ONTD TIME WARP: MariMiller is DUNZO
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Today, my dear time travelers, we will be warping back 49 years. The year is 1961 and JFK became the president only 4 days ago.
(Also if you are confused, or going to be all snarky just move on. This is all in fun and just an experiment)
MARILYN MONROE FINALIZES DIVORCE WITH ARTHUR MILLER
The Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe has divorced her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, after less than five years of marriage.
The divorce was granted in Mexico, where a judge signed the decree. The grounds of divorce were listed as "incompatibility".
It has been rumoured that the pair have had frequent quarrels over their differing lifestyles.
Mr Miller has recently been working with his wife on her most recent film, The Misfits, based on a short story he wrote, although the pair were reported to be barely speaking on set. The film is due to be released this month.
The divorce was officially announced last November, and a spokesman at the time said they had already separated. Sources close to the couple said Arthur Miller had in fact left Miss Monroe for German-born photographer Inge Morath, whom he met on the set of The Misfits. The couple married in 1956, five years after they first met. Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism for her new husband, who rose to prominence with his play "Death of a Salesman" in 1949, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Soon after they were married, Arthur Miller told journalists: "Marilyn will only make one film in every 18 months or so, which will take her about eight weeks." When asked what she would do for the rest of the time, he replied, "She will be my wife. That's a full-time job."
Marilyn Monroe disagreed, and continued to pursue her film work to the full, travelling to England to shoot "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Laurence Olivier shortly after the wedding.
However, she used her influence - and risked her own career - to help her husband after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to reveal the names of a literary group suspected of Communist sympathies.
Marilyn Monroe went with him to Washington to speak in his favour at the contempt hearings, and her intervention is widely thought to have contributed to the overturning of his conviction the following year.
Marilyn Monroe had been married twice before. Her first husband was Jimmy Dougherty, whom she married aged 16. The marriage did not survive her "discovery" and subsequent rise to fame.
In 1954, she met and married baseball star Joe DiMaggio, but it was a tempestuous partnership and ended just nine months later.
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Ugh I know some of you guys are just like OMG MARILYN but there was no way “MariMiller” was going to last. You guys said the same thing when she was with Joe and freaked out yelling DIMARILYN FOREVER!! Psh.
Oh well, I hope Misftits is still good. Can’t wait to see Clark and her at the premier!
Oh, like my icon? Johnny is so good on Who Do You Trust?