"Quigley Publishing that he previously worked for, the emphasis was Hollywood, but with a twist—""exposés of star secrets"" became ""Confidential""s prime focus. The first ""Confidential"" issue was dated December (released November) 1952 under the caption ""The Lid Is Off!"" Its circulation was 250,000 copies. But when the breakup of Marilyn Monroe's marriage to Joe DiMaggio was reported in the August 1953 issue (""Why Joe DiMaggio Is Striking Out with Marilyn Monroe!""), the circulation jumped to 800,000. The quarterly magazine then became bimonthly and was the fastest growing magazine in the US at the time. Harrison would claim its circulation reached"
"and operated a supper club together in Palm Springs, California, called Charcoal Charley's, where she performed until her death from pancreatic cancer in 1984.. Dorothy Arnold (actress) Dorothy Arnold (November 21, 1917 – November 13, 1984) was an American film actress and the first wife of baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Her 20-year movie career began with 1937’s ""Freshies"" and ended with 1957’s ""Lizzie"". She was born as Dorothy Arnoldine Olson in Duluth, Minnesota, of Norwegian heritage. By the age of 12 she was performing on amateur nights at Duluth's Lyric Theater and with the local Salvation Army Band. She graduated"
"Dorothy Arnold (actress) Dorothy Arnold (November 21, 1917 – November 13, 1984) was an American film actress and the first wife of baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Her 20-year movie career began with 1937’s ""Freshies"" and ended with 1957’s ""Lizzie"". She was born as Dorothy Arnoldine Olson in Duluth, Minnesota, of Norwegian heritage. By the age of 12 she was performing on amateur nights at Duluth's Lyric Theater and with the local Salvation Army Band. She graduated from Denfeld High School in 1935. Her first theatrical job was with the Band Box Revue, traveling out of Chicago. She studied at Paramount"
"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"
"on TV’s ""The Adventures of Jim Bowie"" and ""Dragnet"". Arnold met DiMaggio in 1937 – she was 19, he was 23 – on the set of the film ""Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"" (released in 1937). DiMaggio had a minor speaking role in the film; Arnold had no lines. The couple married on November 18, 1939 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco. On October 23, 1941, the year of DiMaggio’s famous 56-game hitting streak, Arnold gave birth to their only child, Joe DiMaggio, Jr. The couple split up in 1942 but later reconciled in front of the press. They separated"
"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"
"five-mile radius from their home without a permit. Giuseppe was barred from the San Francisco Bay, where he had fished for decades, and his boat was seized. Rosalia became an American citizen in 1944, followed by Giuseppe in 1945. In January 1937, DiMaggio met actress Dorothy Arnold on the set of ""Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"", in which he had a minor role, and she was an extra. They married at San Francisco's St. Peter and Paul Church on November 19, 1939, as 20,000 well-wishers jammed the streets. Their son, Joseph Paul DiMaggio III (October 23, 1941 – August 7, 1999), was born"
"role in his son's early career as an actor. He used to screen scripts for him, and was instrumental in getting Leo to play Rimbaud in the 1995 film ""Total Eclipse"". George Paul DiCaprio met Irmelin Indenbirken (born 1943), a German immigrant, in college; the two later married and moved to Los Angeles. The couple had one son, Leonardo DiCaprio, and divorced shortly after, when the boy was a year old. DiCaprio married Peggy Ferrar in 1995, in a ceremony presided over by counterculture icon Timothy Leary. (DiCaprio had collaborated with him on the comic book ""Neurocomics""). DiCaprio is stepfather"
"Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed ""Joltin' Joe"" and ""The Yankee Clipper"", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his"
"average, 1680 hits, 308 doubles, 87 home runs, 1046 runs and 618 RBI in 1399 games. He was selected an All-Star seven times (1941–42, 1946, 1949–52). His career average of 2.98 chances per game remains the record for AL outfielders. DiMaggio enjoyed a close friendship with teammates Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, and Johnny Pesky, which was chronicled in David Halberstam's book ""The Teammates"". After retiring, he became a plastics manufacturer in New England. He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in . He and his wife Emily, whom he married in 1948, had two sons (Paul"
"popularity during his career was such that he was referenced in film, television, literature, art, and music both during his career and decades after he retired. , or Retrosheet Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed ""Joltin' Joe"" and ""The Yankee Clipper"", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15"
"record equalled by Dick Allen in 1968 and Evan Longoria and Dan Johnson in 2012. In a postscript to his acclaim noted above as the ""new DiMaggio"", Zernial figured, coincidentally, in Joe DiMaggio meeting his legendary future wife Marilyn Monroe. The ""handsome"" young Zernial was chosen to pose with rising star Monroe in a movie-studio publicity shot. DiMaggio was so struck by Marilyn in the photo, as well as so envious of Zernial's opportunity, that he asked the rival outfielder how to reach Marilyn. When the Oakland Athletics played the Philadelphia Phillies for the first time in interleague play in"
