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We think that Marilyn learned to dirve or with Jim Dougherty, either with Ethel Dougherty, Jim's mother, while he was away, mobilized during the Second World War.

Marilyn loved to drive  but it wasn't without incidents : one thinks that she met the photographer Tom Kelley during a collision on Sunset Boulevard, in 1948.

On May 21, 1954, she was judged for careless driving, because she had hit with her convertible Cadillac, the car of Bart Antinora, at the angle of Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Drive. The plaintiff demanded 3 000$ to Marilyn and her passenger, Joe DiMaggio. The sentence was reduced to 500$.

On February 28, 1956, she was fined because two years earlier, she had driven without licence. She had been arrested on Wilshire Boulevard. W.CLaude Fields Jr, son of the famous actor, was for this occasion, her lawyer. Judge Charles J.Griffin had issued two warrants against her, before she appeared in court, and gave her a fine of 55$, noticing : "The laws are made for eveybody, rich and poor, without any consideration of race and belief, and whatever your name is Marilyn Monroe, this kind of performance won't give you an Academy Award".
 

 

HER CARS

 - Jim Dougherty's touring coupé Ford from 1935 that she kept after the divorce.

- a Convertible Ford from 1948 which was quickly taken back because delays of payments.

- a Convertible Pontiac from 1950 ,

Registration Card

                                                      

Pontiac papers ,

- in 1953 she received a Convertible black Cadillac, red leather inside, for tha payment of her appearence in the "Jack Benny Show" 

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- in 1954, after her wedding with Joe DiMaggio, they left in his black Cadillac (registered Joe D).

- in 1955 she was the owner of a black sport Ford Thunderbird that would have been bought by Milton Greene.

Purchase of the Ford Thunderbird under the name of the Marilyn Monroe Productions, dated January 23, 1958

Tax due, dated October 1, 1959

Letter from the garage, about the insurance, dated January 7, 1960

Cancellation request for the Ford Thunderbird dated from March 26, 1962

She used it to go to New York City and later, offered it to John Strasberg, for his 18th birthday.

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- with Arthur Miller, she drove his Jaguar.

- in 1960 she moved on the shooting of "The Misfits" in a white Cadillac.

- in 1961 when she came back to Hollywood, she didn't buy another car. When she needed a vehicle, she rented a black Limo with chauffeur. For the shopping, she used Eunice Murray green Dodge, or Norman Jefferies car.

Temporary driving license during her stay in Los Angeles, for the shooting of "Bus Stop" in 1956.

 

Driving license, October 1957

Driving license, July 1958

Driving license, July 1962

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