Marilyn Monroe singing a lullaby for you, “Down in the Meadow” in “River of No Return”, 1954 ————————————————————————- ( Story behind the scene by Lionel Newman, musical arranger) An example of her self-consciousness happened while we were making the picture River Of No Return. In it Marilyn was to sing a very simple lullaby to a little boy with just a guitar accompaniment. Somehow or other she couldn’t believe she would be accepted doing something as gentle as this, due to her so-called ‘sexy’