"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"
"consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Joe DiMaggio was the center fielder on Stein's Italian team. On September 17, 1992, the doors were opened at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, for which he raised over $4,000,000. On April 13, 1998, DiMaggio was given the Sports Legend Award at the 13th annual American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame Awards Dinner in New York City. Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and a longtime fan of DiMaggio's, made the presentation to the Yankee great. The event was one of DiMaggio's last public appearances before taking"
"the 1950s he worked as a dancer, mainly in Las Vegas, and married a showgirl. The couple moved to Europe and for several years lived in Rome, where DiPaolo continued acting in films. By 1973, DiPaolo was divorced and became romantically involved with singer Rosemary Clooney, whom he met in Hollywood during the late '40s. The two married in November 1997 and the marriage lasted until the death of Clooney in 2002. On September 4, 2013, DiPaolo died of pneumonia in Los Angeles at the age of 87. Dante DiPaolo Dante Cesare DiPaolo (February 18, 1926 – September 4, 2013)"
"days. He returned to his home in Hollywood, Florida, on January 19, 1999; he died there at age 84 on March 8. DiMaggio's funeral was held on March 11, 1999, at Sts. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco; he was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California. DiMaggio's son died that same year in August, at age 57. At his death, ""The New York Times"" called DiMaggio's 1941 56-game hitting streak ""perhaps the most enduring record in sports."" In an article in 1976 in ""Esquire"" magazine, sportswriter Harry Stein published an ""All Time All-Star Argument Starter,"""
"car chase. Parts of ""Sister Act 2"" were also filmed here. After their civil ceremony in 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio returned for photographs on the steps of this church. DiMaggio was married to Dorothy Arnold in the church on November 19, 1939, but later divorced. Still married as far as the Church was concerned (having not obtained an annullment), he could not be married in the Catholic Church. In a side entrance, Sts. Peter and Paul Church still showcases a photo in a book displaying proudly DiMaggio's marriage day photo-but with Arnold, not Monroe. DiMaggio's funeral was held"
"previously played at Recreation Park (1903–1913, 1915–1930) and Ewing Field (1914) before Seals Stadium was built to house the team. While the Seals played exclusively at Seals Stadium, the other original tenant, the Mission Reds, moved to Los Angeles in 1938 and become the Hollywood Stars. Hall of Fame legend Joe DiMaggio grew up in San Francisco and played for the Seals from October 1932 through 1935. In 1933, DiMaggio hit safely in a record 61 straight games and had 169 RBI, with a batting average of.340. Another future major league player Gus Suhr had an incredible season for the"
"""it girl"" of 1952 and Hedda Hopper described her as the ""cheesecake queen"" turned ""box office smash"". In February, she was named the ""best young box office personality"" by the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood, and began a highly publicized romance with retired New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, who was one of the most famous sports personalities of the era. In March 1952, a scandal broke when Monroe revealed during an interview that in 1949, she had posed for nude pictures, which were now featured in calendars. The studio had learned of the upcoming publication of the calendar some weeks"
"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"
"to the Stockton Ports of the California League as a player-manager. He also played for and managed the Pittsburg Diamonds of the Class-D Far West League from 1949 through 1951. He finished the 1951 season, and his professional career, with the Tacoma Tigers of the Class-B Western International League. DiMaggio was married with two children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He died in North Hollywood, California, at age 74 of colon cancer. DiMaggio worked at the California Shipbuilding Corporation during World War II. ""He's one of the many former athletic stars who are helping to smash the Axis by building"
"on November 17, 2000. Reasons for the divorce were not disclosed. On December 4, 2005, he married Olympic Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh in Palm Springs, California, where many AVP players were in attendance. He gave her a ring inscribed with ""My Six Feet of Sunshine,"" a nickname Kerri was given when they first met. On December 3, 2008, Walsh announced to Access Hollywood that she and her husband were expecting their first child and that the baby might have been conceived in Beijing. On May 22, 2009, Walsh gave birth to son Joseph Michael Jennings in Los Angeles. Jennings and"
"the actress Bijou Phillips and the models Kristen Zang and Emma Miller. In 2000, he met Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, whom he dated until 2005. He was romantically involved with Israeli model Bar Refaeli from 2005 to 2011, during which time he met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli's hometown of Hod HaSharon. DiCaprio owns a home in Los Angeles and an apartment in Battery Park City, New York. In 2009, he bought an island off mainland Belize, on which he is planning to create an eco-friendly resort. In 2014, he purchased the original Dinah Shore residence designed"
