Marilyn received the Golden Globe Award for 'Best Actress In A Comedy' for 'Some Like It Hot' on March 8th 1960. The film was (in recent years) voted the 'Best Comedy of All Time'.
That same year she began (in June) to see her psychiatrist Dr.Ralph Greenson on a daily basis.
incidentally, Ralph was one of twins and the names he and his sister were given at birth were 'Romeo' and 'Juliet'...
On the back of her Wedding Photo's to Miller, Marilyn had written:
hope hope hope!
Marilyn was found by Paula Strassberg, unconscious on the floor of her hotel room on August 26 1960. Marilyn was increasingly depressed and anxious while filming the Misfits. A combination of marital problems, increased prescription drugs and alcohol combination, a recent miscarriage and the hard work of filming had pushed her to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Temperatures hovered at one hundred degrees, and Marilyn kept the entire cast waiting for hours while she attempted to compose herself and overcome her anxiety attacks. Her director thought that she was taking as many as twenty sleeping pills a day Clark survived the first heart attack but 10 days later he had had another heart attack and this time he died.
Arthur and Marilyn were officially divorced on January 20 1961. A month later on February 7 1961, she checked herself into the Payne Whitney Institute, suffering with depression and nervous exhaustion. She was advised to do this by her Doctor, Dr.Marianne Kris. It was a terrible shock for Marilyn as she was not allowed to use the 'phone, she was locked in her room and generally treated as though she was severely disturbed. On February 9 she managed to get in touch with Joe Di Maggio and begged him to help her. He came running.
Joe stormed into the building demanding to see 'my wife' and insisted that he would 'take the hospital apart brick by brick' if they didn't release her immediately. She was transferred to Columbia Presbyterian hospital in New York instead where she was far happier. Marilyn was eternally grateful to Joe for rescuing her.
Marilyn was a lot happier than she had been in ages when in 1962, she was just one film away from being free from her Fox contract. She began shooting "Something's Got to Give," although it was never completed. Throughout filming she suffered from sickness and depression from time to time but she was able to perform "Happy Birthday" from President Kennedy while she was allegedly sick. It seems that Marilyn would occasionally be genuinely sick but also would occasionally pretend to be sick as she resented having to obey the powers at Fox and wanted to be free from them. After returning from singing to the President, Marilyn said that she was ill again but Fox had enough and released Marilyn from her contract. They tried to finish production on the film, but Dean Martin backed Marilyn up and refused to go on without her, he said that it was written in his contract that he would work with Marilyn and so he had the right to work with her or not at all, he wouldn't accept a replacement actress.
After renegotiations with Fox, she was rehired (at double the salary) to finish
the film.
When, in 1962, Marilyn moved into her new home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive the inscription above her front door read; "Cursum Perficio" which is Latin for; I have completed my journey'. She remarked to friends that it was sad really to buy a house alone. She said that normally buying a house was something that one did with their partner. She bought the house, in Brentwood, California in February, 1962. The purchase price was less than $90,000, with a nineteen year mortgage of $37,500. Her monthly payments were $320.
Although this is unsubstantiated, Marilyn had been seeing Joe DiMaggio again and it was rumored the two had agreed to remarry on August 8, 1962.
Yet again I have loads of work to do on this page
Her Mexican divorce from Arthur Miller was granted on January 20 1961.
The following day she was taken to the Westside hospital in Los Angeles.
Three months later on November 11 it was announced that she and Arthur Miller were to divorce. He had been (reportedly) having an affair with Inge Morath, a photographer whom he later married. On November 16, Clark Gable had a heart attack and it was said that this was Marilyns fault due to her problems on set causing stress to him. She was devastated. In a few short months she'd lost her unborn child, her husband, her childhood hero and friend and now she was being accused of causing his death.