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Oh, uh, I'd like to ask you,

how do you go about writing a life story?

Because...

...the true things
rarely get into circulation.

It's usually the false things.

If you ever get any of those things
you want to ask, I'll tell you.

All of those things come from the truth,
you know?

Because otherwise,
it's hard to know where to start

if you don't start with the truth.

After 20 years,
it's time to clear up this case.

Monroe died
from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Speculation surrounding Monroe's death
continues to this day.

The charge is
Marilyn Monroe was murdered.

Someone in the CIA killed Monroe.

She was very frightened.

There's a great myth around her.

I hope your phone is clean.

Nobody ever knew everything.

Marilyn Monroe,
the Golden Girl of Hollywood.

The dazzling fame of Marilyn Monroe

delights the critics
and attracts the public in swarms.

Marilyn Monroe was this era's sex symbol.

Marilyn Monroe trod
the summit of her profession.

Something remarkable happened

when she stepped before a camera.

A queen in her own realm of entertainment.

She was adored by millions.

A self-illuminating body, a star.

Tony, I have often said
that I could put together

a scenario that would absolutely
blow the minds of anybody who read it,

but it would be terribly costly
to government agencies,

friends of mine, to people I know.

- Yeah.
- I don't think I want to do that.

But I never talk
to the press ever, ever, ever.

But I can't say anything,
and I knew it all.

- Except it's a waste of your time.
- Why?

I don't want to be the one
who sets the record straight.

- But, I mean, I don't know you.
- Fine.

Let it be.

Hollywood,

brilliant tinsel city
of lights and fantasy.

Hollywood,

glorified, glittering, fascinating,
fabulous mythical kingdom.

Hollywood,
the glamour capital of the world.

When I was a kid, and I remember
at the movies on Saturday afternoon...

Let's take a spin down
the Boulevard and see what we can find!

...I'd never come out
of the movie. They'd have to come get me.

Ah, Garbo!

Bad, good, didn't matter.

Hollywood's playground!

Anything that would move
on the screen.

And here inside the gates,

there's more stars than the Milky Way!

If you don't believe it, just follow us!

My favorite was Jean Harlow.

She had white hair.

The one and only Marlene Dietrich!

Cary Grant arrives with his best grin.

As usual, Cary has
a genial greeting for everybody!

And Clark Gable.

Clark walked
into the forecourt...

The crowd is still shouting
for their favorite!

Although I was a kid
and I didn't know anything about acting,

I...

I wanted to know.

Talking.

Yup.

- Marilyn Monroe. I knew her very well.
- You did?

- I'm talking about in the beginning.
- Yes.

- When she was a kid.
- At that time...

Well, I was... Al Rosen Agency was
one of the top agencies in the business.

- Right.
- I handled Cary Grant, Fredric March.

- Jack Oakie, Judy Garland, you know.
- Right.

But, you see,
the history of this business is

you got one thing, I'll guarantee it,
which you didn't know about.

- In this business, in the golden years...
- Yeah.

...every casting director,
every studio used to have a black book,

you know what I mean?

So, every girl, you know, I'm talking
about kids that were breaking in,

like Marilyn Monroe,
you know, when they get started,

all the casting directors,

they would write in their black book
who could be laid.

You see, the business
has changed since then.

Today, it's the buck.

It used to be sex. Remember that.

Calling all girls!
Calling all girls!

And now, all those lovely hopefuls
have their chance.

The process of selecting
just the right girls is a careful one.

My, my,
what a smart looking crowd.

Isn't she a honey?

Isn't she sweet?

Neck, 12 and a half.

Bust, 34 and a half.

Pride. Adventure. Ambition.

From the ends of the Earth they come,
waiting for the magic call.

Hello?

How can I help you?

Well, my husband knew her first,
early '40s.

Oh, yes.

You know, a generous girl,
warm girl, really rather lovable.

She was very much on the restaurant scene
and the club scene.

- But at Romanoff's.
- Yeah. Enormous fun.

And it was quite exotic.

It had a real mélange of people,

and it was sort of the mecca for agents.

It had all of the film VIPs.

- All the pretty girls hung out there.
- Right.

And Marilyn was among them,
of course.

So young is Hollywood

that many of its earliest pioneers
are still active in the industry.

Men like Joseph Schenck,
chairman of the board of 20th Century Fox.

Mr. Schenck brought about an era
of epic, dramatic screen stories.

Oh, sure. Schenck was a human being.

- You know what I mean.
- Yeah.

She had a bunch of 'em.
He wasn't the only one.

There were a group
who gathered at Schenck's.

- She was always very much at his house.
- Yeah.

And she was beginning
to make a few strides.