"17 years old, Gloria Vanderbilt went to Hollywood, where she married DiCicco in 1941. DiCicco proved to be a temperamental and abusive husband who called her ""Fatsy Roo,"" and regularly beat her. ""He would take my head and bang it against the wall,"" Vanderbilt said. ""I had black eyes."" They divorced in 1945. In 1953, DiCicco married actress Mary Jo Tarola (born February 27, 1928), also known by her stage name, Linda Douglas. The marriage lasted seven years before ending in divorce in 1960. He died at Sloan Kettering Hospital after long bout with cancer. DiCicco is alleged to have"
"Cleo Moore, Rita Gam, Marlene Dietrich, and Gloria DeHaven during this period and to Elizabeth Ray and Morgan Fairchild years later, but he never publicly confirmed any involvement with any woman. DiMaggio reentered Monroe's life as her marriage to Arthur Miller was ending. On February 10, 1961, he secured her release from Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan. She joined him in Florida where he was a batting coach for the Yankees. Their ""just friends"" claim did not stop remarriage rumors from flying. Reporters staked out her Manhattan apartment building. Bob Hope ""dedicated"" Best Song nominee ""The Second Time Around"""
"of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also ""The Tree of Life"", ""Moneyball"", and ""The Big Short"" (2015), all of which garnered Best Picture nominations. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry. For a number of years, he was cited as the world's most attractive man by various media outlets, and his personal life is the subject of wide publicity. In 2000, he married actress Jennifer Aniston; they divorced in 2005. In 2014, Pitt married actress Angelina Jolie. They have six children"
"was born on November 25, 1914 in Martinez, California, the eighth of nine children born to Italian immigrants Giuseppe (1872–1949) and Rosalia (née Lucido) (1878–1951) DiMaggio, from Isola delle Femmine, Sicily. He was named Paolo after his father Giuseppe's favorite saint, Saint Paul. Giuseppe was a fisherman, as were generations of DiMaggios before him. According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, a northwestern Sicilian village in the province of Palermo. After being"
"Reebok Sports Club and they began dating. Sklar, a public relations executive for Tommy Hilfiger, had just returned from a three-week honeymoon in Italy with Eric Nederlander, a theatrical producer and scion of a theater-owning family. Sklar divorced Nederlander—she explained in a 2007 interview that they had been engaged in couples' therapy sessions prior to their marriage—and married Seinfeld on December 25, 1999. Comedian George Wallace was the best man at the wedding. After the nuptials, Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld bought Billy Joel's house in Amagansett, Long Island, for US$32 million after news of the couple's interest in the property"
"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"
"was broken by Aaron Judge, who hit the 30th home run in his rookie season in his 84th game in 2017. In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the ""Yankee Clipper"" by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner. DiMaggio was pictured with his son on the cover of the inaugural issue of ""SPORT"" magazine in September 1946. In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra. In the"
"Joe in the outfield. DiMaggio began his professional career in 1932 with the Tucson Lizards of the Class-D Arizona–Texas League, hitting .347 with 25 homers and 81 RBI. He led the Arizona–Texas League in home runs, with eight more than runner-up Cal Lahman. He played 94 games with the Lizards that year, finishing the season with the San Francisco Seals of the Class-AA Pacific Coast League. With the Seals, he hit .270 with 6 home runs in 59 games. In 1933, DiMaggio hit .333 with 11 home runs and 65 runs batted in for San Francisco and the Hollywood Stars."
"Angelina Jolie) and TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes). ""Desilu Productions"" was a Los Angeles, California-based company jointly owned by couple and actors Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Miramax is the combination of the first names of the parents of the Weinstein brothers. On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, The New York Times crossword included the quip, ""How I wish Natalie Portman dated Jacques Cousteau, so I could call them 'Portmanteau'"". Holidays are another example, as in Thanksgivukkah, a portmanteau neologism given to the convergence of the American holiday of Thanksgiving and the first day of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah"
"of the most famous scenes of her career. The shoot lasted for several hours and attracted a crowd of nearly 2,000 spectators, including professional photographers. The publicity stunt placed Monroe on international front pages, and it also marked the end of her marriage to DiMaggio, who was furious about the stunt. The union had been troubled from the start by his jealousy and controlling attitude; Spoto and Banner have also asserted that he was physically abusive. After Monroe returned to Hollywood, she hired high-profile attorney Jerry Giesler and announced in October 1954 that she was filing for divorce from DiMaggio"