Do you believe that in her day there was a man alive who could've captured the h!
Question:
Do you believe that in her day there was a man alive who could've captured the heart of Marilyn Monroe and....
held on to it? Joe DiMaggio was a great baseball player admired by many and he couldn't do it. If not him, then who could have?
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I tend to agree with you that no man alive could have captured the heart of Marilyn Monroe. I do not believe she was ever a happy person. As a child she went through many name changes due to her mother's lifestyle. Her birth name was Norma Jean Mortensen and her real name was always touted to be Norma Jean Baker. In no way did she have a normal childhood, being shifted from place to place in a chaos of instability. Marrying at 16 to James Dougherty and divorcing soon after, followed by a short marriage to Joe DiMaggio (who truly loved her) and another to Arthur Miller must have left her vulnerable and inadequate. The inner fears of abandonment were still strong and I believe little Norma Jean never had the chance to develop her true adult personality.
No man could have handled Marilyn's fears, vulnerability and her childlike ego. Perhaps if one *had* captured her unconditionally, she would be alive today--and her age would be 80+ years.
"DiMaggio and Monroe remained friends after their divorce, and spoke to each other often. In fact, after Monroe's divorce from playwright Arthur Miller in 1961, DiMaggio and Monroe had begun seeing each other again, and several biographers have reported that the couple was planning to re-marry.
Monroe was buried in an $800 coffin, wearing a simple green dress, with a green scarf tied around her neck. In her hands was a tiny bouquet of baby pink roses, placed there by DiMaggio. After the services, just before the coffin was closed, DiMaggio leaned over, kissed Monroe on the lips, and whispered, "I love you, I love you." That evening, after the funeral services were completed and Monroe's body was placed in the crypt, DiMaggio returned to the cemetery alone for a final, private farewell. For the next 20 years, until 1983, DiMaggio arranged to have six red roses sent to Monroe's crypt, three times a week. And when DiMaggio died in March 1999, his last words were reported to be, "I'll finally get to see Marilyn."
Female movie stars were a bit larger back then. It was many years later that the word anorexia or the silly ideal of fitting in size 0 jeans came along. No one could ever imagine Marilyn in size 0 jeans--but she weighed only 117 (at 5'5) at the time of her death.