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Marilyn Monroe

Her real name is Norma Jean Baker Mortenson. (born June 1, 1926 - died August 5, 1962)

Famous American film actress. The performer of the roles of sexy beauties in westerns, melodramatic and comedy films.

American sex star of the 50s.

Winner of honorary awards: three Golden Globe prizes (1953, 1960, 1962), the Donatello David Prize, the Crystal Star Prize.

Founder of the film company Marilyn Monroe Productions.

“When you are a celebrity, you kind of break into the souls of people in the most rude way ... The people you influence feel this and ask themselves: who is she, or rather, who does she pretend to be, this Marilyn Monroe? It's nice when God knows what is imagined about you, but sometimes you want to be perceived for who you are, ”said Marilyn in her last interview. For millions of viewers, Marilyn Monroe was a legend, a dream girl created in a "dream factory". Looking at her heroines, it is hard to imagine that this Hollywood goddess, like all people on earth, was endowed with the features of a real being.

Norma Jean Baker Mortenson was born in Los Angeles. Her mother, Gladys Monroe, worked as an assembler at a film studio, and by the time her daughter was born, she had already been married twice and had two children who were raised by her husband's relatives. It is not known who Norma's father was. On her birth certificate, he is listed as "Edward Mortenson". Indeed, two years before the birth of the girl, her mother was married to a Norwegian immigrant, a baker E. Mortenson. Despite the fact that Gladys recorded the child in his name, this paternity is highly questionable. In one of her interviews, the actress later admitted that her real father is “a man who lived with my mother in the same house. He left, leaving his mother at the moment when I was supposed to be born. It is possible that he was Stanley Gifford, who served at that time in the company "Consolidated Film Industries". As a child, Norma fantasized about the fact that in fact her father was the famous actor Clark Gable, with whom in the last months of her life she happened to star in the film The Misfits.

As soon as the girl was 7 years old, her mother, who experienced the deepest depression, which was replaced by outbursts of unbridled rage, ended up in a psychiatric clinic. According to eyewitnesses, Gladys attacked her friend with a knife, after which she was placed for treatment. For almost the entire life of Norma, her mother was in the walls of the hospital. The childhood years of the future actress are a time of uncertainty and abandonment. The girl changed ten foster parents, spent two years in an orphanage in Los Angeles, then lived in another family that sheltered her, and finally, for four years, with her guardian Grace McKee, appointed to her by the district authorities.

As soon as the girl turned 16, the guardian married her pupil to a neighbor's son, 21-year-old Jim Dagherty. A year after the start of family life, Dagherty went to serve in the merchant navy. And while he sailed the waters of the Pacific Ocean, his young wife checked the parachutes and painted the fuselages at the Radio Plain aircraft factory.

This continued until 1944, at the end of which fate gave Norma a chance to change her life. This happened when Private David Conover (his commander was Captain Ronald Reagan, the future President of the United States) appeared on Radio Plain to "take pictures of pretty girls to raise the morale of the soldiers." Some of these pictures, including the photo of Norma, ended up on the table of the Blue Book photo agency, where the girl was subsequently invited. Thus began her modeling career. Norma quickly achieved success, becoming a "magazine cover girl".

Soon her 4-year marriage to Jim Dagherty broke up, and Norma moved to Hollywood, where she began an independent life. At this time, she received what she then dreamed of more than anything else - a promise to sign a contract at the 20th Century Fox film studio, where she was taken as an extra and where she was given a beautiful new name - Marilyn Monroe.

For the first time, Marilyn appears on the screen in an episode of the film "Dangerous Years", after that, among 12 extras - in the film "Skudda-ho! Skudda-hey! (1947). There were no real roles yet, but Marilyn tirelessly made her way to them. She studied at the Actor's Laboratory and the Theater School, in addition, she constantly made sure that she was not forgotten by advertising and press workers. A few years later, Marilyn will say: “I know how ordinary I was. I almost physically felt the lack of talent in myself ... But my God, how I wanted to learn! Change for the better! I didn't need anything else. No men, no money, no love, just the ability to play. Marilyn did not give up when she was fired from 20th Century Fox a year later and continued to study at the Actors Lab, paying for them from the money she received for her work as a fashion model and, probably, from the income she had working as a call girl.

Soon fate brought her to actor John Carroll and his wife Lucil Ryman, Director of Human Resources at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. Thanks to them, Marilyn got a role in the movie The Asphalt Jungle (1950). It was her first role in a truly significant film. And yet Marilyn did not get the job she dreamed of. Even having signed a seven-year contract with the 20th Century Fox studio, Marilyn was content with only small roles in one-day films. For the directors, she remained, first of all, a sexy beauty, and none of those who invited her to act in film saw or wanted to see her as an actress and personality. Once the famous Russian actor Mikhail Chekhov, the nephew of the writer and student of Stanislavsky, from whom the young woman took acting lessons, told her: “...Now I understand your problems at the studio, Marilyn. You are a young woman who, no matter what she does or feels, has a sexy vibe to her. Your bosses at the studio are not interested in anything but this. And I understand why they refuse to see you as an actress. You are of great value to them as a sexual stimulus. To which Marilyn replied: “I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid sex enhancer. For the first few years, that suited me just fine. But a lot has changed now." But only once Marilyn will really be able to go beyond her usual role of a sexy charming blonde - in her last film in her life, The Misfits (1961). And although few people thought that it turned out, everyone was struck by the game of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. Many years later, Arthur Miller said: "In The Misfits, her performance as a dramatic actress was incomparable, but I'm not sure that the result was worth all this anguish, all this suffering." But so far, this was far away, and Marilyn for a long time only receives invitations to participate in another melodrama or comedy, where she is assigned the role of a seductive and stupid beauty: “Love Nest”, “There is no better business than show business” (1954). ), "The Seven Year Itch", "The Prince and the Chorus Girl" (1957) and others.

