Talk:Eunice Murray

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[edit] Trivia

--Murray attempted to cash a $200.00 check made out to her by Monroe several days after Monroe's death in 1962. City National Bank of Beverly Hills declined to pay Murray and marked the check "deceased." The un-cancelled check is today on display in the Monroe exhibit at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, in Hollywood, CA.

--In March of 2006, Check number 178, written by Marilyn Monroe to Eunice Murray, for the sum of $ 200, was discussed and displayed on the cable television program: The Incurable Collector, with John LaRoquette (Source: Biography Channel, 3/12/06). The check was dated August 4th, 1962 and drawn on Monroe's then account at City National Bank on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. The account is simply in the name of "Marilyn Monroe"(no address listed). The check is owned by private Monroe collector, Greg Schreiner, of Los Angeles. Schreiner stated on the program that the check is possibly the last signature of Monroe in existance.

--In the Fall of 1962, Murray, a divorcee of modest means, left the country for an extended European cruise on the Queen Mary.

--Eventually in the 70s, Murray told her own version of Monroe's passing in Marilyn, The Last Months. The book was published directly in paperback and written by a ghostwriter, Rose Shade, while Murray was living in a guest house in Santa Monica. It is of note that Shade's maiden name is Murray, as the two women were related by marriage. Rose Murray Shade was Eunice Murray's former stepdaughter or step-niece. Shade and Pat Newcomb, Monroe's former publicist, whom later worked in the Kennedy Administration, were frequent visitors during this period to Murray's rented bungalow in Santa Monica. Shade has since written extensively on Astrology and other topics, but Shade apparently never before, nor ever again wrote another nonfiction biography.

--In her later years, Murray moved back East, possibly to Martha's Vineyard, remarried for a short time, and survived the passing of her second husband within very short order. Murray has since passed away.

--A formal investigation in 1982 by the Los Angeles County District Attorney came up with no credible evidence of foul play, but stories persist. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who performed the autopsy (and the autopsies of Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood and William Holden, among other celebrities), wrote in his book Coroner that Marilyn's death was a highly likely suicide.

--Years later, outtakes of a 1960s video interview about the night that Monroe died surfaced with Murray making sarcastic comments "off the air," which differed in tone and content from her composed, and cheery "on camera" persona.