Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Johnnie Ray, 27, sobbing crooner-composer (The Little White Cloud That Cried); by Marilyn Morrison Ray, 23, daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; after 19 months of marriage, a year's separation; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...20th Century-Fox studio one day last week, Publicist Boss Harry Brand answered his telephone. Marilyn Monroe, the studio's No. 1 star, was calling from San Francisco. "I promised to tell you," said Marilyn, "when I was going to get married, so you can tell all my friends...
...hour later, when Marilyn and former New York Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio, 39, arrived at San Francisco's city hall, their secret was known to a milling crowd of fans jammed in the third-floor corridor. Newsmen and photographers kept the couple busy for half an hour. "Hey Joe," they shouted, "kiss her again!" (He did.) "How many children you going to have?" Joe: "We expect one; I guarantee that." Marilyn: "I'd like to have six." The ceremony, before Municipal Court Judge Charles Peery, lasted only three minutes. Then the bride & groom dashed unwittingly down a dead...
...each other; one in a birthday suit, as a foundling and later as a calendar girl; the other in a . . . baseball suit." To Hollywood know-it-alls, the news came as something of a surprise, even though the happy couple had been going steady for two years. But Marilyn herself is a girl who is full of surprises. At 27, she is the most talked-about new star since Jean Harlow. Her figure (5 ft. 51 in., 118 Ibs., bust 37 in., hips 37 in., waist 24 in.) inspires admiring whistles across the land. But she has sustained interest...
...their wedding night, the honeymooners did their best to dodge newsmen, finally hid out at a $6-a-night motel in Paso Robles, Calif. Seventeen hours later, they disappeared again in Joe's blue Cadillac. When she is settled down Marilyn plans to commute between her studio and San Francisco, where Joe is a public-relations executive for a spaghetti firm. Cracked a Fox official: "We didn't lose an actress; we gained an outfielder...