Joe DiMaggio ordered six red roses to Marilyn Monroe’s grave three times a week for 20 years after her death. Their marriage only lasted nine months, but DiMaggio was heartbroken and gave up drinking. Monroe married at 16 to avoid an orphanage and loved intellectual men. The Misfits was her last film with Clark Gable.
Celebrity weddings get a lot of attention, perhaps more often in the tabloids when things go awry. But that doesn’t mean the love wasn’t real. Take baseball great Joe DiMaggio and movie star Marilyn Monroe, who eloped in San Francisco in 1954. Though the famous couple’s marriage only lasted nine months, they must have shared something special. After Monroe died in 1962 at age 36, the Yankee Clipper ordered six red roses to her grave three times a week, for 20 years. DiMaggio was said to be so heartbroken by their divorce that he gave up drinking and went to therapy. He and Monroe reconciled after her divorce from playwright Arthur Miller, and DiMaggio was rumored to want to propose to her again, but she died before she could.
A short and bright life:
Marilyn Monroe loved to read and said she found intellectual men the most attractive, including Albert Einstein.
Marilyn Monroe was just 16 when she married a neighbor to stay out of an orphanage; the marriage lasted four years.
The Misfits (1961) was the last film made by both Marilyn Monroe and the big screen Clark Gable.
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