"they reportedly became engaged, though Sinatra denied intending to marry her. Sinatra was also engaged to India-born South African actress and dancer Juliet Prowse for a short while from fall 1961 to early 1962, before Sinatra broke the engagement late that year because Prowse refused to give up her career. The two first met on the set of the 1960 film ""Can-Can"". Sinatra met Marilyn Monroe in 1954 (while he was still married to Ava Gardner, although some sources say that Sinatra and Monroe first met several years earlier) and was a friend of Monroe's second husband Joe DiMaggio, and"
"at Doctors Hospital in Staten Island. The couple divorced in 1944. According to her autobiography ""My Story"", ghostwritten by Ben Hecht, Marilyn Monroe originally did not want to meet DiMaggio, fearing that he was a stereotypical arrogant athlete. They eloped at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954. The marriage ran into trouble within a few weeks as DiMaggio became upset by Monroe's personal habits, including her disdain for bathing and her tendency to relax around the house nude. Although she suffered from endometriosis, Monroe and DiMaggio each expressed to reporters their desire to start a family. An incident"
"films like ""Love Happy"" (1949), starring The Marx Brothers. She re-signed with Fox in 1950 and began playing small but meaningful roles in big-budgeted films like ""All About Eve"", starring Bette Davis. After several films, Fox gave Marilyn her biggest break with ""Niagara"". The film starred Monroe, Joseph Cotten, and Jean Peters. Monroe went on to make millions for Fox, starring in movies like ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1953), ""How to Marry a Millionaire"" (1953), and ""River of No Return"" (1954). Monroe's first flop in two years was ""There's No Business Like Show Business"", a musical co-starring Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey,"
"16, 1942. In 1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British model and actress previously married to Douglas Fairbanks; the couple divorced in 1952. In 1955, Gable married his fifth wife, Kay Spreckels (née Kathleen Williams), a thrice-married former fashion model and actress who had previously been married to sugar-refining heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. On March 20, 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, at the same hospital in which her husband had died four months earlier. Marilyn Monroe attended John Clark's baptism. John Clark had two children: Kayley Gable (born 1986) and Clark James"
"Pictures president David Begelman for from 1986 to 1990. In 2007 Grant announced that she was writing an autobiography. Sandra Grant Bennett Sandra Grant Bennett (born 7 July 1940) is an American actress, most famous for marrying singing legend Tony Bennett and dating Joe DiMaggio for many years after he divorced Marilyn Monroe. While filming ""The Oscar"" in 1965, Grant became involved with singer Tony Bennett. After living together for several years, the couple married quietly in New York on December 29, 1971. Grant and Bennett had two daughters, Joanna (born 1970) and Antonia (born 1974). Eight years later, in"
"one such sitting in 1954 featuring Monroe in a ballet tutu was chosen by Time Life as one of the three most popular images of the 20th century. Monroe and Greene's friendship ended after the production of ""The Prince and the Showgirl"" in 1957, and Monroe fired Greene. Greene's first marriage was to his childhood sweetheart Evelyn Franklin in 1942. They divorced in 1949. His second marriage was to model Amy Franco (born 1929 in Cuba), whom he married in 1953. They had two sons, Joshua and Anthony. They remained married until Greene's death in 1985. August 8, 1985, Greene"
"Marilyn Monroe. Her relationship with Miller prompted some negative comments from the press, including Walter Winchell's statement that ""America's best-known blonde moving picture star is now the darling of the left-wing intelligentsia."" Monroe and Miller were married in a civil ceremony at the Westchester County Court in White Plains, New York, on June 29, and two days later had a Jewish ceremony at his agent's house at Waccabuc, New York. With the marriage, Monroe converted to Judaism, which led Egypt to ban all of her films. The media saw the union as mismatched given her star image as a sex"
"one eye and the frame chosen for publication shows Marilyn wearing a white, floppy hat. Silver gelatin prints were produced, and some bought by Monroe herself, although in publication the photographs were replaced with illustrations by Jon Whitcomb (1906–88) using Carl’s work as reference. The photograph itself features on the cover of ""Marilyn in fashion : the enduring influence of Marilyn Monroe"" Carl Perutz’s marriage to Lida Livingston (1912–1977), manager of Margaret Ettinger’s publicity firm, on Sept 25, 1952, was announced in ""Variety"" magazine, Wednesday, October 1, 1952, as well as the birth of their son Peter on May 21,"
