married Yankee baseball player Joe Di Maggio (1919–1999). But
the pressures created by her billing as a screen sex symbol caused the marriage to fall apart, and the couple divorced on October 27, 1954.
In 1955 Monroe formed her own studio, Marilyn Monroe Productions, and renegotiated a contract with Twentieth Century Fox.
She appeared in Bus Stop in 1956 and married playwright Arthur Miller on July 1, 1956. In 1961 she starred in The Misfits, for which her husband Miller wrote the screenplay.
Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of the day Marilyn Monroe shot the famous "Seven Year Itch" scene that had her wearing an iconic white dress and standing over a New York City subway grate.