Long before celebrities whittled wedding bliss down to days and hours there was Marilyn and Joe. Sure, a marriage between the original bombshell and the Yankee Clipper might have been doomed from the start, but when Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio wed on January 14, 1954, they appeared nothing short of utterly thrilled.
Nine months later, Monroe filed for divorce on the grounds of "mental cruelty" by DiMaggio.
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