In 1948.

Johnny Hyde,

who was a dear little man,
wonderful little man...

- You know about him?
- Yes.

- Johnny was in love with her.
- Yeah.

Johnny Hyde spoke to me
about her first

and then brought her over to Metro.

Just, uh, very fresh.

Very attractive.

Rather timid.

Shy.

And, um we talked to her
and gave her a script.

She went away
and came back a day or two later,

and, well, Marilyn read her lines,

and she read them very beautifully,
very well.

And there was no question.

She was ideal for the part.

- In The Asphalt Jungle?
- Yes, indeed.

That was that.

Only once in a decade
does the screen come up with

such absorbing characters.

Marilyn Monroe as Angela,
the easy-living, green-eyed blonde.

Marilyn went right down
into her own personal experience

for everything.

She would reach down
and pull something out of herself

that was unique and extraordinary.

She found things
about womankind in herself.

She had no technique.

It was all the truth.

It was only Marilyn,
but she was Marilyn plus.

An award to the popular new star.

And as best young box office personality,
Miss Marilyn Monroe.

Thank you, Mr. Nichols.

It's Marilyn Monroe,
skyrocketing to new dramatic heights.

Marilyn Monroe,
all the moviegoers of America voted you

the most popular actress of the year.
My congratulations.

Thank you, Mr. Sammis.

- Congratulations!
- Thank you, Lauren.

And my thanks to Look magazine.

A Hollywood incident
that marks another salute

to Marilyn Monroe.

Thank you. I thank you very much.

And now here comes
a young lady who has

created a real sensation
in the picture business,

having won all kinds of awards
as the number one newcomer of the year.

And believe me, a swell gal with a...

Take it from me, I've known her
a long time, Miss Marilyn Monroe!

Let's hear it! Come on out here, Marilyn!

With Marilyn Monroe
and Jane Russell.

Yes.

She was very bright,
and she wanted to learn

and was interested in everything to,

- you know, help her control her career.
- Right.

And every night after work,
she would go to the coach.

- Yes.
- We were going home exhausted.

She'd go to the coach.

But she wanted to be good.

Then when...

...the camera went on, it was like a whole
electric light went on in the, you know...

They just came to life.

I just felt like I was
on the outside of the world,

and suddenly everything opened up.

The world became friendly.
It opened up to me.

I said, "Gee, what happened?"

If I am a star,
the people made me a star.

But I do want to be wonderful, you know.

I want to do the best
that I can do in that moment.

When the camera starts until it stops.

That moment
I want to be... perfect.

I'll tell you,

I'm terribly grateful

because I remember when...

things weren't like this at all.

I saw her a time or two.

- Years had gone by.
- Yeah.

By now she was dressed
to the T's, and she'd become the...

The sex symbol of this country.

And it wasn't...
It wasn't just a sex thing at all.

Women felt just the same as men.

There was something deeply moving
about Marilyn, always.

We were close during the picture,

and then we were... we, you know,
considered ourselves friends,

but Marilyn kind of went
from one group to another.

She would take off,
and it would be another group.

That would become the shell for a time.

She didn't go back
and seek out any of the people

that had become close to her.

There was something
so vulnerable, so...

Something you felt

could be easily destroyed.

- Hello?
- Hi.

Well, I hated Hollywood.
My family knew enough Hollywood people.

You know, I had, at times,
met movie stars at parties

and found the whole thing to be obnoxious.

My notion was these people were...
were phoneys and narcissistic characters.

I hated 'em.

So when I heard
that Dad was seeing Marilyn,

I was not jumping up and down
and cheering.

He couldn't see her at the office.
She was too goddamn famous.

He was seeing her at home.
I thought, "What a bunch of bullshit."

I mean,
here's the sex symbol of the world.

Here is, you know,
what womanhood should be in a nutshell.

I mean,
there was something about Marilyn

- that put her apart from everybody else.
- Yeah.

But there were times, you know, that
I would pick her up in my Hillman Minx,

- you know, and...
- Yeah.

Marilyn without makeup and a scarf
over her hair and just sitting there,

you know, you wouldn't think
would attract any kind of attention,

and yet, you know, I would suddenly
have five people washing my windows.

- But there was just something.
- Yeah.

It happened to me too.

No! No!

There was an at-homeness
with her body

that very...
I have never seen anybody else have.

To be sort of almost animallike

in their feel and their movement and...

You know, beautiful
and very, in a sense, poetic.

And I'm not calling myself an orphan.

I was brought up a waif.

Yeah, I was never used to being happy.

So that wasn't something
I was sort of counting on.

In all the years
he'd been doing that,

my father had never had
a patient commit suicide.

