I attended the Remembering Marilyn Monroe Wednesday night in Los Angeles, where the 1964 documentary The Legend of Marilyn Monroe was screened. (My account about the evening is up over at my Examiner column.)
ROBERT MITCHUM appears long enough to utter one mystifying line about Marilyn: "She had a quiescent loser's philosophy." He made River of No Return with her, on location in Canada, where he later recalled trying to get her to shake the affected mannerisms her dialect coach suggested.
Shelley Winters, who was Marilyn's roommate when the two were struggling starlets, was also quoted briefly in the film: "If she were dumber, she would have been a lot happier."
The director of the documentary, Terry Sanders took part in a Q&A with Susan Bernard, author of the book Marilyn: Intimate Exposures. Bernard commented that he was lucky to get Mitchum to say anything at all, as the actor was notoriously hard to interview. (Larry King recently told a reporter that Mitchum was his toughest interview ever: "I loved Robert Mitchum's work, but he drove me nuts. He only gave one-word answers!")
Bernard read from her book and shared images taken by her father, Bruno Bernard, the photographer who discovered Marilyn. Juxtaposed with pin-up pictures of a young Marilyn was a photo of Mitchum enjoying a girlie magazine!
Pic courtesy of this lovely Marilyn fan site
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