加载中…独家报道：玛丽莲·梦露如何逃离洛杉矶，在纽约展开新生活
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She wore a black wig， Ray-Bans and called herself
Zelda Zonk: How Marilyn Monroe escaped LA for a new life in New
York where she had an affair with Marlon Brando and hung out with
Truman Capote
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Marilyn Monroe was tired of being treated 'like a dumb-blonde cash
cow' by Fox executive Darryl Zanuck who called her 'Strawhead'
behind her back
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- To change her sexpot image she stopped
'squeezing into too-tight sizes， stitching marbles into her
bra'
- - She hoped to form her own independent film company， Marilyn Monroe Productions
- - 她希望能建立起自己独立的制片公司，玛丽莲·梦露制片公司
- - Look magazine photographer Milton Greene， and his wife， Amy， helped her get settled in New York
- - 《Look》杂志的摄影师米尔顿·格林和他的妻子阿梅帮她在纽约住下来。
- 译注：《Look》杂志是一份专门为年轻女性读者的商业大街时尚和名人周刊杂志。 该杂志专注于时尚，商业大街购物的建议，名人范儿和新闻以及现实生活中的故事。
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- She
dated Marlon Brando， had pillow fights with writer Truman Capote
and drank gin with Frank Sinatra and
studied with Lee Strasberg - - 她和马龙·白兰度约会，与作家特鲁曼·卡佩特有过枕头大战，和法兰克·辛纳特拉一起喝过杜松子酒，又和李·斯特拉斯伯格一起学习
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- When she returned in Los Angeles
after the divorce from Arthur Miller she fell into a downward
spiral of
loneliness and drugs - - 在她与剧作家阿瑟·米勒离婚并回到洛杉矶后，陷入了孤独和毒品的恶性循环
- - Weeks later， on August 5， 1962， Monroe died in her bed in her Brentwood home
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几个星期后，1962年8月5日，梦露就死在她在布伦特伍德家的床上 -
- Writer Elizabeth Winder tells of
Monroe's New York life in
her upcoming book， Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy -
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作家伊丽莎白·温特在她即将出版的书“玛丽莲在曼哈顿”中讲述了梦露在纽约生活：她的欢乐时光。 -
A woman named Zelda Zonk boarded the last flight from Los Angeles to New York in November 1954， wrapped in a black mink coat and wearing Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and a black wig styled in a blunt pageboy.
一个名为泽尔达·寵克（Zelda Zonk）的女子登上了从洛杉矶飞纽约的最后一个航班，于1954年11月，穿着一件黑色貂皮大衣，戴着一副雷朋的徒步旅行者太阳镜（Ray-Ban Wayfarer）和一个黑色的假发，扮着一位小听差的范儿。
Jittery， she smoked and bit her nails until safely in the air when she removed the wig revealing blonde curls.
- 她抽着烟，不时地咬指甲，紧张不安的样子，直到觉得安全之后，她脱下了假发，露出一头金色的卷发。
It was Marilyn Monroe， then 28， en route to
New York in the company of Look magazine photographer， Milton
Greene， writes Elizabeth Winder writes in her upcoming
book，
这就是玛丽莲·梦露，那时候正28岁，正在去找纽约《Look》杂志摄影记者米尔顿·格林的路上；伊丽莎白·温德（Elizabeth Winder）在她即将出版的书《玛丽莲在曼哈顿：她的欢乐时光》中这样写到。
Hollywood's sex kitten was leaving behind her broken marriage to baseball legend， Joe DiMaggio， her contract with Twentieth Century Fox， her agent， her acting coach， and a closet full of merry widow corsets that cinched in the waist and pushed up the breasts.
好莱坞的性感小猫正在离开，将她与棒球明星乔伊·迪马乔之间破碎了的婚姻、她和20世纪福特的合同、她的经理人、她的演出指导以及整整一大橱装满用于束腰和推高乳房的风流寡妇胸衣弃之脑后。
译注：Merry widow corsets是一种紧身衣，维基百科称：这是一种打底的内衣，胸罩和束腰带连在一起。 它的前、后两面会装饰有蕾丝花边。
She was chasing a dream - to escape the Hollywood studio system and become a real actress.
她正在追逐一个梦想 - 逃离好莱坞摄影棚系统，成为一个真正的女演员。
New York City and Milton Greene promised to fulfill the sought-after dream with the creation of her own independent film company， Marilyn Monroe Productions （MMP）.