He never treated anybody
as unorthodoxly as he was treating her.

His feeling was that because of who
she was, she could never be hospitalized.

So given that he couldn't do that,

his feeling was the best shot he had

was to try to treat her
in this highly unusual,

unorthodox kind of way that he did.

She starts hanging out with the family.

That's how a sort of more
of a friendliness then came about.

Before dinner, they would have cocktails.

And that would be where the sort of
predinner conversation would go on.

She had a... a mind that searched

and an honest mind that tried
to find whatever her truths were.

It must have been
somewhere along the line

that I began to talk to her.

And it was in that particular setting
that I slowly but surely got to know her,

because I certainly know
that my opinion changes.

Within that family,
I was the new arrived left-winger.

So, but we'd get into these conversations,

and lo and behold, you know,
Marilyn would end up on my side.

- Right.
- So a friendship developed.

I began to like her and to recognize
that there was more to this person

than, uh... than met the eye.

Well, Marilyn told me that
there was a new man in her life.

No, that he was just, you know...
you know, really terrific.

- Neat.
- And he was really neat

and, you know, cute and...

I mean, it was that kind of...
I mean, I remember...

- It was girly talk.
- It was girly talk.

I mean, the...

She said that this person was so important
that she wouldn't tell me who it was.

Calling him "the general."

She was calling him "the general."

The general.

And I remember feeling
that it was real...

You know, it was real peculiar that
here I'm sitting with Marilyn Monroe.

We're talking about boyfriends, and
I'm meeting some schlub at art school.

I know that she's talking about somebody
that's very big in the government.

And... and it sort of struck me as...

- Somehow this is bizarre.
- You mean, you knew already...

So I didn't know whether
it was Bobby or the president.

- Yeah.
- It was simply titillating.

I mean, I don't even remember
the guy I had a crush on back then,

but it was certainly somebody
that wasn't gonna hold a candle to that.

Yeah.

There was more
to this person than met the eye.

Family.

The general.

This person was so important.

Joe DiMaggio!
Smacked one out of the park!

What a hit!
Into the upper deck in left center field!

He was a wonderful athlete.

DiMaggio connects.

I met him...
he had already retired.

I had very few friends.

It's just that

I like people,

but for friends, I like few people.

But I think she was
quite taken with DiMaggio.

I saw him for around a year
and a half, two years, and we married.

Romance that thrills the world!

The marriage of Marilyn Monroe
and Joe DiMaggio.

The girl who starred in
How to Marry a Millionaire,

giving another starring performance
in How to Marry a Baseball Hero,

and now the pair are off
for their happy honeymoon.

He understood
some things about me, and...

I understood some things about him.

We based our marriage on it.

And I say some things.

How have you and Mrs. DiMaggio
enjoyed your trip to Japan?

Everything has been fine.
We've enjoyed our trip.

The only thing that I have to complain
about is I haven't seen much of Marilyn.

She is making a trip to Korea,

touring through the camps and so,

maybe after that we'll be able
to spend a little time together.

I mean, I really don't think
they had a lot in common.

I think she was very touched
by his genuine concern for her.

But then quite soon bored...

with his over-possessiveness.

Well, we're here to make
The Seven Year Itch.

- That's your latest picture?
- Yes.

I'm looking forward
to working in it very much.

I hear that you're getting
to be quite a cook too.

Joe says you can
really broil a mean steak.

Well, I'm learning.

A little slow, but...

Okay.

We were shooting
Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe.

And do you remember that famous shot?

Do you remember the wind
that is lifting her skirt?

Do you feel the breeze from the subway?

Isn't it delicious?

Oh! Here comes another one!

Well, we were all set up
to shoot that scene, you know.

There were five
and ultimately 10,000 people.

They were like, uh...
and look up Marilyn's skirt.

And...

people were heckling from the sidelines,

and people were running up for autographs.

I did Seven Year Itch.

Yeah.
Joe got very upset about it.

- Did he really or was that...
- Really!

Joe DiMaggio, you know,
he was watching it,

and he didn't like it very much,

his wife making a spectacle of herself.

They had a suite
in a real old, beautiful hotel.

- And he... beat her up a little bit.
- Huh.

Marilyn said
that she screamed and yelled for us.

But we couldn't hear her
through those thick walls, you know.

- It was more on her shoulders.
- Yeah.

But with a little makeup and everything,
she went ahead and worked.

Our marriage wasn't a happy one.
It ended in,

uh, nine months,

unfortunately.

I don't know what else to say.

All I can say as her attorney is that

this is what we would say
was a conflict of careers.

Has Joe moved out finally?

- Okay, Jerry!
- I'm sorry. I have to go.

