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The book was found among Monroe's possessions when she died. The real estate listing of her former home describes the discovery in the 1970s of a 'sophisticated, government grade eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that extended into every room of the house.' Its origins were never confirmed, although some believe it to have been done by the mafia, as described by biographer Anthony Summers in Vanity Fair.ĭuring her conversion period she studied under Rabbi Robert Goldburg, who had given her Jewish texts to absorb, and kept a prayer book scribbled with personal notes - a gift from her husband, who had received it as a Bar Mitzvah present. She never did make that trip, but the FBI opened a file on her. It also didn't help that she had requested to visit the Soviet Union in 1955. Yet the FBI continued to nurse suspicions of Monroe. Miller's announcement of his upcoming nuptials during the hearing was likely to have played out in his favor he avoided a jail sentence, being given a suspended sentence that was overturned in 1958, and he and Monroe suffered no permanent public backlash. When he refused to do so, Marilyn Monroe, who was engaged to him, stayed loyal to her fiance - despite warnings by her peers that it could permanently damage her career. Playwright Arthur Miller narrowly escaped this fate in 1956 when he was called to testify against suspected colleagues in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, according to Biography. Eventually she was rescued by Joe DiMaggio, her second husband. Yet the cruel treatment by the doctors caused her to rebel. She switched to two more psychotherapists and was eventually sent to a psychiatric ward, supposedly as a cure for her bouts of stress and insomnia. She began relying on barbiturates to help her sleep. This was disastrous for Monroe, who constantly battled with self-doubt and fears of letting down those she loved. to be by her side when she discovered her husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, had diary entries about how embarrassed he was by her. Although it was tortuous, Straberg believed she needed to go through the process to reach the emotional depths of an artist.

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Her archive 'Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters,' analysed by Vanity Fair, shows how the process most likely unearthed a childhood incident of sexual abuse for which she was shamed by her guardian Aunt Ida. Monroe's friend and acting tutor Lee Strasberg encouraged her to have regular sessions with the psychotherapist Dr. The fragile mental state of Gladys, who was schizophrenic and often in hospitals, gave her a fear of hereditary madness. This and some of the other surprising aspects of her eventful life are listed below. In the years since her tragic demise, her legacy has been reassessed, with fans drawing attention not just to her magnetic presence on screen but her considerable intellect and outspokenness about the sexism of Hollywood, at a time when doing so was almost impossible.

She is unlikely ever to be forgotten, even if she is not always remembered quite how she would have liked. They showed her to be someone with creative flair, literary passions, and a desire to make her craft be its very best, even though her unhappy childhood, fraught personal life, experiences of sexual abuse and struggles with addiction ultimately proved to be her undoing, contributing to her death from a drug overdose in 1962. However, the discovery of her archive of letters and diary entries, 'Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters,' has shed light on the turbulent thoughts and desires of a woman who was always so much more than what she appeared. One of the great tragedies of her life was that she never quite became the serious thespian she so longed to be.