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Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1. August 5, 1. 96. 2) was an American actress, model and singer. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1. Although she was a top- billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $2. More than half a century after her death, she continues to be considered a major popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and married at the age of sixteen. While working in a radioplane factory in 1.

Contains cast and crew details, quotes, trivia, goofs, and links to external review sites. E! Entertainment Television, LLC. A Division of NBCUniversal with news, shows, photos, and videos. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model and singer. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde. Follow Star Magazine for the latest and breaking in celebrity, Hollywood, and entertainment news with stories, photos, and videos from the hottest stars.

First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin- up modeling career. The work led to short- lived film contracts with Twentieth Century- Fox (1. Columbia Pictures (1. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in 1. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photos before becoming a star, but rather than damaging her career, the story resulted in increased interest in her films. By 1. 95. 3, Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir.

Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a "dumb blonde". Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1. The Seven Year Itch (1. When the studio was still reluctant to change her contract, Monroe founded a film production company in late 1. Marilyn Monroe Productions (MMP).

She dedicated 1. 95. Actors Studio. In late 1. Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. After a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1. MMP, The Prince and the Showgirl (1.

Golden Globe for Best Actress for Some Like It Hot (1. Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1. Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety.

She had two highly publicized marriages, to retired baseball star Joe Di. Maggio and playwright Arthur Miller, both of which ended in divorce. On August 5, 1. 96. Los Angeles. Although Monroe's death was ruled a probable suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Life and career. Childhood and first marriage (1.

Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1, 1. Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe, 1. Gladys, the daughter of two poor Midwestern migrants to California, was a flapper and worked as a film negative cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. When she was fifteen, Gladys married a man nine years her senior, John Newton Baker, and had two children by him, Robert (1. Berniece (born 1. She filed for divorce in 1.

Baker took the children with him to his native Kentucky. Monroe was not told that she had a sister until she was twelve, and met her for the first time as an adult. In 1. 92. 4, Gladys married her second husband—Martin Edward Mortensen—but they separated before she became pregnant with Monroe by a different man; they divorced in 1. The identity of Monroe's father is unknown and Baker was most often used as her surname.[a]Monroe's early childhood was stable and happy.

While Gladys was mentally and financially unprepared for a child, she was able to place Monroe with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender in the rural town of Hawthorne soon after the birth. They raised their foster children according to the principles of evangelical Christianity. At first, Gladys lived with the Bolenders and commuted to work in Los Angeles, until longer work shifts forced her to move back to the city in early 1. She then began visiting her daughter on weekends, often taking her to the cinema and to sightsee in Los Angeles.

Although the Bolenders wanted to adopt Monroe, by the summer of 1. Gladys felt stable enough for Monroe to move in with her and bought a small house in Hollywood. They shared it with lodgers, actors George and Maude Atkinson and their daughter, Nellie. Some months later, in January 1. Gladys had a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After several months in a rest home, she was committed to the Metropolitan State Hospital. She spent the rest of her life in and out of hospitals, and was rarely in contact with Monroe."When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.. When I heard that this was acting, I said that's what I want to be.. Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it."[2. Monroe in an interview for Life in 1. Monroe became a ward of the state, and her mother's friend, Grace Mc.

Kee Goddard, took responsibility over her and her mother's affairs. In the following four years, she lived with several foster families, and often switched schools.

For the first sixteen months, she continued living with the Atkinsons; she was sexually abused during this time.[b] Always a shy girl, she now also developed a stutter and became withdrawn. In the summer of 1. Grace and her husband Erwin "Doc" Goddard and two other families, until Grace placed her in the Los Angeles Orphans Home in Hollywood in September 1.

While the orphanage was "a model institution", and was described in positive terms by her peers, Monroe found being placed there traumatizing, as to her "it seemed that no one wanted me". First husband James Dougherty and Monroe, c. Encouraged by the orphanage staff who thought that Monroe would be happier living in a family, Grace became her legal guardian in 1. Monroe's second stay with the Goddards lasted only a few months, as Doc molested her. After staying with various of her and Grace's relatives and friends in Los Angeles and Compton, Monroe found a more permanent home in September 1. Grace's aunt, Ana Atchinson Lower, in the Sawtelle district. She was enrolled in Emerson Junior High School and was taken to weekly Christian Science services with Lower.

While otherwise a mediocre student, Monroe excelled in writing and contributed to the school's newspaper. Due to the elderly Lower's health issues, Monroe returned to live with the Goddards in Van Nuys in either late 1. After graduating from Emerson, she began attending Van Nuys High School. In early 1. 94. 2, the company that Doc Goddard worked for required him to relocate to West Virginia. California laws prevented the Goddards from taking Monroe out of state, and she faced the possibility of having to return to the orphanage. As a solution, she married their neighbors' son, 2.

James "Jim" Dougherty, on June 1. Monroe subsequently dropped out of high school and became a housewife; she later stated that the "marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy, either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other.