My dad had told me...

that she got depressed at times.

About how terrible she felt about herself.

"Nothing would ever turn out right."

"Nothing would go my way."

How do you feel about
coming back to Hollywood?

A happy time for you...

Yes, it is. It's a very happy time.
I'm happy to be back.

- In my hometown.
- Yes.

Well,
you're a happy girl now?

And she talked about this
whole litany of depressive thought.

"Nobody likes me."

"Everything I do turns to shit."

"I don't have anybody."

"I'm a waif."

Marilyn,
all we know in New York

is that you and Joe DiMaggio
are friends at a distance.

How great a distance?

Well, we haven't seen each other.

Do you hear from each other?
Do you write or talk?

- Um, I'd rather not answer.
- All right, fine.

Well, when I was put
in the orphans' home,

they pulled me, and I kept crying
and screaming, "I'm not an orphan."

I called every woman I would see,
I'd say, "There's a mama."

If I would see a man,
I'd say, "There's a daddy."

I don't think I have
really too much to say about it except

I... I liked her, and...

and we'd talk a lot.

I was at the Strasbergs' parties
with her a lot.

She... she seemed a little bit, um...

She seemed concerned about, uh,

you know, like childhood memories of...

of being molested as a child,
things like that.

She talked about that, I remember.

She felt that she had avoided...

That she knew people
who were psychotic from such episodes,

and she felt that at least
she'd survived that.

I was a very, very close friend

and was friends to the end.

She wanted to know her father
so badly.

I remember a party
and this game we'd play.

Everybody said what
they'd want most in the world.

And she said she'd want
to put on a black wig,

pick up her father at a bar,

have him make love to her,

and then she'd say, "Well, how does
it feel now to have a daughter

that you've made love to?"

We all need to get out
of childhood in one piece,

but if nowhere along the line
did you get that sort of reinforcement

that you are worth love, you're lovable,
that there's something in you,

that we're a good person,

what you end up with
is a sort of emptiness.

We were friends prior to the marriage.

Many years before that.

See, my father owned half
of Republic Studios at one time.

- So I grew up with these people.
- Uh-huh.

But, uh, I think the greatest effect
of all was Arthur Miller.

Yes.

The Arthur Miller situation.

How long have you known
Miss Monroe, Mr. Miller?

I met her a long time ago,
but I hadn't seen her in years.

But I think I've got the woman
who is going to be my wife.

- You mean Marilyn Monroe?
- That's correct.

When are you planning
to have children?

Well, I'm not married yet, dear.

This is a personal question.

Is there anything in particular
about Mr. Miller that attracted you?

- Have you seen him?
- Yes.

Yes!

I think she was quite intrigued
by people she thought to be bright.

That would have been my impression.

What I'd like to accomplish,
I would like to be a good actress.

A true actress. An artist, with integrity.

She had very strong goals
for herself.

She was so bright about acting.

She'd come over, sit with me
at the Studio and things like that.

She'd figure out what
she wanted to do with the scene.

She really... she really cared.

I think love and work are
the only things that really happen to us.

Arthur Miller thought
she was intelligent

and had a brain that was never cultivated.

And that's where he courted her.

That's correct.

Ms. Monroe, could you tell us
what kind of a wedding you're gonna have?

Very quiet, I hope.

Studio.

- Can I speak to Milton Greene?
- Speaking.

Close friend and associate.
We loved each other, period.

She was. She really was.
She wanted a baby.

In fact, during Prince and the Showgirl,

she said, when it's over,
she's gonna go home and have a baby.

And I said, "Well, great."

"Get the white picket fence,
and I think it's a good idea."

If you gave her a choice
between children and stardom,

it would have been children...

without question.

There were some photographs,

I think it was a picture of her
and Miller's father.

And she said to me,

"This is my happiest period."

And I asked her why.

She showed me the picture
and said, "I was pregnant then."

Yes, she was pregnant by Miller
during Some Like It Hot.

If you watched her

in the picture that I worked
with her on called Some Like It Hot...

- Right. One of my favorites.
- She was so wonderful.

All the way through.

- From the start? Gosh.
- Yes.

She had a very naive quality
about her, very soft, gentle quality.

That's the way she could be,
you see.

That's the way she was,
not could be. She was evanescent.

- ♪ To anything higher... ♪
- And I...

Well, uh, she wasn't happy many times,
Mr. Summers.

I... I remember...

Everything connects in a person's life,
particularly hers, you know?

And it's sad.

She was slightly
discombobulated at all times.

But by God,
when you suffered through that scene,

through the 30, 40, 50 takes sometimes,

you had something there, you know.

Something absolutely unique
that cannot be duplicated.

