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Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe

12 events | No comments | 1. June 1926 - 5. August 1962

1926-06-01

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson

Actress. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson (later baptized as Norma Jeane Baker) on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. During her all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become of the world's biggest and most enduring sex...

1. June 1926

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1933-08-01

Childhood

1933 she moves from the Bolenders (foster family, Albert and Ida Bolender) back to her mother. They moved with her mother to 6812 Arbol Drive and Norma attends Selma Avenue Elementary School...

1. August 1933

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1935-08-01

Moving from place to place

Norma oves in with newlyweds Grace McKee and Ervin Goddard in a bungalow on Odessa Street in Van Nuys. Ervin's real daughter, Nona Jeannette, will become Columbia actress Jody Lawrence. Later Jody will describe Marilyn as a neurotic child who clammed...

1. August 1935

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1939-08-01

End of childhood

Norma is sent to live with Ida Martin, the mother of her aunt, in Compton, California. In that time she starts dating regularly. And allegedly her son was born in 1940 born. She gives him up for adoption...

1. August 1939

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1942-06-19

Running from life in foster care

She wed her boyfriend Jimmy Dougherty on June 19, 1942. She joins her husband on Catalina Island, where he becomes supervisor at a boat camp. A merchant marine, Dougherty was later sent to the South Pacific...

19. June 1942

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1946-08-01

First movie contract

Her marriage fizzled out as Monroe focused more on her career. The couple divorced in 1946—the same year she signed her first movie contract. With the movie contract came a new name and image, she began calling herself "Marilyn Monroe" and dyed her...

1. August 1946

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1953-08-01

Becoming an international star

In 1953, Monroe made a star-making turn in Niagara, starring as a young married woman out to kill her husband with help from her lover. The emerging sex symbol was paired with another bombshell, Jane Russell, for the musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer...

1. August 1953

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1956-08-01

The Actors' Studio.

Tired of bubbly, dumb blonde roles, Monroe moved to New York City to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio. She returned to the screen in the dramatic comedy Bus Stop (1956), playing a saloon singer kidnapped by a rancher who has...

1. August 1956

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1959-08-01

Best Actress in a Comedy

In 1959, Monroe returned to familiar territory with the wildly popular comedy Some Like It Hot, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis She played Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, a singer who hopes to marry a millionaire in this humorous film, in which Lemmon and...

1. August 1959

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1961-08-01

Last completed film.

Reunited with John Huston, Monroe starred opposite Clark Cable and Montgomery Clift in The Misfits (1961). Set in Nevada, this adventure drama features Monroe, who falls for Gable's cowboy but battles him over the fate of some wild mustangs...

1. August 1961

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1962-05-19

Professional and personal life in turmoil and "Happy Birthday Mr. President"

In 1962, Monroe was dismissed from Something's Got to Give—also starring Dean Martin—for missing so many days of filming. According to an article in The New York Times, the actress claimed that the absences were due to illness...

19. May 1962

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1962-08-05

Death

On August 5, 1962, at only 36 years old, Marilyn Monroe died at her Los Angeles home. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was found by her bed. There has been some speculation over the years that she may have been murdered, but the cause of her death was...

5. August 1962

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