纽约市和米尔顿·格林（Milton Greene）答应她通过创建她自己的独立电影公司玛丽莲·梦露制片公司（Marilyn Monroe Productions（MMP））来实现她所追求的梦想。
玛丽莲·梦露（摄于1955年，在纽约），1954年11月离开洛杉矶，正希望在纽约拥有她自己的独立电影制片公司。
Marilyn Monroe （pictured in March 1955 In New York） left Los Angeles in November 1954 in hopes of her own independent film company， Marilyn Monroe Productions， in New York City
《LOOK》杂志的摄影师米尔顿·格林（坐在玛丽莲·梦露的左边，1956年）帮助她定居在纽约。
Look magazine photographer Milton Greene （left with Monroe in 1956） helped her get settled in New York
Monroe fell in love with the city and it was
her last chance to escape what was inevitable if she returned to
Los Angeles: simply being a movie
star.
She dated Marlon Brando， had pillow fights with writer Truman Capote and drank gin at the Subway Inn with Frank Sinatra.
All the while she studied with the method-acting master Lee Strasberg at his Actor's Studio， surrounded by supportive friends.
It was the first time in the actress's life that she discovered personal fulfillment. Strasberg took her under his wing and coached her privately.
'This was the validation that she'd been
desperately searching for，' author Winder writes
in
Long walks throughout the city， visits to art galleries and theaters， and the close camaraderie of supportive friends， Monroe vowed never to return to Hollywood.
When Monroe discovered Brooklyn with playwright， Arthur Miller， it became her Nirvana， 'her true home'.
'It's my favorite place in the world，' Monroe raved at the time. 'I haven't traveled much， but I don't think I'll find a place that can ever replace Brooklyn. I just like walking around. The view is better from Brooklyn.
'You can look over and see Manhattan - that's the best view. It's the people and the streets and the atmosphere. I just love it.'
From the moment Monroe landed at New York's Idlewild Airport， now called John F Kennedy International Airport， it seemed like a magical time.
In the summer of 1953， the actress was at the peak of her stardom that was launched into iconic status with the film， Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
She left Los Angeles to escape being type cast and to get away from her broken marriage with Joe DiMaggio （pictured above with Monroe）
'In less than five years， she'd gone from orphanage waif to child bride to factory girl to car model to GI pinup to studio underling to down-and-out extra to mogul's mistress to Playboy centerfold to BAFTA nominee，' writes Winder.
'She'd been Sweetheart of the Month， Artichoke Queen， Miss Cheesecake of the Year， Girl Most Likely to Thaw Alaska， Photoplay's Fastest Rising Star， Redbook's Best Young Box Office Personality， Look's Most Promising Female Newcomer， and The Best Friend a Diamond Ever Had.'
She had done 21 films， 300 magazine covers， and won three Golden Globes en route to becoming Hollywood's most bankable actress.
But with dawn call times to be on the set and a grueling travel schedule， it was taking its toll on Monroe who harbored other dreams and one prevailing desire to act in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
'I'm tired of sex roles，' she complained while fighting anemia which required massive vitamin B injections and drinking tomato juice spiked with ground-up liver.
She was being treated 'like a dumb-blonde cash cow' by Fox executive Darryl Zanuck who called her 'Strawhead' behind her back and used her at the box office to keep the studio alive.
Searching for someone who believed in her and her dream to escape her studio battles， hope came with the arrival of Milton Greene， a photographer for Look magazine from New York - on assignment to shoot her.
He stripped her of the Hollywood pancake makeup and the heavily shellacked hair for a fresh-scrubbed look and 'not like some dial-a-goddess from a cheesecake mag' - and shot what are considered the most iconic pictures ever taken of Monroe.
The photographer and the actress became
close friends and slept together， according to
Greene.
'We slept together in Palm Springs then drove back to her house and went to bed again，' he recalled.
While in New York， Monroe （pictured center
at the Rockefeller Center） took method acting
classes
Back in New York， Greene's then girlfriend， Amy， was two months pregnant and waiting to marry him.
That saddened Monroe， but she told him: 'We'll always be friends; we'll always love each other.'
But she moved on to DiMaggio whose silences bored her compared to her relationship with Greene. The slugger was addicted to television and ambivalent about her acting career.
