According to one of her more reliable (IMO) biographers, Donald Spoto, Marilyn had not only reconciled with Joe DiMaggio by early August 1962, but was only a few days away from remarrying him, in fact, she was making the preparations for a home wedding such as ordering floral arrangements and catering. DiMaggio, in fact, was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on the 5th/6th.
Monroe had also reached at least an informal agreement with 20th Century-Fox to resume "Something's Got To Give", and several sources, Spoto among them I believe, say that the contract had indeed been signed. Shooting was scheduled to resume later that month or in the fall, though I'm not sure whether the production team would have picked up where it started or started afresh.
Spoto also claims:
1) That Marilyn was deeply dissatisfied with her psychiatrist (and her housekeeper, who it turns out was snooping on Monroe on behalf of said psychiatrist), and was about to fire both of them.
2) That Marilyn, contrary to gossip, had never had any sort of romantic or sexual connection with Robert F. Kennedy, though she did have sex with JFK. She was a deep admirer of RFK, however, and may well have campaigned for him when he moved on to the Senate and later tried for the Presidency.
And for my out-there speculation:
Marilyn's great hero was Abraham Lincoln and she became a self-taught expert on him, especially after having met Carl Sandburg. Maybe her level of expertise on the subject gets to the point that she ends up writing TTL's version of
Team of Rivals, which ends up getting made into TTL's analogue of
Lincoln?
