Auction Date:2010 May 20 @ 05:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
Tan three-ring bound telephone book that contains hundreds of Marilyn’s personal and business friends, all neatly typed on 95 separate pages. Entries include: Joe DiMaggio (also, his sister and his son), Dr. Hyman Engelberg, her physician, Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychiatrist, Milton Rudin, her lawyer, Henry Weinstein, Frank Sinatra, Lee & Paula Strasberg, Jean Kennedy Smith, Peter Lawford, Arthur Miller, May Reis (her one-time secretary to whom she left $50,000 in her will), Dr. Marianne Kris (NY psychiatrist to whom she left $93,750 in her will), Monty Clift, Jack Benny, Henry Fonda, Jane Russell, Eli Wallach, Shelley Winters, Jack Lemmon, Yves Montand, Ben Gazzara, Rex Harrison, Thelma Ritter, Dinah Shore Montgomery, Gene Kelly, Ernie Kovacs, George Cukor, David & Jennifer Selznick, Sidney Skolsky, Spyros Skouras, Joseph Schenck, Carl Sandburg, Saul Bellow, Sean O’Casey, Clifford Odets, Louis Untermeyer, Minna Wallis (Clark Gable’s agent and sister of Warners’ Hal Wallis), Kay Gable (Clark’s widow), Nunnally Johnson, Leland Hayward, Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Earl Wilson, Ann Landers, Richard Avedon, John Huston, Jerome Robbins, Max Lerner, Oscar Levant, Arthur P. Jacobs (her publicist), Inez Melson (business agent), Joe Wolhandler and John Springer (NY press agents), Jay Kanter and Mort Viner (agents at MCA), Jimmy Van Heusen, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., James R. Kinney (NY veterinarian), Dr. Leon Krohn (gynecologist), Myron Prinzmetal (cardiologist), Dr. Erno Laszlo (dermatologist), aesthetician Mme. Renna, Dr. Mortimer Rodgers (composer Richard Rodgers’ brother), Dr. Rudolph M. Loewenstein (psychoanalyst), Jean Louis (dress designer), Charles Lang (cinematographer, “Some Like It Hot”), Evelyn Moriarty (her stand-in in “The Misfits” and “Something’s Got to Give”), Jean Negelescu (her director in “How to Marry a Millionaire”), playwright Ettore Rella (friend of Arthur Miller), and MGM executive Benny Thau. Marilyn Monroe’s private New York City and studio telephone numbers are also listed. Her phonebook also includes furriers, florists, pharmacies, doctors (numerous), dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, manicurists, department stores, optometrists, restaurants, supermarket, locksmith, hotels, insurance agents, banks, kennels, limo services, book stores, studios, private nurses, pianists, travel agents, a painter, and a plumber. In the back of her telephone book is a ten-page printed booklet, 5.25” x 8.5”, titled “Academy Players Directory Reference Supplement/Issue 91,” listing addresses and phone numbers of Los Angeles-area agencies, studio casting personnel, and radio and television stations. Issues 91, 92, and 93 were published in 1962 which dates Marilyn Monroe’s telephone book to be from 1962, the year she died. Also included are (1) Typed Letter Signed “Paula S,” 1 page, 7.25” x 10.75”. New York, 4 November 1961. From Paula Strasberg to Marilyn Monroe, beginning “Marilyn dear.” In full: “This is just a reminder that we miss you and love you. From the tone of your voice, we sense that whatever you are doing is important and right. When I mentioned the script of CELEBRATION, it is only because we want you to do what possibly would be the right parts and scripts. That’s all. Please call whenever you want to, and we’ll see you soon I’m sure. Love.” Paula Strasberg was her acting coach/confidante at Lee and Paula Strasberg’s Actors Studio in New York. (2) Two partly printed statements from Twentieth Century-Fox from the studio’s Cafe de Paris, 8.25” x 7.25”: 14 April 1962 bill for $6.00 and 19 May 1962 bill for three charges totaling $43.75 (May 14, 15, 16) plus the $6.00 previous balance. On May 17, 1962, Marilyn was in New York preparing for her birthday tribute to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden. (3) Four page, 8.25” x 5.5” “Expense Detail” charge to Marilyn Monroe from her publicist, Arthur P. Jacobs Company, Inc., dated 30 April 1962, totaling $116.21 for telephone calls made on her behalf. (4) Western Union confirmation copy (8.25” x 6”) of the telegram sent by Marilyn on 18 June 1962, to Mexico City “regarding Spratling shipment.” William Spratling was a designer of Mexican jewelry and furniture. (5) Statement from the Medical Center Pharmacy, Beverly Hills, dated 30 June1962, to Marilyn Monroe, 6.25” x 7”, amount due $5.00, stapled with the 4” x 6” pink carbon of the 4 June1962 bill listing the prescription number. A marvelous glimpse into the everyday life of a not so everyday person, perhaps Hollywood’s most enduring icon of all time. Phone book measures 7” x 9”. Fine condition.
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11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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