Marilyn Monroe Marries Joe DiMaggio
Marilyn : " It was so marvellous , Joe . You ’ve never heard such cheering . "
Joe : " Yes , I have . “– MARILYN President Monroe TO JOE DIMAGGIO , AFTER ENTERTAINING THE flock IN KOREA , 1954
After the unsatisfying experience ofRiver of No Return , Marilyn began to worry about the quality of the photographic film she would be assigned in the future . Seeking control over next roles as well as a ripe salary , she attempt to renegotiate her contract bridge in the fall of 1953 . Zanuck decline .
Marilyn then requested a purpose in an approaching dramatic play titledThe Egyptian . rather , the studio depute her to a lightweight B - musical with the tentative titleThe fille in Pink Tights(also known asPink Tights ) .
Marilyn ’s costar on this fluffy melodic comedy was to be Frank Sinatra , who would receive $ 5,000 per workweek while working on the Fox mickle . Though Marilyn was indisputably the bigger wiz at the time , she was still earning only $ 1,500 per week .
Tempers flame when Marilyn demand a copy of the script to read before she would agree to step before thecameras . Zanuck refused , standing firm in his belief that Marilyn was under declaration and should merely do as she was told .
The studio ordered her to report for the first 24-hour interval of frivol away on December 15 , 1953 . This sentence , Marilyn reject , and Twentieth Century - Fox suspended her .
According to some accounts , the studio relented at one point in the feud and sent her a copy of the script . When Marilyn get a line that the story was a trite one revolving around a school teacher turned saloon dancer , she notify Fox that her participation inThe young lady in Pink Tightswas out of the interrogative .
The studio peril to brush off her , overspread rumors that a active blonde dancer named Sheree North was being groomed to replace her . Apparently unfazed , Marilyn reply by marry Joe DiMaggio on January 14 , 1954 .
Reportedly , DiMaggio had asked Marilyn to wed him several times , but she had wrench him down . Rumors had been take flight for several months , speculating on when the couple involved in the storybook romance would finally take the dip .
Though others have claimed in the late past to have dated Marilyn during her wooing with DiMaggio , no square substantiation exists that she was serious about anyone except the notable Yankee Clipper .
DiMaggio had always tried to protect Marilyn from the machinations of the studio executives ; finally , during this conflict of wills between Marilyn and Twentieth Century - Fox , he succeeded in pulling her out from their branding iron grip .
Marilyn garnered a lot of public and media support as a result of hermarriageto an American graven image . A few days after the wedding , Fox soften and tell Marilyn all would be forgiven if she come back to work . A cease-fire was finally work out in which Marilyn ’s salary was adjusted andThe Girl in Pink Tightspermanently shelve .
Marilyn had promised Fox publicist Harry Brand that if she and DiMaggio decided to marry , he would be the first to know . True to her word , she called him on the morning of January 14 . Brand , in good turn , notified everyone else , include all the news services .
The hall of the courthouse in San Francisco , where the two tell their vows , were jammed with lensman and reporters . A crowd of more than 500 quickly gathered outdoors , strain to trip up a glance of the fairy - tale couple . If DiMaggio had thought he could shield their private lifespan from the watchful eye of the populace and press , he was sadly mistaken .
After a few days in Palm Springs , the DiMaggios left for Japan on their honeymoon . Joe had planned to mix their misstep with somebaseballbusiness with collaborator Frank " Lefty " O’Doul .
At Tokyo ’s International Airport , the massed fans , photographers , and reporters were so frenzied in their enthusiasm for Marilyn and Joe that the couple had to scramble back into their airplane . The honeymooners manage to escape a short time later through the baggage hatching .
Marilyn was the bit - one foreign box - spot draw in Japan at that time , and fans push each other into hotel pools , broke plate trash windows , and jammed themselves into revolving doors in frantic efforts to see " the Honorable Buttocks - Swinging Actress , " as she was name to by the Nipponese medium .
If DiMaggio was dysphoric at the constant barrage fire of attention draw a bead on his way , he must have been livid at the indicatory questions the Japanese printing press hurled at Marilyn during a wardrobe conference .
One reporter asked her opinion of the Kinsey report on distaff sexuality , and a lensman ungracefully inquired if she slumber in the nude . Another renowned extremity of the news media wanted to experience if she wore underclothes .
mad fans and rude newsman aside , Marilyn spend much of her metre in Japan relax . At a cocktail party in Tokyo , a high - ranking American Army policeman ask Marilyn if she would consider entertaining the troops stationed in Korea . Marilyn was thrilled at the request , though DiMaggio was concerned about the likely danger regard .
The newfangled bride decided in favor of Uncle Sam and interrupted her honeymoon to be airlifted by helicopter to Korea . Though some versions of this narrative paint a picture that Marilyn left for Korea over DiMaggio ’s serious objection , other bill indicate that he merely voice disfavour over her decision .
Whatever the case , Marilyn ’s side trip did become a point in time of arguing between the newlyweds .
Marilyn would say more than once in her life that the adulation she feel in Korea by the military man – a group of fans who had helped make her a star – was the high point of her career . As she perform before thousand of troop in bitter moth-eaten temperatures , wearing only a step-in , plum tree - color dress , she acknowledged her debt to them as they warmed her with their unconditional adoration .
She sing " Diamonds Are a Girl ’s Best Friend , " " Bye , Bye Baby , " and " Do It Again , " interrupting her execution to crack jokes with the soldier about their fondness for sweater girlfriend . " You bloke are always whistling at sweater girls , " she teased . " Well , take out their sweaters and what have you got ? "
Marilyn returned to Japan from her exhausting four - day slip with a 104 - level temperature and a slight typesetter’s case of pneumonia . DiMaggio breastfeed her back to wellness before the couple go along their honeymoon , tour some of Japan ’s pocket-size villages .
Like the middle of a hurricane , this peaceful interlude lulled the couple into thinking the worst of the storm had passed . bump out what happened when the pair returned to the States in the next incision .
