The last few years
At the end of 1960 he decided to change hiswill . The February 7 1961 under the name of Faye Miller went voluntarily to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic , Psychiatric Hospital in New York. After some time spent within those walls decided to call the former husband, Joe DiMaggio asked him to save her from what he called a prison. With the help of the sport from the actress came out in secret cellar other sources cite or it could simply be transferred to the Columbian Presbyterian ; Other sources still claim that, after spending three days at the Payne Whitney, was transferred to the Columbian for three weeks where he arrived in May. In any case, spent several days together in Florida . Underwent a new surgical gynecology in the month of May: I had previously had one in November 1954 and the last will in July 1962. In the month of June was operated on for gallstonesat the Polyclinic Hospital in New York, the doctor Richard Cottrell was in charge. 's July 11 she was released but was hit by a microphone during the assault of journalists.
Frank Sinatra left permanently in January 1962 Marilyn to announce their marriage with dancer Juliet Prowse to the promise made to her missing some time ago to marry her. At the same time, the former husband to marry again convolved Miller: Marilyn, more experienced emotionally by this news, losing seven pounds lost weight.
He bought a house in Brentwood for $ 90,000, the house was located in West Los Angeles, 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, and it was right at the end of the street. At the end of a driveway in a red sheet, there was the Latin motto engraved surface Cursum or 'end of the journey. " On the house hung a ' mortgage of $ 37,500 that should have been paid on 15 years at City National Bank. He moved to his property in February. The whole house was painted white with the exception of the kitchen where the tiles were red. The floors were covered with wool coming from ' India and the rest of the house reminded Mexico, a land loved by her.
From Rock Hudson got one of the most important awards in his career, the Golden Globe, but at the time of claiming the prize was obvious his state of intoxication, were censored so that the actions of the actress in the award.
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They spent 14 months since his last admission to a clinic in New York and April 23began filming Something's Got to Give , unfinished film, the director was George Cukorwith Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse , a remake of My Favorite Wife My Favorite Wife.The film was scheduled to begin in January, but to combine all of the actress left the holiday months later.
At the beginning of shooting Marilyn became ill 5 days after returning momentarily, April 30 but was not able to shoot the scenes. On May 1 was the third time I showed up on set.He told a few people who was pregnant and had an abortion after 4-6 weeks, did not know the father of the child that could be one of the two Kennedy brothers.
On May 19 at Madison Square Garden , during the celebrations for the birthday of President Kennedy, sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President , thanked John and in the evening, thanks to Marilyn, knew Isadore Miller, the father of Arthur.
The May 23 took many photos of nude in a swimming pool, staying in the water for hours, which worsened his health. At the end of the month again absented himself from the scene for these problems.
Intervened on June 1 at Dodger Stadium ( Los Angeles ): this was his last participation in a public event and was the last birthday celebration. 's June 8 at the repeated absences from the set of the movie was fired.
The plot was then picked up by Doris Day with the title Move Over Darling or place me treasure (1963).
The Last Days
His latest photo shoots were with George Barris , who refused to allow publication of many years and with Bert Stern , the hotel will snap 2,571 photos Bel-Air in Hollywood, during three days of work. The magazine Vogue will select 8 of them then that will be published posthumously. The completed work will then be published in the book Marilyn Monroe The Complete Last Sitting. The August 4 meeting Ralph Greenson , (1911-1979), his psychiatrist staff.
Marilyn had different plans for the future: bought it in 1954 the rights to the film adaptation of the life of Harlow and the day of his death was to meet to discuss his old friend, Sidney Skolsky
Also had been scheduled to play the title This God business and wanted to stage A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams wanted to play the role of Blanche DuBois, who had played in front of the class of Strasberg. At that time, was accompanied by José Bolaños and met during their time in Mexico Frederick Vanderbilt Field .
DEATH AND DEVELOPMENTS
The U.S. death of the actress Marilyn Monroe , which occurred August 5, 1962, has attracted public attention and clamor.
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of his home in Brentwood , in Los Angeles , August 5, at the age of thirty-six years because of an ' overdose ofbarbiturates . The call to police to report the fact was received at 4:25, local time, as subsequent investigations by telephone.
Marilyn's body was discovered by Ralph S. Greenson, the psychoanalyst of the actress. Greenson had been urgently called at 3.30 am as the official version, the actress by the housekeeper, Eunice Murray, who was concerned because she could not enter the bedroom of Marilyn: you could see the light on, but he felt no noise, door was locked from inside. Some believe that the night of his death, spent five hours from the time of death when the authorities were notified. During those hours, Marilyn would have been taken to the hospital of St. John Santa Monica , but the hospital refused to accept the case, the victim's reputation for excess. This uncertain reconstruction, together with the police arrive only at night, over the years has left open a trail of speculation that the Murray could have known more than he then said.
