Women in Dark Times (45 page)

 
  
87
    Pollock, ‘Crimes, Confessions and the Everyday: Challenges in Reading Charlotte Salomon’s
Leben? Oder Theater?
’, Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture, Yale University, 5 November 2013.

 
  
88
    Salomon,
LT,
p. 818; JHM, 4922v (verso).

 
  
89
    Ettinger, ed.,
Comrade and Lover
, pp. 1–2.

 
  
90
    Salomon,
LT
, p. 798; JHM, 4910.

 
  
91
    Salomon, JHM, 5020.

 
  
92
    Salomon,
LT
, p. 677; JHM, 4791, and p. 116, JHM, 4226.

 
  
93
    Salomon,
LT
, p. 275; JHM, 4394 (recto and verso), p. 746; JHM, 4859.

 
  
94
    For example, Salomon, JHM, 4445r.

 
  
95
    Milner,
On Not Being Able to Paint
, p. 50.

 
  
96
    Ibid., p. 38.

 
  
97
    Salomon, JHM, 4929–2, 4930–1, 4931–4.

 
  
98
    Milner,
On Not Being Able to Paint
, p. 92.

 
  
99
    Salomon,
LT
, p. 753, JHM, 4866.

 
100
    Mann,
Doctor Faustus
, p. 186.

 
101
    Ibid., p. 529.

 
102
    Mann,
The Genesis of a Novel
, p. 75.

 
103
    Ibid., p. 124.

 
104
    Mann, ‘Germany and the Germans’, pp. 48, 64.

 
105
    Nigel Hamilton,
The Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann 1871–1950 and 1875–1955
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), p. 333.

 
106
    Mann, ‘Germany and the Germans’, p. 56.

 
107
    Ibid., p. 64.

 
108
    Ibid.

 
109
    Ibid.

3. Respect: Marilyn Monroe

 
    
1
    Susan Strasberg,
Marilyn and Me
(London: Bantam, 1992), p. 23.

 
    
2
    
Marilyn – The Last Sessions
, Channel 4 documentary by Patrick Jeudy, 2008, based on the novel by Michel Schneider,
Marilyn’s Last Sessions
, trans. Will Hobson (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2011). Schneider’s novel was inspired by an article published in 2005 in the
Los Angeles Times
by John Miner, a detective involved in investigating Marilyn Monroe’s death who claimed that he had been played a tape of the sessions by her psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson which he had then transcribed from memory. Miner’s claim has been persuasively contested by Anthony Summers and Lois Banner (Anthony Summers, ‘Marilyn’s Darkest Days Laid Bare’,
Sunday Times
, 29 July 2012; Lois Banner,
Marilyn: The Passion and The Paradox
(London: Bloomsbury, 2012), pp. 419–20). I have no interest in reproducing his most scurrilous claims, which have made these tapes notorious, but I chose to retain this one quote because, although I have been unable to verify it from another source, it seems to chime so closely with the spirit of what Marilyn Monroe did say, as amply illustrated in what follows (see also note 31 below).

 
    
3
    W. J. Weatherby,
Conversations with Marilyn
(London: Robson, 1976; Sphere, 1989), p. 55.

 
    
4
    Ibid., p. 65.

 
    
5
    Ibid., p. 188.

 
    
6
    Monroe,
Fragments
, p. 221.

 
    
7
    Richard Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’,
Life
, 3 August 1962, reprinted in Wagenknecht,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 14.

 
    
8
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 98.

 
    
9
    Thanks to Richard Gott for drawing this to my attention in a letter to the
London Review of Books
, 10 May 2012. In the fictionalised account Weatherby wrote of this relationship,
Love in the Shadows
(New York: Stein and Day, 1965), he also presents it as heterosexual, inter-racial.

 
  
10
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 104.

 
  
11
    Ibid., p. 105.

 
  
12
    Ibid., p. 104.

 
  
13
    Ibid.

 
  
14
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 122.

 
  
15
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 168.

