“If we could just talk,” Marilyn Monroe told Judy Garland, “I know you’d understand.” Inside the intense friendship between two Hollywood icons:
Garland continues:
“That beautiful girl was frightened of aloneness—the same thing I’d been been afraid of. Like me, she was just trying to do her job—garnish some delightful whipped cream onto some people’s lives, but Marilyn and I never got a chance to talk. I had to leave for England and I never saw that sweet, dear girl again. I wish I had been able to talk to her the night she died.”“She’d sit by the fire, not talking much, a quiet presence,” he recounts. “Marilyn was sweet and very unhappy.
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