Marilyn Monroe Research Paper

Noah Krzan
Mrs. Shingler
English I
18 April 2018
Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles, California on June 1, 1926 under the name of Norma Jean Baker. Marilyn grew up living with her mother until she was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia ("Marilyn Monroe Biography - Life, Childhood, Parents, Name, Death, Mother, Young, Old, Information, Born"). Marilyn’s mother was hospitalized and Marilyn was forced to live at an orphanage for two years. She spent almost all of her teenagers years moving between foster homes until she decided she had enough of it and got married ("Marilyn Monroe Biography - Life, Childhood, Parents, Name, Death, Mother, Young, Old, Information, Born"). Her marriage lasted around a year before her husband,

“During World War II . . . , [Marilyn Monroe] . . . worked at the Radio Plane Company in Van Nuys, California” ("Marilyn Monroe Biography - Life, Childhood, Parents, Name, Death, Mother, Young, Old, Information, Born"). It did not take long after working at the Radio plane Company to be discovered for her beauty and join a modeling course. Taking advantage of the situation, Marilyn divorced her husband and went to Hollywood to sign a contract with Twentieth Century Fox ("Marilyn Monroe Biography - Life, Childhood, Parents, Name, Death, Mother, Young, Old, Information, Born"). This did not work in her favor. Marilyn was not featured in any movies and the company let the contract lapse. Despite this failure, “Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948) in which she sang three numbers.” (Jackson). After doing more work and being seen by more people, Marilyn got another chance to work with Twentieth Century Fox by signing a seven-year contract with them. Marilyn was featured in many different movies, although most of them depicted her in a provocative way (Jackson). Marilyn married Joe Dimaggio in attempts to get her tarnished reputation back to normal. The marriage did not work, causing Marilyn to divorce

Her childhood years were not easy on her, but it pushed her to be a powerful woman that many people looked up to ("Marilyn Monroe Biography - Life, Childhood, Parents, Name, Death, Mother, Young, Old, Information, Born"). Marilyn did not let many things stand in her way, which is shown by all of her achievements. She embraced being different and never gave up on her career, even when it did not seem to be going in the direction she wanted it to (Jackson). Marilyn took risks to get her where she wanted to be and accepted change as a good thing. Even fifty years after her death, Marilyn is still praised for all of her achievements and looked up to by many different people (“Marilyn