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Joe Dimaggio‘s love for actress Marilyn Monroe is well catalogued, but a new biography written by one of the Yankee great’s longtime friends delves deeper into their fabled romance — revealing what qualities he loved most about her, why they divorced, and whom he blamed for her death.

“Joe was very honored and privileged to have Marilyn Monroe as his wife, which is why he was so fiercely protective of her,” says Dr. Rock Positano in an exclusive interview with People about Dinner with Dimaggio: Memories of an American Hero, which he co-authored with brother John Positano. “He felt...

Eleanor Parker today: Beautiful as ever in Scaramouche, Interrupted Melody Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 in ten days (June 26, 2013), can be seen at her most radiantly beautiful in several films Turner Classic Movies is showing this evening and tomorrow morning as part of their Star of the Month Eleanor Parker "tribute." Among them are the classic Scaramouche, the politically delicate Above and Beyond, and the biopic Interrupted Melody, which earned Parker her third and final Best Actress Academy Award nomination. (Photo: publicity shot of Eleanor Parker in Scaramouche.) The best of the lot is probably George Sidney’s balletic Scaramouche (1952), in which Eleanor Parker plays one of Stewart Granger’s love interests — the other one is Janet Leigh. A loose remake of Rex Ingram’s 1923 blockbuster, the George Sidney version features plenty of humor, romance, and adventure; vibrant colors (cinematography by Charles Rosher); an elaborately staged climactic swordfight; and tough dudes...

On today's 10th anniversary of Joe Dimaggio's death, new revelations have emerged about the Yankee Clipper's anger at the Catholic Church.

"Few people knew how devout a Catholic he was," Dimaggio's longtime friend Dr. Rock Positano tells Page Six. "But he was essentially banned from the church after his divorce from Dorothy Arnold. And he was scolded by Bishop Fulton Sheen for marrying Marilyn Monroe. Sheen told Joe after the marriage dissolved, 'You had no right marrying her in the first place.'

"Dimaggio told Sheen where...

By Matt Singer

In honor of the start of the 2008 baseball season, Ifc.com will be paying tribute to the national pastime's long relationship with the movies every day this week by giving you everything you'd ever want to know about the odd little quasi-autobiographical ditties in which baseball players have played themselves. Peanuts and crackerjacks not included.

"Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" (1937)

Directed by Charles Reisner

As Himself: Joe DiMaggio

Game Summary: This mostly tepid musical revolves around a bunch of mobsters who take over a record company and then use their muscle to convince a bunch of popular acts to play for them, which precipitates musical performances in the film from Gene Autry, Cab Calloway and Louis Prima, who actually performs on a working merry-go-round planted on the middle of a nightclub dance floor. DiMaggio's in the wrong place at the wrong time; he shows up late to a radio show...