I had no problem with Monroe.
Monroe had problems with Monroe.

She had problems with herself.

I can give you the reason
for that one.

But I can't say anything.
And I knew it all.

I'm awfully sorry.

You sound very nice, but I really...
It makes me unhappy to talk about it.

It really does.

- You know you...
- She's been gone 20 years...

- Oh yes.
- ...Mr. Summers.

I can't bring myself
to talk about it.

Just being able to be

another human being,

to be someplace...

Having certain kinds
of secrets for yourself.

There is a need for aloneness, you know?

I was aware from the...
Yes, I was aware from the beginning.

And I saw there was
something that she was...

She was not the fresh little girl
that I'd known originally.

Very soon we were aware
that she was a problem.

She'd be late on the set always.

Sometimes the whole morning would go by.

Sometimes she'd be all right.

Occasionally,
she'd be practically non compos mentis.

The narcotics were the problem.

I discovered this
in the course of the picture.

I remember saying to Miller one day...

I said, you know, that if she went
on at the rate that she was going,

why, she'd be in an institution
in two or three years, or dead!

And I said anyone who allows her
to take a drug ought to be shot.

It was almost an accusation against him.

An indictment against Miller.

At the end of the shooting of Misfits.

Happiness...

Does one ever know that?

Marilyn!

Marilyn!

I feel wonderful. Thank you.

Here she was now,
again divorced and terribly lonely.

That's when the Kennedys
came back in there.

Right.

- Were you aware of that?
- Oh, yes.

But Jack,
that started in the early and mid '50s.

- Yes!
- Uh-huh.

Oh, of course it did.

He'd been out here
on and off all through the '50s.

'Cause he had lots of friends here,
you know,

spending lots of time, you know.

- He used the Malibu Inn.
- Yes.

- And drank at the Malibu Cottage.
- Uh-huh.

The raunchiest looking thing
you've ever seen in your life.

- Oh yeah, because Jack wasn't known...
- Yeah.

...here at all.

He was a senator.
He was totally unknown here.

I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
do solemnly swear...

No one ever expected Jack to
become the president or the nominee.

...and I will faithfully execute the office
of President of the United States.

And will to the best of your ability...

He's just some smart-ass
rich kid's son that became senator.

Preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States.

So help you God.

So help me God.

After Jack.

Ah, yes.

Yes.

But, in '61,

the meeting headquarters
was at Pete Lawford's house

in Malibu.

Just the things
that were going on in that beach house.

Not discreet at all.

Of course, there was nothing discreet
about any of the Kennedys either.

Mm-hmm.
I mean, it was just mind-boggling.

Peter would obviously be, you know,
sort of pimping for both Kennedys.

They would do it
just as soon in front of anybody.

Yeah, their wives
could be in the other room,

and many times were, you know.

Yeah. I mean,
I've had a hand up my breasts.

The president owned it.

Yeah.

Not in the terms that Jack was.

They were tacky, they were corny,
they were... you know, the father was.

They were chips off the old block.

You know, his father
was a bigger wolf than he was!

He came out here,
and he had an office here,

which later became RKO.

See, before, any con artist could come
into the motion picture industry

and make a buck.

And he used to fuck up in his office.

I used to have to wait outside the door,
for chrissakes,

while he was getting laid.

I mean, I'm talking about Joe.

Yeah.

Remember that.

Both.

I do.

It was in the dining room one day,

and she was talking about
going over to Lawford's house.

"I want something to talk to him about."

- Robert Kennedy?
- Right.

We talked about some political questions.
She actually ended up writing them down

and putting them in her purse,
and then she went there.

She was seated with Bobby

and had made some little notes,

feeling that she really wasn't
quite bright enough for the crowd.

And, um, at one point,

he got up and called
his father long-distance

to say that he was seated
with Marilyn Monroe,

and would his father
like to say hello to Marilyn.

- Who?
- This is Bobby.

And I think he asked her to dance.

They did that.

- That goes on...
- Yes, that's what she said

on numerous occasions.

Again, she just didn't lie.
She just spoke quite openly.

Oh, nothing but love.

Nothing but admiration.

Tonight, we go after
the story of a private detective,

who helps Confidential magazine
pry into the lives of Hollywood stars.

An ex-cop, now one of the highest-paid
private detectives in the United States.

He's Fred Otash.

Now then, Fred Otash, you take any case
that pays you money, is that not so?

- Correct?
- That's correct.

Any case at all?

I won't take a case for a member
of the Communist Party or a communist.

I sort of draw the line there.

How do you justify
invading people's privacy like that?

Well, I feel this way,
if you can see it or hear it,

you're not invading any privacy.

