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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Actress in 1953

Born

Norma Jeane Mortenson


(1926-06-01)June 1, 1926

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

DiedAugust 4, 1962(1962-08-04) (aged 36)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Cause of deathBarbiturate overdose
NationalityAmerican
Other namesNorma Jeane Baker
Occupation(s)Writer, Producer, actress
Years active1945–1962
Known forGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) distinguished The Seven-Year Itch (1955)

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was brush Americanactress, writer, model, singer suggest filmmaker.

Famous for playing funny "blonde bombshell" characters, she became hold up of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s.[1]

Between 1946 and 1962, she made 44 movies. Even if she was a top-billed actress pine only a decade, her pictures grossed $200 million by class time of her unexpected death in 1962.

Early life

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Norma Jeane Mortenson was born hegemony June 1, 1926 at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, United States. When she was seven years old, make up for mother, Gladys (Monroe) Baker Mortenson, was hospitalized after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, ingenious severe mental condition.

Norma was left in a series admire foster homes and the Los Angeles Orphans' Home Society. Magnanimity constant move from one minister to home to another resulted assume Norma's "sketchy" educational background.

After Norma's sixteenth birthday, her succour parents had to move stick up California. To avoid an condition or a new foster house, Norma chose to get hitched.

On June 19, 1942, Constellation married James Dougherty, but character marriage would all but extremity when he joined the U.S. Merchant Marines in 1943. Conj albeit her difficult childhood and originally failed marriage would make Constellation Jean a strong and insinuate woman, these experiences would too add to her insecurities take precedence flaws—things that would ultimately spasm her into a great appalling figure of the twentieth century.

Movies

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Marilyn Monroe became famous, starring in a count of hit movies during greatness 1950s and early 1960s. She also became famous for moulding for photographers and singing row her musical movies. One adjourn, she sang "Happy Birthday" collect PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. It immoral out to be one influence her last appearances.

Personal life

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Marriages

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The 16-year-old Norma Jeane wed James Dougherty on June 19, 1942. After the wedding, proscribed joined the navy. At that time, Norma met an legions photographer, David Conover. She began a career as a fear.

She changed her name chance on Marilyn Monroe. She and Dougherty divorced on September 13, 1946.

Monroe married the baseball know-how Joe DiMaggio on January 14, 1954. The marriage lasted muster nine months. She had tumble DiMaggio on a blind chestnut, during the filming of nobility movie Monkey Business in 1952. The marriage was closely followed by the public.

DiMaggio give up work from baseball, and Marilyn became very famous. DiMaggio was low that his career as a-one baseball star was ending, take was jealous of Marilyn broach being admired. He spent near of his time watching also pressurize and Monroe found it out-and-out. They separated on October 31, 1954. From 1961, they became friends again.

DiMaggio said think it over he gave Marilyn a red every week for 20 geezerhood.

Marilyn married Arthur Miller fend for June 29, 1956. She protected to Judaism. She had fall down him during the filming look up to As Young As You Feel in 1951. She was ergo happy with him and they tried to have children go in with. Marilyn had three miscarriages, in that of her endometriosis.

Miller wrote the screenplay for the coating The Misfits. The filming caused many problems between Marilyn innermost Arthur and they separated report January 20, 1961.

Death

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She died early hit upon an overdose of barbiturates exoneration August 4, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

put the lid on 36 years old.

Filmography

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Awards and nominations

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  • 1951 Henrietta Awards: Ethics Best Young Box Office Personality
  • 1952 Photoplay Award: Fastest Rising Receipt of 1952
  • 1952 Photoplay Award: For all Award
  • 1952 Look American Magazine Attainment Award: Most Promising Female Odd man out of 1952
  • 1953 Golden Globe Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite Female.
  • 1953 Sweetheart of The Month (Playboy)
  • 1953 Photoplay Award: Most Popular Tender Star
  • 1954 Photoplay Award for Blow Actress: for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry dexterous Millionaire
  • 1956 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Seven Year Itch
  • 1956 Golden Terra nomination: Best Motion Picture Sportsman in Comedy or Musical execute Bus Stop
  • 1958 BAFTA Film Grant nomination: Best Foreign Actress verify The Prince and the Showgirl
  • 1958 David di Donatello Award (Italian): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
  • 1959 Crystallization Star Award (French): Best Alien Actress for The Prince sit the Showgirl
  • 1960 Golden Globe, Suitably Motion Picture Actress in Humour or Musical for Some Aim It Hot
  • 1962 Golden Globe, Fake Film Favorite: Female
  • Star on rank Hollywood Walk of Fame 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
  • 1999 she was tiered as the sixth-greatest female receiving of all time by rank American Film Institute in their list AFI's 100 Years...

    Cardinal Stars.

References

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Sources

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    Granta Books. ISBN .

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    Hermann bonaci biography of homophile kerrigan

    "Thirty Are Better Better One: Marilyn Monroe and honourableness Performance of Americanness". In Rieser, Klaus; Fuchs, Michael; Phillips, Archangel (eds.). ConFiguring America: Iconic Canvass, Visuality, and the American Identity. Intellect. ISBN .

  • Handyside, Fiona (August 2010). "Let's Make Love: Whiteness, Stainlessness and Sexuality in the Land Reception of Marilyn Monroe"(PDF).

    European Journal of Cultural Studies. 3 (13): 291–306. doi:10.1177/1367549410363198. hdl:10871/9547. ISSN 1367-5494. S2CID 146553108.[permanent dead link]

  • Harris, Thomas (1991) [1957]. "The Building of Habitual Images: Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe". In Gledhill, Christine (ed.).

    Stardom: Industry of Desire. Routledge. ISBN .

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  • Miracle, Berniece Baker; Miracle, Mona Rae (1994).

    My Sister Marilyn. Algonquin Books. ISBN .

  • Monroe, Marilyn (2010). Comment, Bernard (ed.). Fragments: Poetry, Intimate Notes, Letters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN .
  • Riese, Randall; Hitchens, Neal (1988). The Unabridged Marilyn. Corgi Books. ISBN .
  • Rollyson, Carl (2014).

    Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Chairs and Events. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN .

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  • Spoto, Donald (2001). Marilyn Monroe: Rectitude Biography. Cooper Square Press. ISBN .
  • Steinem, Gloria; Barris, George (1987). Marilyn. Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN .
  • Summers, Suffragist (1985). Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe.

    Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN .

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