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Day 7 Favourite Husband: Joe Dimaggio.

Without a doubt it would have to be the wonderful Joe Dimaggio. It annoys me the way many people are prejudice about Joe and make offensive remarks about him, whilst forgetting the incredible loyalty and devotion he had to Marilyn for all of his life. Although Joe and Marilyn were only married for a short period, due to his jealousy they remained close for all of Marilyn’s life. After the pair divorced Marilyn advised him to go to Psychoanalysis sessions and she said that he told her that it “saved his life” and he truly was a changed man regarding his jealousy etc. Joe never remarried after he divorced Marilyn and many say that he was wanting to rekindle their relationship having quit his job in San Francisco days before she died. He is also one of the few people who ever knew Marilyn personally to never of spoken publicly about her and never written a tell all book about her either, forever keeping a dignified silence about their relationship. Even after they had divorced he and Marilyn continued to spend time together. Joe not only visited her every single day early November, during the five days she was in Hospital for an operation to remedy her chronic endometriosis, he practically camped out in the hospital building. In 1961 when Marilyn most needed someone, Joe was there. She called Joe from the psychiatric ward of the Payne Whitney Hospital in New York, where she had been recommended to stay there for a rest by her then Psychoanalysis Marianne Kris. Joe flew up immediately from Florida and demanded that she be released and he then organized for Marilyn to recuperate in a far more conducive environment at the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center, where Marilyn remained from February 10 to March 5 1961, where Joe was with her every day. He arranged Marilyn’s funeral and he spent the night before the funeral holding a private vigil over Marilyn’s body at Westwood Village Mortuary and did not leave her side.Before Marilyn’s funeral ceremony he kissed her on the forehead and whispered, “I love you, I love you, I love you.” He arranged a contract for twenty years with the Parisian Florist to deliver a dozen red roses, two (or three - sources vary) times a week for twenty years. This is because he fulfilled a promise he had made to Marilyn on their wedding day, when he pledged he would be as loyal to her as William Powell had been to Jean Harlow. After the contract ended he made a donation to a children’s charity as he thought that Marilyn would be happier knowing her remembered her this way. The day after Marilyn died, a note was found folded up in her address book, that she had started writing to Joe. It read,

“Dear Joe, If I can only succeed in making you happy, I will have succeeded in the biggest and most difficult thing there is - that is, to make one person completely happy. Your happiness means my happiness, and..”