Women in Dark Times (46 page)

 
  
70
    See Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 147.

 
  
71
    Hildegard Knef,
The Gift Horse: Report on a Life
, trans. David Anthony Palastanga (London: Granada, 1972), p. 272.

 
  
72
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 151.

 
  
73
    Ibid., p. 258.

 
  
74
    
Fragments
, p. 55.

 
  
75
    Rosten,
Marilyn
, p. 30.

 
  
76
    Norman Mailer,
Marilyn
(London: Hodder & Stoughton), p. 157.

 
  
77
    With thanks to Richard Eyre for this personal communication.

 
  
78
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 15.

 
  
79
    Donald Spoto, cited in Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 255.

 
  
80
    Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 268.

 
  
81
    Knef,
The Gift Horse
, p. 279.

 
  
82
    Norma Barzman,
The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate
(Kilmarnock: Friction, 2005), pp. 91–2.

 
  
83
    J. Hoberman,
An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
(New York: The New Press, 2011).

 
  
84
    Barzman,
The Red and the Blacklist
, pp. 97–8.

 
  
85
    Ibid.

 
  
86
    Frederick Vanderbilt Field,
From Right to Left: An Autobiography
(Westport Connecticut: Lawrence Hill, 1983), pp. 299–305, cited in Banner,
Marilyn
, pp. 388–9.

 
  
87
    Banner,
Marilyn
, pp. 290–1.

 
  
88
    ‘FBI monitored Monroe for communist links’,
Guardian
, 29 December 2012.

 
  
89
    I. F. Stone,
The Haunted Fifties
, p. 252.

 
  
90
    Ibid., p. 179.

 
  
91
    Arthur Miller,
The Misfits
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957), p. 81.

 
  
92
    
Fragments
, p. 37.

 
  
93
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 14.

 
  
94
    Ibid., p. 4.

 
  
95
    Laura Mulvey,
Death 24X a Second, Stillness and the Moving Image
(London: Reaktion, 2006), p. 11.

 
  
96
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 11.

 
  
97
    
Marilyn on Marilyn
, BBC documentary based on interviews with Georges Belmont and Richard Meryman, 5 August 2012.

 
  
98
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 175.

 
  
99
    All quotes from ‘About Men’, Chapter 21, Monroe with Ben Hecht,
My Story
, pp. 124–7.

 
100
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 205.

 
101
    Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 114.

 
102
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 143.

 
103
    Miller,
Timebends
, p. 326.

 
104
    Miller,
After the Fall
,
Plays
, Vol. 2 (London: Methuen, 1988), p. 181.

 
105
    Steffens,
Autobiography
, p. 833.

 
106
    Ibid., p. 844.

 
107
    Ibid., p. 871.

 
108
    Richard Meryman, ‘A Last Long Talk with a Lonely Girl’.

 
109
    Miller,
Timebends
, p. 467.

 
110
    Ibid., p. 397.

 
111
    Miller,
After the Fall
, p 203.

 
112
    Trilling, ‘The death of Marilyn Monroe’, p. 240.

 
113
    Monroe with Ben Hecht,
My Story
, p. 28.

 
114
    Rosten,
Marilyn
, p. 15.

 
115
    W. Somerset Maugham, ‘Rain’,
Rain and Other South Sea Stories
(New York: Dover, 2005), p. 14.

 
116
    Pepitone,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 179.

 
117
    Somerset Maugham to Marilyn Monroe, 31 January 1961, cited in Banner,
MM: Personal
, p. 186.

 
118
    Banner,
Marilyn
, pp. 211–12.

 
119
    Ibid., p. 131.

 
120
    
Niagara
, screenplay by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard Breen, final script 1 March, 1952; Cindy de La Hoz,
Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archives
(London: Carlton, 2010), p. 37.

 
121
    For a discussion of the importance of this image of women to cinema, see Mary Ann Doane,
Femmes Fatales
(New York: Routledge, 1991).

