Marilyn Monroe - James Dougherty Interview

Marilyn's first husband interviewed about there marriage

[@shermanwiles2713]

My heart aches for Mr. Dougherty, what a blow to the heart. My sincerest sympathy for what this poor man had to deal with. A very classy gentleman.

[@fauxmanchu8094]

I get the impression that Jim is the most down-to earth of all her husbands and relationships. A decent and stable person, a far cry from the other people in her life.

[@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch]

Amen 👏

[@ozzie444]

True. I also believe DiMaggio's feelings were true for Marilyn but he had inhibitions and hangups he was having a tough time dealing with, being married to what the world believed then, and still do, that she was the most beautiful and sexiest woman to have ever walked the earth, which she is. FYI, they were planning to remarry when she died. She was murdered.

[@AS-wj1du]

@@ozzie444 Jim Doherty and Joe dimaggio, her first and second husbands truly loved her. She should have stayed with knw

[@danesovic7585]

Who she divorced as soon as she got a better opportunity.

[@taylorq23]

He seems like the nicest of all her husbands

[@bijouxzane]

it's sweet the way he remembers & speaks of her.

[@JP-he6rq]

he talks about her with so much of love, i think he still loves her

[@ozzie444]

Definitely.......she is the most beautiful woman who has ever walked this earth.

[@Threegreentails]

@@ozzie444 well thats very subjective

[@annemarieporter4311]

When you listen to James Dougherty’s interview about his wife ,NormaJean, and then listen to Arther Miller’s interview about his wife,Marilyn , the difference is astounding . James has so much more heart and soul as a man . He has so much more dignity and kindness as a human being .

[@katchal2]

Agreed. Miller was despicable, just see how he behaved with his own son who was mentally retarded. Plus read Maria Riva ´s biography about her mother, Marlene Dietrich, in which she tells Miller used to have orgies with women. He was interested in Marilyn only because he wanted to f*** her. Poor Marilyn... she always surrounded herself with the wrong poeple...

[@nuckey8941]

Agree!

[@elainetsui4740]

Anne Marie Porter absolutely true. If she was staying with James, tragic might not happen to her😌

[@romeysiamese6712]

He knew norma jean before marilyn, the fame and drugs.

[@sarahholland1375]

Agree. If you read Goddess by Anthony Summers, Miller wrote terrible things in his diary about her then left it out in full view for her to find. He wrote he 'pitied' her & she was 'genetically unfit to be a mother". He only wanted a screen siren, not a real woman who had insecurities & flaws like we all do.

[@actf9480]

There is a quote by him which and shows how deeply and truly he loved her: "I never knew Marilyn Monroe [...] I knew and loved Norma Jean". I guess she would have lived a life full of happiness and love if she stayed with him, not gone to Hell-ywood.

[@iamlight1]

He looks so handsome here and like such a wonderful person for Marilyn to have been married to, a loving husband. The best husband she had.

[@gigi4266]

He aged well.

[@buckroo8424]

Sadly, Marilyn kept looking for love and her first husband was probably the only one who could have given her that love.

[@psoneill813]

What a sweet man ❤

[@Missditabomb]

Peggy ONeill, Yes. A true gentleman. If only Marilyn Monroe could have appreciated him. We might not have had Marilyn Monroe, but I do believe that it would have been in her best interest to stay with Jim. She could have been a stunning, healthy wife and mom. If only.

[@girlfromlebanon]

This man really loved her, because in those times of male-dominated society, to let her go and do what she desired...that takes a lot of love! Real love is when one sacrifices their own happiness for the sake of the loved one! Hat off to you, Mr. Dougherty!

[@nikkidevitz]

the man is dead

[@girlfromlebanon]

@@nikkidevitz Doesn't matter. Hat off to his spirit :)

[@mindmapper0072]

Her career killed her. It wasn’t a good choice for her. :-(

[@screenactorsguilable]

@@nikkidevitz he should have breed her

[@marilynwillett804]

dont be ridiculous he couldnt hold onto her.

[@javelin1010]

She didn't want to be Norma Jean and she ultimately couldn't be Marilyn Monroe anymore. Thank you for this interview with "the forgotten husband".

[@joshuataylor6087]

James sounds like a good guy.

[@robjames3864]

Him being away from her allowed the creeps to come in and sink their teeth in her.

[@Beatlesforevergirl1]

Thank you for uploading this video. It was a very interesting interview with MM's first husband who knew MM before all the fame and other things that hurt her years later.

