First posted here on February 27, 2017
This clipping from the UK’s Sunday Times, posted by Kevin Coles at Marilyn Remembered, marks the closure of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. One of the city’s landmarks, it is being converted into private apartments after more than a century in business.
Marilyn was photographed by LIFE photographer Peter Stackpole, while dining with financier Winthrop Aldrich and husband Arthur Miller at the April in Paris ball in 1957.
The article incorrectly states that Marilyn lived there with Miller. However, her 1955 residency at the Park Avenue hotel coincided with the beginning of their romance. She also met FBI head J. Edgar Hoover at the Banshee Luncheon in the hotel that year.
Ironically, Hoover closely monitored her relationship with Miller. Many of Marilyn’s personal writings, later published in Fragments, were written on the Waldorf’s headed notepaper.
After her marriage in 1956, she used the suite as an office for her production company. She continued to make public appearances at the Waldorf, including an interview with Elsa Maxwell in February 1956; parties following the premieres of Baby Doll that December, and The Prince and the Showgirl in June 1957; and a fundraiser for the March of Dimes in January 1958.
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