Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe

Many people said that Marilyn Monroe was a great

inspiration in their lives, but through my research, I found

out that she was everything but an inspiration. Throughout

my report, I will give you many facts about Marilyn’s rough

life and what she did to handle them.

Marilyn Monroe, AKA Norma Jean Mortenson/Baker,

was born at Los Angeles General Hospital at 9:39 am on

June 1st, 1926. The hospital in which she was born is

now the County University of Southern California Medical

Center. Marilyn was born an illegitimate child whose father

(Edward Mortenson) had deserted her mother (Gladys

Baker). However, her real father was Stanley Gifford who

left Gladys when he found out she was pregnant.

Her mother worked at the Consolidated Film Industries

lab as a cutter of negative film. She worked long hours, at

low pay, at a boring and tedious eyestraining job. Since she

was at her job most of the time, she had to pay others to

look after Marilyn. Sometimes she would only get to see her

mother only early in the morning or at night. It was enough

for any mom to have a nervous breakdown. All Marilyn

remembered was her mother being in and out of hospitals.

Marilyn’s mother was working long hours at the film lab

just to make ends meet. She became very tired and nervous;

life became difficult for her. She had been sent to the

Norwalk State hospital for Mental Diseases for a rest when

Marilyn was only five years old. That was what caused her

to have a nervous breakdown and that is what caused

Marilyn to spend her childhood in and out of foster homes.

When Gladys first went to the hospital, Marilyn moved in

with her mother’s best friend.

When her mom’s best friend remarried, she told Marilyn that

her house was too small and someone had to go. Marilyn

was only nine years old then. So one day, she packed

Marilyn’s clothes in a suitcase and they got in her car. They

drove and drove for a long time without telling Marilyn

where she was going. They finally arrived at a three-story

red-brick building. Marilyn looked up at the sign and it said

LOS ANGELES ORPHANS HOME. Marilyn told her, “Please

don’t let me stay here. I’m not an orphan, my mother’s not

dead.” Her mom’s friend had to drag her inside the

orphanage. Her mother’s girlfriend had promised her that

she would take good care of her. She promised ...

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...a beach was taken, and

was to be her last. Her good friend and photographer

George Barris, lost his shoe on the beach right before their

departure from there, so Marilyn told him that the ocean

apparently needed it more than he did, so they both threw

their shoes in the ocean and left Santa Monica beach forever.

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood

home, on August 5, 1962 officially a victim of barbiturate

overdose. Marilyn was 36. At 36, she made a statement-

“I’m thirty-six and I’m just getting started.” She overdosed

on sleeping pills. Marilyn was in the process of making a

movie “Something’s Got to Give”, but was dropped from the

movie because of chronic lateness and drug dependency. She

died four months after she was fired.

Marilyn’s funeral was on Wednesday, August 8,1962.

Marilyn’s coffin is in a marble wall-crypt to which a bronze

plaque is attached: Marilyn Monroe

1926-1962

May she rest in peace. She should have turned to God

rather than drugs. Popularity is no excuse to throw your life

away. What was the priority in Marilyn Monroe’s life?

How could she even begin to inspire a living person???

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