 
  
16
    Gott, letter to
London Review of Books
, 10 May 2012.

 
  
17
    Steinem,
Marilyn
, p. 178.

 
  
18
    Ralph Hattersley, ‘Marilyn Monroe – the Image and Her Photographers’, in Wagenknecht,
Marilyn
Monroe
, p. 63.

 
  
19
    Steinem,
Marilyn
, p. 90.

 
  
20
    Ibid., p. 92.

 
  
21
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 146

 
  
22
    Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht,
My Story
(New York: Taylor Trade, 2007), p. 94.

 
  
23
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 129.

 
  
24
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 45.

 
  
25
    
Fragments
, p. 223.

 
  
26
    Ibid.

 
  
27
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 112.

 
  
28
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, pp. 132, 192.

 
  
29
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p.13.

 
  
30
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 209.

 
  
31
    Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem,
Marilyn Monroe Confidential
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979), p. 17. Lois Banner chose not to use Pepitone in her biography after research uncovered that she did not speak English, nor Monroe Italian. I have therefore chosen to quote Pepitone only where her observations chime unmistakably with those of others or with other remarks Monroe made about herself. With thanks to Lois Banner for communicating her information on this question.

 
  
32
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 91.

 
  
33
    Ibid., p. 93.

 
  
34
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 9.

 
  
35
    Arthur Miller,
Timebends:
A Life
, 1987 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 367.

 
  
36
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 11.

 
  
37
    Robert E. Goldberg, ‘When Marilyn Monroe Became a Jew’, as told through her rabbi’s newly released letters,
Reform Judaism
, Spring 2010, p. 18. My thanks to the editors of
Reform Judaism
for sending me this article.

 
  
38
    Strasberg,
Marilyn and Me
, p. 79.

 
  
39
    Ibid., p. 76.

 
  
40
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 189.

 
  
41
    Monroe with Ben Hecht,
My Story
, p. 37.

 
  
42
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 75.

 
  
43
    I. F. Stone,
The Haunted Fifties 1953–1963
, preface by Arthur Miller (New York: Little Brown, 1963), p. 5.

 
  
44
    
Fragments
, p. 221.

 
  
45
    Steinem,
Marilyn
, p. 99.

 
  
46
    Carl Sandburg,
Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years and the War Years, 1925–39
, 6 Vols, Vol. 3,
The War Years 1864–1865
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939), p. 875.

 
  
47
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 131.

 
  
48
    
Fragments
, p. 228.

 
  
49
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 26.

 
  
50
    Stone,
The Haunted Fifties
, p. 5.

 
  
51
    Ibid., p. 7.

 
  
52
    Ibid.

 
  
53
    Lincoln Steffens,
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
, 1931 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1938), Vol. 2, pp. 402–3.

 
  
54
    Ibid., p. 494.

 
  
55
    Ibid., p. 588.

 
  
56
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 89.

 
  
57
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, pp. 8–9.

 
  
58
    Sarah Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
(London: Granta, 2004), p. 246; see also Barbara Leaming,
Marilyn Monroe
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), pp. 190–3.

 
  
59
    For details see Peter Brown and Patte B. Barham,
Marilyn: The Last Take
(New York: Dutton, Signet, 1992), p. 266, cited in Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 287.

 
  
60
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 57.

 
  
61
    Theodore Dreiser,
Sister Carrie
, 1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 417.

 
  
62
    Monroe with Ben Hecht,
My Story
, p. 119.

 
  
63
    Goldberg, ‘When Marilyn Monroe Became a Jew’, p. 20.

 
  
64
    
Fragments
, p. 221.

 
  
65
    Monroe with Ben Hecht,
My Story
, p. 121.

 
  
66
    For a full discussion of the alterations to and publication of this text, see Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, pp. 86–7, 112–16, but see also Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 229. I am inclined to go with Banner on this.

 
  
67
    Mary McCarthy,
The Group
, 1963 (London: Virago, 2009), p. 240.

 
  
68
    Diana Trilling, ‘The death of Marilyn Monroe’,
Claremont Essays
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1965), p. 240.

 
  
69
    Berniece Miracle,
My Sister Marilyn
(Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1994), p. 50, cited in Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 78.