Marilyn Monroe made 30 films but she was more than just a movie star or glamour queen.

Marilyn Monroe was a World Wide sensation in her lifetime, and now, long after. Marilyn's popularity is beyond star or icon. "Marilyn Monroe" is synonymous with beauty and glamour. Marilyn is an inspiration to all who strive to overcome personal obstacles and achie greatness.

• 1950-01-05: - Started The Fireball
• 1950-04---: - Love Happy, United Artists, April 1950, with Marx brothers, Ilona Massey, Eric Blore, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr.
• 1950-05---: - A Ticket to Tomahawk, Fox, May 1950, with Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marion Marshall.
• 1950-05---: - The Asphalt Jungle, MGM, May 1950, with Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore. Joseph Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in "All About Eve", because of which 20th Century re-signed her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar.
• 1950-10---: - All About Eve, Fox, October 1950, with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff
• 1950-11---: - Right Cross, MGM, November 1950, with Dick Powell, June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore
• 1950-11---: - The Fireball, Fox, November 1950, with Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler
• 1950-12-10: - New contract with Fox
• 1950-12-18: - Johnny Hyde dies - Marilyn Monroe is generally thought to have had an affair with him, since he was instrimental in her getting may contacts that helped her career.
• 1951-03-29: - Presenter at the Academy Awards ceremony
• 1951-04---: - Home Town Story, MGM, May 1951, with Donald Crisp, Jeffrey Lynn, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale, Jr
• 1951-04-18: - Started Love Nest
• 1951-08---: - As Young As You Feel, Fox, August 1951, with Monty Woolley, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Constance Bennett, Albert Dekker
• 1951-09-08: - First full-length national magazine feature (Colliers)
• 1951-10---: - Love Nest, Fox, October 1951, with June Haver, William Lundigan, Leatrice Joy, Jack Parr, Frank Fay
• 1951-11---: - Let's Make It Legal, Fox, November 1951, with Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Robert Wagner, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates
• 1952-03-13: - Nude calendar story broken to the public
• 1952-04-07: - First LIFE magazine cover
• 1952-06---: - Clash by Night, RKO, June 1952, with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Keith Andes
• 1952-06-01: - Got the part of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• 1952-07---: - Don't Bother to Knock, Fox, July 1952, with Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jim Backus, Lurene Tuttle
• 1952-07---: - We're Not Married, Fox, July 1952, with Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor
• 1952-09---: - Monkey Business, Fox, September 1952, with Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe
• 1952-09-02: - Grand Marshal at the Miss America pageant
• 1952-10-04: - Alledgedly married Robert Slatzer. (unproven)
• 1952-12-10: - O. Henry's Full House, Fox, October 1952, with Charles Laughton, David Wayne
• 1953-01---: - Niagara, Fox, January 1953, with Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Richard Allan, Denis O'Dea, Don Wilson, Lurene Tuttle. Marilyn made her breakthrough in a Henry Hathaway's film "NIAGARA"
• 1953-06-26: - Placed footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
• 1953-07---: - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fox, July 1953, Jane Russell, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Elliot Reid, George Winslow, Norma Varden
• 1953-09-13: - First TV appearance on The Jack Benny Show
• 1953-10---: - Met Milton Greene at a party given by Gene Kelly, and signed a recording contract with RCA
• 1953-11---: - How To Marry a Millionaire, Fox, November 1953, with Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Alex D'Arcy, Cameron Mitchell, Fred Clark
• 1953-11-04: - Premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire
• 1953-12-15: - Girl in Pink Tights scheduled to begin shooting. Marilyn didn't show up
• 1954-01-04: - Suspended by Fox
• 1954-01-06: - Hollywood's royalty honors MM at Romanoff's party
• 1954-01-14: - Married Joe DiMaggio - January 14th, 1954 she married the baseball great, Joe DiMaggio in San Fransisco. Her marriage to Joe Dimaggio was ill-fated, the two were quite different types of people, and it only lasted a short time. (Joe DiMaggio always loved Marilyn Monroe and later they planed to be re-married but Marilyn Monroe died before the scheduled date)
• 1954-02-16: - Went to entertain troops in Korea
• 1954-04---: - River of No Return, Fox, April 1954, with Robert Mitchum, Tommy Rettig, Rory Calhoun
• 1954-09-15: - Shot the famous skirt-blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch
• 1954-10-05: - Officially left Joe DiMaggio
• 1954-10-27: - Divorce granted from Joe DiMaggio - October 27th, 1954. She also had problems with her marriage and got divorced
• 1954-11-05: - "Wrong Door Raid" took place
• 1954-12---: - There's No Business Like Show Business, Fox, December 1954, with Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnny Ray
• 1954-12-31: - Formed Marilyn Monroe Productions with Milton Greene
• 1955-01-15: - Suspended by Fox again
• 1955-03-31: - Rode on pink elephant at Madison Square Garded for arthiritis benefit
• 1955-04-08: - Appeared on Edward R. Murow's Person to Person
• 1955-06---: - The Seven Year Itch, Fox, June 1955, with Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Victor Moore, Robert Strauss
• 1955-06-01: - June 1st, 1955 The Seven Year Itch premiered and became the biggest movie of the summer.
• 1955-11-01: - Granted final divorce decree from Joe DiMaggio
• 1955-12-31: - The big new contract with Fox
• 1956-01-04: - Announced signed agrrement with Fox over contractual disputes
• 1956-02---: - Performed scene from Anna Christie at the Actors Studio in New York
• 1956-02-09: - Press conference with Olivier to announce their joint project, The Prince and the Showgirl
• 1956-02-25: - Returned to Hollywood after her exile in New York
• 1956-03-22: - Darryl Zanuck leaves Fox
• 1956-05-03: - Started Bus Stop
• 1956-06-03: - Returns to New York after finishing Bus Stop After Bus Stop she started work on the movie Some Like It Hot and although Marilyn had other problems at that time; (Marilyn's therapist had her commited to the New York Hospital for several days. Marilyn smuggled a note out to Joe diMaggio who came from Florida the next evening and got her released. ) she did finish it, and it became the biggest hit of 1959.
• 1956-06-29: - June 29th, 1956 she married the playwright Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony. Marilyn Monroe had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned.
• 1956-07---: - Bus Stop, Fox, August 1956, with Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Eileen Heckart, Betty Field, Hope Lange
• 1956-07-01: - July 1st, 1956 Marilyn and Arthur Miller had another, Jewish, wedding ceremony.
• 1956-07-14: - Arrived in London and held press conference with Olivier. She began work on Marilyn Monroe Productions' first independant movie, The Prince and the Showgirl.
• 1956-10-29: - Met Queen Elizabeth at the royal command film performance.
• 1956-11-20: - Left England
• 1956-12-18: - Radio Show from the Waldorf-Astoria
• 1957-06---: - The Prince and the Showgirl, Warner Bros., June 1957, with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Jeremy Spenser, Richard Wattis, Esmond Knight, Maxine Audley
• 1957-06-03: - Premiere of The Prince and the Showgirl
• 1957-08-01: - Miscarriage
• 1958-08-04: - Started Some Like It Hot
• 1958-11-06: - Finished Some Like It Hot
• 1958-12-17: - Second miscarriage
• 1959-03---: - Some Like It Hot, United Artist, March 1959, with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee
• 1959-03-29: - Premiere of Some Like It Hot