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Marilyn Monroe is like the marvelously beautiful singing bird that perched on a height, mesmerized the beholders and suddenly flew away leaving the pain inside the hearts of her admirers. Marilyn Monroe's acting career can be explained in three small words, Vini, Vidi, Vicy. She literally came, saw and won the hearts of innumerable admirers round the globe. Her biography can easily be described as the documentation of the story of a very ordinary girl becoming extraordinary. |
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Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, California. Her mother, Gladys Pearl (Monroe) Baker was a film cutter. Marilyn's father Edward Mortenson abandoned her mother before she was born. Marilyn always used her mother's surname Monroe. Her mother's mental instability compelled her to stay Norma Jeane in the foster home of Albert and Ida Bolender. This is the place where she spent the first 7 years of her life. Her mother worked as a film-cutter.
She was almost smothered to death when she was only 2. She was nearly raped at the age of six. At the age of nine she took a job of kitchen work at Loss Angeles Orphans' Home. The home paid her a nickel a month and took back a penny every Sunday for church. At the age of sixteen she got married to Jim Dougherty who worked in an aircraft plant. When her husband's name got enlisted for the World war, Marilyn Monroe took a job of a painter at the Radio Plane Company. There she was spotted as the upcoming hope for the Hollywood. She divorced in 1946 and started off her modeling career.
She loved to read books and had almost 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton) at her disposal. She enjoyed listening to Beethoven. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but unfortunately let it lapse a year later. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) shot her to fame and placed her as a sex symbol superstar. She married to the baseball legend Joe Dimaggio and got divorced. She worked under the directorial effort by Lee Strasberg. During this time she underwent psychoanalysis to know more about herself. Her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) as a crafty actor was lauded by the critics.
The press got stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. After that she went to England and made "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Lawrence Olivier. After a bitter fight with him and got overpowered by the effect of alcohol and pills. The shooting of her last film The Misfits (1961) was often interrupted due to her exhaustion. She was dropped from "Something's Got to Give" due to her lack of punctuality and drug addiction. Four months later on 5 August 1962 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood (Los Angeles) home. Doctors found drug overdose as the reason behind her death. The death adjudged to be suicide.
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