Elia Kazan by Elia Kazan

Author:Elia Kazan [Kazan, Elia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-95934-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

I RETURNED to California on a weekend from my scouting along the Texas-Mexico border, having decided on the locations I wanted. I had an empty Sunday—a disaster in Los Angeles—and dropped in on Marilyn to say goodbye, for I was about to leave that part of the world for many months. We vowed we’d always be good friends, a pledge that didn’t hold up after she married Miller and became Lee Strasberg’s household pet. Among other things, she told me she was pregnant and seemed rather pleased about it. “Don’t you worry,” she said. I guess she meant that she’d had abortions before and knew where to go. But I did worry; it scared hell out of me. I knew she dearly wanted a child and women were becoming single parents. Like any other louse, I decided to call a halt to my carrying on, a resolve that didn’t last long.

Again that night I looked at Miller’s publicity photograph that Marilyn had placed on the shelf behind her bed. Next to it was a neat pile of letters; Art had been writing to her. She told me he was unhappy and asked me to do all I could to help him. “He needs friends now,” she said. I wondered what the hell he was writing her. I didn’t feel as friendly to him after his escape from The Hook, but I told her that of course I’d be his friend. She was so obsessed with her passion for him that she couldn’t talk about anything else. He must have been sorely tempted to remain there with her; perhaps this was another reason he’d departed so abruptly after the Roy Brewer meeting.

After I left, she wrote me letters. From Miss Bauer. One of them informed me she’d had a miscarriage. In every letter, concern about Art was expressed. “Try to cheer him up,” she wrote. “Make him believe everything isn’t hopeless.”

Art saw what was coming more clearly than I did.

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