The Birth Of Marilyn Monroe In The 1950's

Imagine being a young girl, constantly moving from foster home to foster home because your mom suffers from psychological problems. Imagine being sexually assaulted and raped at age eleven, then getting married at sixteen to escape the havoc. That’s what life was like for Norma Jeane before she created her new life as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was well known around the world for her modeling, acting, and singing. For one to fully understand Monroe’s life, you would need to know about her Early Life, her Career, and her Death/Legacy.

“If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have gone anywhere” Marilyn Monroe once famously said. Over the course of the legacy unit we have learned about various figures that have left behind their own legacies, good or bad. Then we were tasked with the job of choosing a single person and doing the research about them. This was so that later we could write a speech and paper on what we learned and apply the writing skills we had been working on. Marilyn Monroe stood out due to the fact that she was a good person who struggled with the darker parts of herself progressively as her life went on. Nevertheless, she still managed to achieve her dreams and inspire others to attain theirs as well.

Marilyn Monroe is a timeless figure, known for her sensual yet innocent charm. Her platinum blonde hair continues to be a popular trademark today, with other celebrities continuing to imitate her. She is the image of Hollywood and American perfectibility. However, she was not just a beauty queen who seemingly had the world wrapped around her finger. She was also a vulnerable woman, who severely struggled with mental illnesses, neuroticism, and high expectations. Marilyn Monroe is an epitome of a tragic hero, as she was the victim of a downfall caused by irreparable flaws.

When people hear the name Marilyn Monroe, mostly everyone has the same image in their mind of who this woman was. Some of the adjectives people would use to describe her are beautiful, glamorous, iconic, or even dumb. What people don’t understand is that all those words could be just an image that the media created for her. Marilyn Monroe was a troubled young woman who had a rough upbringing that haunted her for the rest of her life. All of that aside, she was one of the most influential people of the 20th century and one of the first sex symbols. People even consider her to be a legend.

In a terrible turn of circumstances on the early morning of August 5, 1962, 36-year-old Marilyn died in her sleep at her Brentwood, California home with the phone attached to her hand. Rumors speculate of an overdose or intentionally killing herself. There was also speculation and gossip of having an affair with John F Kennedy and that she was about to go public with what she knew about JFK and Bobbi Kennedy. Also that she was murdered by 'government agents' to safeguard the president. Another conspiracy incident was that Marilyn was killed by the mafia as punishment to the Kennedy's for their attacks on them, and to expose Kennedy's many love affairs. Now with all the aspects of her death, Marilyn had plans to work on new movies and a possible

On June 1st, 1926 Norma Jean Baker a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe was born to Gladys Mortenson in Los Angeles California. Gladys was a paranoid schizophrenic. Norma Jean grew up in foster homes and didn’t get much of an education. Which would probably explain a lot of her choices later on in life.

She has taught me that it is okay to be an outcast. She has showed me that you do not have to be a size zero in order to be beautiful. Marilyn Monroe was more than just a sex icon to me; she is someone who showed me that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It does not matter what anyone has to say about you, you have to have confidence within yourself in order to succeed in life because you are always going to have someone who doubts you and your abilities. You cannot let someone define who you are YOU define who you are. YOU reach for your goals and do not let anyone get in the way and stop you from achieving your goals. If you believe in yourself and have enough confidence you can achieve anything you put your mind to. Marilyn Monroe had a strong desire to be seen as being more than just a model, actress, sex symbol and celebrity; many of the things she said was an attempt to shed light on who she was as a person and to remind people that there was much more to her than just a pretty face. Marilyn Monroe has taught me that no matter how badly I could fantasize on wanting to be someone else whether that being a celebrity or someone I look up to, it will never happen; it is a huge oversight because it takes away my confidence because I am so focused and set on wanting to be someone else. Monroe showed me that it is okay to admire someone else but I need to be happy and confident in my own skin and accept myself for

Marilyn Monroe was born June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jean Baker. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when Monroe was only seven years old. With an absent father and a mother who was often institutionalized, the young girl was left to fend for herself in the foster care system. The demons of her past would haunt her until she took her life in 1962, at the age of thirty-six. Still, Marilyn Monroe goes down in history as one of the most influential females of her time. Her positive aura and smile charmed many people, and led her to the fame she has today.

Marilyn Monroe ,an American starlet, died August 5, 1962 from overdose. Her autopsy shows the proof. Norma Jean ,also known as Marilyn Monroe, was born June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She grew up moving from one foster home to another as well as moving families multiple times in her life. She had big dreams ahead of her and cherished becoming a big star and loved attention and spotlight ever since she was just a small girl. All through her life she never knew or heard from her father leaving her fatherless and doing anything to get male attention. She was known as a huge sex symbol and actress and was well known all over the world for her glamorous looks, style, iconic achievements, and huge movie roles.

Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, is known as the greatest American sex symbol of all time. Monroe had a very difficult childhood. She spent most of her days in foster care and orphanages, dealt with challenges such as not

Brought into this world in June of 1926 was a baby girl named Norma Jeane Mortenson, otherwise known as Marilyn Monroe. Her childhood was mostly spent in the orphanages and foster homes in California. This was a result of never

She was also often anxious and had moderate colds and coughs. Marilyn Monroe spent the majority of her early years living in a fictional world she created as an escape from reality. She sometimes told the other children in her orphanage eccentric tales about her having loving parents who had just went on a trip. Monroe would create fake postcards, she would sign from her parents to go along with her story (Spoto, 1993, p. 47). She had also managed to convince herself that Clark Gable was her father, although it was not a possibility (Spoto, 1993, p. 45; 54). After growing up in orphanages, Marilyn realized the only way to be released from the foster system was to get married. Marilyn Monroe decided to drop out of high school and marry her boyfriend at the time. Her first husband was a merchant marine by the name James Dougherty (Hendrickson, 2000). Dougherty was much older than Monroe who was then only sixteen years old. Although like the marriages to her other two husbands, Joe DeMaggio and Arthur Miller did not last for various reasons.

She has one of the most recognized faces in the world. Over forty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe‘s life and death is still in question. Her trademark platinum hair and beauty mark, her famous skirt-blowing scene, which eventually she became ashamed of because no one could see the woman who was intellectual had feelings and worked hard behind the glitter, the gold and the smiles. Everyone knew this Marilyn Monroe, but did anybody know Norma Jeane Baker? Marilyn Monroe was a Hollywood icon, maybe even a legend, but who was this luminous woman, and was the happy woman that everyone knew capable of killing herself?

Eventually, Mary would begin working outside the stage and take a risk in a more recently developed artform. Mary and her luxurious curls would begin working with D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Studio starting in 1909 as a biographer starring in films, rather than her upbringing of theatre. This job, along with future breakout roles in movies like Tess of the Storm Country and many others would propel Mary into the limelight in the eyes of many. She would become known by the public as “the biograph girl” or “the girl with the golden curls” along with many other nicknames and soon would become the most popular and highest paid actress in America and possibly the world. She also went on to be apart of forming the United Artists studio.

     Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926. Her mother’s name was Gladys Baker Mortensen. Baker being the name of her other two children and Mortensen the name of her last husband who disappeared just months after their marriage in 1924. Although Edward Mortensen was Gladys’ husband at the time of Norma’s birth, he was not her father. No one knows for sure who her father was, but it was believed that it was Gladys’ lover C. Stanley Gifford .