Prior to moving east， Monroe （pictured in 1953） had an extraneous makeup and exercise regimen that she would go through daily
When Greene came back to Los Angeles in the fall of 1954， he recognized her dilemma with DiMaggio and the studio and suggested she move to New York and start her own production company.
He mailed her contract with Fox to his lawyers who denounced it as a 'slave labor agreement' and just maybe there was a loophole to get out of it.
Greene also resigned from his position at Look to commit himself to Monroe exclusively.
She had no money and no future when she departed Los Angeles for the East Coast under the tutelage of Greene and his wife， Amy.
It began in Weston， Connecticut， an hour by train from the city where she and Amy played with her wardrobe and makeup and spent hours reading good literature while Monroe fell into the rhythm of the Greene's family life.
She helped trim the Christmas tree， went on morning jogs with Amy， played with their baby， Joshua， read voraciously and listened to classical music.
Marilyn Monroe Productions was finalized on New Year's Eve 1954 and Monroe was officially in hiding from Fox.
For the big makeover， Greene bought her 50
pairs of Italian shoes and shopped for clothes at tony department
stores Bergdorf Goodman，
During her first few years in New York，
Monroe dated a myriad of celebrities， including Marlon Brando
（pictured above with Monroe in
1956）
During her days in New York， she drank gin at the Subway Inn with Frank Sinatra （right， with Monroe and Wingie Grover） and she also went to the crooner's shows at the Copa
Monroe also spent time with Truman Capote while in New York. Pictured above， they dance together at the El Morocco nightclub
For years， Monroe had been 'squeezing into too-tight sizes， stitching marbles into her bra'.
If she tried a size 12 dress on and liked it， she'd buy a size ten and use the excuse that she was bloated or had just consumed three cokes.
Back in Connecticut， Amy pleaded with her to stop wearing clothes that were too tight or too short.
'You're already a star. You don't have to show your a**; you don't have to show your tits，' she said. But Monroe wanted everything to look like a slip and every seam had to be reinforced or it would break.
She needed Amy's fashion expertise but had her beauty routine down - she shampooed and set her own hair， bleached it with a peroxide paste and disguised a botched nose job with layers of gray contour. Her cheekbones were coated with Vaseline， lanolin and olive oil.
They gave each other makeup lessons while Greene worked on Monroe's media image and then conducted striking photo sessions in the city， even in the subway.
All the while he was fielding calls from lawyers， agents， keeping the Fox moguls at bay. Everyone wanted to know where was Monroe and what was she doing.
Twenty-nine days later， she was ready to come out of hiding.
On January 7， Monroe unveiled herself to the public and announced the formation of her own production company.
Photographers jostled for photos as Amy and
Monroe escaped to the Copa Cabana nightclub where Frank Sinatra was
playing.
Sinatra first met Marilyn in Los Angeles
while he was still married to Ava Gardner the year before Marilyn
made the move to Manhattan. On the East coast， they saw each other
while she was forming her production
company.
They dined at the legendary upper East Side
Italian restaurant Gino’s. She caught his sold out shows at the
Copa and took Amy Milton who was wild about the singer. He stopped
the orchestra and had a table set up close to the
stage.
A late night dinner followed at the 21 Club
and then over to Marlene Dierich’s Park Avenue apartment for a
nightcap.
Marilyn was sharing Sinatra with Ava but she
was spending more time with Marlon Brando after meeting in Lee
Strasburg’s Actor’s Studio.
She glowed in the actor's arms. ‘Marlon and
Marilyn were an obvious match: Both shared an electrifying
intensity and a compulsively perfectionist streak’， writes the
author.
‘Like Marilyn， Marlon was a compulsive reader — Kant， Rousseau， Locke， Nietzsche， Melville.. ‘They even shared the same breakfast drink: raw eggs whisked in a glass of hot milk’. ‘
She’d call him in the middle of the night to
discuss scenes from class. ‘Friends like Marlon encouraged her to
trust her inner gifts’.
Eventually， Monroe fell in love with playwright Arthur Miller （pictured with Monroe） and the couple wed in 1956
She was on a crusade to find the meaning of her own life and just what would give her strength to succeed in becoming a 'true actress'.
'It was like she wanted to trade in who she had been and become something else，' Winder writes.
She studied acting with Lee Strasberg， attended his required therapy for all actors five times a week.
No longer the lost girl she had been in Los Angeles， she was now mingling with the press at the 21 Club and moved into a suite at the Gladstone Hotel on East 52nd Street off Park Avenue.
