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applying for a role in “The Untot ables,” ironically. She brought along x of ker art—painted by herself. Quite «- . talent. . . , . T have «@ letter from one of her teenage daughters about her mother's release from prison. In it she reminds that her mother looked like Marilyn Monroe. It was a na- tiona) contest held by 20th Century-Fox. Liz and Marilyn were born the same year, The daughter says her mother will short- ly have a book published. It is titled “Debt of Honor.” In it the author says: “I know what I did was wrong, but what else could I bave done? Can you hurt a man who helped you when you needed it most? Can you then turn your back on him? When ou see him with his back to the well? was forced to choose the lesser of two evils. There was no way to win”, ~ At the prison gates when Liz Renay comes out she will be greeted by her daughter, Brenda, and husband and their babies—born while youngish Grandms . was paying her Debt of Honor. - * Pravda ran an article bylined by Negro __ operatic star Paul Robeson. It- told “why” Negroes cannot make a living under Uncle Sam, etcetera. The familiar tripe. . - Paul has been away from his native land so long perhaps he doesn’t keep up with the news about his former Harlem neigh- pleying baeeball with TT getung FLUU,VUU tor San. Francisco Giants. How about Sammy Davis, Jr? Harry Belafonte? Nat (King) Cole? Diahann Carroll, leading lady of “No Strings” on Broadway? Pravda, in case you’ve forgotten, Paul, is Russian for weay svugs tc _ Truth. : once was chosen as the girl who moet . . . . *. Memo to Newsmen Everywhere: Re- porters who want to interview Tony Ran- dall (and who ask personal queries) had better be in good shape. Randal! conducts most-of his New York interviews at the Gotham Health Club while working out. * Just about ten years ago Delbert Mann and Paddy Chayefsky received, respective- ly, $9,000 and $13,000 for the direction and screenplay of ‘‘Marty.” It made a for- tune for its landlords and others. Today Delbert and Paddy each receive $150,000 per film. Plus hefty percentage. Sophie Loren will protray a 60-year-old woman in “Yesterday, Today and Tomor- row.” Whadda Waste! * Here's an item for the Every-Little-Bit- Helpe-Dept.: Movie and swim star Esther (we call her Statuesther) Williams re- cently received a royalty check. It was for ovie people and others & shot -s recently back from The east brought back this enlighte ug That Princess Soraya “ id with her ex-husband, ‘Tran, when she announced plans for a film debut on the anniversary of their divorce. It was in March, 1958, that Soraya was exiled from Iran. The deal to make a movie with producer de Laurentiis was announced in Rome, March 15, 1963. Her friends also spread the “news” that Soraya is convinced she was divorced not because she couldn't bear children—but because the Shah fell out of love with her. Doctors, they added, assured Soraya that a minor operation would enable her to be come a mother. * ‘Long Deep Sigh Dept.: We note that Maureen O'Hara's beautiful cighteen-year- old daughter Bronwyn appears with Maureen in Warner's epic “Spencer's Mountain.” O, dear. It seems like only a few Yesterdays Ago that Charles Laughton presented the eighteen-year-old Maureen in “Jamaica Inn.” * Some Hollywood folks are still upset over Hedda Hopper’s book which “tells all” One actress complained: “Imagine writing our memoirs instead of her own!” Tae Enp MARILYN MONROE Continued from page 52 world at that time that he had to. have a celebration of his good fortune. His ca- reer had reached a height he never before dreamed it would, and there were obvi- ously better, much better things in store for him. And what better celebration than - to have the’ world’s most desirable sex symbol in love with him? With Marilyn, it was not good fortune but unhappiness that drew her to him. She wae getting older, she was afraid she was losing her beauty, she was afraid she'd lose out on ber career. Her last pictures had not made the mongy expected of s Monroe movie—and if the couldn’t make money for the producers, who would hire her. And hadn’t 20th just fired her? Most of all, she had never found the love ahe’d been looking for, the love that was going to make her forget all her past _ unhappiness, the love that would make * ber world a beantiful place. So she went on looking. And not finding, she became more and more desperate. And with her desperation came the end- less pills, the drinking, and a dream she'd had before—the dream of ending it all in And then there was the man.” Z * She needed him. She needed his con- fidence and his vitality. Because if this man was so confident of himself and of his future, and since he'd chosen her, didn’t that mean he believed in her, too? And if he believed in her, then she couldn't possibly be as bad as she thought she was. Maybe he will marry mel Besides, to her, there was always the faint possibility that he would marry her \ and they could live happily ever after. But it was all a dream, and somewhere deep inside her she knew that. He explained to her that they'd never marry. He loved his wife, he told her, though he loved her, too. And there was his career, he told her, any scandal would ruin it—and he’d never allow that to hap- pen. This was what he'd dedicated his life to. No, he’d never allow that to happen. And so they spent time together, aa- rauch time as they could manage, in quiet, out of the way places, at her home, in friends’ apartments, once or twice mecting in the same public place and not acknow!l- edging each other. . : You must understand that he is en honorable man. Never before had he been anything but devoted to his wife and- family. But he had a need for Marilyn and he allowed himself his indulgence. It was . to be his fatal flaw. ; » And, Marilyn, at that time, was too weak to deny her need for him And so they went on—reaching closer and closer to tragedy —until the man’s conscience began to er him. Some people knew about their: romance, could his wife find out? What would she do—would she leave him? seas rm : sv os fic: - And, if it became public knowledge, what would happen to his work? Would he be besmirched by scandal just when his life's dream was close to the brink of coming true? He’d better see Marilyn less. He'd . | better try to stop seeing her altogether. And ‘the more he tried to stop seeing her, the more desperate Marilyn became. There were the phone calls, the threats, the pills again. He didn’t believe her, all she did was make him almost hate her. Finally, on a Sunday night August 5, 1962, Marilyn. tried again. She spoke to him on the phone. “Don't leave me,” she pleaded. “It’s over,” he answered, “I'll never leave my wife. I can’t see you any more.” He hung up on her and she tried to lose herself in sleep. Beside her bed there was a bottle of fifty sleep capsules. There, there was her friend, the thing that always gave her peace. She gulped down a handful. The phone rang. It was a close friend of hers, a friend who knew all about the romance, “He won't take me back,” she cried. “He said he'll never come back.” The friend told her, “I’l) come over and talk to you.” . But Marilyn didn’t want anyone to see her the way she looked. Her eyes were swollon and red. She'd let her blonde hair grow out until the dark roots showed. Her face clearly showed the signs of drinking and pills. “No,” she said, “I’ve taken a sleeping pill. "I just go to sleep.” But she couldn’t sleep—and next to her was the bottle of pills. If she could pe ee Bie ae aa es