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Luitjers, Guus.
Marilyn Monroe, in her own words
. London: Omnibus, 1991.

Madsen, Axel.
John Huston
. New York: Doubleday, 1978.

Mailer, Norman.
Marilyn
. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973; New York: Galahad, 1988.

———, with photographs by Milton H. Greene.
Of Women and Their Elegance
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
More About All About Eve
. New York: Random House, 1972.

McBride, Joseph.
Hawks on Hawks
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

McCann, Graham.
Marilyn Monroe
. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Masters, George, and Norma Lee Browning.
The Masters Way to Beauty
. New York: NAL/Signet, 1978.

Meaker, M.J.
Sudden Endings
. Garden City: Doubleday, 1964.

Mellen, Joan.
Marilyn Monroe
. New York: Pyramid, 1973.

Miller, Arthur.
Timebends
. New York: Grove Press, 1987.

Molnar, Michael.
The Diary of Sigmund Freud
. New York: Robert Stewart/Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992.

Monroe, Marilyn.
My Story
. New York: Stein and Day, 1974.

Moore, Robin and Gene Schoor.
Marilyn & Joe DiMaggio
. Manor Books, 1977.

Morphos, Evangeline (editor).
Lee Strasberg: A Dream of Passion
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

Murray, Eunice.
Marilyn: The Last Months
. New York: Pyramid, 1975.

Negulesco, Jean.
Things I Did . . . and Things I Think I Did
. New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Nolan, William F.
John Huston: King Rebel
. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.

Olivier, Laurence.
Confessions of an Actor
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

———.
On Acting
. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Overholt, Alma.
The Catalina Story
. Avalon and Los Angeles: no publisher listed, 1962.

Palmer, Edwin O.
History of Hollywood
. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978.

Parsons, Louella O.
Tell It To Louella
. New York: Putnam’s, 1961.

Pepitone, Lena, and William Stadiem.
Marilyn Monroe Confidential
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.

Pratley, Gerald.
The Cinema of John Huston
. Cranbury, N.J.: A. S. Barnes, 1977.

Preminger, Otto.
Preminger: An Autobiography
. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

Rand, Christopher.
Los Angeles: The Ultimate City
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Ricci, Mark, and Michael Conway.
The Complete Films of Marilyn Monroe
. Secaucus: Citadel, 1964.

Riese, Randall, and Neal Hitchens.
The Unabridged Marilyn: Her Life from A to Z
. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1987.

Robins, Natalie.
Alien Ink
. New York: Morrow, 1992.

Rollyson, Carl E., Jr.
Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress
. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

Rosten, Norman.
Marilyn: An Untold Story
. New York: NAL/Signet, 1973.

Russell, Jane.
Jane Russell: My Paths & My Detours
. New York: Franklin Watts, 1985.

Scagnetti, Jack.
The Life and Loves of Gable
. Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David, 1976.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Robert Kennedy and His Times
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

Shaw, Sam, and Norman Rosten.
Marilyn among friends
. London: Bloomsbury, 1987.

Signoret, Simone.
Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be
. London: Grafton, 1979.

Shevey, Sandra.
The Marilyn Scandal
. New York: William Morrow, 1988; Berkley/Jove, 1990.

Skolsky, Sidney.
Don’t Get Me Wrong—I Love Hollywood
. New York: Putnam’s, 1975.

Skolsky, Sidney.
Marilyn
. New York: Dell, 1954.

Slatzer, Robert.
The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe
. New York: Pinnacle, 1974.

Smith, Ella.
Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck
. New York: Crown, 1985.

Spada, James, and George Zeno.
Monroe: Her Life in Pictures
. New York: Doubleday, 1982.

Speriglio, Milo.
The Marilyn Conspiracy
. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.

Spoto, Donald.
Laurence Olivier: A Biography
. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Stack, Robert, with Mark Evans.
Straight Shooting
. New York: Macmillan, 1980.

Steinern, Gloria, with photographs by George Barris.
Marilyn
. New York: Henry Holt, 1986.

Stempel, Tom.
Screenwriter: The Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson
. San Diego: A. S. Barnes, 1980.

Strasberg, Susan.
Bittersweet
. New York: Putnam’s, 1980.

———.
Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends
. New York: Warner, 1992.

Summers, Anthony.
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
. New York: Macmillan, 1985; Signet, 1986.

Taylor, Roger G.
Marilyn In Art
. Salem: Salem House, 1984.

———.
Marilyn Monroe: In Her Own Words
. New York: Delilah/Putnam, 1983. (U.K.:
Marilyn on Marilyn
. London: Zachary Kwintner Books Ltd., 1983.)

Tornabene, Lyn.
Long Live The King
. New York: Putnam’s, 1976.

Trescott, Pamela.
Cary Grant—His Movies and His Life
. Washington: Acropolis Books, 1987.

Tynan, Kenneth.
Profiles
. London: Nick Hern/Walker Books, 1989.