Greene took several iconic photos of Monroe through the years， including the above photo of the actress in 1956
Greene paid for everything after mortgaging his home to afford her lawyers， hairdressers， beauticians， clothes， makeup， psychiatrist and a three-room suite $1，000 a week suite at the Waldorf Astoria where she moved to after the Gladstone Hotel.
Strasberg had become her guru， but when she met playwright Arthur Miller， she fell in love with him and deeply in love with New York.
Eventually， the Strasbergs replaced the Greenes as her surrogate family and for the first time， she discovered an East Coast beach with weekends on Fire Island where they ate funnel cakes and hot dogs.
But then she hit a snag - negotiations with Fox were going nowhere and Miller had no plans to divorce his first wife， Mary Slattery， who had been his college sweetheart.
Profound insecurity crept in now that she had alienated DiMaggio who had always been willing to do almost anything for her.
Miller's wife kicked him out of their Brooklyn brownstone after discovering his secret affair with Monroe， which brought the couple even closer when he moved into the Chelsea Hotel.
Amy Greene disliked Miller and believed that he triggered Monroe's deepest insecurity - her lack of a formal education. He noticed and remembered every intellectual flaw.
Still， they married the following June in 1956 and quickly realized that the marriage was a disaster， but they remained together until 1961.
Monroe announced her divorce from Miller in November 1960， and the divorce was finalized the following January. Pictured above， photographers surround Monroe as she leaves her apartment shortly after announcing the split
To Monroe， it was another failure in her life， and she needed more sleeping pills and a stimulant to wake up.
She wanted 'the heady kick of instant release dexamyls' in the morning that made her so jittery she turned to barbiturates and gin in her morning tea to calm her down.
Greene never believed that Monroe would leave his side - he had been such a breadwinner for her， a guiding light and a foundation.
But in February 1957， they met to negotiate the end of Greene's contract with MMP.
'Arthur stood by like a sentry， flanked by his lawyers and ready for battle. But Milton only asked for half of his investment: $100，000，' Winder writes.
'That's all you want?' Arthur asked.
He wanted no more and looking Monroe in the eye， told her， 'Let me be the only one in your life never to take more'.
After the meeting， they never saw each other again.
With MMP destroyed and cut off from Milton， 'Monroe descended rapidly into a darkness from which she never fully recovered'.
She turned to focus on her marriage and the couple moved into a flat on East 57th Street. But her days passed in a haze of breakfast cocktails， phone calls and temper tantrums.
She didn't get up before noon， ordered a Bloody Mary from the cook and did not want the curtains opened.
Some entire days were spent in bed listening to Sinatra records and calling DiMaggio on the phone.
Miller was hiding in his study emerging only to speak to his secretary or the cook.
'Their next four years were punctuated by miscarriages， overdoses， and chilly stretches of silence before ending in a Mexican divorce in 1961，' Winder writes.
Needing to revive her career， there was no alternative but to move back to Los Angeles and that proved to be her fatal mistake.
Writer Elizabeth Winder tells of Monroe's New York life in her upcoming book， Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy
Monroe's housemaid， Eunice， believed Monroe would have lived longer had she stayed in Manhattan. But away from the city's creative cocoon， her confidence withered.
She now had gallstones， sinus infections， insomnia and worsening endometriosis. Her dependence on barbiturates and painkillers increased.
She hooked up with Dr Ralph Greenson， 'a deluded， celeb-obsessed shrink who pushed even more pills and kept her dependent'， Winder writes.
After Amy Greene had a dream Monroe was in trouble in 1962， Milton Greene called his old friend for the first time in five years.
'They're giving me the worst roles. It's like the last ten years never happened. I'm right back where I don't want to be，' she told him.
Milton told her that he'd leave for Los Angeles that day - he was ready to save her again. But she told him to go to Paris for an upcoming fashion show and she would call him in a few weeks.
But she never had a chance to make that call.
On Sunday， August 5， 1962， Monroe was found dead in her bed at her Brentwood home， 'clutching the phone in an unmade bed full of phenobarbital and chloral hydrate'.
'Milton never believed that Marilyn killed herself - none of her real friends did，' Winder writes.
Toward the end of his own life， Greene came to believe that Monroe's death was not an accident， and that others were involved， although he didn't know who.
What he did realize， however， is that he should have gone to her earlier.