Joe and Marilyn Forever
The union of a baseball great and a famous actress captivated the world!
January 14, 1954
Baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe on this date, and the news media could not get enough of this true-life Cinderella story, something that read like a tale from the pages of Dickens.
All-American Joe DiMaggio, born the eighth of nine children to Sicilian immigrants that could barely speak English, becomes the …
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