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George Cukor, the
legendary, gay, "woman's director" was signed to direct the picture. He
had previously worked with Marilyn on "Let's Make Love" in 1960. He began
to dislike her for many reasons. Firstly, for her "Method" acting style,
because it required the use of Marilyn's acting coach, Paula Strasberg,
who often ended up taking the directors place when the cameras were rolling.
Secondly, George saw Marilyn as nothing more than a pampered, overly-indulged,
talentless, dumb-blond who'd recieved a lucky break.
He had begun to use
amphetamine shots to control his life-long weight problem. The energy supplied to Cukor
by the drugs often resulted in the director demanding countless and needless retakes
of scenes until his actors were spent. More than anything,
the drugs caused him to become disinterested in his work on the set of
"Something's Got To Give". Performances suffered,
and eventually Marilyn was to suffer the most. |
