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THE MOVIE(1): Marilyn is pacing the room of what is assumed
would be a house in Palm Springs. Two men soon enter the room, notifying her
that they president is ready to see her. They escort Marilyn down a walkway to
JFK’s room, where Marilyn disappears to.
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| From "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" |
REAL LIFE(1): Okay. Here’s where the controversy starts. The
official presidential schedule places JFK at a luncheon at the Lawfords in
November of 1961. Supposedly this may have been Marilyn and JFK’s first
meeting, however there is no evidence to prove that Marilyn was actually there.
So the first confirmed meeting between them was in fact at Bing Crosby’s Palm
Springs home in March of 1962. This is substantiated by a reliable Marilyn
source: Ralph Roberts. Ralph Roberts was Marilyn’s masseur and close friend. He
is one of the small handful of people who knew Marilyn who remain trust worthy
today. He says that he received a call from Marilyn the day she was in Palm
Springs, and that she had put Jack on the phone to ask Ralph questions about
muscles in his back. Ralph had said he had immediately recognized Jack’s
distinctive voice. This is the only day/night in history where something may or
may not have happened between Marilyn Monroe and JFK. We’ll truly never know,
but this is the only possible time. All those photos you see of them are either photoshopped or look alikes. Two photos exist of them together: both in crowded rooms full of people.
THE MOVIE(2): The movie cuts to Marilyn and Pat lounging
poolside and having a discussion about JFK. Marilyn says she had an immediate
connection with him, saying “I haven’t
felt anything like it since I met Joe,” and, “Just between you and me, he’s going to divorce Jackie.” Marilyn
then implies that her goal is to marry Jack and become Pat’s “sister.”
REAL LIFE(2): Let’s just establish this to start off: by no
reliable account was Marilyn ever jealous of Jackie, wanting to be Jackie,
wanting to marry JFK, wanting to become Pat’s sister, or delusional over JFK or
Jackie. The fact that this situation continues to be falsely documented in
books and magazines today is mind-blowing. Forget everything you hear about
Marilyn and Jackie, it isn’t true. It never happened. The general public today
is always much more interested in the juicier stories and conspiracies, rather
than the cold, hard truth. As Marilyn
once said herself in a handwritten note: “The
truth can only be recalled, never invented.” Remember that next time you
hear those insane rumors.
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| From "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" |
THE MOVIE(3):We are now deep into the JFK delusion which we
have now covered and determined that none of it actually happened. Marilyn is at home
attempting to reach the president, who is unavailable. Marilyn becomes furious,
and slams the phone down on the receiver repeatedly. The movie soon cuts to the
scene of Marilyn sorting through her mail. She notices a letter from her mother
Gladys. However, she notices that it had already been opened. Not only that,
but she proceeds to burst into a tangent of delusional accusations such as “They poisoned it,” and, “It had to be Jackie.” Marilyn then
races into the kitchen, sets the note on fire with a lighter, and burns it in
the sink. She assumes Jackie sent the poison-laced letter to her pretending to
be Gladys.
REAL LIFE(3): As we’ve covered previously in this review, it
was Marilyn’s mother that was schizophrenic and had outbursts of paranoia, not
Marilyn. Saying something such as a letter being laced with poison is something
someone with Gladys’s condition is more likely to say. However there is one
incident that Marilyn’s sister Berniece covers in her book, upon her visit to
Marilyn in the early 1960’s. Berniece says that Marilyn thought the food she
received was poisoned. Berniece is a reliable source, but this seems entirely
out of character for Marilyn and we only have her word. I'm not sure that I fully trust this claim. But by no account did Marilyn ever receive a letter she
accused of being contaminated, and certainly not from Jackie.
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| From "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" |
THE MOVIE(4): Marilyn is visiting her mother at the asylum
and notifies her that she will be moving away to New York. She says, “I have a friend there. A very important
man. I can’t tell you who he is.” The movie then cuts to a scene where
Marilyn is on the floor of her New York hotel room, seemingly drunk or dazed.