"in 1951. The couple had two sons, actor Michael Douglas and producer Joel Douglas. Afterwards, in Paris, he met producer Anne Buydens (born Hannelore Marx; April 23, 1919, Hanover, Germany) while acting on location in ""Lust for Life"". She originally fled from Germany to escape Nazism and survived by putting her multilingual skills to work at a film studio, doing translations for subtitles. They married on May 29, 1954. In 2014 they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. They had two sons, Peter, a producer, and Eric, an actor. Eric Douglas died on July"
"stardom, it was the 16th most common first name among American females. In the late 1940s, Norma Jeane Baker (née Mortenson) changed her name to Marilyn Monroe at the urging of Ben Lyon, a one-time actor turned casting director at 20th Century Fox, who said she reminded him of Miller – he had played Miller's love interest in ""Her Majesty, Love"". Monroe would ""become"" Marilyn Miller herself when she married the playwright Arthur Miller in 1956. Miller was married to: In 1930, Miller was briefly engaged to Michael Farmer, who later became a husband of Gloria Swanson. In 1932, she"
"for many years as a TV spokesperson, executive, and talent scout. In the latter capacity, he helped give Neil Sedaka, among others, his first major exposure. He was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for recording at 1600 Vine Street and one for radio at 1755 Vine Street in Hollywood, California. Monroe married Marian Baughman, April 2, 1940, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, where they had met as high school students. They did not date in high school but became romantically inclined toward each other when their paths crossed again in New York City, twelve years after graduation."
"How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series) How to Marry a Millionaire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication and on the NTA Film Network, from October 7, 1957, to August 20, 1959. The series is based on the 1953 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. The series stars Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden. Lisa Gaye joined the cast in the second season after Lori Nelson left the series. ""How to Marry a Millionaire"" was one of the first television sitcoms based on a feature film, and was the first"
"by the Soviet forces on January 17, 1945. In 1949, Fleischmann joined the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. On 25 May 1956, Dr. Fleischmann was re-elected to serve as Director of the Institute for the year 1956–57. Dr. Fleischmann, head of the psychoanalytic institute was doing psychotherapy behind a one-way vision screen, in full view of all the students. The Clinic became the center of choice for Hollywood stars. Among these were: Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. While at the Menninger Clinic, Fleischmann met and married Dr. Gisela Ebert, a psychiatric resident. Their two children, Esther Fleischmann (b. 1952) and"
"died in infancy in 1934. After her divorce from O'Brien, she appeared in one movie and a few television plays. In 1954, she announced her engagement to Peter Ganine, a sculptor. In the ""California Marriage Index, 1949–1959"", there is a record of marriage and file date of June 5, 1954, for Peter Ganine and Marguerite Churchill. In 1960, she moved to Rome and, in 1970, to Lisbon, Portugal. She came back to the United States in the 1990s to live near her son, Darcy, whom she outlived by two years. She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural"
"marriages to baseball player Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller. Blonde (film) Blonde is a 2001 American made-for-television biographical film on the life of Marilyn Monroe, with Australian actress Poppy Montgomery in the lead role. The film was adapted from Joyce Carol Oates´s 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist novel of the same name. A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with a series of real events in her life. With glimpses into her childhood years, teenaged marriage to first husband James Dougherty, meeting with photographer Otto Ose, career with 20th Century Fox, relationship with her mother, her foster parents, Charles Chaplin"
"Strasberg, who believed that an actor must confront their emotional traumas and use them in their performances. In her private life, Monroe continued her relationship with DiMaggio despite the ongoing divorce proceedings; she also dated actor Marlon Brando and playwright Arthur Miller. She had first been introduced to Miller by Kazan in the early 1950s. The affair between Monroe and Miller became increasingly serious after October 1955, when her divorce from DiMaggio was finalized and Miller separated from his wife. The FBI also opened a file on her. The studio feared that Monroe would be blacklisted and urged her to"