Being a private detective is a dirty job.
There's no two ways about it.

But I do a certain job,

and I try to determine
if the facts and the items are true.

- You just want the facts?
- That's right. The true facts.

- Fred Otash?
- Yeah.

I worked for and against the Mafia.
I worked for and against law enforcement.

I worked for and against the White House.

And I worked for Hoffa.

You can't be head of the Teamsters
unless you're approved by the Mob.

Hoffa was the Mob.

- Where'd you get the money?
- What'd you say?

Do you have any evidence
of the $20,000 in cash?

- No.
- Did you receive any of this money?

I don't believe that I did.

Suggest anything to you?

It doesn't suggest anything
except the fact that you're trying again

to embarrass Hoffa. That's all.

Hoffa, he had a vendetta for Bobby.
Kennedy had a vendetta for Hoffa.

Mr. Hoffa, did you say,
"That SOB. I'll break his back."

Figure of speech.
I don't know who I was talking about.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Hoffa wanted to neutralize Kennedy.

What Hoffa wanted

was for me to develop a derogatory profile
on Jack and Bobby Kennedy

and their relationships
with Marilyn Monroe.

And the strategy that was agreed upon
was to use electronic devices,

and the most logical place
to set those devices

was Peter Lawford's home in Malibu.

That was the Kennedy playground.

And wire up Marilyn's home...

in Brentwood.

The house on the Helenas
was the first piece of property that she

ever had owned in her whole life.

And my father encouraged
the whole idea that

she alone as a person could own
and put down roots and have her own place.

It was something
that hadn't occurred to her.

And she was, you know, very excited
about establishing her own sort of family.

What Pop wanted to do was
to have her stand on her own two feet.

But there is something
in people, they want solitude for a while.

That I'm quiet and to myself more.

Somewhere in there,
my dad went away.

- Yeah.
- To Europe.

And he left with her
in fairly decent shape.

But I think she was starting that movie.

In a sense, the less important
we became in her life, the better off.

That meant that she had her own life.

- All right, camera!
- It's 11.

It takes me two seconds. It's taken...

You've... you've had two days.
Sorry, George, but we can do it.

Good, good, good.

All right, cameras!

Yeah, one more.
That was good though, right?

And she would become even more of a star.

I'd have to look into my journal
and see what he said,

- if I wrote it down as a quote.
- I'd be interested in that.

This is a quote.
"Marilyn will turn out to be

the most popular actress of
her generation, probably of this century."

502. Speed.

Mr. Cukor,
on this film, has been

very wonderful to me.

Trying to be happy is almost as difficult
as trying to be a good actress.

You have to work at both of them.

"Her best films
would have come late in her career."

"She had a great untapped
dramatic talent."

But anyway, she was making that movie,
and... my dad, when he left said,

"You guys should try to pitch in."

He wanted to make sure that
she wasn't running into some trouble.

There was always
great danger that she might...

get involved with somebody or something.

The bugs were installed
in the bedrooms and on the phones.

And there were four bugs
altogether installed out there.

They were placed under carpets,

in the chandeliers,
and in ceiling fixtures.

You could wire a telephone
five miles from the location.

I had sent Danoff out there.

John Danoff.

Yes.

The conversation
that came across the receiver,

it would fade in and fade out.

Music, people talking,

and I'm then beginning
to recognize the voices,

the Bostonian accent and Marilyn Monroe.

I heard the president
call Marilyn "Marilyn,"

or Marilyn calling the president "Prez."

Any conversations on the phone,

some with Jack Kennedy,
some with Bobby Kennedy,

some with Monroe, some with other people.

Arrangements for meetings,
there were gonna be rendezvous

with Jack Kennedy,
Bobby Kennedy, and Monroe.

So there were numerous tapes made
on Marilyn and Jack at the beach house

in the act of lovemaking.

They went into the bedroom
where there was another transmitter,

which picked up cuddly talk
and taking off her clothes,

the sex act in the bed.

And someone wired up Marilyn's house

on behalf of Hoffa.

Bobby Kennedy was there many times.

There were more tapes
made out of Robert Kennedy and Monroe,

as opposed to Jack Kennedy and Monroe.

This is in '62,
shortly before her death.

It must have been that summer.

Whenever she called,

and I would always answer
the attorney general's personal calls,

she would talk to me.

It was as though she were reaching out.

And Bob would call her back,
and they'd talk.

The entire globe,

yesterday, the site
of a momentous conflict.

The conflict which
has become known as the Cold War.

The Communist Bloc
would like to see the world

under communist domination.

Recently, we've seen it
extend into turbulent Cuba.

Does that disturb you? It should.