[@starcrib]

Jimmy , has a the practical all American Point of View of Men from his generation, what respect! And the idea of Norma Jean having his influence in her life, even for a short time, served her well ...This you can count on. .

[@betsy5889]

Marius M well said.

[@disneydame7850]

Wow so she got married at 16 to avoid going back to an orphanage how sad... Those days were crazy and here I am thinking these days are crazy!

[@sarahholland1375]

Her Fosterer arranged the marriage with her friend, Jim's Mom: as the Foster £ stopped at 16.

[@bendietrees]

I have no doubt she was a highly sensitive person. MM had a very open heart and that is a Double edged sword.

[@davedubois8680]

I trap shot with this man great man I miss those days at the Andrew Scoggin County Fish and Game may you rest in peace with Norma Jean

[@maryellen4478]

such a nice man pity she left him she would have not been so lonley

[@reeanne8843]

I really like this guy, he is genuine.

[@gdarrietjones]

"You cover up those beautiful white teeth and you look in the eye and you see sadness there." That was true up until the end :(

[@swingmanic]

It must have been tough for this poor guy!!...Imagine being served the divorce papers and having to pick up the pieces afterwards!!!

[@buckroo8424]

I agree! I got a “Dear John “ letter while in the army in Vietnam and it was a big blow. I eventually got over it

[@hollytree3379]

She was a 16 year old bride. I don't feel bad for him at all lol.

[@amsedelm]

Wow, good interview. Seems like a class act Jim

[@tourzrap]

gemini women are ruthless

[@zek461]

Frederico- I can't find your name in the LAPD retired member book. I worked with Jim in the early '70s at the LAPD Academy in Elysian Park as we were both instructors; Jim on the range and I as a law instructor. Jim was one nice guy.

[@leighannrawlins946]

That is wonderful to hear about him! He seems like he was nice, from this video. Did he ever talk about her with you?

[@nishadarnal6283]

He loved her genuinely enough to allow her to pursue her dreams and leave him. That's true love right there folks.

[@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch]

That's crap.😡🤦‍♂️

[@trace4520]

Wonderful to see this interview...I wish there was more I want to know everything about the beautiful Norma Jean

[@Missditabomb]

While she was alive, Jim Dougherty's second wife would not allow him to mention Marilyn Monroe. Only when Marilyn died did he defy his wife. He got a call from a police friend who told him his former wife was dead. He got off the phone and said, "Say a prayer for Norma Jeane, she's dead". After his second wife's death he made a lot more appearances and gave many interviews. He even wrote a book about Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jeane and their marriage.

[@Yes-bp1vw]

Missditabomb why would he mention his former wife Norma Jean who changed to become Marilyn Monroe (a sex symbol) that goes around and have relationships with married men... why would he mention his former wife in front of his current wife? That would’ve been so disrespectful.. and he seems like a respectable gentleman!

[@gabe5100]

@@Yes-bp1vw because no one would buy a book about a normal couple. Money talks, and his wife couldn’t anymore so…

[@betsy5889]

I wish Marilyn had stayed married to James Dougherty and had a child with him. But she had to divorce him according to him because she couldn’t be married in her first contract with 20th Century Fox. ☹️

[@buckroo8424]

I don’t buy that as I read so many movie actresses had abortions in Hollywood to keep working and have a good figure. I think Jeanne Craine has four sons and she was already famous. She kept on working and she was probably about Marilyn’s age.

[@michaelvasquez9677]

she should of stayed Norma Jean. what a tragic story.

[@shijutu]

They should've stayed together. He loved Norma Jean and not Marilyn Monroe, he truly loved the real woman behind the Marilyn Monroe image. Fame attracts the eye of bad people and she fell into evil hands. It sounds like she was a lost child wanting to be loved.

[@markriding1267]

As Marilyn sang:"After you get what you want,you don't want it."

[@meganleighhh2708]

RIP Marilyn Monroe

[@fernandoelbrat]

“I never knew marylin Monroe”

[@paulcooper5748]

He knew the real Norma not Marilyn.

[@fry8h]

Only this man knows: When Marilyn Monroe is happy, but the Norma Jean inside her is sad.

[@jimmyriddles]

She should have stayed with him....seems nice and genuine.

[@soniacoutinho699]

It wasnt meant to be. Maybe half of her would like to stay and the other half wanted to fly high like most of young ones do. There are so many " maybes" about each of us ...I believe nothing is random, that everything happens for a purpose. " Love is like a river...sometimes it' s peaceful , sometimes wild and free". And so is life .

