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 II January 5, 1950 Shooting of The Fireball, in which she plays Polly, a roller-skating groupie, begins. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Publicity still for The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, probably photographed by Frank Powolny. The Asphalt Jungle, directed by John Huston, piqued the curiosity of...
Broadway’s curtain of anonymity drops over Marilyn. Minus make-up, she passes for another stage-struck kid . . . Under the glare of floodlights The Legend of Monroe blossoms like a blast of heady perfume but The Smoldering Siren is only a pose, a part she...
The new, sexy-but-dignified Monroe took blasé New York by storm! Despite some skeptics she won friends and influenced famous columnist Wilson!...