Joe DiMaggio was born1 on 25 Nov 1914 in Martinez,, California, USA. He died on 8 Mar 1999.
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| Joe DiMaggio - b. 1914 |
Joe married3 Norma Jean Baker 2 daughter of Charles Stanley Gifford and Gladys
Pearl Monroe on 14 Jan 1954. The marriage ended in divorce.Norma was born on 1 Jun
1926 in Los Angles, Los Angles, California, USA. She died on 5 Aug 1962 in Los
Angles, Los Angles, California, USA. She was buried4 in Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angles, Los
Angles, California, USA.
Joe DiMaggio
In 1951 the baseball star Joe
DiMaggio saw a picture of Monroe with two Chicago White Sox players, but
waited until his retirement from
baseball before asking the man who arranged the picture to set up a date. At
first Monroe did not want to see him,
fearing a stereotypical jock, but after a two-year courtship they eloped
and married at San Francisco's City
Hall on January 14, 1954. During the couple's honeymoon, Marilyn was
asked to take a detour to Korea to
entertain the troops. She performed ten shows over a four day tour in
freezing temperatures. Her audience
consisted of more than 100,000 soldiers and marines.
Unfortunately the marriage would
quickly prove to be undermined by DiMaggio's jealousy over Monroe's
sexpot image. Although they both
claimed to want to settle down, Monroe still longed to perfect her craft and
gain respect from her peers. Friends
claimed that Joe became posessive and controlling as Marilyn became
more and more defiant of his wishes.
After filming the notorious skirt-blowing scene in The Seven Year Itch,
for example, director Billy Wilder
recalled the "look of death" on DiMaggio's face as he watched
alongside
fans and extras as her panties were
revealed over and over again. Marilyn's makeup man, Allan "Whitey"
Snyder, also recalled that soon after
the skirt scene, Marilyn appeared on set with bruises on her upper arms.
Furthermore, DiMaggio's biographer
Richard Ben Cramer claims that DiMaggio was so "disgusted" by
Monroe's "sloppiness" that
he began to abuse her. On October 27, 1954, 274 days after their marriage,
Monroe was pressured by 20th Century
Fox to obtain a divorce from DiMaggio on the grounds of mental
cruelty. Strangely enough, on her
29th birthday, DiMaggio escorted Monroe to the opening of the movie that
essentially ended their marriage.
Sources
1. Wikimedia
Foundation, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), 4 Jun 2012,
Wikimedia Foundation , c/o CT Corporation System , 818 West Seventh Street ,
Los Angeles, California 90017
."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_dimaggio."
2. Scott
Pfitzinger, World Connect Project pages of Scott Pfitzinger (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:3183927).
3. Wikimedia
Foundation, Wikipedia .
4. Compiled
by: Find A Grave, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/), Find A Grave, PO
Box 522107, Salt Lake City, UT 84152-2107.