[@jimmyriddles]

@@soniacoutinho699 I know what you mean, also with the benefit of hindsight....

[@mime1926]

Study her first marriage & you will understand NORMA JEANNE..

[@Majorhavoktv]

Jim reminds me of my late father he was so down to earth too.

[@klaus-dieterkoch363]

If you are gorgeous, because most young people are, the world treat you completely differently.

[@patriciasmith5155]

she let go of the best one

[@lorna8164]

Marylin Monroe should have stayed married to this man, you could tell he's a good man.

[@Im_so_Retro85]

Marilyn should've stayed with this man. She thought the grass would be greener on the Hollywood side. Instead, they exploited her. Jim seems like a good, selfless man. He let her go and live out her "dream". No hard feelings either. That's real love. Marilyn was always looking for love, but she never realized she had it once (with Jim).

[@carolynelevin88]

She didn't fully love him in that way. Just because someone is a good and stable person, that doesn't mean that they are a good fit.

[@Im_so_Retro85]

@@carolynelevin88 Yes, that is also true. I just think he probably would've looked out for her best interest more than her other husbands ever did. Almost everyone in her life used her to some degree.

[@naracharlize3792]

​@@Im_so_Retro85 ahhh... he made her take provocative photos to show and brag to his friends. he was a macho man who believed women belonged in the house. he was jealous of her and often left her alone at home crying because men would become fixated on his wife. when she started modeling he mocked her ambitions. he was basically Joe Dimaggio without the physical assaulting.

[@Im_so_Retro85]

@@naracharlize3792 Oh wow, I didn't know that about him. That is sad. Most men of her generation were misogynistic and macho though, so that doesnt surprise me.

[@naracharlize3792]

​@@Im_so_Retro85 that's true. i think he def softened his views the older he got. In his book he wonders if he should've stayed with her after the divorce, he says she still wanted a relationship. I think he was the nicest out of all her husbands but def not as nice as the comment section is making him out to be 😅

[@3636Clarence]

Just think, MM made this man breakfast. Interesting to note that he still referred to her as Norma Jean...

[@gigi4266]

Because that's who she was. Marilyn was a Hollywood creation.

[@EJM659]

Norma jeane made his breakfast, I get what you mean though

[@AS-wj1du]

Because he married Norma. Not Marilyn

[@maritzacamero1221]

I kept reminding to hear him saying “Norma Jeane”, he says it differently. From someone who TRULY knew and loved her.

[@andyelliott8027]

THEIR marriage.

[@brentonwolf]

So sweet

[@babybunnies]

+ Marilyn Monroe Video Archives, why is it you do not post the year the interview was taken? It would be good to see when and where the interview was taken.

[@maxxard7992]

Probably because they don't know.

[@JackstonePictures]

wow hunn, i love this interview... jimmy is sweet isnt he?

[@EsteeWalts]

Nice man.

[@JackstonePictures]

aww what a real man jimm dougherty is ''whos car is it then?'' picture of her in a magazine ''Hers'' xD i loved that moment what a man to admit it...

[@fry8h]

He is the last man that Marilyn didn’t sell her soul cheaply to. Every man after James, she didn’t love. James is her last true soulmate.

[@danielcruz8347]

Mr James Dougherty was the one !! Dear Norma Jean should of stayed Married too....fame and its trappings took her away........ Love peaceful serenity be too Dear Norma Jean. .

[@JackstonePictures]

aww what a story...

[@meow27677]

Such a down to earth person 👏

[@billsmith1962]

First you marry for love, second for financial and third for companionship..... Jackie Kennedy.

[@eddiebrown687]

She was 2 people, and Norma Jean never really liked Marilyn. So finally I think Norma Jean had enough.....

[@johannamix966]

eddie brown good insight from a lifelong fan x

[@gigi4266]

this reminds me of that movie "norma jean and marilyn". norma was always putting marilyn down.

[@SR-zc6lk]

I think there has been a tendency to play Marilyn up as some damsel in distress. She definitely wasn’t any angel herself.

[@mariaharlow7102]

The film studio (with its mob connections) forced the divorce. Jim Daughtery had said so on his DVD about her.

[@-C.S.R]

I can't imagine what an absolute gut punch that was to receive a dear John when you're overseas, especially from Marilyn Monroe. OMG! 🤦🤢😭

[@MrAmon127]

She said that the marriage wastn a bad one but but it wastn a happy one either. She just said that she was dying of boredom because they had nothing to talk about and wanted to focus on her career.

