Marilyn Monroe
For twenty
years, he had a dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week. Unlike her other two
husbands, he never talked about her publicly, wrote a tell-all, or remarried[39].
Arthur Miller
Miller and Monroe at a press conference after their weddingOn June 29, 1956, Monroe married
playwright Arthur Miller, whom she first met in 1951, in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York.
City Court Judge Seymour Robinowitz presided over the hushed ceremony in the law office of Sam
Slavitt (the wedding had been kept secret from both the press and the public). In reflecting on his
courtship of Monroe, Miller wrote, "She was a whirling light to me then, all paradox and enticing
mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity that few retain past
early adolescence".[40] Nominally raised as a Christian, she converted to Judaism before marrying
Miller. After she finished shooting The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, the couple