Norma Jean & Marilyn Page #6

that never try to change me.

They shake me see, and some-times

they get very nasty and they yell,

"Hey, b*tch! Get the f*** outta bed! "

Oh, yes. Sometimes,

when I feel my clock running down

and I'm dead on my feet

and I can't dance another step,

the run all over my body

and turn all my switches back on..

They make me alive again.

The way they lined up to see me

in New York.

Don't let it go to your head.

The same folks line up to see

the fat lady and the two headed calf.

They love a good freak show.

You seemed to enjoy it.

You think I'm fat?.

You're a little prky around the middle

if you want to know.

I didn't ask.

You know, Zanuck says he thinks

"The Seven Year Itch"

is gonna make him a bundle.

He says it's my best role ever.

Well, you've had enough practice.

It's the same role you always play --

cheap, dim-witted floozie.

He says I'm really incredibly good

in the picture.

Then why is he sending us this crap?.

Have you looked at these master-pieces?.

"The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing,"

you play a rich old man's mistress.

"The Revolt of Mamie Stovere,"

you play a hooker in Honolulu.

Oh, and here's an art movie,

"How To Be Very, Very Popular,

Starring Marilyn Monroe

as Curly Flagg."

You should be working with Burton,

with Brando with Olivier!

But what if I'm, you know,

not that good of an actress?.

I mean, what if I just don't have

that kind of talent?.

Then you'll just have to develop

that kind of talent.

You'll just have to march

into Zanuck's office

and remind him that he would lose

about a million dollars a year

without you.

You'll just have to tell him

you want to do serious roles

in serious films

with serious directors you select.

And then what?.

Then will you be happy?.

Will that be good enough for you?.

Will anything ever be good enough

for you?.

No, dear.

Movie stars don't choose

their own pictures.

I choose their pictures.

That's how they get to be movie stars.

Understand me?. You are a movie star

because I made you a movie star.

You could send me your sister

from Phily or your aunt Josephine

from Minneapolis...

If I wanted to,

I could do the same thing for them.

No. If I am a star, it's the public

that has made me a star...

No studio... No director... The public.

Is that so?.

Well, all the public

wants to see you do is sing

and dance and wiggle your ass!

Who do you think you are --

Katherine Hepburn?.

You wanna play Shakespeare?.

You wanna play

"The Brothers Karamazov?. "

Not the Brothers. Grushenka.

Huh?.

She's a girl, Mr. Zanuck.

All right. Let's defer this discussion.

We'll talk about it after

"The Seven Year Itch" is released.

Well, now I think

you need my help to promote that movie.

So that gives me more...

What was that word

that Johnny used to use?.

I know...Leverage.

We're here today with Marilyn Monroe,

the first woman in the history of show

business who successfully negotiate her

own independent production deal.

I'm Sidney Skolsky and I love Hollywood

Marilyn, I understand that under

the terms of your new deal

you'll be developing screen properties

to produce yourself out of your office

in New York. Now, uh...

Why New York, Marilyn?.

Well, Sidney, I believe

it's a better atmosphere

for me to find good materia,

and for me to learn to use myself

more fully as an actress.

You will never find

anyone who loves you like I do.

You cannot even recognize sincere love

when it is offered to you --

you ungrateful brat!

I took you in when you were nothing.

I breathed live into you!

I made you into a star!

Yeah, you and apparently everybody else

in Hollywood.

You would have thrown away your career

for a moron --

for a cretin!

I am the one who saved you!

Yeah, well,

Joe isn't my husband anymore, Natash.

And neither are you!

Make it real. Make it honest.

You are angry. Juliette is angry.

The nurse is dilatory.

You want to yell. You want to scream.

So...do it. Go ahead. Come on, yell.

I can't.

You can't?. Then get out of the business

What are you feeling now?.

You're frustrated now?. You're angry?.

Then Yell, goddamn you!

God, I'd die if he screamed at me

like like that.

That's better. Now...

Listen if a doctor gives you good stuff

and it works,

you don't have to like him, do you?.

This torture should be brought

in dismal hell.

Did Romeo slay himself?.

Mr. Strasberg?.

I really enjoyed your class today.

You're so brilliant with actors.

I have...

Well, I've been wanting to extend

my range as an actress.

And I've always dreamed of studying

at the Actor's Studio.

It takes a lot of courage

for those who are already functioning

professionally to come to work here.

Unfortunately,

you have already acquired

many odd habits and mannerisms

which you now have to unlearn.

I recommend private lessons

in my study perhaps three times a week.

You might even like to stay

for dinner afterwards.

Thank you.

We've met before.

Elia Kazan introduced us years ago.

I don't know if you remember.

Why of course I remember, Art.

I was just a very unimportant starlet

then and you just won

the Pulitzer Prize

for "Death of a Salesman."

I'm prepping a new play, uh...

"A View From the Bridge."

We open next month at the Coronet.

Uh...perhaps you'd like to stop by

and watch a rehearsal with me sometime

maybe make a few suggestions.

They'll say,

"If Arthur Miller's interested in her,

she must be more intelligent

than we thought.

She must have hidden dimensions

we never even suspected."

They'll probably say,

"If Arthur Miller's interested in her,

he must be desperate to get laid."

Didn't you figure it out last time?.

So now, instead of

trying to cook spaghetti,

you're gonna try to make matzo balls...

They're harder, you idiot!

You're not meant for love

and marriage -- you're not built for it.

Stick with what you're good at.

Nothing if I listen to you!

He's old enough to be your father!

And then there's this voice in my head,

"Do this. Don't do that."

It never ever stops.

You know, some days...

Well, a lot of days actually --

like even today...

I uh, think I'm about one step away

from becoming a raving sh*t throwing

lunatic just like my mother

and my grandmother... You know?.

'Cause it's in my blood.

It's in my brain.

I...I don't...

I don't want to end up a zombie.

I don't...I don't want to end up

lead around by some nurse

Iike some kind of

a wind-up doll on wheels.

See, every morning I wake up

and I worry about whether

I'm gonna end up in some hospital,

strapped to my bed and crapping

in my clothes -- screaming gibberish.

Am I gonna end up like my mother,

Dr. Kris?.

The science of the mind has progressed

a great deal in the last twenty years,

Marilyn.

We are not as quick to hospitalize

as we once were.

there are new therapies,

new medications.

Tell me something, Dr. Kris.

What would you think if I became a Jew?.

But I think it should be a serious name

don't you?.

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