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Marilyn Monroe Biography
Can you imagine being married at 16? Truth be told it happened, and it happened to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe went through a lot in her midlife from marriages, divorces and contracts. Marilyn Monroe achieved so much in her life because in the beginning of her life it was really unsuccessful. Then she was a model and became a very successful actress. From being born in 1926 and signed to 20th Century-Fox, Monroe has done so many great things in her life to make her where she wanted to be.
Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. Her name at birth was Norma Jeane Mortenson, but she changed it to Norma Jeane Baker, and then finally to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe’s mother was mentally
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unstable, and had an absent father. She spent her childhood in a series of foster homes, and an orphanage. She went to Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles in the early 1940s, and dropped out at the age of fifteen. At the age of sixteen, she married her first love, James Dougherty, but got divorced three years later. After her divorce was final she could not find work as an actress because her contract was not renewed, so Monroe spent her free time taking art classes. When 20th Century-Fox signed her, it started out really slow, but then it took off like a rocket.
In 1950 Monroe was cast in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. From being in these films, she began receiving universal attention and became a true movie star. On January 14, 1954 in San Francisco, California, Monroe married a retired baseball player, Joe DiMaggio. In the fall of 1954 during the filming of Seven Year Itch Marilyn filed for divorce after nine months of marriage. When her divorce was final, Monroe moved to New York to study at the Actors’ Studio with Lee Strasberg. When the film Seven Year Itch released Monroe was a huge star and was Hollywood's ultimate sex symbol. While in New York Monroe started dating Arthur Miller and they married in June of 1956. In that same year she also starred in ‘Bus Stop,’ and then went to London for several months to film The Prince and the Show Girl. In 1959 she starred in Some like it hot, which is her most successful film. The movie was listed as the greatest American comedy film of all time by the American Film Institute in 2000. Monroe’s last film she ever completed was The Misfits in 1961. During filming her last film she divorced Arthur Miller. After this film was completed it was reported that Monroe was a heavy user of prescription
pills. A year later a troubled beauty who failed to find happiness as Hollywood’s biggest star, was found dead in her apartment in Brentwood. Marilyn Monroe’s death came as a shock to everyone. Her death claimed to be a suicide, but some people didn’t think so. A week before her death she told Life Magazine, “A sex symbol becomes a thing-I just hate to be a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol for something, I’d rather have it sex”. After her death, Monroe has passed from symbol to phenomenon. Marilyn Monroe has impacted my life by having very little in her childhood and then becoming very successful in her life, even in her after life. This showed everyone, you can put your mind to anything you want to achieve. Marilyn Monroe shows people that you can start from so small, and get to so big in life, like how she made 24 films in just eight years. Even after her death, she is still so successful and famous. When someone mentions a beautiful blonde, glamorous girl, who looks mysterious, Marilyn Monroe would probably come to mind.
James Monroe was born on April 28,1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, at this time Virginia was a British colony. He was the oldest son of five children, one sister and three brothers. They were the children of Elizabeth Jones Monroe and Spence Monroe. Spence Monroe was a farmer and a carpenter. When James was eleven he started to attend Campbelltown Academy. In 1774 when James Monroe was sixteen Spence Monroe died and James was left to manage the family property. James Monroe attended the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg the July after his father died.
Some Like It Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, and The Seven Year Itch are just a few of the movies that the actress Marilyn Monroe is known for. However the life of the movie star was cut short when she died at age 36 from an acute barbiturate poisoning. It was suspected that Marilyn took her own life, however she could have just as easily been taken out by the Kennedy family to prevent her from spilling all the dirty secrets she knew because of her alleged affairs with John and Robert Kennedy. Monroe was murdered by the Kennedy family in order to keep her from revealing government secrets that she gained knowledge of during the affairs she has with John and Robert Kennedy, which she threatened to make public after both
The death of Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous, unsolved murders of all time. Her death certificate claims that on the night of August 4th, 1962 Marilyn Monroe killed herself from a drug overdose in her home in Los Angeles, California. Although some might say that the drug overdose is the only possible reason of her passing, other might say that theories such as the CIA killed Marilyn Monroe makes more sense. For example, Marilyn Monroe was allegedly having an affair with both John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The most common theory supports the idea that “the Kennedys killed her (or had her killed) because they feared she would make public their love affairs and other government secrets she was gathering” (History.com
Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Monroe was originally given the name Norma Jeane Mortenson. The traumatic childhood of Marilyn Monroe is well document being that when she became famous she had no problem with telling her story. Monroe was the daughter of Gladys Monroe Baker Mortensen. Marilyn Monroe’s father has never been positively identified (Hendrickson, 2000). Monroe’s relationship with her mother was rocky and to say the least, lack thereof being that her mother was mentally unstable and eventually became institutionalized. This caused Marilyn to grow up in a succession of foster homes, orphanages, and guardianships, where she suffered abuse. At the age of two she was almost smothered to death. Monroe was also on several occasions sexually assaulted; she later said that she had been raped when she was 11 years old (“Marilyn Monroe Biography”, 2013). Marilyn Monroe’s personality as a child strongly reflected her traumatic upbringing. When she was ten, she would fall into fits of uncontrollable sobbing and despair at the slightest aggravation (Spoto, 1...
Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926 at 9:30am. Her place of birth was Los Angeles, California. Her mother is Gladys Pearl Monroe and her father is listed as Edward Mortenson. It has been noted that Marilyn believed that Edward was not her father, however there in no conclusive evidence to verify. She believed her father may have been Charles based on a photograph she was shown (Marilyn Monroe 1). Marilyn’s childhood is extremely unstable and challenging. Her mother Gladys suffers from severe psychiatric issues, which ultimately lands her in a mental institution. Gladys is not the only family member to suffer from mental illnesses. Marilyn’s great grandfather and grandmother do as well. Her grandmother, Della Mae Monroe Grainger ever
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1st, 1926 to Gladys Baker. She was illegitimate, so the name Mortenson was assigned by the hospital. At twelve days old, she was taken away from her mother and placed in the care of Ida and Albert Bolender where she would remain for the next seven years. At the age of two, she was nearly smothered to death by a foster grandparent, and at the age of six Monroe was not the only foster child that the Bolender’s took in; there were often three of four other children in the household. During her seven years in the Bolender’s care, Monroe had 13 foster siblings come and go. The Bolender’s we...
Lucille Ball, on of the best comedians in America who was born on August 6, 1911 Jamestown, New York. She started dating the guy called Johnny DeVita who was a 23-year-old local hood. But her mom, dede, wasn't happy with the relationship with her boyfriend but she couldn’t separate them, therefore she figured an idea to let 14-year-old Lucille to for the show business to separate them. Although her family did not have lots of money, her mom DeDe still arranged for Lucille to go to the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in NYC where she also met Bette Davis also as a fellow student. She returned to NYC in 1928 and tried to find a job. But at the same time either with, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis and all kinds of an unknown
The image has a huge effect in society. A celebrity’s image can characterize, shape and circulate societal myths in Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, and model. People think her figure and beauty make her become a popular icon and sex symbol in the 1950s. When people talk about the name of Marilyn Monroe, a blonde beautiful sexy female's image will appear in people's minds. What has the beauty standard shown us through Marilyn Monroe in the mid-20th century? Besides the beauty what other things did she need in order for her to be famous at that time? Marilyn Monroe's status as a sex symbol has influenced many artists since her time, even though the beauty standard has been different since then. If we look at the celebrities today, we can find many imitators of Marilyn Monroe: Madonna, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and even Lady Gaga. They do this not only because of marketing and media needs, but also because people today still “worship” the image Monroe created. A half-century has passed since Marilyn Monroe's death, so why is she still relevant today? As time has passed, Marilyn Monroe's image is becoming even more meaningful and valuable. Think about the image she has created, the main point I want to study is: how does a woman who passed away at thirty-six years old, after starring in only a handful of movies, has such on the impact on women, especially young women, in the 21st century? To find the answer of how she has an impact on young women today will also show how some of the young celebrities today became successful.
Marilyn Monroe was a singer, actress, and also a model. Norma Baker Mortensen was born on June 1, 1926 at the Los Angeles County Hospital in Brentwood, los Angeles California. She was given birth by her mother Gladys Pearl Baker, and her father Martin Edward Mortensen. She had two half siblings because they were only from the side of her mother. Their names were Bernice Baker and Robert Kermit Baker. Her mother had a mental disease and she didn’t really know her father.
Lucille Ball was born in August 6, 1911, her mother was Desiree Evelyn Hunt, her father’s name was Henry Durrell Ball. She was born in Jamestown, New York. Henry Ball passed away when Lucille was 8 years old because of Typhoid fever, Lucille says it was a day she would never forget. After her father’s death her mother, brother Frederick Ball and her had moved to Celeon, New York to live with Desiree’s parents.
Despite her problems, Huston stated that when Monroe was playing Roslyn, she "was not pretending to an emotion. It was the real thing. She would go deep down within herself and find it and bring it up into consciousness." Monroe and Miller separated after filming wrapped up, and she was granted a quick divorce in Mexico in January 1961. The Misfits was released the following month, failing at the box office.
Thesis: Audrey Hepburn was one of the most iconic figures and successful star of her era who inspired ladies with her fashion influences, humanitarian work, and life.
Marilyn Monroe to this day is still one of the most recognized sex symbols of our time. She set the stage of what is was to be sexy. She created an image that is known around the world. (Marilyn Monroe, 2010). She is known for her movies and for her promiscuous love life. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California (Marilyn Monroe Biography, 2010). She was born to a mother who had severe psychiatric problems and an unknown father. Her mother was institutionalized for her psychiatric problems and Marilyn was put in foster care (Marilyn Monroe Biography, 2010). She bounced around in foster homes until age 16 when she married her first husband Jimmy Doughtery (Marilyn Monroe Biography, 2010). This was not a marriage of love, it was a marriage to avoid going into another orphanage. The marriage did offer a stable relationship, one which she never had growing up. However, after their first year Jim got called up to serve in the South Pacific during World War II. The marriage ended in 1946. She chose her career over being a housewife.
Audrey Hepburn was one of the most iconic figures and successful star of her era who inspired society with her life, fashion influences, and humanitarian work. Hepburn did impacted the fashion industries and changed how women viewed themselves. She inspired women to hold themselves with grace, confidence, and poise. Hepburn’s legacy is way more than just a little black dress, pearls and oversized sunglasses. Audrey Hepburn is a leader.
In actuality, Marilyn Monroe was in fact smart and complicated woman, despite the fact that often the characters she portrayed were unintelligent blonds. She was desired by other famous men and admired by women who idolized her. Be that as it may, regardless of her fame and achievement Marilyn Monroe 's life unfortunately ended. In 1962, she was discovered to have overdosed on sleeping pills which resulted in her death. After her tragic death, the advertisement industry had overused her image and eventually, she seen as nothing more than a product to the public eye.(Scholastic Art