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Sep 26, 2022 · Now, almost six decades since her tragic death, we take a look at the icon's string of marriages in these rare photos.
Aug 2, 2017 · See unpublished, intimate photos of Marilyn frolicking about L.A., just two months before her death in 1962.
On the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn the following morning, on August 5.
Dec 26, 2023 · See rare photos of Marilyn Monroe with James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller
- Baby Norma
- First Marriage
- Modeling Career
- First Steps in Hollywood
- Marilyn in Korea
- Blonde Bombshell
- Global Superstar
- Her Second Marriage
- Divorce
- New Career Directions
Norma Jeane Mortenson was born on 1 June 1927 at the Los Angeles County Hospital in California. It is unknown who her biological father was. She had a difficult childhood, with her mother and grandmother frequently confined to an asylum.
Norma Jeane was 16 when she married her first husband, Jim Dougherty, who was her neighbour at that time. Her motivations for the marriage were partly caused by the desire to escape the orphanage. They divorced following World War Two, after being together for four years.
While working for a California munitions factory during World War Two, Marilyn was ‘discovered’ by a photographer who helped her to become a successful model.
Her first role with 20th Century Fox was an uncredited part in the 1947 movie The Shocking Miss Pilgrim. Her true breakthrough was in the 1953 film-noir thriller Niagara. It was her first movie where she was given top billing, elevating her to stardom.
Marilyn visited South Korea a year after the end of the Korean War. She toured in multiple American military bases, performing for around 100,000 servicemen. The performances helped her to overcome her own stage fright.
Marilyn Monroe’s famous photo session with photographer Ed Feingersh highlights her image as a ‘love goddess’ and a ‘sexual icon’. Her breathy sultry voice, which became one of her trademarks, was suggested by her speech therapist to overcome a stutter.
Monroe’s fame kept on rising with a succession of commercial Hollywood hits like 1953’s How to Marry a Millionaire and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as 1954’s There’s No Business Like Show Business.
In January 1954, Monroe married her second husband, the American baseball player Joe DiMaggio. From the outside, it seemed like a quintessential all-American love affair, with enormous press attention given to both of them.
The couple divorced after 9 months of marriage following DiMaggio’s increasing jealousy turning into violent outbursts.
After growing increasingly discontented with her acting career, Marilyn Monroe began studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors’ Studio in New York City. The Seven Year Itch in 1955 and Bus Stop in 1958 displayed her emerging talents as a comedian, proving that she was more than a beauty icon. Her performance in the 1959 movie Some Like It Hotis con...
Jan 3, 2020 · Eve Arnold said: ‘This was Miller’s Valentine to Marilyn […] The marriage was already over but what he had wanted to do with it was give her a gift. And he did, I think’ © Eve Arnold
Sep 26, 2022 · Marilyn’s life and death have become flexible, plastic representations of a real person and a real event. … No one can deny the power of her representation: She is the [blonde] who has haunted...
