Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

Mr. Isadore Miller of Brooklyn, her former father-in-law: “She was a kind, good girl. She helped a great many people, and their names will never be known. She was charitable because there was charity in her heart, not because she wanted thanks. ... At the President’s birthday ball last year, I remember, she said I was her date and when we went up to the President of the United States, instead of saying, ‘Pm pleased to meet you, Mr. President,’ she said, ‘I want you to meet my father-in-law.’ Pm sure that she was thinking about the thrill I was getting instead of etiquette. That’s the kind of girl she was, my Marilyn.” Peter Lawford: “She was always gay, she made our parties when she came. She was honest, marvelous. They say she was naive. Well, perhaps Marilyn was naive in one area. She gave so much of herself to others, was so eager to do things for people, that it made her vulnerable to pain. There wasn’t a mean bone in her body.” Carl Sandburg, the poet: “She had vitality, a readiness for humor. She was a warm and plain girl. The first time we met it was as if she wanted to see me as much as I wanted to see her. We hit it off and talked long. The last time I saw her I didn’t rise and escort her to the elevator when it was time for her to leave. Pve never been good at manners. But I am eighty-four years old. I hope she forgave me.” They wrote now of having known her well years ago, when she first got started on her career in the movie business. “She came to me!” George Jessel: “I made her first important test for a movie. I took her to her first Hollywood party, given by Louis B. Mayer for Henry Ford II. I have a picture of us in front of me right now. She had nothing to wear. We had to dig up something for her from the Wardrobe Department. Yet, she was the most beautiful girl at the party.” They wrote now of having known her only fleetingly, but memorably. A Photoplay reader: “I lived not far from her East 57th Street apartment house for a time, when I was working as a secretary in New York. I would see her sometimes at night — coat collar pulled high, kerchief on her head — as she walked a small dog in a small, nearby park. I knew she was a great film star and often bothered by pests and so I never approached her, not even to say how much I admired her. But one night I happened to be at the park, just taking some air. I happened to be wearing a new coat I’d just bought, a black and white tweed car coat, not expensive, but nice enough. And do you know— but she looked at me that night. And she smiled. And she walked over to me and said, ‘I hope you don’t mind, but I must say how pretty that coat is, and how becoming on you.’ She, Marilyn Monroe came up to me. And she felt very free to say that she admired something about me.” Joseph Spadare, a public relations man on Long Island : “It was in Amagansett, a few summers ago. I was driving and she was walking down the road with a child. Continued on page 70 Make Yours a Sun-Shine Face Whether your skin is dry, normal— or in need of just a wee bit of help, now you can have a pretty new sun-shine look with creamy, colorful Magic Touch. This moisturizing cream make-up seems to perform miracles for your skin by supplying needed creaminess and glowing skin tones to what might otherwise be just an ordinary complexion. Magic Touch comes in six beautiful shades so you can look the way you want for any occasion— outdoorsy or provocative to the point where you’ll hardly know it’s YOU. CAM PAN A AWfclouch, At all variety stores and leading drug stores