Well, I still say Dimaggio should have known that that was part of MM’s life; posing seductively, being gawked at by other men. He had to know she’d never give up the movie star life and everything that went with it.
Some girls and guys make mistakes in life. I am all for second chances an deven third chances when they are sincere. Look at David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson from the X FIles (1993 long running series). David Douchovny played the infamous, FBI special agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully was played by Gillian Anderson. Douchovny prior to X-File was a HUGE HARD CORE PORN STAR! No kidding. He turned his life around.
Douchovny married and had two kids. He cheated on his wife ONCE. He was sincerely sorry and hasn't cheated again. Their marriage is fine. BTW this was years ago and they are stll happily married.
My point is that SOME people can change when they have the right influences in their life. Other actresses like Katherine Hepburn didn't have the sexpot image and lived a very decent life. So did other actresses at the time. If anyone could have influenced her in the right way, it was Joe.
It's just a shame that Hollywierd was more important to her. Hey, Joe already had the money. It's not as though she needed to worry about that. There were other things she could have done with her life that what she did.
Interestingly enough, MM’s next marriage was a rebound one to another father figure - Arthur Miller. He was more compatible to her occupation but that didn't work out either.
MM really wasn't that great of an actress. She was attractive and made into a milder Anna Nicole Smith. MM had potential but never let it materialize. She wasn't the empty head that most thought. I saw some interviews that she did and there was a brain there ... but she was type cast and couldn't get out of it.
Joe probably thought he could change her.
Love is often blind.