She crawls towards the window, forces it open, and looks down at the street
below, contemplating whether or not to jump out and end her life.
REAL LIFE(4): Again, Marilyn never saw her mother when she
was institutionalized so we can ignore the meeting represented in the film. The
“important man” we have to assume is JFK, who we now know Marilyn was not
delusional over, nor was she picturing a life with him. So we can ignore that
comment as well. So let’s go straight to the hotel room scene. Marilyn herself
told this story to Ralph Roberts, who we, as previously stated, is a reliable
source. According to him, shortly after Marilyn’s divorce from Arthur Miller,
Marilyn had a suicidal impulse to jump out her 13th floor apartment
window. This is ultimately what led to her admission to Payne Whitney, which we
will cover right now.
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| From "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" |
THE MOVIE(5): Marilyn is dragged into a sanitarium against
her will. She is in a strait jacket and is thrown and locked into a padded cell
as she screams for help. Eventually, Joe comes to her rescue, demanding that
she be released immediately, threatening to turn the establishment down “piece
of wood by piece of wood.”
REAL LIFE(5): In 1961, Marilyn’s psychiatrist., Dr. Marianne
Kris, suggested Marilyn receive further treatment at a facility. She failed to
mention that place would be a sanitarium. That February, Marilyn was admitted
to the Payne Whitney Clinic, the psychiatric division of the Cornell University
Hospital, and endured five days of being held against her will there. She felt helpless. She was not severely unstable, and did not believe
Payne Whitney was the right place for her. Shortly after her release, she wrote
a famous six page letter to Dr. Ralph Greenson, in which she detailed her stay
at the sanitarium. She states, “There
was no empathy at Payne Whitney – it had a very bad effect – they asked me
after putting me in a ‘cell’ (I mean cement blocks and all) for very
disturbed depressed patients (except I/felt I was in some kind of prison
for a crime I hadn’t committed.” Furthermore, it was not Joe alone that came
and rescued Marilyn from the sanitarium. Joe did, however, demand that Dr. Kris
release Marilyn from the institution, which Kris agreed to. Once Marilyn was
released, she was driven home by friend Ralph Roberts and also Dr. Kris, who
was immediately fired.
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| From "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" |
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| Marilyn upon her release from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where she stayed for a few weeks to recover after Payne Whitney |
THE MOVIE(6): Gladys learns of her daughter's admission to
Payne Whitney. She takes a razor blade to her wrist, and is hospitalized, narrowly
escaping death. Once Marilyn is recovers, she visits Gladys in the hospital,
and is told that Gladys will be all right.
REAL LIFE(6): This scene may have been inspired by an event that actually occurred, but not with a razor. In Marilyn’s letter to Dr. Greenson in which
she describes her experience at Payne Whitney, she speaks of one incident that
occurred involving a shard of glass. Here are her exact quotes: “I went back into my room knowing they had
lied to me about the telephone and I sat on the bed trying to figure if I was
given this situation in an acting improvisation what would I do. I got the idea
from a movie I made once called ‘Don’t Bother To Knock.’ I picked up a
light-weight chair and slammed it, and it was hard to do because I had never
broken anything in my life – against the glass intentionally. It took a lot of
banging to get even a small piece of glass – so I went over with the glass
concealed in my hand and sat quietly on the bed waiting for them to come in.
They did, and I said to them, ‘If you are going to treat me like a nut I’ll act
like a nut.’ I admit the next thing is corny but I really did it in the movie
except it was with a razor blade. I indicated if they didn’t let me out I would
harm myself – the furthest thing from my mind at that moment since you know Dr.
Greenson I’m an actress and would never intentionally mark or mar myself, I’m
just that vain.” She then goes on to describe how four strong men carried
her up to the seventh floor in the elevator and put in another cell. As far as
Gladys’s suicide attempt, there is nothing on record to prove this incident
happened. There are only rumors that float around, nothing to be taken too
seriously. And we know by now that the last time it is confirmed that Marilyn
even saw her mother was back in the 1940’s.
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