PART III The bride was on time. On January 14, 1954, at one o’clock, Marilyn Monroe, twenty-seven years old, married Joe DiMaggio, thirty-nine, in the San Francisco City Hall. The ceremony, which lasted all of three minutes, was performed by Municipal Court Judge Charles Peery. The Los...
PART I Marilyn Monroe at Malibu Beach photographed by Andre de Dienes, 1945. June 1, 1926 Marilyn Monroe is born in Los Angeles General Hospital, the third child of Gladys Pearl Baker, née Monroe (May 25, 1900-March 11, 1984). She is named “Norma Jeane” (later Marilyn often left...
Probably at no time in the history of movies have so many men been in love with one woman. Soldiers, sailors, Marines, Hollywood executives, not to speak of baseball players! And, while Marilyn Monroe is still single (if she still is at this reading), any...
To love is weakness . . . To be loved is strength...
BOOK-LENGTH BONUS One night about five years ago, Vince Edwards was singing in a Hollywood night spot called Plymouth House, when a burly type stalked up to the mike, snarled, “You sing sarcastic”—and punched Vince square in the mouth. In a flash the man, a big-time...
“Death,” Jimmy Dean said, “is the only thing I respect. It’s the only thing that has any dignity.” Strange words for a brilliantly successful young boy to utter, but the moods that evoked the words were stranger still. Before you read this third and final...
It was during his early years in New York that Jimmy Dean found some of the answers to the self-doubts that tortured him. It was there that he started on the road that led to fame—and tragedy....
Beginning an unforgettable story, never before told about Jimmy Dean . . . I knew him for such a short time— Just six years. But that was all the time Jimmy had left to live....
He had no magic sword with which to conquer Hollywood. Only a dream. But it was enough....
Sitting in front row: Mitzi, Lori, Nelson, Dolores Dorn, Susan Cabot. Back row: Jack Bean, Terry Moore, Dick Anderson. Standing: Hugh O’Brian (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Mitzi Gaynor’s blind date party began as a dinner-time conversation. “It’s spring,” said Mitzi to...