Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe meeting at the Golden
Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe meeting at the Golden
Globes Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 5, 1962. "I knew Marilyn Monroe and loved her dearly," Garland told. "She asked me for help, me! I didn't know what to tell her. One night at a party at Clifton Webb's house, Marilyn followed me from room to room. 'I don't want to get too far away from you,' she said. 'I'm scared! I told her, 'We're all scared. I'm scared too. 'If we could just talk, she said, 'I know you'd understand. I said, 'Maybe I would. If you're scared, call me and come on over.
We'll talk about it.!"
"That beautiful girl was frightened of aloneness - the same thing I'd been afraid of," Garland reflected. "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."
"I don't think Marilyn really meant to harm herself," Garland continued. "It was partly because she had too many pills available, then was deserted by her friends. You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication."
In Judy and I, Sidney Luft (one of Garland's husbands) wrote his last impressions of Marilyn, "She'd sit by the fire, not talking much, a quiet presence," he recalled. "Marilyn was sweet and very unhappy. She'd chat with Judy and play with the children, hang out." Marilyn's funeral song was Over The Rainbow by Judy Garland.
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