A few days after the death of Monroe, Murray attempted to cash a check for twenty thousand U.S. dollars given to her by the same Marilyn. The City National Bank of Beverly Hills declined to pay Murray, as the news of the death of Monroe was for days in the public domain. In addition to Murray, a widow from the relatively modest means, he left two months later for a cruise to Europe aboard the RMS Queen Mary .The Murray over the years maintained a friendship with Marilyn's agent, Pat Newcomb. Subsequently, Murray (with Rose Shade writer) gave his version of the death of Marilyn Marilyn in the book, The Last Months, published in 1975, The check from twenty thousand dollars that Eunice Murray attempted to cash after the death of Monroe is on display at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in Hollywood .
A formal investigation in 1982 of the Attorney General of Los Angeles County ended without any credible evidence of a conspiracy. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who followed the ' Autopsy (besides his, even those of other celebrities, including Robert Kennedy ,Natalie Wood and William Holden ), wrote in his book Coroner that the death of Marilyn was highly likely a suicide .
James H. Hall was the expert who had to assess the property of Marilyn clothing and personal property estimated at $ 690
OFFICIAL VERSION
The official reported that the housekeeper of the night walking in the hallway he saw the light of the bedroom of Monroe on, knocked on the door but had no answer. It was about 3:30.Soon after, concerned, called the psychiatrist who was treating Marilyn, Ralph Greenson.The latter entered the bedroom in the apartment when the actress was reached while the doctor Hyman Engelberg, came out shortly after, at 4.25, announcing the death of Monroe.These so called the police department of West Los Angeles.
The investigation was entrusted to LieutenantRobert E. Byron . The actress had committed suicide by ingesting a lethal dose of Nembutal, 47 tablets taken with a dose of unknownchloral hydrate
OTHER VERSIONS
Jack Clemmons
To answer the call that night was Sergeant Jack Clemmons . Engelberg had phoned saying immediately that it was suicide. The policeman ran, worried that it was a joke, housing, and the diva in the meantime he called another patrol. The sources agree in saying that he is the first police officer to arrive at the home of Monroe.
Eunice Murray said that around at 22.00 she noticed the light on in the bedroom of the woman, but made no finding is normal, but after he got up again around 24.00 went to the door and knocked but nobody answered. Unable to make contact with the woman, worried she called Greenson, there was a hole of hours that was justified by saying they were waiting for authorization from the Fox to warn the authorities of the death of the actress.
The scene which presented itself to the sergeant was totally confused, in his report described the location where he found the corpse lying face down with the diagonal, covered by the sheet, Greenson said that he was holding the phone when he found it.She told Robert Slatzer that it was an obvious murder, was informed of the facts the police chief William Parker . Some time later in view of the interview that Clemmons would release the journalist Walter Winchell the incident was banished forever.
Thomas Noguchi
Thomas Noguchi was known throughout the world because they only performed the autopsies of celebrities. He began the autopsy on friction at 10:30 on August 5, 1962, the operation lasted five hours turned out to be about 8 mg of chloral hydrate and about half of Nembutal in his blood . He ended by saying that it was a " poisoning of acute barbiturate "wrote in the report, but leaving also" dormant. " He was interviewed many times the incident but found no peace, called for a consultation the toxicologistRJ Abernethy and sent the cards that did not ever arrived, but that were photocopied and filed.
In 1983 he published a book, describing in detail the coroner's autopsies he performed on various celebrities. In October 1985, ABC Eyewitness News say that during the autopsy could not explain the bruises of the woman found near the ' hipand back also stated that the stomach was almost empty and had not found traces of pills inger ite.
James Hall
Among the various eyewitness accounts , there was that of James Hall, driver of theambulance . His statement is placed in the timeline before the police arrived, at around 3.00. As told to Anthony Summers , rushing to a doctor called him and found Marilyn in semicoma, before moving it as required, provided the oxygen with which the diva is shooting. The wanted to bring in a hospital for simple controls but a doctor took the unidentified woman's body and gave her a ' injection intercardiaca that broke a rib . The actress then died before his eyes, and finding no other words described the murder occurred. The injection is also reported by another witness , one of Norman Jeffries, a relative of Eunice, handyman, warned by the relative.
