Norma Jeane Mortenson and Marilyn Monroe She was a very Intelligent and achieving person that was born on June 1, 1926, she didn't know who her father was and her mother Gladys Baker Mortenson had left her in an orphanage when she was 5 years old lived in Los Angeles, California. Gladys Baker Mortenson had named her Norma Jeane Mortenson. In 1937 Gladys Baker Mortenson had paid a family friend and her husband, Grace and Doc Goddard to take care of Norma and to raise her. she would pay them $25 weekly. But when Doc’s job had to be transferred in 1942 to East Coast they couldn’t bring her with them. When Norma would ask them for anything they would say no like for instance if she asked permission to go to the movies they wouldn’t let her. Norma’s …show more content…
She only had two choices, either to get married or to stay in foster homes and orphanages and her option was to get married to Jimmy Dougherty when she was sixteen years old on June 19, 1942.
At the age of fifteen Norma had dropped out from school. When the days and months were passing by she had gotten divorced from Dougherty the same year that Marilyn had signed her first movie contract because she was more focus on the career of her dreams that she had been dreaming about since she was little in becoming a famous actress just like Jean Harlow and Lana Turner, and her husband didn’t like the fact that she was becoming a scarlet, “ You have been more interested in your career lately rather than our marriage.” Dougherty said “It's a career that I have always wanted since I was little.” Marilyn
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she explained to him why she was taking them and said, “ I'm taking them because sometimes I get Headaches and I take the sleeping pills so I wouldn’t feel the pain when I would sleep.” Later Monroe was being dismissed from the days that she had been absent when she had to work on a movie film called “Something’s got to give” and they were due to illnesses that she supposably had.
Marilyn got sued for breach of contract from the 20th Century fox that she has not been going to work on her filming they tried contacting her but no responses from her in any way no address no nothing.
On August 5th, 1962 their laid Marilyn’s death in her home which was in Los Angeles California. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was laying next to her where she was laid also. Everyone started talking about her and everyone was surprised by her death.
Monroe didn't own a house until the last year of her life. Today she is still considered as the world's most popular and famous and amazingly woman that achieved in her dreams without anyone helping her out, there's been a lot of admiration for Marilyn Monroe and there's a lot of people that just want to be like
Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Baker on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital, to Gladys Baker. Gladys had been a film cutter at RKO studios, but psychological problems prevented her from keeping the job and she was eventually committed to a mental institution, because of that Norma Jean spent time in foster homes until she was 16 years of age. As an unlucky soul, Marilyn focused on her dreams of becoming a movie star. Being born and raised to a custom of fame and fortune in
These titles may sound flattering to some, and maybe at times she enjoyed them. But her restrictive Hollywood image only seemed to add to her insecurity and troubles. The sexual glorification of Monroe stems from the constant exploitation that she has described from her earlier days in the business. While she both despised and played to this, “Marilyn Monroe would resent being typecast as a not-too-smart sex symbol and would fight a very hard but ultimately losing battle to get the public to believe that she was smarter (and less man-hungry) than the women she portrayed on the silver screen” ("Ten Things You Might Not Know About Marilyn Monroe.”). But why did a part of her also accept this? Why did she have this overwhelming need to satisfy the same people who held her down? She feared disappointing the public who put her on this pedestal and seeming imperfect. She was said to wash her face up to 15 times a day in fear of blemishes and sweat ("Marilyn's Beauty and Style."), and at the 1950s Academy Awards, she burst into tears. It seems that she failed to give herself the love and appreciation that she needed. As a result, she mistakenly turned to the camera for
There is no actual confirmation besides untrustworthy gossip that Marilyn Monroe succeeded past those attempted phone calls. Her calls to Washington were never accepted, she was always sent to voicemail. Even if it were true; if she did manage to make contact and had an affair with either/both of the Kennedy’s, her autopsy report negates any sort of foul play. Expert medical examiner Dr. Judy Melinek confirms that Monroe’s autopsy aligns with the signs of self-induced overdosed. Any sort of needle or forced injection would have been spotted by the coroner immediately, “If drugs are injected by a needle you can typically see a needle puncture mark in the location of the injection, and this would be more likely to be visible if they were injected against the will of the person, as they would be fighting/resisting” (Melinek, 2018). Dr. Melinek also points out that it would be quite normal that no residue from the medication would have been found in Monroe’s stomach if enough time between her death and her arrival to the morgue had passed, “The absence of residue found in the stomach does not mean the drugs were not ingested. Drugs are designed to dissolve in the fluid and acidic stomach contents and no residue would be detected within several hours of ingestion” (Melinek, 2018). With this expert testimony confirming Marilyn Monroe’s autopsy reports as legitimate leaves the official cause of death by possible suicide by overdose as
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.
