Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio nine months ago, many newspapers went slightly gaga, and some even disregarded history and hailed it as the "Romance of the Century." The calendar girl who rose to fame "in a birthday suit," crooned the Los Angeles Herald & Express had found bliss with a man who achieved success "in a baseball suit." Last week U.S. dailies figured they had an even bigger story about Marilyn...
Bannered the Chicago Sun-Times: MARILYN TELLS JOE: YOU'RE OUT AT HOME. Cried the New York Journal American atop Page One: JOE FANNED ON JEALOUSY. Reporting the news, the tabloid New York Mirror breathed heavily: "Shock waves swept around the world...
...shock waves, in Hollywood fashion, were set in motion by the press boss of 20th Century-Fox, Marilyn's studio. Fast-talking Harry Brand, an ex-newsman with a reputation as one of the smartest press-agents in Hollywood, had carefully prepared for the event. At the time of the marriage he had foresightedly extracted a promise from Marilyn that, if the marriage broke up, she would tell him first. Last week, when she phoned and sobbed out the news. Brand was ready. Quickly, he mobilized his troops. He called in five assistants while he dashed off a short...
Virus & Soup. Close to a hundred reporters promptly hustled out to Joe and Marilyn's rented (at $750 a month) Beverly Hills home. But no one got in. As the newsmen sprawled on the lawn, trampled down rose bushes or broke branches from trees to get unobstructed views for their cameras, a crowd lined the street. From Marilyn's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, newsmen picked up bits, reported that Marilyn was upstairs sick in bed "with a virus" while Joe "brewed a pot of soup for his ailing wife." When a reporter asked why Joe didn't move...
Recipe for Happiness. Columnist Sidney Skolsky, who often escorted Marilyn to Hollywood premieres, managed to get through to her, reported "exclusively," "There is no other man." Since no other reporters could interview the principals, the newsmen did the next best thing; they interviewed each other, tracked down friends of Marilyn's and Joe's, dug back in their memories and files, and wrote stories under such headlines as NIGHTS WERE...