Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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by William Barbour ■ Just 263 days after Marilyn Monroe and Joe Di Maggio were married in San Francisco, Marilyn, through her lawyer, filed for divorce in Santa Monica, charging mental cruelty. Hours later, those who had followed their story were asking, "Why? What really happened? We thought this was one of the happiest marriages in Hollywood." There was disillusion, disenchantment and disapproval. And there were plenty of answers from those who had been misleading the public for months with super-saccharine accounts of this supposedly idyllic marriage. The reasons advanced for Marilyn's marital breakup were that Joe was jealous of Hal Schaefer, Marilyn's voice coach; that Joe was jealous of Natasha Lytess, Marilyn's dramatics coach; that Joe was jealous of the 20th Century-Fox publicity staff; that Joe was jealous of Hugh (Continued on page 27) More pictures on next page