Remembered as the elegant blond red-lipped bombshell iconic singer, actress and sex symbol of the 1950s. Her talent and legacy is still carried on by her highly legendary pop painting by Andy Warhol and influential flying skirt photos. But some remember her tragic death the most. Her name was Marilyn Monroe. She was only 36 when she was found face down dead in her Los Angeles home on August 5th 1962. The official coronas report stated that Hollywood’s face had gone through a probable suicide by swallowing 40 barbiturates which caused her stomach line to haemorrhage intensely enough that she couldn’t last long enough for the ambulance to arrive. But was this the full story? Multiple voices including Clemens the first police officer in the scene
Marilyn Monroe, whose real name is Norma Jeane Mortenson, was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She was American actress, singer and model. She also was one of the most famous movie star, the sex symbols and pop icons of the 20th century. Despite her an unhappy, difficult childhood she got succeed during her short life period. She worked minor roles for years. Then, she showed her comedy ability, appearance on television and attraction with films. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch are some examples of these films. Her success and these films provided her to be the most popular film actress in 1950s
Marilyn started off being in movies but she was never really the “star” of the film until 1953 when the movie Niagara came out. This movie is a very drama filled film. In this film Marilyn “Rose” is on a trip to Niagara Falls with her older husband George, they meet another couple there, Polly and Ray. Once they get to know each other Polly thinks Ray and Rose have something going on between them. In the end Ray and Rose were planning on killing Rose’s husband George. This was Marilyn’s biggest movie that made her popular. In the same year Marilyn starred in a movie called Gentleman Prefer Blondes. This film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. This is a big accomplishment not just for the movie but also for Marilyn as a person. Marilyn Monroe was not just a star in movies, she also was the first Playboy Playmate in 1953.
After her lead roles in “The Seven Year Itch” and “There’s no Business like Show Business”, her work began to slow down due to undergoing psychoanalysis. But in 1956 she was in the film “Bus Stop” which critics praised her performance in. That same year, she married Arthur Miller and divorced him in 1960. Throughout that time in her life she abused alcohol, pills, and suffered from 2 miscarriages. Marilyn was slowly disintegrating. She would show up late on set while filming movies and was even fired from what was supposed to be her last film “Something’s Got to Give”. The movie never was released because of this.
Her first in a long list of achievements was when she became a very successful pinup girl. After a few years this would eventually lead to Twentieth Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures asking her to star in movies for them. From there she starred in a few minor films. These were the movies that made her a popular actress among different studios and the general public. However when rumors started to float around that she had posed nude in front of cameras before she became an actress the interest level started to rise. Yet strangely enough it did not turn people away instead it drew them in even more than they already were. She starred in everything from comedies to movies that focused on her sex appeal, thus giving her a plethora of movies that she could chose to be in. Although in 1954 she had refused to take a role in one movie and as a result, she had been suspended from Fox Movies for a period of time. However when Marilyn returned, she starred in one of the biggest box office films of her career, The Seven Year Itch. Throughout her entire acting career, she struggled with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. This ultimately leads to her death on August 5, 1962 at the age of
As Monroe’s career drug on she lit up every screen that she was on, becoming one of the most famous actresses of her time. She had over thirty well known movies and was continuing to work on more serious roles. In the 40’s 50’s and 60’s women were just stepping out into the business world, going from house wife to working girl. It was the time in which beauty couldn’t have brains in the media’s eyes. Marilyn was put into the stereotypical box of beauty without brains because of all the flirtatious dumb blonde roles that she had played. Though through the later years of her life she was trying to claw her way out of that box because nobody took her seriously. She had said she would never regret the roles she had taken because they got her to the high point in her life that she was at. She had commented, “In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.”
She was pretty all right and graced the covers of thirty-three magazines in 1945. When her husband returned from war in 1946, he found that there was no room for him and his wife divorced him in Reno in June of 1946. That same year she began doing pin-up and cheesecake pictures for covers of magazines. She had a photo session with Andre de Dienes and he asked Norma Jeane to marry him, but she was recently divorced, free, and independent. Nevertheless, he got her on covers of major magazines. Shortly after this, in July 1946, she got a short contract with Twentieth Century-Fox. Then she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn for the musical star Marilyn Miller and Monroe from her mother’s maiden name.
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom from a possible overdose on August 5, 1962. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. When she was younger; her mom was emotionally unstable and was frequently confined to an asylum, so Marilyn was reared by a succession of foster parents and
Marilyn was exchanged from caregiver to caregiver so much that she began to take on different characteristics from them. She produced a slight British accent after one of the foster parents were from England and up until the day she died if one listened closely enough the articulation could be detected (Banner 25). It was also in one of these orphanages, Marilyn Monroe was the subject of sexual abuse. However, the whole story was never divulged by Marilyn, only mentioned in bits and pieces. Through extensive research, sources calculate this to have occurred at the end of 1933 (Banner 53). Allegedly, this abuse was inflicted by Doc Goddard or George Atkinson, tenants of one of the foster homes Marilyn was housed at. This incident caused Marilyn to stutter terrible and, in order to overcompensate for this, start to speak in a soft voice and adopt gentle mannerisms (Banner 54). Shortly after, Marilyn Monroe's mother took her back under her own care. However, this was a brief reconciliation. It is said that Marilyn confessed her sexual assault to her mother. This was too much for Glady Bakers fragile mindset and, at the beginning of 1934. She suffered from a severe mental breakdown that she never recovered from (Banner
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
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