The Genius and the Goddess

• Title
  
• By the Same Author
  
• Title Page
  
• Copyright Page
  
• Illustrations
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• Dedication
  
• Epigraph
  
• Chapter One First Encounter (1951)
  
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• Chapter Two Marilyn's Traumatic Childhood (1926–1946)
  
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• Chapter Three A Star Is Born (1947–1954)
  
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• Chapter Four Image and Identity (1950s)
  
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• Chapter Five Joe DiMaggio (1952–1954)
  
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• Chapter Six Miller's Path to Fame (1915–1949)
  
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• Picture Section 1
  
• Chapter Seven Secret Courtship (1954–1955)
  
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• Chapter Eight New York and the Actors Studio (1954–1956)
  
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• Chapter Nine Betrayal and Guilt (1950–1956)
  
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• Chapter Ten Witch Hunt (1956–1958)
  
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• Chapter Eleven Marriage and England (1956–1957)
  
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• Chapter Twelve Heading for Disaster (1957–1960)
  
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• Picture Section 2
  
• Chapter Thirteen Billy Wilder and Yves Montand (1958–1960)
  
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• Chapter Fourteen Making The Misfits (1960)
  
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• Chapter Fifteen The Misfits: Life into Art (1960)
  
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• Chapter Sixteen Something's Got to Give (1961–1962)
  
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• Chapter Seventeen Suicide (1962)
  
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• Chapter Eighteen Miller's Tragic Muse (1964–2004)
  
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• Appendix: Marilyn's Illnesses and Hospitalizations
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  

The Genius and the Goddess

Books by Jeffrey Meyers

BIOGRAPHY

A Fever at the Core: The Idealist in Politics
Married to Genius
Katherine Mansfield
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis
Hemingway
Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle
D.H. Lawrence
Joseph Conrad
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
Scott Fitzgerald
Edmund Wilson
Robert Frost
Bogart: A Life in Hollywood
Gary Cooper: American Hero
Privileged Moments: Encounters with Writers
Wintry Conscience: A Biography of George Orwell
Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam
Somerset Maugham
Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas
and Cassatt
Modigliani
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle

CRITICISM

Fiction and the Colonial Experience
The Wounded Spirit:T.E. Lawrence's
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
A Reader's Guide to George Orwell
Painting and the Novel
Homosexuality and Literature
D.H. Lawrence and the Experience of Italy
Disease and the Novel
The Spirit of Biography
Hemingway: Life into Art

BIBLIOGRAPHY

T.E. Lawrence: A Bibliography
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Siegfried Sassoon
George Orwell: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism

EDITED COLLECTIONS

George Orwell: The Critical Heritage
Hemingway: The Critical Heritage
Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader
The W. Somerset Maugham Reader

EDITED ORIGINAL ESSAYS

Wyndham Lewis: A Revaluation
Wyndham Lewis
by Roy Campbell
D.H. Lawrence and Tradition
The Legacy of D.H. Lawrence
The Craft of Literary Biography
The Biographer's Art
T.E. Lawrence: Soldier, Writer, Legend
Graham Greene: A Revaluation

ARTHUR MILLER AND
MARILYN MONROE

Jeffrey Meyers

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1. Norma Jeane and her mother, Gladys Baker, Los Angeles beach,
1928

2. Norma Jeane and her first husband, Jim Dougherty, 1943

3. Arthur Miller, Norman Rosten, Hedda Rosten and Mary
Slattery Miller, 1940 (
Patricia Rosten Filan
)

4. Miller with Mary and his children, Jane and Robert, 1953

5. Marilyn and Johnny Hyde, late 1949

6. Marilyn and Natasha Lytess,
c
.1952 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

7. Marilyn and Louis Calhern in
The Asphalt Jungle
, 1950
(
© Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
)

8. Marilyn with Anne Baxter, Bette Davis and George Sanders in
All About Eve
, 1950 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

9. Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio, 1953

10. Marilyn entertaining troops in Korea, February 1954
(
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

11. Marilyn with Milton and Amy Greene, 1955

12. Lee, Paula and Susan Strasberg, 1963 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

13. Marilyn in airport bathroom, April 1955 (
Eve Arnold: Magnum
)

14. Marilyn, signed studio photo, 1956 (
Charlene Hess
)

15. Marilyn in
The Seven Year Itch
, 1955 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

16. Marilyn and DiMaggio at premiere of
The Seven Year Itch
, June
1955 (
© Sunset Boulevard/Sygma/Corbis
)

17. Miller and Marilyn on their wedding day, with his parents, June
1956 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

18. Miller and Marilyn, July 1956 (
© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
)

19. Miller and Marilyn in English garden, July 1956
(
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

20. Marilyn and Billy Wilder making
Some Like It Hot
, 1958
(
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

21. Marilyn with Isak Dinesen and Carson McCullers, February
1959 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

22. Miller and Marilyn with Simone Signoret and Yves Montand,
January 1960 (
© John Bryson/Sygma/Corbis
)

23. Marilyn with President Sukarno, 1956

24. Dr. Ralph Greenson,
c
.1960

25. John Huston, Marilyn and Miller on the set of
The Misfits
, 1960
(
Frank Taylor Archive
)

26. Frank Taylor, Miller, Eli Wallach, Huston, Montgomery Clift,
Marilyn and Clark Gable on the set of
The Misfits
, 1960
(
© Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
)

27. Gable and Marilyn in
The Misfits
, 1960 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

28. Miller and Marilyn estranged in Reno hotel room, 1960
(
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

29. Marilyn's crypt, Westwood Memorial Park, 1962 (
Valerie Meyers
)

30. Miller and Elia Kazan,
c
.1963 (
© Bettmann/Corbis
)

31. Barbara Loden and Jason Robards in
After the Fall
, 1964
(
Inge Morath © The Inge Morath Foundation/Magnum
)