who were marilyn monroe's husbands
Marilyn Monroe's Marriages And Relationships. At 16, Marilyn Monroe -- then known as Norma Jean Baker -- married merchant marine James Dougherty in 1942. When Dougherty was sent on an overseas assignment, Monroe landed a job at a munitions factory in Burbank where she eventually caught the eye of a photographer.
On the 60th anniversary of their wedding, pictures from the day Marilyn Monroe announced she was seeking a divorce from Joe DiMaggio on grounds of mental cruelty.. Marilyn Monroe and baseball legend Joe DiMaggio wed in 1954 (second marriages for both), and were divorced nine months later. That the union was doomed from the beginning was, perhaps, easy to foresee.
And when she married playwright Arthur Miller she liked to be called Marilyn Monroe Miller. The initials MMM appeared a lot at that time. 2 In December 1953, she appeared smiling and waving on the cover of the first ever edition of Playboy.