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The Days of Her Life - February
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February 26, 1936: Papers are legally filed to allow Grace McKee Goddard to become Norma Jeane's legal guardian.
February 1945: Norma Jeane quits Radioplane - she believes she has a future as a professional model.
February 1947: Twentieth Century - Fox renews Marilyn's contract for six months. Several days later she receives her first
casting call, for Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
February 1948: Marilyn meets Twentieth Century - Fox mogul Joseph M. Schenck at a Hollywood party. He is sixty-eight.
Marilyn twenty-one. He becomes a friend and benefactor, and the general consensus is there was an affair.
February 20, 1948: Marilyn is crowned Miss California Artichoke Queen.
Late February 1948: Schenck asks poker friend Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, to consider Marilyn for work at his
studio.
February 1949: Marilyn films a part in Love Happy, and is mentioned in Louella Parsons' gossip column.
February 26, 1952: Marilyn begins filming Monkey Business.
Winter 1952: Arrangements are made for sports hero Joe DiMaggio to meet Marilyn at the Villa Nova restaurant, 9015 Sunset
Blvd. Marilyn is twenty-five at the time; Joe is thirty-seven. They have dinner together almost every night for two weeks. (The
Villa Nova was renamed The Rainbow Bar and Grill.)
February 9, 1953: Gladys Baker is transferred to Rockhaven Sanatorium at Marilyn's expense.
February 2, 1954: Honeymoon couple mobbed by thousands of fans as they arrive in Tokyo. Marilyn is invited to entertain the
American troops in Korea.
February 16, 1954: Marilyn started entertaining troops in Korea traveling to ten different locations. She entertained over one
hundred thousand soldiers and marines.
February 1955: Marilyn visits Lee Strasberg, who makes ongoing psychoanalysis a condition of her becoming a student at the
Actors Studio.
February 9, 1956: A press conference with Laurence Olivier to announce joint project, The Prince and the Showgirl is held at
the Plaza Hotel, 768 Fifth Ave. Marilyn wears a low cut black velvet dress with thin shoulder straps, one of which breaks. It is
suspected this is a publicity stunt on Marilyn's part, which she adamatly denied.
February 17, 1956: Marilyn performs the barroom scene from Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie at the Actors Studio.
February 25, 1956: Returns to Hollywood after more than one year away in exile in New York. The reporters were at Los
Angeles airport to cover her return. She is asked about her "high necked" outfit she is wearing, "Is this the new Marilyn?", she
replied, "No, I'm the same person - but it's a different suit."
February 18, 1957: Arthur Miller is indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress.
February 27, 1957: Frank Sinatra testifies at an investigation into the "Wrong Door" raid carried out by Joe DiMaggio in 1954.
February 9, 1960: Marilyn was awarded her Star on the Walk of Fame.
February 1961: Marilyn reads that Clark Gable's widow blames her for his death. Marilyn tells friend/masseur Ralph Roberts
how close she came to committing suicide.
February 1, 1961: United Artists releases The Misfits, this will be Marilyn's last completed film.
February 7, 1961: Marilyn's analyst Marianne Kris is alarmed by Marilyn's suicidal behavior. She persuades Marilyn to enter
the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, on New York's Upper East Side. Marilyn goes willingly, but does not realize she will be
treated as a disturbed patient, even locked in a padded room. After three days of panic, she is able to contact Joe DiMaggio,
who comes to her rescue.
February 11, 1961: Joe DiMaggio arranges for Marilyn to be transferred to the much less intimidating Columbia Presbyterian
Hospital.
February 1, 1962: Dinner in honor of Robert Kennedy.
February 1962: Moves to 12305 5th Helena, Brentwood, CA.
February 1962: With her housekeeper Eunice Murray, Marilyn flies to Mexico to buy furniture and artifact's for her new home.
Sources: The Marilyn Encyclopedia, The Unabridged Marilyn - Her Life from A to Z, Marilyn Monroe Unseen Archives, The
Ultimate Marilyn, & Marilyn Handbook.
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