Lionel Grandison
Lionel Grandison was the deputy coroner, the official who signed the death certificate with an indication of suicide. He said later that he had protested vociferously at the time, He was convinced that it was not suicide but murder and that he was forced to sign the certificate , as had been laid. He believed that those signs on the body of the actress who found no explanation could be caused by an injection and that the autopsy report had been altered. He attacked so heavily on his head, the coronerTheodore Curfey accusing him of having orchestrated the whole thing.
John Miner
John Miner was an attorney who had assisted Noguchi during the autopsy, was the first to disagree about the hypothesis of suicide, he noted the violence with which his body seemed to have been treated, leading to write in his report, "I Can Say That it definitely was not suicidal ' later corrected his statements, meaning that it was not an intentional suicide.
Later in the TV program Hard Copy declared that during the investigation were neglected some elements that did not coincide with the theory of suicide.
Eunice R.Murray
Eunice R. Murray (1902 - 1994) was her friend, housekeeper and interior decoratorinterior Marilyn Monroe. According to the official was the first person who became alarmed for the fate of the actress. Ralph Greenson knew a long time since the first year was one of his patients, and it was he asking her to be close to the actress at that time.
During the various testimony changed several times until the version told in the book she wrote, The Last months written with Rose Shade , married name of Rose related to Eunice Murray, published in 1975, although in reality it was in good part of an interview given by a witness in the summer of 1973 . Here he said he had moved the body, clean the bedroom and have washed the sheets and clothes that she wore. He called before the police, the driver of the limo Kautzsky Rudy, as he testified that he never saw the body of 'actress that night, and his son Norman Jeffries. Version also changed with regard to the location where he found the body initially said they had found the body on the ground, and then on the bed in order to make a phone call and again after more naked on the bed.
They were the last days of work of women in what had been fired
Ralph Greenson
Samuel Greenschpoon Romeo (1,911th - 1,979th ), was a famous psychiatrist who was among his patients over Marilyn also Tony Curtis , Frank Sinatra , Vivien Leigh , and others. He was the first to find the corpse, surfaced during the investigation, for his statements, some dark sides of the story:
- He testified that the woman ingested an entire bottle of barbiturates: initially it was not found any trace of water or other liquid container close to the body. It was later found a half-empty glass next to the bed of the actress, even if a failure is recorded in ' hydraulic system reported shortly before by the housekeeper.
- He testified that he broke the glass window of the bedroom of the woman to enter the room, locked, but the traces, the residue of broken glass fragments were found outside the villa and not as it should be in the room, suggesting that the window had been broken from the inside instead.
Around midnight on August 5, Sergeant Lynn Franklin stopped a mercedes black around Roxbury Drive, was traveling at 120 miles per hour far exceed the speed limit.Driving the car there was Peter Lawford, behind which is recognized by the police officer, Bob Kennedy. There was a third person and recognized it when he saw the photos in Greenson. Following an interview for a French documentary which did not mention the name of the psychiatrist.
Bernie Spindel
Spindel Bernard (Bernie called) was a wiretapping expert, who had collaborated several times with the ' FBI . At the time, said to work for Jimmy Hoffa and that he was commissioned to monitor phone calls coming from the house of the actress. He said he had recorded conversations of both Kennedy brothers, but those conversations were seized.
The existence of these tapes was confirmed by Bill Holt , an expert in explosives and the lawyer Michael Morrissey . According to the testimony of Spindel, a call is recorded in the early hours of August 5, where he was clearly a voice that asked if a person had died, as he made the declaration in front of Frank Hogan .
William Graf also denied allegations made by Spindel. Years later, in 1983, when the villa was bought by actress Veronica Hamel , during the small restorations and new installations of telephone cables were found in addition to those normally used.
Assumptions about his death
** Murder committed by security forces, at the behest of the Kennedy brothers (Or only JFK ) to avoid the publicity of their sex. Murder
committed by the Mafia .
He took a large dose of drugs, to attract the attention of the Kennedys, thinking that would have had time to ask a gastric lavage .
committed by the Mafia .
He took a large dose of drugs, to attract the attention of the Kennedys, thinking that would have had time to ask a gastric lavage .
The funeral
Time before he confided to Truman Capote to the universal funeral home during a funeral of the actress Constance Collier that he wanted his ashes were scattered along the sea waves .
