Marilyn Monroe chances are when you hear the name, one of the iconic images flashes into your mind.
Maybe it’s her standing over the grate in New York, laughingly holding down her billowing skirt.
Her third husband was playwright Arthur Miller, but, again, the marriage didn’t last.
“She was pretty much a tomboy.
They met at Van Nuys High School in California,” he said.
“And Jim really feminized her, took her everywhere with him, and showed her the world.”
Apparently, her foster mother at the time had arranged the match.
“Grace arranged it,” Monroe once said in aninterview.
So I married him."
“She was just a housewife,” Dougherty once told UPI.
“We would go down to the beach on weekends, and have luaus on Saturday night.
She loved it over there.
It was like being on a honeymoon for a year” (viaLos Angeles Times).
During a 1992interview, Dougherty recalled that he and Monroe were happy together (viaYouTube).
In fact, before their separation, Monroe allegedly wanted to start a family with Dougherty.
She was featured in a photograph of women at work for the war and asked to start modeling.
Soon, her modeling career took off, and Monroe decided to leave Dougherty.
As she told one interviewer, “I went to Las Vegas to divorce him” (viaYouTube).
“Studios wanted clauses for no marriage a pregnant starlet would do them no good,” he said.
He remarried several years later.
However, he always remembered “Norma Jeane” fondly.
“I destroyed all my letters from Norma Jean hundreds of them,” he also said.
In 1952, she met her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, the baseball legend who had recently retired.
According toBiography.com, the sports star had asked a mutual friend to set them up on a date.
At first, Monroe wasn’t so sure.
“I had dinner with him almost every night for two weeks.
He treated me something special.”
The pair bonded over their similarities both had risen to fame after difficult upbringings.
“It has nothing to do with what we actually are.”
The pair ended up having a quiet, quick wedding at San Francisco’s City Hall in 1954.
In the film, Monroe had the famous scene involvingher skirt flying upas she walked across a grate.
“Yeah, Joe got very upset about it.”
“Marilyn said she screamed and yelled for us,” she recalled.
“But we couldn’t hear her through those thick walls, you know” (viaDaily Star).
Monroe was granted a divorce after a hearing a few weeks later.
Nevertheless, DiMaggio and Monroe remained friends.
“I’ll finally get to see Marilyn again.”
Miller then watched Monroe acting and suggested she should act on stage.
That night, she wrote in her diary, “Met a man tonight …
It was, bam!
It was like running into a tree.
You know, like a cool drink when you’ve had a fever.”
However, Miller was married then, and the pair parted ways.
“All sorts of slides, rollings, pitchings, rambunctiousness of every kind.
And then I will sigh.
The pair married shortly after Miller’s divorce was finalized in 1956.
The quiet ceremony took place at the Westchester County Court House in White Plains and lasted only four minutes.
They also held a traditional Jewish ceremony.
Although this discovery set their relationship backward, they did have happy moments in their marriage.
Monroe had had an affair, which Miller had ignored.
She felt that he was drifting away.
I want to find someone to love me ugliness and beauty and all.
That’s what Arthur has done” (viaDaily Mail).
Monroe realized that their relationship was finished on the set of “The Misfits,” written by Miller.
“Arthur said it’s his movie,” she said once.
“I don’t think he even wants me in it.
It’s all over.
The pair announced their plans to separate in 1960, and the following year thedivorce was finalized.
At the time, he wasn’t exactly surprised to find out she had died.
“Not that everyone there will be false, but enough.
Most of them there destroyed her, ladies and gentlemen.”
