Marilyn & Milton: Short Explanation for the end of their friendship.

Amy Greene and Marilyn saw each other again for the first time in months at the premiere of the Prince and the Showgirl. Amy was pregnant with her second son, Anthony. Marilyn came over, threw her arms around her and kissed her. "Can I feel your baby?" she asked, before placing her hands on her stomach.

"I don’t think there were any hard feelings on her part; I think there were hard feelings on my part. I was so disappointed in what she hadn’t seen in Milton. She didn’t mean anything in my life one way or the other, she meant something in my husband’s life. I was never jealous of Marilyn. Arthur was always jealous of Milton, which is interesting in a way. Arthur had another life. Why should he be jealous? I didn’t need Marilyn Monroe, but she sure as hell needed Milton Greene, and he needed her, because both of them were never the same after that. These two people should have been together through thick and thin. Nothing. Nothing should have put them apart. I was smart enough to realize that. If Arthur had been smart enough to realize that, it would have been a whole other life for both of them." - Amy Greene 

© Photo by Milton Greene. Marilyn Monroe for The Prince & The Showgirl (1957).