It is difficult to say exactly when John and Marilyn realised that they needed each other like a breath of fresh air. Consumed by passion, they forgot everything else in the world, always trying to be together and always hiding their secret affair.
The blonde of all time would have turned 96 on 1 June. It is simply impossible to imagine this sexy beauty, who radiated seduction and made men weak and obedient to her will, as an old woman in an armchair, turning the pages of a book with her thin hands.
The image of Marilyn Monroe remains as it was until her untimely and mysterious death: dazzling, with an enchanting smile, adorned with a beauty mark above her lip, enchantingly capricious and unique.
Her captivating femininity drove millionaires, famous Hollywood actors and prominent politicians mad. Marilyn was married three times but never found domestic happiness. Numerous affairs with men, secret and open, usually ended in disappointment.
The role of the silly but charming blonde, which became associated with her through her films, prevented people from seeing the real Monroe. And Marilyn was incredibly intelligent and sensitive; her lack of education did not affect her ability to communicate with people. She hid the pain in her heart whenever anyone reminded her of her past.
A mentally unstable mother, a childhood spent in foster care and wandering around other people’s homes – Marilyn managed to escape this hellish existence with great difficulty, rising from the bottom to the heights of world fame. And in the end, she was always deeply unhappy, lacking the love she dreamed of during the hardest moments of her life.
But then fate took pity on her and gave her the long-awaited feeling that would consume Marilyn completely. In the summer of 1954, in Hollywood, she met John F. Kennedy, a young senator from Massachusetts and future president of the United States, in whose honour a party was being held.
She would later say: “Kennedy never took his eyes off me for a second, and at one point I even felt uncomfortable”. But like a true woman, Marilyn was cunning.
She had a premonition that something was about to happen that would turn the platinum blonde’s life upside down. The only thing that bothered Marilyn was the presence of her jealous husband, former baseball player Joe DiMaggio, at her side. Even though they were on the verge of ending their marriage. It should be noted that John F. Kennedy was not alone either; his wife Jacqueline, the future First Lady, accompanied him.
It is hard to say at what exact moment John and Marilyn realised that they needed each other like life-giving air. Consumed by passion, they forgot about everything else, trying to be together at all times and always hiding their secret affair. They seemed to be gripped by love fever: John admired her beauty and felt free and liberated. John admired her beauty and felt free and liberated, while Marilyn wrote him poems and imagined herself as the wife of the future president and first lady of the country.
Their seven-year love affair was romantic, tender and tragic. Even after becoming master of the White House, John did not part with Marilyn. They met in the suite of the presidential plane. Monroe had to disguise herself as Kennedy’s secretary: wearing dark glasses and a wig, she walked up the ramp, attracting the curious guard.
Marilyn still believed in her lucky star and waited for changes in her destiny. However, she couldn’t understand that for the Kennedy clan, she was the eternal Cinderella who would never be invited to the royal ball. Unbeknownst to her, Marilyn Monroe found herself drawn into a dangerous, deadly game, where political interests were paramount.
Crushed dreams and unrealized hopes for a fairytale future with her beloved man took a heavy toll on America’s sweetheart. Marilyn fell into depression, and alcohol and illicit drugs couldn’t numb her heartache. John noticeably grew colder towards her and made it clear that he no longer felt the same way about Monroe.
Marilyn was in a state of hysteria, constantly calling the White House, demanding meetings with Kennedy and writing letters. She also threatened to make some kind of revelation. Perhaps the latter played a tragic role in the life of the legendary blonde. It seems that Marilyn really did become dangerous – how else to explain her strange and mysterious death in her own home? It happened on 5 August 1962, and it raised many questions among millions of ordinary Americans who would never believe that Marilyn died of a sleeping pill overdose.
No one knows how John Kennedy felt when he learned of the death of the woman he had once loved. After all, he owed her a great deal: Marilyn Monroe not only loved the president passionately and fervently, she also helped John in his election campaign. Thanks to her popularity, Kennedy won many votes in his favour. Perhaps he was deeply involved in high politics where, as we know, nothing is sacred.
And Marilyn was the one bright spot in his life, the most desirable woman in the world. A year after her death, John Kennedy would be killed by the bullet of a hired assassin. The love of these two essentially unhappy individuals proved powerless against the evil of a system of imaginary conventions that stops at nothing to achieve its selfish ends.
