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"  For a brief spell in 1961, Marilyn Monroe was committed to a New York City psychiatric clinic. While she was confined to the sanitarium&amp;#039;s walls, she wrote a heartbreaking letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, describing her difficult experience.\u00A0  &amp;quot;There was no empathy at Payne-Whitney\u2013 it had a very bad effect\u2013they asked me after putting me in a &amp;quot;cell&amp;quot; (I mean cement blocks and all) for very disturbed patients (except I felt I was in some kind of prison for a crime I hadn&amp;#039;t committed,&amp;quot; she wrote in the letter which will be up for sale in\u00A0November by\u00A0Julien&amp;#039;s Auctions. Well, a carbon copy of the note will be,\u00A0at least.\u00A0 In her sorrowful plea, she talks about her feeble attempts to get the staff to notice her. &amp;quot;I sat on the bed trying to figure if I was given this situation in an acting improvisation what would I do. So I figured, it&amp;#039;s a squeaky wheel that gets the grease,&amp;quot; she wrote. &amp;quot;I admit it was a loud squeak but I got the idea from a movie I made once called Don&amp;#039;t Bother to Knock.\u00A0I picked up a light-weight chair and slammed it, and it was hard to do because I had never broken anything in my life\u2013against the glass intentionally.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;It took a lot of banging to get even a small piece of glass,&amp;quot; she continued.\u00A0&amp;quot;So I went over with the glass concealed in my hand and sat quietly on the bed waiting for them to come in.\u00A0They did, and I said to them &amp;#039;If you are going to treat me like a nut I&amp;#039;ll act like a nut.&amp;#039;\u00A0I admit the next thing is corny but I really did it in the movie except it was with a razor blade. I indicated if they didn&amp;#039;t let me out I would harm myself\u2013the furthest thing from my mind at that moment since you know, Dr. Greeson,\u00A0I&amp;#039;m an actress and would never intentionally mark or mar myself. I&amp;#039;m just that vain.&amp;quot; A year later, Dr. Greenson found Marilyn dead in her Brentwood home at the age of 36. In the letter, reprinted by People, Marilyn goes on to describe how she felt when her former\u00A0husband,\u00A0Joe DiMaggio, had her\u00A0released from the clinic\u00A0after a few days.\u00A0  &amp;quot;Last night I was awake all night again. Sometimes I wonder what the night time is for. It almost doesn&amp;#039;t exist for me\u2013it all seems like one long, long horrible day.&amp;quot; Monroe left the letter\u00A0to her acting teacher,\u00A0Lee Strasberg,\u00A0in her will. It&amp;#039;s among many other\u00A0rare\u00A0items that Strasberg&amp;#039;s estate will be auctioning off this fall, including Marilyn&amp;#039;s lipstick, fur coat, and alligator skin purse.\u00A0 [H/T People] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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