Vineberg, Steve.
Method Actors
. New York: Schirmer, 1991.

WPA.
Los Angeles: A Guide To The City And Its Environs
. New York: Hastings House, 1941.

Wagenknecht, Edward.
Marilyn Monroe: A Composite View
. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1969.

Warren, Doug.
Betty Grable: The Reluctant Movie Queen
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981.

Weatherby, W. J.
Conversations with Marilyn
. New York: Mason/Charter, 1976.

Wilson, Earl.
Show Business Laid Bare
. New York: Putnam’s, 1974.

———.
The Show Business Nobody Knows
. Chicago: Cowles, 1971.

Wood, Tom.
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily
. New York: Doubleday, 1970.

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.
Anna Freud
. New York: Summit, 1988.

Zolotow, Maurice.
Billy Wilder in Hollywood
. New York: Putnam’s, 1977.

———.
Marilyn Monroe
. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960.

The Films of
Marilyn Monroe

The following abbreviations are used for the credits of Marilyn Monroe’s twenty-nine completed and released motion pictures:

P: Producer
D: Director
Sc: Author of screenplay
b/o: based on
C: Cinematographer
b/w: black and white (all others in Technicolor or DeLuxe)
Rel: Release date

Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!

P: Walter Morosco for Fox. D/Sc: F. Hugh Herbert, b/o a novel by George Chamberlain. C: Ernest Palmer. Rel: April 1948.
MM
as Peggy; with June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Ann Revere, Natalie Wood, Henry Hull, Tom Tully.

Dangerous Years

P: Sol Wurtzel for Fox. D: Arthur Pierson. Sc: Arnold Belgard. C: Benjamin Kline, b/w. Rel: Dec. 1947: filmed after
Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!
but released first.
MM
as Eve; with William Halop, Ann E. Todd, Darryl Hickman, Jerome Cowan.

Ladies of the Chorus

P: Harry A. Romm for Columbia. D: Phil Karlson. Sc: Harry Sauber and Joseph Carol. C: Frank Redman, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1948.
MM
as Peggy Martin; with Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant.

Love Happy

P: Lester Cowan for United Artists (Mary Pickford). D: David Miller. Sc: Frank Tashlin and Mac Benoff, b/o a story by Harpo Marx. C: William C. Mellor, b/w. Rel: April 1950.
MM
as an unnamed client of Groucho Marx (as a private detective); with Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Eric Blore, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr.

A Ticket to Tomahawk

P: Robert Bassler for Fox. D: Richard Sale. Sc: Sale and Mary Loos. C: Harry Jackson. Rel: May 1950.
MM
as Clara; with Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marion Marshall.

The Asphalt Jungle

P: Arthur Hornblow, Jr., for MGM. D: John Huston. Sc: Huston and Ben Maddow, b/o a novel by W. R. Burnett. C: Harold Rosson. b/w. Rel: May 1950.
MM
as Angela Phinlay; with Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore.

All About Eve

P: Darryl F. Zanuck for Fox. D/Sc: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. C: Milton Krasner, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1950.
MM
as Miss Caswell; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff.

The Fireball

P: Bert Friedlob for Fox. D: Tay Garnett. Sc: Garnett and Horace McCoy. C: Lester White, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1950.
MM
as Polly; with Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler.

Right Cross

P: Armand Deutsch for MGM. D: John Sturges. Sc: Charles Schnee. C: Norbert Brodine, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1950.
MM
as Dusky LeDoux; with Dick Powell, June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore.

Home Town Story
(not, as usually listed,
Hometown Story
)

P, D, Sc: Arthur Pierson for MGM. C: Lucien Andriot, b/w. Rel: May 1951.
MM
as Iris; with Donald Crisp, Jeffrey Lynn, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale, Jr.

As Young As You Feel

P: Lamar Trotti for Fox. D: Harmon Jones. Sc: Trotti, b/o a story by Paddy Chayefsky. C: Joe MacDonald, b/w. Rel: Aug. 1951.
MM
as Harriet; with Monty Woolley, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Constance Bennett, Albert Dekker.

Love Nest

P: Jules Buck for Fox. D: Joseph Newman. Sc: I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a novel by Scott Corbett. C: Lloyd Ahern, b/w. Rel: Oct. 1951.
MM
as Roberta Stevens; with June Haver, William Lundigan, Leatrice Joy, Jack Paar, Frank Fay.

Let’s Make It Legal

P: Robert Bassler for Fox. D: Richard Sale. Sc: F. Hugh Herbert and I. A. L. Diamond, b/o a story by Mortimer Braus. C: Lucien Ballard, b/w. Rel: Nov. 1951.
MM
as Joyce; with Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Robert Wagner, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates.

Clash by Night

P: Harriet Parsons for Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, RKO. D: Fritz Lang. Sc: Alfred Hayes, b/o the play by Clifford Odets. C: Nicholas Musuraca, b/w. Rel: June 1952.
MM
as Peggy; with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Keith Andes.

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