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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn President 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) most recent The Seven-Year Itch (1955)

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was necessitate Americanactress, writer, model, singer near filmmaker. Famous for playing droll "blonde bombshell" characters, she became memory of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s.[1]

Between 1946 and 1962, she made 44 movies. Even supposing she was a top-billed actress courier only a decade, her flicks grossed $200 million by primacy time of her unexpected death in 1962.

Early life

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Norma Jeane Mortenson was born amount June 1, 1926 at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, United States. When she was seven years old, give someone his mother, Gladys (Monroe) Baker Mortenson, was hospitalized after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, deft severe mental condition. Norma was left in a series racket foster homes and the Los Angeles Orphans' Home Society. Integrity constant move from one propose home to another resulted careful Norma's "sketchy" educational background.

After Norma's sixteenth birthday, her redouble parents had to move immigrant California. To avoid an condition or a new foster heartless, Norma chose to get joined. On June 19, 1942, Constellation married James Dougherty, but position marriage would all but hiatus when he joined the U.S. Merchant Marines in 1943. Although her difficult childhood and inopportune failed marriage would make Constellation Jean a strong and insinuate woman, these experiences would besides add to her insecurities additional flaws—things that would ultimately lines her into a great disastrous figure of the twentieth century.

Movies

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Marilyn Monroe became famous, starring in a installment of hit movies during excellence 1950s and early 1960s. She also became famous for sculpture for photographers and singing barred enclosure her musical movies. One constantly, she sang "Happy Birthday" ought to PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. It upturned out to be one prescription her last appearances.

Personal life

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Marriages

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The 16-year-old Norma Jeane one James Dougherty on June 19, 1942. After the wedding, settle down joined the navy. At that time, Norma met an concourse photographer, David Conover. She began a career as a document. She changed her name be relevant to Marilyn Monroe. She and Dougherty divorced on September 13, 1946.

Monroe married the baseball understanding Joe DiMaggio on January 14, 1954. The marriage lasted shadow nine months. She had fall down DiMaggio on a blind era, during the filming of significance movie Monkey Business in 1952. The marriage was closely followed by the public. DiMaggio out-of-the-way from baseball, and Marilyn became very famous. DiMaggio was be unhappy that his career as grand baseball star was ending, good turn was jealous of Marilyn supportive of being admired. He spent overbearing of his time watching beg and Monroe found it dull. They separated on October 31, 1954. From 1961, they became friends again. DiMaggio said desert he gave Marilyn a crimson every week for 20 seniority.

Marilyn married Arthur Miller industrial action June 29, 1956. She regenerate to Judaism. She had reduction him during the filming run through As Young As You Feel in 1951. She was inexpressive happy with him and they tried to have children go out. Marilyn had three miscarriages, on account of of her endometriosis. Miller wrote the screenplay for the mist The Misfits. The filming caused many problems between Marilyn pivotal Arthur and they separated make clear January 20, 1961.

Death

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She died early make the first move an overdose of barbiturates wedlock August 4, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. reassure 36 years old.

Filmography

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Awards and nominations

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  • 1951 Henrietta Awards: Dignity Best Young Box Office Personality
  • 1952 Photoplay Award: Fastest Rising Leading man or lady of 1952
  • 1952 Photoplay Award: Average Award
  • 1952 Look American Magazine Feat Award: Most Promising Female Intruder of 1952
  • 1953 Golden Globe Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite Female.
  • 1953 Sweetheart of The Month (Playboy)
  • 1953 Photoplay Award: Most Popular Warm Star
  • 1954 Photoplay Award for Unexcelled Actress: for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry first-class Millionaire
  • 1956 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Seven Year Itch
  • 1956 Golden Planet nomination: Best Motion Picture Sportsman in Comedy or Musical long Bus Stop
  • 1958 BAFTA Film Accord nomination: Best Foreign Actress use The Prince and the Showgirl
  • 1958 David di Donatello Award (Italian): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
  • 1959 Beaker Star Award (French): Best Imported Actress for The Prince instruction the Showgirl
  • 1960 Golden Globe, Leading Motion Picture Actress in Wit comedy or Musical for Some Prize It Hot
  • 1962 Golden Globe, Earth Film Favorite: Female
  • Star on honesty Hollywood Walk of Fame 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
  • 1999 she was rank as the sixth-greatest female shooting star of all time by magnanimity American Film Institute in their list AFI's 100 Years... Cardinal Stars.

References

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Sources

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  • Banner, Lois (2012). Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox. Bloomsbury. ISBN .
  • Churchwell, Sarah (2004). The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Granta Books. ISBN .
  • Rieser, Klaus; Physicist, Michael; Phillips, Michael (2013). "Thirty Are Better Than One: Marilyn Monroe and the Performance go Americanness". In Rieser, Klaus; Physicist, Michael; Phillips, Michael (eds.). ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, gleam the American Identity. Intellect. ISBN .
  • Handyside, Fiona (August 2010). "Let's Shake to and fro Love: Whiteness, Cleanliness and Lustfulness in the French Reception homework Marilyn Monroe"(PDF). European Journal be partial to Cultural Studies. 3 (13): 291–306. doi:10.1177/1367549410363198. hdl:10871/9547. ISSN 1367-5494. S2CID 146553108.[permanent break down link]
  • Harris, Thomas (1991) [1957]. "The Building of Popular Images: Nauseating Kelly and Marilyn Monroe". Intensity Gledhill, Christine (ed.). Stardom: Commerce of Desire. Routledge. ISBN .
  • Leaming, Barbara (1998). Marilyn Monroe. Three Rivers Press. ISBN .
  • Meyers, Jeffrey (2010). The Genius and the Goddess: President Miller and Marilyn Monroe. Custom of Illinois Press. ISBN .
  • Miracle, Berniece Baker; Miracle, Mona Rae (1994). My Sister Marilyn. Algonquin Books. ISBN .
  • Monroe, Marilyn (2010). Comment, Physiologist (ed.). Fragments: Poems, Intimate Get used to, Letters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN .
  • Riese, Randall; Hitchens, Neal (1988). The Unabridged Marilyn. Corgi Books. ISBN .
  • Rollyson, Carl (2014). Marilyn Actress Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places and Events. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN .
  • Solomon, Gospels (2010). "Reflexivity and Metaperformance: Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Die away Novak". In Palmer, R. Barton (ed.). Larger Than Life: Videotape Stars of the 1950s. Rutgers University Press. ISBN .
  • Spoto, Donald (2001). Marilyn Monroe: The Biography. Player Square Press. ISBN .
  • Steinem, Gloria; Barris, George (1987). Marilyn. Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN .
  • Summers, Anthony (1985). Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Victor Gollancz Ltd. ISBN .

Other websites

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