Marilyn's Legacy Page Two

Marilyn was one of the few performers of her generation to create her own motion picture production company. Along with business partner, Milton Greene, she co-produced Bus Stop (1956) & produced The Prince and the Showgirl. She received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress" for her performance in Bus Stop.

Following Marilyn's divorce from playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn consistently telephoned his widowed father every Sunday evening. The elderly Isador Miller escorted Marilyn to President Kennedy's birthday gala in May 1962.

The majority of Marilyn's films grossed in excess of $200,000,000 at the time when the average admission price was fifty cents.

Marilyn's personal library contained over 400 books on topics ranging from art, history, psychology, philosophy, literature, religion, poetry & gardening. Many of the volumes, auctioned in 1999, bore Marilyn's pencil notations in the margins.

Marilyn's estate continues to bequeath proceeds to the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic in the UK.

Photographer Sam Shaw: "Everybody knows about her insecurities, but not everyone knows what fun she was, that she never complained about the ordinary things in life, that she never had a bad word to say about anyone, and that she had a wonderful spontaneous sense of humor."

Press agent Pat Newcomb: "At the core of her, she was really strong, and that was something we tended to forget, because she seemed so vulnerable, and one always felt it was necessary to watch out for her."