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New Mystery of Marilyn: Her Own Words?
(Times)
Updated: 2005-08-06 13:58
The only known
autographed nude portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe, shot by photographer
Tom Kelly, the image that helped launch her career, shown in this undated
publicity photograph, will be auctioned December 10, 2004 by Profiles in
History in Los Angeles. The photo, inscribed to costume designer Bill
Travilla reads "To Billy, my love Please dress me forever. Love Marilyn."
The photograph is expected to sell for between $20,000 to $30,000.
[Reuters] |
Miner said he took "extensive" and
"nearly verbatim" notes, and only broke the promise years after Greenson's
death, when some Monroe biographers suggested that the psychiatrist be
considered a suspect in her death. Miner recently gave a copy of the transcript
to The Times.
Miner's transcript shows Monroe obsessing about the Oscars, describing a
sexual encounter with Joan Crawford, craving a father's love from Clark Gable,
yearning to be taken seriously as an actress by contemplating doing Shakespeare,
and speaking candidly about why her marriages to baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio
and playwright Arthur Miller ended in divorce.
At one point, she describes standing naked in front of her full-length mirror
assessing the body that captivated the world, knowing that she is slipping into
middle age, and commenting that "my breasts are beginning to sag a bit" but "my
waist isn't bad" and her buttocks are still "the best."
"You are the only person who will ever know the most private, the most secret
thoughts of Marilyn Monroe," she tells Greenson, according to Miner's
transcript. "I have absolute confidence and trust you will never reveal to a
living soul what I say to you."
Miner contends that anyone reading the transcript would conclude that "there
was no possible way this woman could have killed herself. She had very specific
plans for her future. She knew exactly what she wanted to do. She was told by
[acting coach] Lee Strasberg, maybe ill-advisedly, that she had Shakespeare in
her and she was fascinated with the idea."
Miner has shown the transcript to several authors in recent years. In British
author Matthew Smith's book "Marilyn's Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and
Mysterious Death," the excerpts cover the early portion of the tapes, which have
Monroe musing on Freud and free association, orgasms, Gable and her agent,
Johnny Hyde. Seymour M. Hersh included a short reference to the late President
Kennedy in "The Dark Side of Camelot."
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