"before their divorce. Marie later married New York Governor and diplomat Averell Harriman and was First Lady of New York from January 1, 1955 to December 31, 1958. His second marriage was to Gwladys Crosby ""Gee"" Hopkins from 1931 to 1940; they had one daughter: In 1941, in Plymouth, Ohio, he married for the third time to Eleanor Searle (c. 1908–2002), daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George James Searle. Before their divorce in 1957, they had one son: On January 25, 1958, he married for the fourth, and final, time to Marie Louise Schroeder (b. 1925). She was an actress"
"Bye"" on an island off the coast of Antigua. On April 30, 2008, Carey married Cannon in The Bahamas. At 35 weeks into her pregnancy, she gave birth to their fraternal twins, Moroccan and Monroe, on April 30, 2011 via Cesarean section. Monroe is named after Marilyn Monroe; Moroccan is named after the Moroccan-decor room in Carey's apartment where Cannon proposed to her. In August 2014, Cannon confirmed he and Carey had separated a few months earlier. He filed for divorce on December 12, 2014. It was finalized in 2016. On January 21, 2016, Carey and Australian billionaire James Packer"
"helped manage her career. After they divorced, she married George J. Manuche Jr., a former U.S. Air Force pilot and owner of Mike Manuche's Restaurant in Manhattan, in 1955. In 1961, she again replaced Mary Martin in a Broadway role, Maria in ""The Sound of Music"". She then performed in non-musical productions such as ""Mary, Mary"" at The National Theatre in Washington, D.C. She also continued to sing on the radio for WCBS in her own daily show for several years and recorded several albums such as ""Censored"" and ""Love, Honor and All That Jazz: Songs for After the Honeymoon"
"which she continued after graduation in order to develop further the warmth and artistry of her voice. In 1948, she married Dr. Raymond A. Raskin, with whom she had two children, Jonathon and Lisa. Winning the Marian Anderson award in 1952 and 1953, and the Musicians Club of New York's Young Artist Award in 1956, Raskin started to perform in concerts throughout the United States. She secured national recognition in 1957 for her part in the televised American premiere of Poulenc's ""Dialogues des Carmélites"". Her prominence continued to rise in July the same year when she starred in a concert"
"on the film’s soundtrack, """". On September 14, 2012, following a show on the Pistol Annies tour, Monroe accepted a marriage proposal by boyfriend John Danks, a starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. She tweeted ""I said yes . . . I'm engaged to my John Danks! Best night of my life!"" Pistol Annies bandmate Miranda Lambert helped her with the wedding plans. They were married on October 24, 2013, at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee; Blake Shelton officiated the ceremony, and Lambert was the matron of honor. On December 25, 2016, Monroe took to Twitter displaying an ultrasound"
"of Monroe, as were others including Richard Basehart, Frank Converse, Sheree North and Jason Miller, playing fellow playwright Arthur Miller. The movie begins with a young Marilyn (then Norma Jeane), as an orphan in California. The feature progresses with the young girl growing up and superstar dreams fill her head, and she eventually marries, starts modelling, divorces, signs a contract with 20th Century Fox, and changes her moniker to Marilyn Monroe. The movie also takes a view of her personal life; with her husbands, baseball-star Joe DiMaggio, and with playwright Arthur Miller. As with her personal life, the movie shows"
"concert shows. An impressed Monroe asked Dietrich about it, who told her how the dress's illusion worked, and sent her to Louis to design a similar dress for her Kennedy appearance. While Dietrich had been seen wearing her version before Monroe, the press coverage surrounding Monroe's appearance at Madison Square Garden in her style of gown swept the globe. This robe became—besides the white one from ""The Seven Year Itch""—Marilyn Monroe's most famous robe, selling at auction in 2016 for 4.8 million dollars. In 1993, four years after the death of his second wife, Louis married former client Loretta Young;"
"young Marilyn Monroe. In the 1960s, Joy retired to Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lived with her daughter and son-in-law. Joy appeared as a subject on CBS TV's game show, ""To Tell the Truth"" July 1, 1963. She was interviewed in the television documentary series ""Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film"" (1980). Joy was married three times and had one child. On March 22, 1922, she married actor John Gilbert. They had a daughter, Leatrice Joy Gilbert (later Fountain; September 1924 – 20 January 2015), who later acted in bit parts. Joy filed for divorce in August 1924, citing"