[@tourzrap]

Aries x Gemini....STILL going through my gemini breakup man

[@Bogna1]

I can relate to this as I was once in relationship with guy that I had nothing to talk to about with him. Just like that. Not bad, but as a deep thinker and intellectual I feel like there is kinda wall between us.

[@evechewietan]

how could he have left his young wife???poor girl cried at the thought of him leaving her all alone. what a dreadful mistake. it didn’t take much for him to make her happy!

[@mashihuzzaman1962]

bruh he had to leave. That was not like today's gen. that was war gen

[@victorialadybug1]

Hunger for fame and the evil people in Hollywood destroyed her. She should have stayed with this man.

[@leela1970]

maybe mm had social anxiety disorder. and was a highly sensitive person. HSP.

[@gigi4266]

i wish she had stayed with him. she would have been happier. but she was fame hungry, like so many other people.

[@AmethystEyes]

I don’t think she was hungry for just fame I think she thought that fame would fill the hole in her heart.

[@mindmapper0072]

Her career killed her. It wasn’t a good choice for her. :-(

[@SalimahRahman]

Nice guy

[@charleswinokoor6023]

“…interviewed about their (not “there”) marriage.”

[@lyciamaria4421]

Gostaria que os vídeos fossem em português ou espanhol para que a maioria dos brasileiros, portugueses e outros possam entenderem melhor bjsss

[@marisaklain4916]

gostaria de entender este vídeo há possibilidades de traduzir pode ser legendado para que os brasileiros em sua grande maioria possa entender

[@Anthonyianazone]

He still calls her Norma Jean

[@AS-wj1du]

That's her name. Marilyn was really her stage name. He knew her before

[@Msflamingo-wl4qo]

"She was two ppl." True. He hd 2 let her go, because he knew she belonged 2 the world. Very polite, good ole boy type. L8r, MM desperately wanted children, but the STUDIO sd NO! The Studio ALSO broke up MM n Joltn Joe, the love of her life. In her last movie w/Dean Martin, there r out takes of MM playn w/2 kids. Its Precious! Giggling n rolln round. God bless MM-My Marilyn. XxOo

[@stagelight7nation946]

Joe was abusive..he got very jealous... and she didn't belong to the world.

[@sweetserenity7934]

stagelight7 nation Thank you!

[@gardensofthegods]

I had red years ago that yes Joe DiMaggio as much as he loved her was jealous and always thinking she was having affairs... who knows maybe she was ... somebody else said he was a cheap bastard but I don't know if I believe that

[@missbecky911]

Omg where is part two!!? Plz upload

[@oceangirl2661]

Just two kids thrown together. They should have never married. A typical man's reaction when he's rejected, he gets his revenge. He obviously did not love her ever.

[@AS-wj1du]

What revenge? He let her go as she wanted. And he never disparaged her

[@yerri1622]

Too bad they never reconnected. He seems a better guy than art or joe

[@ragemodels]

He is a wonderful Kind soul But let's be Very HONEST HERE HE REALLY DIDNT KNOW MARYLIN MONROE BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT CREATED AS YET HE KNEW NORMA JEAN !!!

[@leighannrawlins946]

Ummm...that is basically what he said..

[@SpiritMQ]

He seems like a decent man... but what I fail to understand is that how come none of her husbands were successful in giving her the basics that she craved for... love and security... and they just left her to die alone...

[@sarahholland1375]

Her marriage to Jim was arranged by her Fosterer as State foster £ stops at 16. Arthur Miller loved her image not her real self. His comments about 'pitying' her for her MH anxieties & her being 'genetically unfit to be a mother " etc in his diary are vile (in the well respected book' Goddess' by A Summers) . Dimaggio couldn't cope with her image & her dream to do serious acting. He wanted a stay at home wife.

[@AS-wj1du]

She may have had issues conceiving

[@hellomy9881]

6:49 she choose fame over his love

[@trenier23]

She was a sweetie and he knew the real genuine woman. As fame and ambition took over she had to toughen up. I suspect that there were a lot of broken hearts including hers.

[@mabelruiz]

El fue el único que veía y comprendia a Norma Jeannette y no A Marily

[@marilynwillett804]

Yahoo commenters always make the person out to be special, he's quiet and comtemplative because he's old, but he was exactly like any other man. Of course he had a temper, of course he wanted things his way, no she wouldn't have been happier with him. She was too young, 16, a child. Then she wanted a life in show business, if she stayed with him since 16 she would have been miserable.

