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But what’s not to like, really?
Most interesting, however, are Monroe’s three marriages.
In addition to Dougherty, Monroe was married to playwright Arthur Miller for five years between 1956 and 1961.
Living without her mother left Monroe feeling neglected a pain she carried to her adult years.
“I’m not calling myself an orphan,” she once said (viaNewsweek).
“I was brought up a waif.
Yeah, I was never used to being happy.
So that wasn’t something I was sort of counting on.”
One family was so poor they could not afford to spend too much on water bills.
They had their bath in the same water and Monroe was always last.
“The whole family used the same tub of water.
And I was always the last one in.”
Similar to Monroe, Joe DiMaggio was raised in a low-income family.
“He treated me like something special.”
The pair immediately hit things off and soon started a relationship albeit long distance.
While Monroe lived on the West Coast, DiMaggio was on the East.
This, however, did not get in the way of their love.
Monroe and DiMaggio had their differences, yet they shared a lot in common.
“The truth is that we were very much alike,” Monroe said in hermemoir.
“My publicity, like Joe’s greatness, is something on the outside.
It has nothing to do with what we actually are.”
However, the pair’s indifference to fame was not the only thing that brought them together.
Intimately, Monroe and DiMaggio got along just fine.
“We knew it wouldn’t be an easy marriage,” Monroe admitted in hermemoir.
“On the other hand, we couldn’t keep on going forever as a pair of cross-country lovers.
It might begin to hurt both our careers.”
It was the beginning for Monroe and DiMaggio but it was only the beginning of the end.
The baseball star became insecure about his wife’s success and the attention that came with it.
Monroe reportedly confirmed (viaPBS) this to actor Brad Dexter with whom she was friends at the time.
“He doesn’t want to know about my business,” Monroe said.
“He doesn’t want to know about my work as an actress.
He doesn’t want me to associate with any of my friends.
“So you have to get used to it.
Or, honest to God, you’re going to lose her.”
And lose her, he did.
In October 1954, Monroe announced her divorce from DiMaggio, citing mental cruelty.
“If I would attempt to reproach him usually he wouldn’t answer at all.
When he would he would say, ‘Leave me alone.'"’
According to theNew York Post, Monroe underwent surgery only a few weeks after their divorce.
Monroe and DiMaggio apparently never stopped loving each other as they reportedly continued having a sexual relationship after separating.
“Dear Joe,” the letter read (viaVanity Fair).
According toThe New York Times, Monroe died after overdosing on pills prescribed to aid her sleeping problems.
Through the years, however, there have been many conspiracy theories surrounding Monroe’s death.
Whether or not there is any truth to these theories is a mystery that remains unanswered.
“She told me someone would do her in, but I kept quiet.”
The baseball star reportedly later said that he knew the Kennedys were no good for the actress.
Having no closer friend at the time, authorities informed DiMaggio of Monroe’s death.
“Tell them,” DiMaggio said (viaPBS).
“If it wasn’t for them, she’d still be here.”
Though neither confirmed it, there are rumors that Monroe and DiMaggio were planning to re-marry when she died.
Therefore, it makes sense that DiMaggio, even in death, loved and adored Monroe.
In 1982, Ellensburg Daily Record reported that the flower delivery had reduced to twice a week.
In the end, he succeeded.
“And they’re just day-dreaming along and never even saw me.
And so, I didn’t bother to stop and say ‘hello.’
I thought he was happy as he was, leave him alone.”
“That was the date Marilyn Monroe was buried,” Engelberg wrote (viaNews24).
“Joe leaned over her casket, sobbed that he loved her, and kissed her cold forehead.”
By 1982,Ellensburg Daily Recordreported that the flower delivery had reduced to twice a week.
‘I’ll finally get to see Marilyn’ were his last words.”
