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Norma Jean Baker’s troubled, tragic life and death is probably a more familiar story to the general public than the plots of many of her films. We know her by her pseudonym, Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn had an unhappy childhood; she saw her mother taken into psychiatric care, while she spent most of her young life in a series of foster homes and orphanages. When she was sixteen, she met and married 21-year-old Jim Dougherty in an attempt to escape from her wretched life of being moved from one person’s home to the next.
During the Second World War, Marilyn worked in a factory which produced bombs for the American Air Force. An army photographer noticed this beautiful, radiant young woman and asked her if he could take some photographs of her. The pictures were sent to the troops all over the world and were an instant success. Marilyn became a celebrity overnight. This led to a modelling career and by 1946 the war was over and so was her marriage. She dyed her hair blonde and started looking for work in the movies. On July 23rd, she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox and took the name Marilyn Monroe.
She had little success for the first few years, playing small parts and taking modelling work. Gradually her roles improved.
In 1956, she enrolled as a drama student in Lee and Paula Strasberg’s Actors’ Studio in the hope that she could be taken seriously as an actress and in June of that year she married playwright Arthur Miller. In 1957 she appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in The Prince And The Showgirl, which further enhanced her cultural respectability. But her funniest performance was that of a desirable musician in Billy Wilder’s brilliant comedy Some Like It Hot in 1959. Of the thirty films she made, perhaps this is the most memorable.
Two years later, in 1961, she divorced Arthur Miller. Her behaviour started becoming more and more difficult and because of this she was dismissed from the film Something’s Got To Give. A month later, in August 1962, her body was discovered by her housekeeper. However, the story didn’t end there.
Rumours that she had been murdered because of her relationship with American president John Kennedy have never been proved or disproved. The mystery surrounding her death has become more famous than any one thing that happened in her life. One thing, however, is sure; the camera loved Marilyn Monroe and all she was really looking for was love.
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