Marilyn Monroe

This most iconic American actress, model, and singer became a sensation on the
entertainment world. Her versatility as a star in both film and music proved her a
global superstar. This glamour queen was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on 1st
June to Gladys Pearl Baker in the Los Angeles County Hospital. Her father’s name
was a secret till after her death. A heavy influence on her early life was her widow
mother, who was diagnosed with mentally ill. This forced her to stay with foster
parents Albert and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, California till the age of seven.
It was Grace who influenced her to be a movie star. She started her career as a
model that gave her opportunity to sign with Twentieth Century-Fox for a film
in 1946.Her morale-boosting photographs for Yank, the Army Weekly magazine
of young women helping the war effort, was the biggest breakthrough in her
life by associating with The Blue Book Modeling Agency and her new makeover
with brunette hair a golden blonde helped her to become one of Blue Book's
most successful models. Her successful modeling career drew the attention of
Ben Lyon, a 20th Century Fox executive, who arranged a screen test for her.
Lyon gave her a sexy and nice flow name ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and would be "lucky"
due to the double "M". Her relationship with her psychiatrically ill mother and
sexual abuse played a large role in her childhood that led to hyper sexuality, sleep
disturbances, substance abuse, disturbed interpersonal relationships. She firstly
married to James Dougherty, the second to Joe DiMaggio, and lastly to Arthur
Miller but did not last long and ended in divorce.

Her performance:-

• In Music
Her album in 1948 Ladies of the Chorus 1950 A Ticket to Tomahawk 1953
Niagara and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Recordings for RCA, in 1954 River
of No Return ,in 1956 Bus Stop in 1957 The Prince and the Showgirl in 1959
Some Like It Hot and in 1960 Let's Make Love gave her worldwide success.

• In Movie

People will never forget her performance in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Ladies of
the Chorus, Love Happy , A Ticket to Tomahawk , Right Cross , The Fireball ,The
Asphalt Jungle ,All About Eve, Home Town Story, As Young as You Feel, Let's Make

It Legal, l Love Nest, O. Henry's Full House Monkey , Business Clash by Night ,
We're Not Married! , Don't Bother to Knock ,Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
How to Marry a Millionaire , River of No Return , There's No Business Like Show
Business ,The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, The Prince and the Showgirl , Some Like It
Hot, Let's Make Love and her final completed film The Misfits and in 1963 Marilyn
the Documentary film of herself .

• In television

Her memorable works in television are in 1953 The Jack Benny Program, 1955
Person to Person, in 1959 Premier Khrushchev, in the USA 1962 President
Kennedy's Birthday Salute and Television documentary Lykke og krone.

Her achievements:-

She was honored with Henrietta Award in 1951, Photoplay Award in 1952 &
1953, Look American Magazine Achievement Award, Golden Globe Henrietta
Award, in 1952 Most Promising Female ,in1953 Sweetheart of the Month , in
1958 David di Donatello Award as Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the
Showgirl,in 1958 David di Donatello Award as Best Foreign Actress for The Prince
and the Showgirl,in 1960 Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy
or Musical for Some Like It Hot, in 1962 Golden Globe, World Film Favorite:
Female.

She is believed to have had several relationships and became the hottest topic of
gossip for scandalous behavior. She was so famous in media that paparazzi always
wanted to take chance for a snap of her wherever they could. Her personal
struggle with drugs and alcohol, violent attitude, mood swing ruined her life and
her fame and name was destroyed which she earned in her early life. At the age
of 36 years, on 5th August she left us by drug overdose.All the magazines and
newspapers were filled with rumors of her death including murder, circulated
about the circumstances of her death and the timeline after the body was found.
Some conspiracy theories involved John and Robert Kennedy even CIA or Mafia
complicity.