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DISTURBED over preferential treatment given Marilyn Monroe in ^Let's Make Love" script changes, Greg Peck decided he wouldn't.
Why
Greg Peck walked out on MM
By MARK DAYTON
IF THEY HAD PAID attention in September, they might not have been so stunned in November. It wasn't that the glamourous Marilyn Monroe hadn't served notice. For way back in September when it was considered too risky to let Khrushchev see Disneyland but safe to let the Soviet boss watch Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine cavort at 20th CenturyFox in a scene from "Can Can", Marilyn had sent up her first disregarded warning flare.
The trouble was that everyone was paying too much attention to Nikita's visit and too little attention to Marilyn's visit. If they had kept their eye on Marilyn instead of Nikita during the luncheon honoring the Russian head of state, it might not have come as such a shock.
While Nikita found himself unable, at least in retrospect, to abide the sight of a galaxy of smiling Can Can girls with their motors running, Marilyn was quietly racking up some behind scenes mileage of her own.
She had agreed to co-star with Gregory Peck in "Let's Make Love", and during the Khrushchev visit, she went into a cozy huddle with her personally approved director, George Cukor, studio head Buddy Adler, producer Jerry Wald, and Norman Krasna, author of her farewell picture as a reluctant 20th Century contractee. One of the crucial things she got across in that meeting with the film factory brass hats was that she felt her part needed some building up. It was a neat piece of summitry.
Right then and there, if Hollywood oracles weren't operating with rusty geiger counters, they would have picked up the sound of approaching turbulence. Everyone was so busy finding out what Nikita thought of everything, however, that they neglected to ask what Gregory Peck thought of Marilyn's impending build-up.
Even before Marilyn more or less upstaged herself out of a leading man, studio insiders on the sub-summitry level were steeled for a full-scale ulcer fallout.
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