# Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio on 14 January 1954 as a public celebrity marriage

Date: 1954

## The fact

Britannica dates the San Francisco City Hall marriage to Joe DiMaggio on 14 January 1954. DiMaggio shares the household file.

It is one event.

## Context

Korea USO tour and Fox suspension neighbour 1954 labour politics.

[Marilyn Monroe](/people/marilyn-monroe)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Cold War celebrity culture; baseball and Hollywood publics overlapped.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and AFI biographical notes independently date the January 1954 DiMaggio marriage.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Marilyn Monroe (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A public celebrity marriage is a cohesion path for mass audience ritual.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 14 January 1954 marriage date. Not established: private harmony coefficients.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marilyn Monroe.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marilyn Monroe did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not merge with the October divorce. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marilyn Monroe.
The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marilyn Monroe did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not merge with the October divorce. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marilyn Monroe.

## People

- Marilyn Monroe: https://factrail.ai/people/marilyn-monroe

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe
- https://catalog.afi.com/Person/129923-Marilyn-Monroe

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mm-dimaggio-marriage-1954