Marilyn Monroes tragic life: She abused drugs for years

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Marilyn Monroe’s third marriage to playwright Arthur Miller hit the rocks when it is thought she found Mr Miller’s scrawlings, where he called her a “w***e”. A documentary based on tape recordings of conversations between journalist and author, Anthony Summers, and those closest to the actress has given new insight into the tragic life of Hollywood’s golden girl. Mr Summers began investigating her life in 1982, after he was commissioned by the Daily Express magazine, following the case into her death being reopened 20 years after the fateful night in August 1962.  
 

The Pulitzer Prize nominee conducted multiple interviews with those who knew Marilyn and were closest to the Some Like It Hot star. 

Speaking on the documentary, Mr Summers told of the moment Marilyn was heartbroken after finding Mr Miller’s notes about his wife. 

He said: “After a party, she happened upon some notes that [Mr] Miller had left lying around.

“Marilyn told her acting coach ‘it was something about how disappointed he was in me. How he thought I was some kind of angel, but now he guessed he was wrong’. 

“He’d married a woman as flawed as his previous wife had been. 

“Miller also wrote in the note that she was a w***e.”

Mr Summers went on to say that it was an incident Marilyn would refer to often, with it appearing to mark the beginning of her decline. 

Her hairdresser Sydney Guilaroff, who knew Marilyn throughout her career, told how she was not happy during “many times” of her life. 

Billy Wilder notoriously had problems with Marilyn on set of the hit film, Some Like It Hot, as she would request to redo scenes multiple times during filming in 1958.  

The director of many Classic Hollywood films also spoke to Mr Summers. 

However, Mr Wilder perceptively told the now 79-year-old Mr Summers that he did not have a problem with Marilyn, instead she had a problem with herself. 

He said: “She was slightly discombobulated at all times but by God when you suffered through that scene, through the 30, 40, 50 takes sometimes…

“I had no problems with Monroe. Monroe had problems with Monroe. She had problems with herself.”

Yet, John Huston – who directed Marilyn in both The Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits – said it was while working on the latter that he saw her decline and reliance on drugs. 

He told Mr Summers how occasionally on set, Marilyn would be practically unable to understand what was going on around her, as if in a daze. 

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Mr Huston told Mr Summers: “I was aware from the beginning [of her decline]. She was not the fresh little girl that I had 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 [The Misfits]. I remember saying to [Mr] 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.” 

Marilyn was abusing prescription drugs as those in Hollywood often do, according to Mr Summers. 

He told how Marilyn used uppers, namely amphetamines for years – as well as sleeping pills, the very drugs she took before she died. 

Tragically, she died aged just 36, the year after The Misfits was released in 1962, due to a “probable suicide” following an overdose. 

The documentary, directed by Emma Cooper, is based on Mr Summers’ book, Goddess. 

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes is available on Netflix.

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