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Fragments_ Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters - Marilyn Monroe [22]

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moved to New York, he helped her move toward a more intellectual and cultured way of life. In spite of the disapproval of both the studios and her own circle, Marilyn courageously stood by Miller’s side during his House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. Marilyn also met Saul Bellow through Arthur Miller.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975)

He never met Marilyn Monroe, but a year after her death in 1963, he wrote an elegy to her, which was recited as a voice-over during a montage sequence in his film La Rabbia, with Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor as background music. He wrote, “You, little sister, had that beauty humbly bestowed on you, and your soul born from modest people never knew how to own it, for it would not be beauty otherwise. The world first taught it to you, and so took your beauty as its own.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

Marilyn and the American poet met on the film set of Some Like It Hot in 1959. She was a great fan of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. They communicated mostly by phone, but there are photos of their joyous meeting at Irena and Henry Weinstein’s home in January 1962. He wrote about her, “She was not the usual movie idol. There was something democratic about her. She was the type who would join in and wash up the supper dishes even if you didn’t ask her.”

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

Edith Sitwell and Marilyn Monroe first met and had tea together at the end of 1954, in Hollywood. Marilyn, with her golden hair and green dress, reminded the eccentric English poet of a daffodil. They got on well and discussed poetry, in particular The Course of Life by Rudolph Steiner. They met again in London in 1956.

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

When the Welsh poet was on a reading tour of the United States in February 1950, he expressed the wish to meet Charlie Chaplin; however, before his dinner engagement he had a great time drinking martinis with Shelley Winters and Marilyn Monroe. He arrived dead drunk at Chaplin’s home and was turned away by the great comedian himself.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to:

Sarah Churchwell

Ségolène Dargnies

Marion Duvert

Abby Haywood

Courtney Hodell

Karen Hope

Mark Krotov

Annie Ohayon

Flore Roumens

Ivana Ruzak

Lisa Silverman

Special thanks to Maja Hoffmann, who organized the dinner at the FIAC, and to Lou Reed, who was there.

PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Photograph credits.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010932487

ISBN: 978-0-374-15835-4

www.fsgbooks.com

Table of Contents

Editors’ note

Personal note (1943)

Undated poems

“Record” black notebook (around 1951)

Other “Record” notebook (around 1955)

Waldorf-Astoria stationery (1955)

Italian agenda (1955 or 1956)

Parkside House stationery (1956)

Roxbury notes (1958)

Red livewire notebook (1958)

Fragments and notes

Kitchen notes (1955 or 1956)

Lee and Paula Strasberg

Letter to Dr. Hohenberg (1956)

Letter to Dr. Greenson

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