Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DULL AT JOE AND MARILYN...
...Aline Mosby, who once took off all her own clothes to report a nudist convention, wrote that Marilyn had once given her the recipe for "happiness." It was to "serve Joe dinner in his chair while he watched TV," and let him wear the-pants in the family. Marilyn, according to Aline, also bought a "king-size, eight-foot bed," because she did not approve of separate bedrooms, and "often in bed you think of something you want to say, and you're not going to chase down the hall to another room...
...outdone, modish, sexy Columnist Sheilah Graham wrote: "Both parties were 'bored right to the ears' with each other . . . Marilyn confided to friends: 'Joe's idea of a good time is to stay home night after night looking at television.' [He] objected heatedly to the fanfare of sexy photos." Many another reporter wrote that Joe was particularly miffed by the publicity photos taken on a New York street a month ago, showing Marilyn's skirt billowing up over her backside. At the time, Joe was reported to have said angrily: "What the hell...
Home to Frisco. After Marilyn and Joe were inaccessible for two days, Lawyer Giesler announced that Marilyn would hold a "silent" press conference; she would pose for pictures but would not talk. While the press waited outside the house, Joe came out with his bags, mumbled that he was going "home" to San Francisco, drove off in his blue Cadillac convertible...
Shortly after, Marilyn walked out in a black, form-fitting dress. As reporters crowded around in what was called "a mob scene like something from the French Revolution," Marilyn burst into tears. She was hustled away in a car with Lawyer Giesler. Said the A.P.: "An exit worthy of an Academy Award...