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He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his technology. She was Americas blonde. These were intense, impassioned enthusiasts, and, long from then on, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didnt work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage. Joe & Marilyn is a family portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his tale on the field, but susceptible and intensely individuals off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, She doesnt need a partner. She needs salvation. After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead getting a poised and graying man?"just a little timid, like me"?impeccably personalized and economically secure. If they wedded in 1954, reporters called them Mr. and Mrs. America. But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He required a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine weeks. In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart good friend. But even he cannot rescue her. In the long run everything that was remaining for him was to plan her funeral. He barred a few of Hollywoods most famous labels. Why? "Because they wiped out her," he informed a friend.
