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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Biography Norma Jean Baker was born on June 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her father died and her mother worked as a film-cutter at RKO. Her mother had bouts of insanity and abandoned Norma Jean. She was in several foster homes. she worked in an aircraft plant and at the age of sixteen James Dougherty. While he was in the military, she began to model, they divorced in 1946. Norma Jean learned acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature at UCLA. Norma had a short term contract with 20th Century Fox, during which time she began her change to Marilyn Monroe. In 1948 Columbia gave her a six-month contract, and featured her in the B movie "Ladies of the Chorus", she sang two numbers. Joseph Mankiewicz saw her in "The Asphalt Jungle" and put her in "All About Eve". 20th Century gave her a seven-year contract. Marylin became a sex symbol superstar with Niagara and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In 1953, she married and shortly divorced baseball Joe Dimaggio. Marylin wanted serious acting instead of the sexpot image. She went to New York's Actors Studio and got help from director Lee Strasberg. Marylin also underwent psychoanalysis to unserstand more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop. She married playwright Arthur Miller. Monroe and Miller went to England where she began the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl with Lawrence Olivier. During this time, she had fights with Miller and she fell prey to alcohol and pills. Than two miscarriages and gynecological surgery. On her last picture The Misfits, written for her husband Miller was interrupted by sheer exhaustion. She was dropped from "Something's Got to Give" due to chronic lateness and drug dependency. Four months later, on August 5, 1962 she was found dead in her Brentwood home, officially victim of barbiturate overdose. |