"their wedding included past and future president Grover Cleveland, railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt and Edward Harriman, John Jacob Astor IV, and J. P. Morgan. They had one child, Ethel M.B. Harriman, born on December 11, 1897. Ethel worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, as an actress and writer (as Ethel Russell or Ethel Borden). For many years, Harriman led the life of a young society matron interested in charitable and civic activities. Her life revolved around Mount Kisco, New York (where their estate overlooked the Hudson River), Fifth Avenue in New York City, and Newport, Rhode Island. In 1903, she"
"century, with the hopes of re-opening the actual 'Brick and Mortar' stores throughout the US. After World War II, under the leadership of Joseph’s son Cyril Magnin, the Joseph Magnin Co. went more upscale and began courting the younger woman’s market. JM advertisements were distinctive as being glamorous, sophisticated, trendy and youthful. One newspaper ad went to print without the Magnin name. Cyril was furious until he was told the item had sold out; everyone knew it was a JM ad. Marilyn Monroe purchased the suit she wore when she married Joe DiMaggio in 1954 at JM. As of 1960"
"produced by Nat Perrin and Irving Asher, and produced by Ben Feiner, Jr. and Paul Jones. On February 21, 2017, the first season of ""How to Marry a Millionaire"" was released on manufactured-on-demand DVD by CBS Home Entertainment. Season two was released on September 18, 2017. How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series) How to Marry a Millionaire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication and on the NTA Film Network, from October 7, 1957, to August 20, 1959. The series is based on the 1953 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall."
"film was the drama ""The Misfits"" (1961). Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Her second and third marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, respectively, were highly publicised and both ended in divorce. On August 5, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Although Monroe's death was ruled a probable suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June"
"Sandra Grant Bennett Sandra Grant Bennett (born 7 July 1940) is an American actress, most famous for marrying singing legend Tony Bennett and dating Joe DiMaggio for many years after he divorced Marilyn Monroe. While filming ""The Oscar"" in 1965, Grant became involved with singer Tony Bennett. After living together for several years, the couple married quietly in New York on December 29, 1971. Grant and Bennett had two daughters, Joanna (born 1970) and Antonia (born 1974). Eight years later, in 1979, Grant and Bennett separated; they legally remained married until their divorce in 2007. She also lived with Columbia"
"Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic ""blonde bombshell"" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962 (equivalent to $ billion in ). More than half a century later, she continues to be a major popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los"
"Hollywood producer. Lange came to prominence in her first film role in ""Bus Stop"" with Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray, whom she married on April 14, 1956. Murray later said that Monroe grew jealous of another blonde being hired for the movie and asked the studio producers to dye Lange's blonde hair light brown. As a result of favorable reviews, Lange landed a major role in the then-risqué 1957 film ""Peyton Place"". Her strong performance earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and another for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She would become a rather well-recognized"
"plan. When the Moulin Rouge Hotel, an integrated hotel and casino, opened in 1955, Anderson was brought in for its opening. He expressed regret at the thought that the hotel might have been his if he had the further financial backing. On May 2, 1939, Anderson married Mamie (Wiggins) Nelson. She was the daughter of Alonzo and Annie Wiggins of Eastman, GA. Mamie died on August 5, 1954, at the age of 43, following a two-year battle with cancer. At the time of her death she and Anderson had been married for 15 years and her son Billy (Anderson's stepson)"
"has produced since Lady Godiva)"". The couple married five weeks later at Caxton Hall on Monday, 3 July 1951. Dors often played characters suffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as ""the English Marilyn Monroe"". Hamilton also made sure that she had the lifestyle attachments of a sex symbol, agreeing to a lease-deal with Rolls-Royce such that a headline could be created in the tabloids that, at the age of 20, she was the youngest registered keeper of a Rolls-Royce in the UK. Hamilton went to great lengths to advance Dors' career and his income or"