Marilyn Monroe | Paula Strasberg-Annotated "Let's Make Love" Script

A script for Marilyn Monroe's musical-comedy Let's Make Love (Twentieth Century Fox, 1960) that belonged to and was annotated by her acting coach Paula Strasberg. The script is in a three-ring black leather binder.

The script is 139 typewritten pages and features many pink and blue revision pages. The title page reads in part:" Let's Make Love / Written for the Screen / By Norman Krasna / Directed by George Cukor / Second Revised Shooting Final / January 15, 1960." Across the top of the page the words "Paula M. Strasberg" is written and underlined in red pencil.

Strasberg handwrote notes throughout the script. One reads "deep breathing." Another reads "Make the hairbrush act for you. (I told her) and Geo said it exactly so." There are also notes handwritten on the backs of pages, including one that reads "Jerry Wald (the film's producer) refused to take any responsibility whatsoever. In no way helped MMM - wouldn't even ask the studio to pay my salary - knowing his star found me a necessity. I am the cheapest thing in any budget. To add a week or not - that is the question."

Let's Make Love was Monroe's second to last completed film and her final musical movie. She portrayed actress Amanda Dell who is rehearsing an off-Broadway revue that spoofs a headline-making billionaire named Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand), who, by accident, becomes cast as himself and falls in love with Monroe's character. The film earned more than $6 million at the box office upon release.

10.25 x 11.5 x 2.5 inches