The two workers who transported Marilyn's remains tell how they found her
Allan Abbot and Ron Hast were able to see the body of the actress also in the morgue
As they remember, she began to show her true hair colour, brown
They also handled the funeral for Ernie Kovacs, Clark Gable and Natalie Wood.
This was the appearance of the great star of the moment that she had just taken her own life. It was a scene that the two managers of the funeral home that transported the mortal remains of Marilyn Monroe to a Los Angeles cemetery were able to contemplate, the morbid account of a tragedy that both have related in a book.
It's a curious journey through death aboard the first hearse that two young men, Allan Abbot and Ron Hast, bought for $40 for camping fun and that ended up being the transportation of the stars. In addition to the tormented Monroe, they were in charge of the funeral of Ernie Kovacs, Clark Gable and Natalie Wood, among other great names of golden Hollywood.
But no one like Monroe, a woman who could be seen in a morgue after having passed through the meticulous hands of a forensic doctor. Abbot entered the room where the embalmer known as Frenchie was already working.
"When they pulled the sheet that covered it, it was impossible to believe that it was Marilyn Monroe's body," recalls the businessman in the pages of his book. "She seemed like an ordinary, ageing woman who hadn't taken too much care of herself. Obviously, the circumstances surrounding her death had exacerbated her poor appearance and she was unrecognisable."
She remembers that she had purple blood clots on her face and that her neck was very swollen, in addition to the fact that her true hair colour, brown, was beginning to show, and that she had not shaved her hair. her legs in more than a week.
Then there was the process of working on the image of the actress so that she would be presentable for her funeral, dressing her and doing her makeup. He remembers that those in charge of such a task had problems getting panties from her closet since she did not usually wear hers and that they used a blonde wig that fit with the image that the public had of her.
