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May English 3, period 1 2 May 2012 Monroes Love Interests At her peak, Marilyn Monroe was synonymous with glamour, beauty, and a type of tragic fragility that people still find fascinating today (Woog 7). She is still one of the most famous sex symbols as of now and is well known for the list of men also called Monroes Love Interests. The names on this list were men Marilyn used and discarded on her path to find the ceaseless praise and unconditional love she so desperately craved. Marilyns childhood was not one of big smiles and jubilant memories. Alot of people would suggest this is where the root of all her issues started. When Marilyn was 7 years old her mother, Gladys Monroe Baker Mortenson, was hospitalized after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She jumped around in foster homes, one being the home of Albert and Ida Bolender, who didnt believe in complements providing one of the foster childrens egos get to big. When Grace McKee took in Marilyn and became her legal guardian it was a drastic change from the Bolenders. While the Bolenders were very strict and unbending, McKee was very lenient and more like a sister. When McKee married, it was to a man who didnt want children and they decided to move away, without Marilyn. In order for Marilyn not to be sucked back in to the Foster System, she had to be married (10-14). Marilyn had 3 husbands in her lifetime, James

Fether 2 Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller. This is not counting her lovers, most famous of which include John F. Kennedy, and Robert (Bobby) Kennedy. James Dougherty was the man McKee arranged for Marilyn to marry, and they were, on June 19, 1942 (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 1). Marilyn stated Grace McKee arranged the marriage for me, I never had a chance. Theres not much to say about it. They couldnt support me, and they had to work out something, and so I got married. (Marilyn Monroe and James Dougherty 3). He was 21 to Monroes 16 years of age and she was finally free of the foster system. Dougherty wanted his uniform back so he joined the Merchant Marines and was posted overseas during WWII, leaving Marilyn then to live with his mother (3). By 1946, Marilyn had already begun a successful modeling career (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 1).When Dougherty came home it was said that they fought over her career because he didnt want her in the limelight, or rather under a microscope. Marilyn once said My marriage didnt make me sad, but it didnt make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom. (Marilyn Monroe and James Dougherty 3). They were divorced September 13, 1946, after 4 years of marriage (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 2). Later after the divorce Dougherty claimed the two were in love during their marriage and would have stayed together had the stardom not attracted Marilyn (Marriages 1). Then came DiMaggio. Joe DiMaggio was Marilyns second husband and possibly her only true love had she not overlooked it so quickly. DiMaggio had said that he always thought Marilyn was extremely beautiful, and he yearned to finally meet her. But it wasnt until after DiMaggio retired from baseball, at the age of 37, that he contacted her. Marilyn and DiMaggios

Fether 3 first date was in March of 1952 (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 2). Marilyn was quoted saying, "I was surprised to be so crazy about Joe. I expected a flashy New York sports type, and instead I met this reserved guy who didn't make a pass at me right away! He treated me like something special. Joe is a very amazing man, and he makes other people feel wonderful, too." (Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe 1) On January 14, 1954 the couple were married at San Francisco city hall, and honeymooned in Tokyo where they were mobbed by fans. Children were always something Marilyn and DiMaggio wanted but she felt her career was more important at that point in her life (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 2). DiMaggio wished for her to be a stay at home wife but Marilyn had said I have too many fantasies to become a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. Supposedly DiMaggio was extremely jealous of the men and women in Marilyns life. Marilyn was quoted saying "I didn't want to give up my career, and that's what Joe wanted me to do most of all." (Marilyn Monroe Information 2). They were constantly fighting, and there were rumors of mental and physical violence in the relationship but never any proof to back it up (Marriages 2). They separated on October 5, 1954, but were not officially divorced until Halloween, 1955 (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 2). By the summer of 1955, Marilyn was living in her New York apartment in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers. New York City represented a new life for her. She acquired new friends who respected her, new business associates who understood her desires to showcase her dramatic skills, and a new romance, with playwright Arthur Miller who was to become her third husband (Doll 1). They were married twice, once in a civil ceremony on June 29, 1956, and the second time in a Jewish ceremony on July 1,

Fether 4 1956. The couple would often retreat to the farm Miller owned in Roxbury to get away from the press (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 2). They tried to leave the media out of their wedding and life together as much as they could. Miller was very open about his love for his beautiful new bride. Marilyn stated If I were nothing but a dumb blonde, he wouldnt have married me. (Marriages 2). Marilyn became pregnant three times in her marriage to Miller. The first time was in August 1956 when she lost the baby to a miscarriage, the second was a year later but it was an ectopic pregnancy that had to be terminated, and the last was on December 17, 1958 when she miscarried once again (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 3). This caused strain in their relationship. Marilyn found Millers diary at one point where he admitted to having second thoughts about their marriage calling Marilyn Unpredictable, Forlorn, and Immature (Woog 15). When they began The Misfits Marilyn and Millers marriage was coming to an end. During the filming Marilyn and Miller had separate hotel suites, and were barely speaking. They were spiraling for divorce (Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe 2). The unhappy couple waited until after the last of the filming of The Misfits to announce that they were getting a divorce. They make it official on January 20, 1961 (Marilyn Monroe Timeline 3). Towards the end of Marilyn and Millers marriage, Marilyn and DiMaggio reconnected. She was in and out of psychiatric hospitals after the divorce and DiMaggio stuck through it with her the whole time. On August 5, 1962 she was found dead in her Los Angeles home, at age 36 (3). Her death was officially attributed to drug overdose, but has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories associated with her involvement in the Kennedy brothers. She had been due to re-marry DiMaggio, three

Fether 5 days after her death (Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe 2). DiMaggio was the one man she encountered who was to provide the ceaseless praise and unconditional love she wanted to find all her life. She was so desperate to find it that when it came to her she overlooked it. DiMaggio took flowers to her grave three times a week for twenty years after she died. The last words DiMaggio said before he died were I finally get to see Marilyn. (Marilyn Monroe Information 2)

Fether 6 Works Cited Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. Mydearvalentine. n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Complicated Love Relationships. Magisociety. n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Doll, Susan. Marilyn Monroes Later Career, HowStuffWorks.Inc 19982012. Web. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe. Time. n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Marilyn Monroe and James Dougherty. Famoushookups. n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2012. Marilyn Monroe Information Crazyhorsesghost. n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Marilyn Monroe marries James Dougherty. HowStuffWorks. n.d. Web. 7 Mar. 2012. Marilyn Monroe Timeline, MarilynMonroePages.com 2012. Web. Marriages. Spiritus-Temporis. n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. The Kennedy Connection. Truetv. n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Tumultuous Relationships. Biography4u. n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2012. Unhappily Married. Trutv. n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. Woog, Adam. Mysterious Deaths: Marilyn Monroe, Lucent Books 1997. Print.