May took care of the funeral, which took place at Westwood Memorial Park 's August 8 , 1962. According to Marilyn's half-sister, Berniece Baker Miracle , and from Florida,flew to the West Coast as soon as he received the news, DiMaggio would take care of all the practices and she agreed. He organized everything with Inez Melson (March 3 1900 - July 6 1986 ), trustee of Marilyn. The other ex-husbands attended, but these Slatzer Robert who was not allowed to see the corpse, Greenson with his family, Murray and Newcomb were far away, there were about twenty people.Celebrated by AJ Soldan with the notes of Over the Rainbow ( Judy Garland inWizard of Oz ). The funeral was to be read by the poet Carl Sandburg , will replace Lee Strasberg prevented.
Marilyn is buried in a crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery . He had him buried there as well because it was buried Grace Goddard's aunt Grace - who took care of Norma Jeane for a short period. When his career was taking off, Marilyn asked his personal makeup, Whitey Snyder , to promise that his death would take care of the trick.Snyder said jokingly that he would if his body was brought still hot. A few days later, she received some money and a note: "Dear Whitey, while they are still hot, Marilyn." He kept his promise with the help of a bottle of whiskey.
In one of the periods when Gladys was in a psychiatric hospital, which would have been married to her late husband, John Stewart Eley, who died in 1952 . In the meantime, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia . Finally came out from the nursing home in the early seventies and moved to Florida , where his daughter, Berniece, the was at the airport. He died of congestive heart failure, the 'March 11th of 1984 at a nursing home. Obsessed by the beliefs of the Christian Scientist , refused to talk to Norma Jeane or Marilyn Monroe, perhaps unable to remember the past. Apparently, a woman who had been so fascinated by movie stars to give her daughter the name of an actress, Norma Talmadge , never knew that he had as a child one of the most famous women in history.
When the coroner gave the permission for the funeral of the actress, after the autopsy, his closest co-workers prepared the corpse for the funeral home. Allan Whitey Snyder, true makeup of Marilyn few years, he worked with the 'help of costume designerMarjorie Plecher ( June 10 1925 - October 4 2009 ), the hairdresser of the Fox
Agnes Flanagan and Pearl Porterfield making for the last time her face sparkling with light and color. The head was then fixed on a blonde wig with bangs and smooth that he had led in the film The Misfits . One of his co-worker got that Marilyn wore to the end of the trip a green dress designer Florence Emilio Pucci that the actress had recently purchased. Because, after the intervention of a pathologist, there was no sign of breasts, the bra was filled with cloth. Hugh Hefner bought a grave next to Marilyn for $ 85,000, and the other adjacent to the tomb has been sold for $ 125,000.There are other graves available next door.
Agnes Flanagan and Pearl Porterfield making for the last time her face sparkling with light and color. The head was then fixed on a blonde wig with bangs and smooth that he had led in the film The Misfits . One of his co-worker got that Marilyn wore to the end of the trip a green dress designer Florence Emilio Pucci that the actress had recently purchased. Because, after the intervention of a pathologist, there was no sign of breasts, the bra was filled with cloth. Hugh Hefner bought a grave next to Marilyn for $ 85,000, and the other adjacent to the tomb has been sold for $ 125,000.There are other graves available next door.
The ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio , in the early days after the death of Marilyn, brought in person once a week a bunch of red roses on the grave of the actress, then, for almost twenty years, until 1982 had them delivered by a florist, but only in the birthday celebration. Otherwise it will lay aside Slatzer for life of white roses on the grave.
The Testament
In the Old Testament we read the beneficiaries:
- Bernice Miracle : $ 10,000
- Norman and Hedda Rosten: $ 5,000 (donated in favor of her daughter, Patricia)
- Xenia Karlovna Ziller ( widow of Michael Chekhov ): $ 2,500 each year
- Gladys Baker : $ 5,000 each year
- May Reis (the secretary) $ 10,000 to which was added a 25% budget
- Marianne Kris : 25% of the budget, which was supposed to donate to an organization of his choice
- Lee Strasberg : 50% of the budget which was added the personal property
Lee Strasberg's second wife, Anna , derived much from the goods of the actress Marilyn Monroe and edited the Marilyn Monroe Theater and the Museum
Anna Freud , he created the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic based in London , it was chosen by the recipient body Marianne Kris, the company was also recognized as "the main legatee" of rights due to the image of the actress, obtaining nearly one million and a half dollars a year for several years. Inez Melson, the administrator of the assets of Monroe and the guardian of the mother of the actress, with his attorney Allen Stein contest the will, wanting to demonstrate that the writing was drawn up under the 'influence of Marianne Kris: it was in October 1962. The attorney for New York considered valid will.
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