Cinema: Storybook Romance

At the 20th Century-Fox studio one day last week, Publicist Boss Harry Brand answered his telephone. Marilyn Monroe, the studio's No. 1 star, was calling from San Francisco. "I promised to tell you," said Marilyn, "when I was going to get married, so you can tell all my friends.

I'll be married at city hall at 1 p.m." Then she hung up. Brand wasted no time in calling every friend he could think of—including the A.P., U.P. and I.N.S.

An hour later, when Marilyn and former New York Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio, 39, arrived...

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