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Monroe effects: Some Divorce to Escape, Some Divorce for Reconciliation - Part 2
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Monroe effects: Some Divorce to Escape, Some Divorce for Reconciliation - Part 1
In the 50’s and 60’s, Hollywood was a hope to one and all who wanted to break free from the chains of mediocre social conventions and lifestyle and so Hollywood certainly took Marilyn in it’s spell and also took away a lot of things from Marilyn, slowly she became too much to be not written or spoken about.
Love life of Merilyn Monroe
She became the topic of many a teaser gossips within the elite social circles, also she soon realized that the industry itself which made her a superstar, would be waiting to take advantage of her stardom, so in the process she lost some genuine friends and would become irritated which added to the insecurity she was harboring since childhood as she was sexually abused several times as a child.
So finally became a well established actress when she started speaking about it in the public and she was ridiculed in her approach about the topic which was received with a lot of indifference from the public at large . All this made her think that the world which already had a feast on her ordeal as an abused child was now targetting her, Marilyn almost felt as if she has mortgaged her life to the media which made her feel insecure and had to be institutionalized much against her wishes plus her socialistic view on society and her ever ready gesture to help the downtrodden and poor made her a friend of many communist personalities during that time, which bought her under the direct suspicion of the many anti-communist establishments specially the homeland security and FBI etc. It is said that J.D Edgar Hoover chief of FBI was primarily responsible for the slow deterioration of an otherwise healthy Marilyn which eventually lead to her demise.
Thus as a husband of the lady who was the “Queen of Hollywood” and more has a true friend, Joe helped Marilyn when she was being considered for frequent rehabilitation and when she was forcibly admitted to a rehab center which was not only hostile towards Marilyn but the rehab center was attempting to frame her as an extreme psychotic case, under direct but unofficial orders from the FBI. It is then when Joe DiMaggio realized that Marilyn had to be rescued and so Joe played an important role in giving her a normal life, thus all who were close to the couple could clearly notice the depth of the love between them. According to Jerry Coleman, “Joe DiMaggio deeply loved that woman.” According to Lois Smith, “The attraction to Joe remained great. Marilyn knew where she stood with him. He was always there, she could always call on him, lean on him depend on him, be certain of him. It was a marvelous feeling of comfort for her.” As Marilyn told Danish journalist, “To know that Joe is there is like having a life guard”, and Joe DiMaggio certainly proved that.
Lastly the question as to what led to Marilyn’s so-called suicide remains unanswered to date, did she die a Mysterious death ? …was the FBI or Dr. Greenson responsible for her death? or was Marilyn’ herself responsible is debatable.
But it was Joe who wanted Marilyn to be completely happy and he knew from the beginning that underneath the cloud of stardom and illicit happiness was a mountain of sadness in Marilyn’s heart which he (Joe) wanted to reason with, but Marlyin had strayed too far and believed too much in the glamour world and so it was too late for Joe to save her from all the influencing factors which shaped Marilyn Monroe’s to the final days.
I think all the above begs to drive the message that Love is above anything humans have known or created, if one finds true love in one’s life time then it is like being the richest person on earth.
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Monroe effects: Some Divorce to Escape, Some Divorce for Reconciliation - Part 1
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
So much has been written and so much has been read about Marilyn Monroe that it has created a mystery of sorts, plus the men in her life have always wanted to control her so as to stall her success by being abusive in more than one way. One wonders whether it was jealousness of the male order that couldn’t digest a woman’s spectacular success or was it a plot by some feminist groups themselves who were at the risk of loosing the attention they used to enjoy as the full quota of media attention was just going to these Hollywood beauties. Such was the case of Marilyn Monroe who was being subjected to all the negative circus of life so much so that Dr. Greenson in whom Marilyn confided, had to isolate Marilyn from friends, colleagues and staff and what he had called “bad influences.
Love life of Merilyn Monroe with Joe DiMaggio
Dr. Greenson reasoned by isolating Marilyn from all her friends and saying “this is the kind of planning you do with an adolescent girl who needs guidance, friendliness and firmness, and she seems to be taking it very well. Of course, she doesn’t think about canceling several hours to go to Palm Springs to be with Mr. Frank Sinatra”.
Well…Frank as she called him was one of the three men with whom she was in a relationship at various points in her life.
But her first love was Joe DiMaggio who was a base ball player and was the best as Marilyn once said “I don’t know if I’m in love with him yet, but I know I like him more than any man I’ve ever met.”
Marilyn’s personality did contrast with Joe’s, as Joe came from a Catholic background with strict joint-family values which was all about strong Sicilian ethics and heritage. Whereas Marilyn came from a broken parental relationship, and had spent her child hood with foster parents.
As for Marilyn Monroe she was not just a celebrity but had become a brand in her own right and her branding had all the flavors of the generation she belonged to . As the sixties was the beginning of the romantic era which was detoxifying the residual effects of World War-II happening in Korea supported by Russia on the one hand and United states on the other, plus along with America, Russia too was enjoying it’s share of Soviet communist success as later on it earned the reputation of being the first country to dominate the Space Age. So both Russia and America were closely watching each other and as superpowers both were proving to the rest of the world about each one’s superiority and might. But America had a better score in terms of democracy and more freedom specially concerning women, so America for the world was a melting pot of happening things in those days, Unlike today’s America which is a struggling capitalist society reeling under the weight of recession and heavy debt .
Coming back to Joe, in July 1952, Joe made Marilyn meet his family in San Francisco. At once Marilyn clearly realized why Joe wanted her ‘HIS WOULD BE WIFE’ to be domestic - AS IN RAISING CHILDREN, COOKING ETC, and it had always been that way in Joe’s family being a catholic one. But all the same on January 14, 1954 the couple got married.
Some of Joe’s close friends who knew Joe too well felt that it wasn’t just the career aspect of Marilyn as an actress. But the media attention she got, was over shadowing him from the public attentio Joe had previously enjoyed. People soon saw and sensed that when they both walked into a room, it wasn’t Joe who was in the limelight in fact his presence at times was completely ignored. Obviously being a star baseball player of the country Joe was used to being the center of attention. But now Marilyn was getting all the attention and Joe couldn’t deal with that. Moreover coming from a strict Catholic household, it was certain that Joe got acutely enraged by watching the sensual and historical stunt of air blowing his wife’s dress over her head which became the sexy, skirt-flying shot for the movie “Seven Year Itch” and that scene of the film gave Marilyn the universal brand appeal that defines her even today. So Joe finally wanted to pull out and the couple got divorced by October 1954 just a few months after their formal marriage.
To Be Continue…
Monroe effects: Some Divorce to Escape, Some Divorce for Reconciliation - Part 2
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