Shirley MacLaine on Marilyn Monroe’s affair with John F Kennedy, Bobby: ‘How the boys got away with it all the time’

Shirley MacLaine recalled what happened after Marilyn Monroe sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to John F Kennedy on his 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden in 1962.

Veteran actor and author Shirley MacLaine, in her new book, The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvelous Lifetime, has spoken about Marilyn Monroe, former US President John F Kennedy and his brother Robert F Kennedy, also known as Bobby.

As reported by Hello Magazine, Shirley claimed that she once saw the then-president exiting a bedroom which was still occupied by Marilyn. Moments later, his brother Bobby entered the room and closed the door.

What Shirley said about JFK’s 45th birthday party

Shirley wrote about 1962, when at the “famous celebration for John F Kennedy’s 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Durante and I performed for the president and the crowd”. She added that “what most people remember is Marilyn Monroe singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to him.” She also wrote that “everyone went to a party at the home of finance chairman for the Democratic Party Arthur Krim afterwards.”

As per the report, the book has a black-and-white picture with John, also known as Jack, in the background. In the caption, she wrote, “Jack Kennedy had just walked out of the bedroom behind me, and Bobby Kennedy had just walked in. Marilyn was in the bedroom.”