Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love (57 page)

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Gladys Baker with her infant daughter, Norma Jeane, 1926.

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Joe DiMaggio at a DiMaggio family gathering in 1936.

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Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold wedding, 1939.

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Norma Jeane Baker with her first husband, James Dougherty, on Catalina Island, ca. 1943.

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Joe DiMaggio with Frank Sinatra in 1949, before Marilyn Monroe entered either of their lives.

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Alfred Eisenstaedt’s portrait of an American actress, 1953.

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Monroe and DiMaggio wedding, January 1954.

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In Ch’unch’on, South Korea, Monroe entertains U.S. military personnel.

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Marilyn Monroe’s
Seven Year Itch
(1954) subway dress, pictured here, reportedly fetched $5.52 million at auction. The photo was the catalyst that brought the DiMaggio-Monroe marriage to an end.

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The Monroe-DiMaggio marriage makes front page news on Oct. 5, 1954.

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Emily and Dom DiMaggio join Marilyn and Joe for dinner in Boston, 1955.

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Marilyn Monroe with Milton Berle and J. Edgar Hoover at a luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC, 1955. In his story “A Beautiful Child,” Truman Capote quoted Marilyn as saying, “Everybody says that Milton Berle has the biggest schlong in Hollywood. But who cares?”

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Truman Capote dancing with his “Beautiful Child,” Marilyn Monroe, 1955.