You are in the crosshairs
of the bombsight.

A massive nuclear
intercontinental capability.

The communist plan for world domination.

It is a contest unlike any we have ever
faced in our history as a nation.

I remember
when she sang for the president.

And she was so excited about it.

'Cause, "Why, the president
of the United States," you know.

You know, it was one of the most
exciting things of her life.

President is winding up his New York day
here at Madison Square Garden

in a sort of pre-birthday celebration.

Mr. Kennedy has the best seat
in the house at the function,

and it will be starting just about now,
the finale for this affair.

Mr. President,

on this occasion of your birthday,
this lovely lady, Marilyn Monroe.

Everybody! Happy birthday!

Just being the one to sing.

She was picked.

She was picked.

The one.

We met in Laguna.

A month before she died.

She came down for the weekend.

And... she told us the...

What had really taken place
with the Kennedys.

I can...
You know, I can go into the dirt,

or I can go into lots of other things,

but she... She was...

She was, uh, hurt.

Terribly hurt when...
...she was told directly

never to call or contact again.

- Robert or John.
- Right.

Well, no, that was an order.

- No, Jack didn't contact her.
- Yeah.

Bob did.

And that's what killed her.

I don't care
what anyone else says.

It was the beginning of the last day,
if you will.

Prior to her death?

She had been mixing drink
and sleeping pills.

I thought she very definitely
was on the downward path.

And I just never could
quite understand whether

she understood there was help to be had

and people did care about her.

And whether she was just...

letting go.

I like to stay here and now.

Fame is fickle.

It had its compensation.

But... it also has its drawbacks.

And I know it.

I've had you, fame.

So long!

One of the most famous stars
in Hollywood history is dead at 36.

Her housekeeper, Eunice Murray,

found the actress dead in bed,

holding in one hand a telephone,
which was off its hook.

Bottle of sleeping pills near her bed.

No notes were found.

The coroner ruled
the cause of death an overdose of drugs.

It is our opinion, probable suicide.

Well, the official finding
will never tell the story

of her life and end.

I will never forget that night

because we were at the Hollywood Bowl,

and someone, I don't know who it was,
that came to us,

and all I remember
is that we were no longer

at the Hollywood Bowl,
if you know what I mean.

About half past ten.

- Exactly.
- Right.

That's not true
because my husband was there.

That's correct.

- Remember, the official story...
- My husband fudged everything off.

I cannot tell you why because
he's no longer with us, as you know.

- He didn't tell you why...
- Don't forget, that was his business.

To keep the press at bay.
He kept everyone in abeyance.

- What happened?
- What do you mean?

Did you go into the house?

- Yeah.
- Did you see Monroe's body?

Yeah, she was on the bed.

Do you recall whether she was
on her back or stomach?

Side.

- She was on her side.
- Yes.

Yeah?

- Yeah.
- Do you know where it took her?

Took her to Santa Monica emergency.

No, she wasn't.

Yes, that's right.

Yeah.

- comatose, to the hospital...
- Right.

It's the truth.

- The other people involved.
- Involved.

I don't know who was involved.

Greenson and I were both at a... at a lunch.

I was sitting next to him at the table.

- Yes.
- And...

This is after she died.
'64, somewhere like that.

Quite closely related to her death.

They took her to St. John's.

And that she died in the ambulance.

Then they took her back to the house.
That was what he told me.

Right...

Yeah, he did!
He told me that he was in the ambulance.

Yeah, I just don't feel comfortable
telling you what he told me.

This sort of thing was not talked about.

- People of that magnitude.
- Yeah.

Also, he wouldn't want to burden me with

a knowledge
that I would then have to hide.

Hello?

Yes, Tony.

I don't want to go through it
with Marilyn again because, uh...

Listen, I don't know really anything
else that I feel that I ought to do.

- Tony!
- Yeah?

This has not had any interest
for me in a long time.

I went in, did my number, took my money
and got out of the business!

Find out where
Bobby Kennedy was that weekend.

Do you wanna ask me something or...

Yeah, I had heard,

on good authority,
that the Saturday that this happened,

Bobby had come into town.

Bobby was in town and supposedly left.

And when I say I heard it,
I heard it from a federal agent.

Yes.
It was definitely from the FBI.

I think he was at Peter's house
at the beach.

Yeah, that's what I...

In fact, I...
I must say, yes, I... I do remember that.

- He was.
- Right.

- He was at Peter's house at the beach.
- Right.

Well, I hope your phone is clean.

- Which is a good question.
- Yes.

Did Freddy, uh, corroborate?
And if you don't wanna tell me, okay.

But I can call Fred. He'll tell me.

