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Last week America's No. 1 glamour girl was stricken with mental illness. Norma Jean Mortenson, better known as Marilyn Monroe, had herself admitted to Manhattan's famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, part of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. After four days she was discharged, "improved" -for a trip across town to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, besides a rest and checkup. Marilyn was to continue intensive psychiatric treatment...
Looking like anything but a misfit, Marilyn Monroe was radiant as she at tended a Manhattan showing of The Mis fits, escorted by Co-Star Montgomery Clift. Seated two rows in front of her was ex-Husband Arthur Miller, who had written the script. They exchanged no greet ings - but both seemed to enjoy their own work as displayed on the screen...
...divorce, a ponderous disquisition on man's inhumanity to man, woman and various other animals, an obtuse attempt to write sophisticated comedy, a woolly lament for the loss of innocence in American life and, above all, a glum, long (2 hr. 5 min.), fatuously embarrassing psychoanalysis of Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and what went wrong with their famous marriage...
Roslyn, the film's heroine, is admittedly Marilyn. Gable's Gay, the aging cowboy, obviously speaks for Miller. The two meet in Reno, where she has spent six weeks getting a divorce and he has spent 30 years getting divorcees. He takes her to an isolated cabin, listens to interminable hard-luck stories out of Marilyn's childhood, falls improbably in love, hauls her off to a rodeo with two of his buddies (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach). She is terrified by the violence she sees there; he is bewildered by her inability to accept death...
Divorced. Arthur Miller, 45, playwright; by Marilyn Monroe, 34; after four years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico, on the ground of incompatibility. The decree, the judge warned solemnly, prohibited thrice-married Miss Monroe from remarrying "within the next 48 hours." She didn...