What Is Marilyn Monroe Essay

Marilyn Monroe was originally named Norma Jeane Mortenson when she was born. When future fame took place in life she became known by her famous name Marilyn Monroe, or “the Blonde Bombshell.” Her hair wasn’t naturally blonde, it was actually brunette.
Prior to her birth, her father left her and her mother, Gladys, to move to San Fransisco to find work due to the great poverty in their family. He never came back and he abandoned them. Gladys became quite the cat’s eye after he was out of the picture and had several men in her life. She use to work as a film cutter at PKO studios, but she became mentally ill and was constantly in and out of mental institutions. It got so bad, she left Marilyn in foster care because she was not well enough to care for her. Marilyn, for a while, use to live on a farm, caring and loving farm animals.
As a baby, Marilyn was nearly suffocated by her own mother due to her mother’s mental madness. She was raped at age six by a man who remained unknown. Marilyn, for a while, use to live on a farm, loving and caring for farm animals. When her mother left her at age nine, Marilyn was sent to grow up in an orphanage. She was able to move out at age fourteen to start work.
Marilyn started her first job at an aircraft plant. She met a twenty-one year old man named James Dougherty who happened to work at the aircraft plant as well. When things got more serious between the two they gradually grew into a couple. After a long dating relationship, they got married. James entered the military while Marilyn modeled swimsuits for a magazine. After a long four years they divorced.
Marilyn bleached her hair and grew highly independent. She started studying in the field of acting at the Actors’ Lab in Hollywood. Sh...

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...ilyn’s speech was slurred, as if she was drunk off her rockers. Due to the incident, she became greatly depressed and overdosed herself with sleeping pills and died.
Her maid was completely unaware of the incident and got suspicious when she witnessed that Marilyn’s bedroom lights were left on all night. She called the police and shortly after they arrived, she called Ralph Greenson, who on arrival, couldn't bust down her bedroom door. He snuck through the backyard and broke her window. He found Marilyn dead, lying in her bed. They removed her body and debated that her time of death was approximately between 9:30-11:00 that night. They later stated in the paper that her death was a ‘probable suicide’. Her date of death was August 5, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, her home city. Following her death, she became one of the most celebrated of all actresses.