 
122
    Miller,
After the Fall
, p. 200.

 
123
    Ibid., p. 224.

 
124
    Ibid., pp. 232–3.

 
125
    Miller,
Timebends
, p. 527.

 
126
    Ibid., p. 485.

 
127
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 10.

 
128
    Ibid., p. 14.

 
129
    
Fragments
, p. 6.

 
130
    Alan Levy in Wagenknecht,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 36.

 
131
    Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Georges Belmont for
Marie Claire
, April 1960.

 
132
    
Marilyn on Marilyn
, BBC documentary.

 
133
    
Fragments
, p. 59.

 
134
    Meryman, ‘Fame May Go By’, p. 8.

 
135
    
Fragments
, p. 53.

 
136
    Ibid., p. 57.

 
137
    Ibid., p. 153.

 
138
    Cited in Steinem,
Marilyn
, p. 150.

 
139
    
Fragments
, p. 73.

 
140
    Larry McMurtry, ‘Marilyn’,
New York Review of Books
, 10 March 2011.

 
141
    
Fragments
, pp. 17, 21.

 
142
    Strasberg,
Marilyn and Me
, p. 103.

 
143
    Rosten,
Marilyn
, p. 46.

 
144
    Arnold,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 26.

 
145
    
Fragments
, p. 73.

 
146
    Ibid., pp. 207–13.

 
147
    
Marilyn on Marilyn
, BBC documentary.

 
148
    Cited in Steinem,
Marilyn
, p. 93.

 
149
    Cited in Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 56.

 
150
    Pepitone,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 127.

 
151
    Cited in Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 240.

 
152
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 84.

 
153
    Cited by Simon Callow reviewing
Oliver
by Philip Ziegler,
Guardian
, 21 September 2013.

 
154
    Jeffrey Meyers,
The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
(Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2010), p. 166; cited in Peter Bradshaw, ‘The Magic of Marilyn’,
Guardian
, 10 May 2012.

 
155
    Cited in Steinem,
Marilyn
, pp. 38, 42.

 
156
    Belmont,
Marie Claire
, April 1960.

 
157
    Cited in Diana Trilling, ‘Please Don’t Make Me A Joke’,
New York Times
, 21 December 1986; see also Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, p. 227.

 
158
    Cited in Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 180.

 
159
    John Banville, ‘Do you want me to be her?’
Guardian
, 4 August 2012.

 
160
    Joshua Logan, ‘Can Marilyn
Really
Act? Her director says “Yes!”’,
New York Herald Tribune
, 26 August 1956, in Banner,
MM: Personal
, p. 79.

 
161
    Arnold,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 19.

 
162
    Cited in Banner,
Marilyn
, p. 189.

 
163
    Eugene O’Neill,
Anna Christie
, 1921 (London: Nick Hern, 2011), Act 3, p. 49.

 
164
    Ibid.

 
165
    Rosten,
Marilyn
, p. 76.

 
166
    Weatherby,
Conversations
, p. 59.

 
167
    Pepitone,
Marilyn Monroe
, p. 148.

II: THE LOWER DEPTHS

4. Honour-bound: Shafilea Ahmed, Heshu Yones and Fadime Sahindal

 
    
1
    Faqir, ‘Intrafamily femicide’.

 
    
2
    On acute domestic violence against women, see, for example, Sandra Laville, ‘Revealed: 10,000 living at risk of domestic violence’,
Guardian
, 27 February 2014.

 
    
3
    Lila Abu-Lughod, ‘Seductions of the “Honor Crime”’,
Saving Muslim Women
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013).

 
    
4
    Husseini,
Murder in the Name of Honour
, pp. 158–61.

 
    
5
    Unni Wikan,
In Honor of Fadime
, p. 79.

 
    
6
    Ibid., p. 7.

 
    
7
    Husseini,
Murder in the Name of Honour
, pp. 159–60.