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17 de nov. de 2020 · Learn how the Hollywood icon and the Yankees superstar met, married, divorced and reunited in a turbulent and passionate relationship. Discover how DiMaggio mourned Monroe's death and honored her memory for decades.
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14 de jan. de 2020 · No dia 14 de janeiro de 1954, a musa do cinema Marylin Monroe firmava sua paixão pelo jogador Joe DiMaggio através de um casamento na cidade de San Francisco, Estados Unidos. Entretanto, o que deveria ser uma história de amor se transformou em algo trágico: com personalidades muito diferentes, eles acabaram vivendo uma relação obsessiva e ...
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While Monroe and DiMaggio's marriage was brief and tumultuous, the world became captivated with the ultimate pairing of sports and cinema royalty.
Marilyn Monroe was a 25-year-old rising star when she met baseball great Joe DiMaggio in 1952. DiMaggio, 12 years her senior, had just retired from the New York Yankees. The press was enchanted with the pairing of sports and cinema royalty.
DiMaggio was reading a newspaper when he saw a photograph of Monroe in a baseball uniform. Intrigued, he made phone calls until he found someone who could introduce them: press agent David March. In Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon, Charles Casillo describes their first date: “Men kept approaching the table: DiMaggio was a baseball legend, and they threw their personalities around, trying to impress him. Marilyn was amused—usually it was she whom men were wooing.”
The two began a bicoastal courtship, with the media following their every move. “Hollywood and Major League Baseball formed core traditions in American culture, and Joe and Marilyn were unquestionably the spokespeople of these respective fields,” says Rock Positano, author of Dinner With DiMaggio and the doctor who cured the baseball legend’s career-ending heel spur injury. The New York Times called their relationship “one of America's ultimate romantic fantasies: the tall, dark and handsome baseball hero wooing and winning the woman who epitomized Hollywood beauty, glamour and sexuality.”
Both DiMaggio and Monroe spoke to different versions of the American dream. DiMaggio, the son of Sicilian immigrants, went on to become one of the most famous baseball players of all time. Monroe had survived years in orphanages and foster homes before she was “discovered” working in a munitions factory during World War II.
DiMaggio’s reputation as all-American hero permeated popular culture, and his wholesome image gave Monroe an air of increased respectability. Ernest Hemingway immortalized “the great DiMaggio” in his 1952 novella, The Old Man and the Sea. Jazz singer Les Brown crooned about “Joltin' Joe DiMaggio” and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific includes a song where sailors sing of a woman’s skin “[as] tender as DiMaggio’s glove.” For DiMaggio’s part, dating Hollywood’s biggest sex symbol after retirement gave him a renewed vigor—and renewed media attention.
Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954. It was a second marriage for both; DiMaggio had been married to actress Dorothy Arnold and Monroe to police detective James Dougherty. Someone at Monroe’s film studio leaked news of the nuptials to the press, and the newlyweds were mobbed by reporters as they exited the building.
In My Story, which Marilyn Monroe wrote with Ben Hecht, she said of the marriage: “That was something I had never planned on or dreamed about—becoming the wife of a great man. Anymore than Joe had ever thought of marrying a woman who seemed eighty per cent publicity. The truth is that we were very much alike. My publicity, like Joe’s greatness, is something on the outside. It has nothing to do with what we actually are.”
“Given that both Marilyn and Joe were incredibly famous by the time they were married, their relationship only amplified their celebrity status and kept them in the public eye and relevant – perhaps more so than either would have preferred,” says Dr. Positano.
“Seeing your name in front page headlines as if you were some kind of a major accident or gun battle is always startling,” wrote Monroe. “No matter how often you see it you don’t get used to it.” In My Story, she described a conversation she had with DiMaggio early on in their relationship:
‘I wonder if I can take all your crazy publicity,’ Joe said.
‘You don’t have to be a part of it,’ I argued.
‘I am,’ he said. ‘And it bothers me.’
‘It’s part of my career,’ I said.
On September 15, 1954, Monroe filmed the now-iconic scene in The Seven Year Itch where her white dress billows over her head. Director Billy Wilder recalled DiMaggio “had the look of death” as he watched the cameras click away at his wife.
The following day, Monroe had bruises on her arms, leading to speculation that DiMaggio had grown violent. Monroe filed for divorce from DiMaggio a month later, citing “ mental cruelty.” Their marriage had lasted a mere nine months.
Their bond, however, lasted much longer. Following Monroe’s divorce from Arthur Miller in 1961, DiMaggio reentered her life. When Monroe was hospitalized in February 1961 for a nervous breakdown, it was DiMaggio she called to help get her out. In June of that year, he was her side when she woke up from emergency gall bladder removal surgery. And, when Monroe was found dead on August 5, 1962, it was DiMaggio who planned her funeral, bending to her casket to repeat “I love you, I love you.”
“Joe’s planning of Marilyn’s funeral was a message to everyone that he and Marilyn still belonged together,” says Positano. He barred Hollywood elite from attending because “he didn’t want the focus of the funeral to be what he thought killed her—her fame.” DiMaggio had fresh roses delivered to her grave twice a week for 20 years, burnishing their love story in the public imagination.
DiMaggio outlived Monroe by almost four decades, yet his ex-wife was a core part of his New York Times obituary:
“[N]o one more embodied the American dream of fame and fortune or created a more enduring legend than Joe DiMaggio. He became a figure of unequaled romance and integrity in the national mind because of his consistent professionalism on the baseball field, his marriage to the Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe, [and] his devotion to her after her death.”
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