Marilyn Monroe Marriage to Joe
On January 14, 1954, Marilyn married baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco's City Hall. Unfortunately, Marilyn's worldwide fame and sexual image became a theme that haunted their marriage (Haberman 1). The marriage was unrelieved hell. She thought he did not care enough about her career; that he was jealous and discouraged by her willingness to play the national bimbo (Epstein 2). Nine months later on October 27, 1954, Marilyn and Joe divorced. They attributed the split to a "conflict of careers," and remained close friends. 'I married Joe with love. I thought I was going to have a good life. I thought we were going to have a decent marriage. I thought we were going to have a relationship as a husband and as a wife. And all the things that are entailed in a good marriage. And I've discovered that the man is absolutely obsessed with jealousy and possessiveness. . . . He doesn't want to know about my business. He doesn't want to know about my work as an actress. He doesn't want me to associate with any of my friends. He wants to cut me off completely from my whole world of motion pictures, friends, and creative people that I know" (Oates 151) Marilyn Monroe's divorce from Joe DiMaggio, there was many events that were pot
ential threats to both her sanity and her life. "It is said that he spent the night before the funeral hovering over her casket, and cried openly at the service. He kissed her one last time and repeatedly told her he loved her." Every day following her death he sent a dozen red roses to her grave. It has also been said that DiMaggio's last words were that he would finally be with Marilyn again (Ellen 1). By October 1961, Greenson was canceling appointments with other patients to meet Monroe at his home for therapy. She was soon staying for dinner, sometimes 3-4 times a week. He persuaded her to do a film against her judgment. The psychiatrist arranged for her to be kept on a steady diet of barbiturates (Hubbard 2). Marilyn purchased a house in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles under Greenson's orders in late February of 1962. Then Dr. Greenson hired Eunice Murray as housekeeper for the drained Monroe. Murray didn't have the training or qualifications to be a nurse. Allegations aroused, that Dr. Greenson hired Murray to spy on Marilyn. It is suspected that she was a "spy" for Dr. Greenson who continued to have more and more control over Marilyn's life, seeing her almost daily when she was in Los Angeles (Ellen 2). She frequently fought with director John Huston and co-stars Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift on the set of "The Misfits". She failed to appear on-set often times, and was hospitalized several times for depression. When Clark Gable died of a heart attack shortly after filming ended, media columns blamed Marilyn's lateness to the set of the film for his death. Marilyn felt a great deal of guilt, commenting, "I kept him waiting...kept him waiting for hours and hours o
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