula Stras-berg, hor coach. "She has the sensitivity of a Geraldine Page.

If only I could. lick her shyness. We'll lick it some clay." But Marilyn couldn't lick it. A few months ago the Holly-; wood Foreign Press Association' gave her an award as the world's favorite star. I sat near her.

She gulped wine by the glassful. When her name was called, she had to be helped out of her chair and onto the stage. She accepted the award almost in a caricature of herself. One columnist wrote: "She looked like Edie Adams doing ap imitation of Marilyn It was funny at the time. It's tragic in retrospect.

Moscow Reports Marilyn's Death MOSCOW, Aug. 5 took note today of Marilyn Monroe's death with the following item under a New York date: "The famous American film star Marilyn Monroe died Sunday at Los Angeles at the age of 3G, The official medical conclusion points out that death was caused by an extra large dose of soporific. A Los Angeles official coroner stated that suicide, in Mi opinion, was not excluded." By JAMES BACON Continued from First Page ing me for the county paid me five cents a month allowance for washing all the dishes. There were hundreds of them. "They had kids of their own and when Christmas came there was a big tree and all the kids in the house got presents but me.

One of the other kids gave me an orange. "1 can remember that Christmas Day, eating that orange all by myself. And I could look up and see the RKO water tower. I think that's when I decided that some day I would be an actress and maybe I would get inside that studio. "And here I am.

It's a real dream come true." tp VEN then the other stars in J-J the nicture were comolain i ing about Marilyn's tardiness. She was so affable and likable, however, that is was all passed over. Besides, her name meant something at the boxoffice and the press had discovered her Years later Wald had her in another movie. "Let's Make Love." Her tardiness and sickness added nearly a million dollars to the budget of that picture. The studio bosses were panicky, but not Wald.

"True, she's not punctual. She can't help it," said Wald, "but I'm not sad about it. I can get dozen beautiful blondes who will show up promptly in make up at 4 A. M. each morning, but they are not Marilyn Monroe." Jerry was right.

It might drive a studio to distraction to make a movie with Marilyn, but what came out on the screen was worth it all. SOMETHING else happened on that movie which was later to depress Marilyn very much. thought symbols were those things you clash together! That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing." "I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car.

But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child." "Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And It's really true But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.ll AP Wirpphoto Hand of police officer points to assortment of medicine bottles on nightstand beside star's bed. Police said bottle of sleeping pills was empty. fired Marilyn in June and shelv ed that film because of her frequent absences from the set. She had told the studio she was ill and unable to work.

Her attorney, Milton Rubin, said he had talked to the actress Saturday and she appeared to be happy. "She wanted to see me Monday in my office," he said. "She was hoping to settle her differences with the studio and resume work on the picture." COMEBACK INDICATED Other friends also said Mari lyn's career was on the upswing after a two-year absence from the screen. On a table in her home was a telegraphed offer for her to appear on stage in a new musical written by Anita Loos. Marilyn, no stranger to psychiatric treatment, called her psychiatrist Saturday night only hours before she died.

Detective Byron added that Dr. Greenson had advised the glamorous movie queen to take a ride to the beach. 'TROUBLE SLEEPING' "Dr. Greenson said Marilyn had called him about 5:15 P. M.

and told him she was having trouble sleeping, Byron said. Police estimated that Marilyn had died shortly after she retired for the night at 8 o'clock. The doctors estimated that she had been dead six to eight hours by the time her body was found, Byron said. Byron said Miss Monroe spent most of the day at home Sunday. The last person she spoke to was Mrs.

Murray, her housekeeper. The detective said Mrs. Murray told him that Marilyn talked about her conservation with the psychiatrist. "She said she didn't think she' Shiny Street With Dead End noret, had returned to Paris, It's no secret that Marilyn and Mon-tand saw much of each other off the set. But wrhen the picture was finished Montand went back to Paris and to his wife.

The romance was finished. Miss Signoret acknowledged its existence when she said: "I know Marilyn Monroe loved my husband. I can only say that I admire her taste in men." Later an interviewer quoted Montand: "Marilyn had a schoolgirl's crush on me. She will get over it." This quote, Marilyn told me, hurt her deeply. Later, I relayed this information to Montand while visiting him in his Pans apartment.

Miss Signoret was there, but had left the room for a moment. "I never put it that way," said Montand. "First of all, I don't know the meaning of a schoolgirl crush and no Frenchman would ever make such an un- gallant statement." That picture lost money. And so did Marilyn's next one, "The Misfits." The French actor Yves Mon-tand was her co-star in "Let's Make Love." Marilyn fell hard for him. "Next to Marlon Brando," she said, "I think he is the most exciting man I have ever met." Montand's wh, Simone Sig- They kind of like to take pieces out of you." "I'm one of the world's most! self-conscious people." "I'm afraid there is a lot of envy in this business.

The only thing I can do is I stop and think, I'm all risht but I'm not so sure about them!" "Sometimes I feel I'm fooling somebody, maybe myself." "Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where live." Marilyn's home after her death was her press agent and close friend, Miss Pat Newcomb. "When your best friend kills herself, how do you feel!" Miss Newcomb cried hysterically. SCORNS 'VULTURES' She turned to a crowd of photographers on the lawn and said: "Keep shooting, vuitures Miss Newcomb said she had a quiet dinner with Marilyn at her home Saturday night.

"We were going to the movies this after-; noon. This must have been an, She was in perfect physical condition and feeling1 sreat. She was still planning to do the movie 'Something's Got to: Give, maybe in September." Twentieth-Century Fox studio running, but then you're at the finish line and you sort of sigh you've made it! "But you never have you have to start all over again." Other Monroe views as expressed in the Life interview: "Fame to me certainly is only temporary and a partial happiness But fame is not really daily diet, that's not what fulfills you." "I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something ever took for granted "I never quite understood It this sex symbol I always.