In 1955, she studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in
New York and subsequently gave a strong performance as a
hapless entertainer in Bus Stop (1956). In 1956, she married
playwright Arthur Miller. She made The Prince and the
Showgirl with Laurence Olivier.
1959
gave
an
acclaimed
performance
in Some Like It Hot. Her last
role, The Misfits 1961 directed by John Huston and written by
Miller, whom she divorced one week before the film opened.
By
1961,
Monroe,
beset
by
depression,
was
under
the
constant
care
of a
psychiatrist.
Increasingly
erratic
in the
last
months
of her
life,
she
lived
as a
virtual
recluse
in her
Brentwood,
LA
home.
Bruno
Bernard