Well, you're talking to a lot of people,
and, you know,

you're obviously really intent
on getting into this thing.

That Marilyn was murdered is baloney.

- I'll put you straight on it.
- Yeah.

First of all,
what did Freddy tell you?

There were tapes
recorded the day of her death.

Bobby Kennedy called her the night
of her death from Lawford's house.

And she said, you know, "Don't bother me.
Leave me alone. Stay out of my life."

A very violent argument, that, you know,
"I feel passed around, I feel used,

I feel like a piece of meat."

Now, that's true.

- What you just said is true.
- Right.

She was raising a stink,

calling the broth...
Calling John and the White House

and complaining about the situation.

- Because of the brother.
- Yes. The picture that I remember

is that she'd been hot and heavy
for... for Bob.

- Yes.
- At first.

And then, she'd gotten the cold shoulder,
or somehow or other, it had turned.

- Now the details of that, I don't know.
- Right.

But she had come
to the point where she felt like

- she was just being used.
- Yes.

And that's where it was at
about the time the end came.

- Right.
- She was upset and heartbro...

I don't know whether...
I don't think she was heartbroken.

I don't think that it was
a thing of being heartbroken.

It was a thing of feeling
taken advantage of and feeling

a lot of lies
and feeling that she was just being...

Had come to where she said,
you know, "I don't even want to see you."

You know, and, "Why did you come here?"

You know, "If you want to see me,
you come to see me."

- You know, "I'm not coming down there."
- Right.

The call to the White House thing,

I understood it to mean that,
like she was calling to say, you know,

"Get your brother away from me.
I hate all of you."

- That type of thing.
- Right.

There was a turning point
in her feelings.

Like a piece of meat, used, passed around.

I don't think she was heartbroken.

Feeling used.

"I hate all of you."

I appreciate
very much your calling.

I think about you once in a while.

The Kennedys were
a very important part of Marilyn's life.

I wasn't included in this information,
but I was a witness to what was happening.

Yes.

And it became so sticky

that the protectors
of Robert Kennedy, you know,

had to step in there and protect him.

Not an investigation,
but rather a "hush-hush."

Because the man that
really was involved was the boss.

He was the attorney general,
so he could have the FBI do anything.

People that knew,

they knew that they didn't want
Bobby Kennedy's name brought into this,

again, because his brother was president.

They had done everything to hush this up.

We sort of started
to piece together what happened.

Press accounts were coming out,
and they didn't make a lot of sense to us.

And so we started playing detective.

I pieced together the notion
that a helicopter was used

and went out to see the helicopter pilot.

And I said, "Can I look at your log?
Have you got a log?"

And he said, "Sure!"

And he produced his log,
and I started thumbing through it.

And I saw an entry that said

that he took Kennedy to meet
a flight en route to San Francisco.

Two or three in the morning.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Well, also a call was made
to Bobby Kennedy's people.

That's right, and that he had been at the
beach house and that he had flown out.

That that was one reason for the delay.

The message we got back was that Kennedy

would appreciate it
if we didn't do the story.

We decided that we would
not go with the story.

Uh...
What did Freddy tell you about that?

But I mean, the only people
that would know about that

would be the people at the meeting.

Lawford showed up completely disorientated

and in a state of shock,
saying that Marilyn Monroe was dead,

that Bobby Kennedy was there,

that they had gotten in a big fight,

that he was spirited
out of town back up north,

and that he'd like
to have me make arrangements

to have someone go out to the house

and pick up any and all information

that was possible regarding
any involvement

between Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys.

He was convinced there
was diaries around and maybe a note.

- One moment, please.
- Doyle.

- Yes.
- This had occurred?

- Oh yeah. It did happen.
- Right.

I was there at the time
when she died.

There were some people there that
normally wouldn't have been there.

- Bureau people?
- Yes.

Immediately. Before anybody
even realized what had happened.

It had to be instructions from
someone high up, higher than Hoover.

- The general or the president.
- Yes.

The only two.

She was raising a stink.

She was...

She...

Well, as far as the Los Angeles
District Attorney is concerned,

she killed herself,
either on purpose or accidentally.

The Marilyn Monroe case is closed.

The true things
rarely get into circulation.

It's usually the false things.

It's hard to know where to start
if you don't start with the truth.

I checked the operator for...

- Out of order.
- Hmm.

The operator said
the phone's off the hook.

She was dead...

I've had to live with it...

I should have got in my car
and gone up there.

I should have known better.

When I was a kid,

sitting in the front row...

at the movies on Saturday afternoon...

and I'd think how wonderful
it would be to be an actress.

Everything that I would see.

And...

I...

I wanted to know.

I would like to be a good actress.