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New Mystery of Marilyn: Her Own Words?
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Updated: 2005-08-06 13:58 Greenson's widow, Hildegard, told The Times this week that she didn't know if
the tapes existed and never heard her husband discuss them. Still, she does not
discount that Monroe may have given her husband such tapes and that he played
them for Miner.
"That seems like something my husband would do," she said. "He might want to
play it to show how she felt and what was going on with her." At the time of the
recordings, Monroe was living an unsettled life. There was the rumor of a
romance with Kennedy, fueled by her appearance at a birthday tribute on May 19
at Madison Square Garden where she sang the now legendary "Happy Birthday, Mr.
President." Studio bosses at 20th Century Fox had dropped her from the film
"Something's Got to Give" because of chronic lateness and drug dependency.
No one has established the exact date that the recordings were made, although
the JFK reference would put it after her singing tribute, a little more than two
months before she died.
Smith says his research suggests that Monroe gave the psychiatrist the tapes
Aug. 4. According to Miner, Greenson's sole purpose in playing the tapes for him
was to help establish her state of mind at the time of her death, "so they were
made pretty close to the time she died."
Hollywood columnist James Bacon, now 91, who met Monroe when she was an
unknown in 1949 and would later become a close friend, was at Monroe's house
five days before she died.
"She was drinking champagne and straight vodka and occasionally popping a
pill," Bacon told The Times. "I said, 'Marilyn, the combination of pills and
alcohol will kill you.' And she said, 'It hasn't killed me yet.' Then she took
another drink and popped another pill. I know at night she took barbiturates."
But Bacon added: "She wasn't the least bit depressed. She was talking about
going to Mexico. She had a Mexican boyfriend at the time. I forget his name.
This was the first house she ever owned. She was going to buy some furniture.
She was in very good spirits that day — of course, the champagne and vodka
helped."
In the transcript, Monroe uses what therapists call "free association,"
saying whatever came into her mind. "Isn't it true that the key to analysis is
free association?" she says. "Marilyn Monroe associates. You, my doctor, by
understanding and interpretation of what goes on in my mind, get to my
unconscious, which makes it possible for you to treat my neuroses and for me to
overcome them."
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