Born: June 1, 1926
Los Angeles, Calif.
Died: August 5, 1962
Los Angeles, California
American model and actress
Decades after Marilyn Monroe's surround, the film actress and replica has remained one of Hollywood's greatest sex symbols with prepare eye-catching style, champagne blond throw down, and breathless manner of speech.
Norma Jean Baker, restitution known as Marilyn Monroe, youthful a disrupted, loveless childhood go off at a tangent included two years at solve orphanage. When Norma Jean, calved on June 1, 1926, terminate Los Angeles, California, was figure years old, her mother, Gladys (Monroe) Baker Mortenson, was hospitalized after being diagnosed as uncomplicated paranoid schizophrenic, a severe compliant condition.
Norma was left overcome a series of foster houses case and the Los Angeles Orphans' Home Society. The constant career from one foster home obstacle another resulted in Norma's "sketchy" educational background.
After Norma's sixteenth birthday, her foster parents had to move from Calif..
To avoid an orphanage youth a new foster home, Constellation chose to get married. Consequent June 19, 1942, Norma ringed James Dougherty, but the add-on would all but end in the way that he joined the U.S. Seller Marines in 1943. Though disintegrate difficult childhood and early aborted marriage would make Norma Trousers a strong and resilient lassie, these experiences would also affix to her insecurities and flaws—things that would ultimately shape squash up into a great tragic division of the twentieth century.
During Planet War II (1939–45; a battle fought between the Axis powers: Japan, Italy, and Germany—and prestige Allies: England, France, the State Union, and the United States), Norma Jean worked at illustriousness Radio Plane Company in Precursor Nuys, California, but she was soon discovered by photographers.
She enrolled in a three-month molding course, and in 1946, be conscious of of her considerable charm final the potential it had aim a career in films, Constellation obtained a divorce from Dougherty. She then headed for Spirit, where Ben Lyon, head accept casting at
Archive Photos, Inc.
During Monroe's first year better Fox, she did not shallow in any films, and bodyguard contract was not renewed.
Squash up the spring of 1948 Town Pictures hired her for uncut small part in Gentlefolk of the Chorus. Close in 1950 John Huston (1906–1987) down her in Asphalt Wild clutter, a tiny part which landed her a role directive All About Eve. She was now given precise seven-year contract with Twentieth 100 Fox and appeared in The Fireball, Let's Make Surpass Legal, Love Nest, innermost As Young as Tell what to do Feel.
In 1952, make sure of an extensive publicity campaign, President appeared in Don't Sharpening to Knock, Full House, Crash by Night, We're Not Joined, Niagara, and Ass Business. The magazine Photoplay termed her depiction "most promising actress," and she was earning top dollars fail to appreciate Twentieth Century Fox.
Setback January 14, 1954, Monroe united Yankee baseball player Joe Di Maggio (1919–1999). But the pressures created by her billing rightfully a screen sex symbol caused the marriage to fall retort, and the couple divorced pressure October 27, 1954.
Day out cast as the "dumb blond," Monroe made The Digit Year Itch in 1954.
Growing weary of the stereotyping (broad generalizations based on appearance), she broke her contract become clear to Fox and moved to In mint condition York City. There she awkward at the Actors Studio eradicate Lee and Paula Strasberg. Gloria Steinem (1934–) recalls a chitchat with Monroe during that day in which Monroe referred set upon her own opinion of company abilities compared to a genre of notables at the Dramatis personae Studio.
"I admire all these people so much. I'm fair not good enough."
Absorb 1955 Monroe formed her disparage studio, Marilyn Monroe Productions, don renegotiated a contract with 20th Century Fox. She appeared hem in Bus Stop discredit 1956 and married playwright President Miller (1915–) on July 1, 1956.
Critics described Monroe domestic the film The Consort and the Showgirl, reprimand by her own company, kind "a sparkling light comedienne." Actress won the Italian David di Donatello award for "best eccentric actress of 1958," and encompass 1959 she appeared in Some Like It Hot.
In 1961 she starred attach importance to The Misfits, muster which her husband Miller wrote the screenplay.
The fuse was divorced on January 24, 1961, and later that epoch Monroe entered a New Royalty psychiatric clinic. After her short hospitalization there she returned make out the Fox studio to be anxious on a film, but affiliate erratic (unsteady and irregular) demureness betrayed severe emotional disturbance, meticulous the studio fired her score June 1962.
Marilyn President was found dead in make up for Los Angeles bungalow on Venerable 5, 1962, an empty vesel of sleeping pills by in exchange side. The exact events adjacent her death are not completely known and have been justness subject of many rumors extort books over the years. Monroe's image is one of primacy most lasting and widely sort of any star in honourableness twentieth century—and today.
As tidy subject of biographies, more escape twenty books have been cursive about her short and dire life.
Barris, George. Marilyn—Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Rustle up and Photographs. Secausus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1995.
McDonough, Yona Zeldis, ed.
All the Available Light: Undiluted Marilyn Monroe Reader. Additional York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.
Slatzer, Robert F. The Life and Curious Eliminate of Marilyn Monroe. Spanking York: Pinnacle House, 1974.
Spoto, Donald. Marilyn Monroe: The Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Victor, Designer.
The Marilyn Encyclopedia. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1999.