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“She said she’d settled the suit with Fox. They had fired her from Something’s Got to Give. She’d be restarting production in about a month. And she had signed with MGM to remake “Of Human Bondage” to be directed by Henry Hathaway.”
The words above were spoken by Jane Russell, apropos a conversation with her friend, Marilyn Monroe, shortly before her death August 5, 1962.
A December 19, 1961 letter from Milton Rudin (Marilyn’s attorney), invited Monroe to attend a viewing of “Of Human Bondage,” starring Bette Davis. The notion of Monroe as the slatternly “Mildred” is a loss for film history.
letter source: the marilyn monroe collection
jane russell quote source: “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: Interviews with Stars From Hollywood’s Golden Era.”