[@Lee-ys2ts]

Norma Jean...( Marilyn Monroe)....she wanted to be a star more then she wanted to be a wife and mother at the time.....and she never could find true happiness with a man, I believe she had abandonment issues.....Jim was truly in love with her and I believe Joe Demaggio was also....too bad he was a drinker and Marilyn divorced him for cruelty

[@AS-wj1du]

She wanted to be a mother but maybe wanted adoration from acting because she didn't get love as a child. Chased fame and the wrong men and maybe didn't realise when they loved her like Jim and Joe. Both loved her

[@aandjay]

i wonder what happened to him after did he get remarried and have kids

[@mashihuzzaman1962]

yes. 2 marriage actually after divorcing MM. Had 3 children from her 2 wife.

[@oceangirl2661]

Marilyn had such depth of thought and intelligence, she was probably bored out of her mind with him and it never would have continued.

[@felicegreece]

Yeah good man and he "loved"her BUT he abandoned her just because she couldn't be formally married to her. If he truly loved her he d have stayed and they d have figured eveything out

[@mashihuzzaman1962]

bruh we are talking about the days when people are lot more conservative than now. so yeah. but i get the point what you are saying

[@ellenwhitcomb5909]

But she would not have been able to have a family...and that's what he really wanted. That's a huge deal.

[@Badfingerbabe777]

If he had not been so jealous of Marilyn's modeling ,actting , and supported her like Dolly Partons husband does. Marilyn would have stayed with Jimmy. But in those days a woman stayed home and had babies, she didn't go out and get a job. He was okay with the modeling at first but it became much bigger than what he wanted. Thanks for posting this I love hearing these stories..I loved Jimmys book...

[@Yes-bp1vw]

Badfingerbabe777 she wanted to be MM the sex symbol! Married men seeker! No husband should put up with this!

[@user-sb3fo3fe9g]

Ну и написал, 2 класса образования у вас ?!

[@mashihuzzaman1962]

welp yeah we are talking about the days were people used to be a lot more conservative than now

[@pamfoster8781]

He is dead now,maybe he is with marilyn?

[@Yes-bp1vw]

pam foster no she’s probably in hell! That married men seeker! She’s horrible!

[@mariocisneros911]

He was her best husband , Arthur Miller was a nice guy , but to old and DiMaggio left his wife to go after woman more glamorous

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

DiMaggio had been divorced for nearly a decade by the time he met Marilyn. Rather, it was Miller who left his first wife for Marilyn.

[@AS-wj1du]

@@musicaltheatergeek79 People who don't research their facts. I don't know much about miller's marriage but Joe dimaggio had been divorced a while before meeting Marilyn

[@jeannetruitt7176]

SOME LIKE IT HOT..AS HELL

[@mba2ceo]

Who had the more fulfilled life ? Karma is a b!tch.

[@Sokolikjr]

+mba2ceo I hate to say it even tho I am a Marilyn fan but Jim had the more fulfilling life cuz he married & had children after she divorced him & lived a long and happy life even tho he was not a rich & famous actor. Marilyn would had still be alive today if she was not attracted to powerful men like JFK & RFK also to the mob men from that time. Don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of hers but she made the wrong choices & the choices she made lead to her death.

[@mba2ceo]

Mr. Allen C. Sokolik Jr. Just another example money & fame is NOT everything.

[@cookiep1892]

Oh come if you care about you would of never left by herself , she had no parents and you leave her,she would of never went to be a movie star. I don't think you care about her because she was mental. Now you talk to late.

[@chloep9977]

Pretty sure it was illegal to refuse being shipped out during the war

[@gardensofthegods]

He went to war... what was he supposed to do

[@JS-lx9fi]

Too bad they couldn’t have stayed together. Kind of like how Dolly Parton being married to her non famous husband for so long despite their career differences. Too bad, in those days I guess the people in charge of her contract had so much control over her personal life.

[@yawnnlawnn7067]

Marilyn shouldve went back with him when she was contemplating to end her career. Shouldve been atleast close with him. But they mightve some differences with one another we dont know about.

[@joemartines3545]

Lucky dog...

[@klaus-dieterkoch363]

Living in Hollywood must be crazy if you are beautiful.

[@jamesfitzgerald6636]

Or great

[@mariapotella7613]

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