Marilyn got a chance to play for real in the film How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). She had to star with such stars as Betty Grable, the reigning queen of Hollywood, and Lauren Baycall in a chic comedy about three fashion models who decided to lasso rich husbands. Critics praised the picture as an unprecedented success. And in 1956, the film "Bus Stop" was released, which became the birth of Marilyn as a movie star. New York Times critic Bosley Crowther said after watching it that Marilyn "finally proved she is an actress", "her performance in this picture shows that she is a real acting star, and not just a sex symbol and a chic little thing, which I have heard so far."

Long before the critics recognized her, the audience made their verdict - Marilyn became the living embodiment of the "American dream", her photographs sold in millions of copies, and the smallest details about her personal life aroused unprecedented interest. The newspaper hype around her name especially intensified when, in 1954, she became the wife of baseball king Joe DiMaggio. This man played a very important role in the life of the actress, even after the divorce, he always came to the aid of his ex-wife. Joe could not forget Marilyn and sent her flowers every week, and then continued to bring them to her grave until his death. Joe Maggio was Marilyn's only companion who came to see her off on her last journey.

Significant for her was also her marriage to the famous American playwright Arthur Miller. This is the longest marriage of the actress, which lasted 5 years, unfortunately, also did not bring her happiness. A woman who became a symbol of love, constantly surrounded by admirers, remained unimaginably lonely in her life. Her dream of marriage with a single man and motherhood remained a dream. The longing for the unborn children led Marilyn to spend a lot of time and money on charity and helping orphanages. Director Joshua Logan later said, "I get sobs when I really think about her, I don't think she's had two days of happiness or satisfaction in her life, except for the time she worked."

The tragedy of Marilyn Monroe was also that, according to many people who knew her closely, she constantly lost herself as a person. D. Logan believed that the actress "will become the greatest star we have ever had if she can manage her emotions and health." But knowing the bitter pages of her family tree (Marilyn's grandfather Otis Monroe and her grandmother Della suffered from mental illness), she feared that she was doomed to mental breakdown. Suffering from chronic insomnia, the actress took a huge amount of barbiturates and narcotic drugs, sometimes mixing them with alcohol. Feeling endlessly alone, more and more often Marilyn gave in to her desire to call someone in the dead of night or before dawn, thoughts of death often visited her. According to the testimonies of close people, she tried to commit suicide several times. From the age of 28, the actress constantly needed the help of a psychiatrist. All this could not but affect the shooting - directors and film partners needed tremendous patience to work with Marilyn. Her behavior on the set of Some Like It Hot (1959) (in our box office Only the Girls in Jazz) was beyond anything that could be expected. If the shooting was scheduled for lunchtime, the actress appeared at six o'clock. Director Billy Wilder, recalling the work on this picture, said that “it was difficult with Marilyn because she is completely unpredictable ... I was always nervous: in what mood will she come today? .. Maybe she will break down, and we will not be able to shoot frame? That was the crux of the problem."

Her constant lateness to the shooting, whims, complex nature contributed to the fact that she had many ill-wishers, including in Hollywood. Not everyone was ready to admit that it was Marilyn Monroe who achieved a change in the system, according to which film studios kept actors in slavery, paying them meager amounts, regardless of the box office success of the film. The current fabulous fees of the stars are to some extent the merit of Marilyn, who achieved a free contract for herself and became the first of the stars to establish her own film company, Marilyn Monroe Productions.

Being a hodgepodge of feelings and moods, Marilyn did not fit into the usual norms and standards. Those who sought to learn more about her and tried to understand her views, interests, acting talent and hobbies encountered a confusing tangle of contradictions. Some said that she was a great actress who died in the prime of her life, others that she did not know how to play at all, and each scene with her participation had to be re-shot dozens of times. Monroe is called a nymphomaniac who had a huge number of lovers, including directors of major film studios, famous actors, athletes, mafiosi, and at the same time describe how Marilyn suffered and tried to commit suicide after the death of Hollywood impresario Johnny Hyde, who was in love with her. She was ready to do anything for the sake of money and at the same time willingly helped those in need and generously gave gifts to friends.

Henry James wrote about Marilyn: “... she is not so easy to comprehend. You can visualize her, more clearly than anyone else, but sooner or later you begin to understand that this does not mean knowing her. She was a mystery in life, the tragic circumstances of her death have further lowered the veil over the mystery called Marilyn Monroe. The official announcement of her death appeared on August 5, 1962. There are several versions about the cause of the death of the actress: one of them is suicide caused by a lethal dose of Nembutal, the other is a tragic mistake, as a result of which Marilyn overestimated her susceptibility to the medicine and took too many pills. There is also an assumption that the lethal dose of Marilyn was administered with premeditated intent. First of all, the version of the murder is associated with the name of the Kennedy brothers, about whom the actress, and especially her notorious red diary, knew too much, as a result of which the Kennedys hurried to get rid of Marilyn. Be that as it may, in fact, the circumstances of Marilyn's death are still classified. What really happened on that tragic night? Who and what did in those fateful hours? The answers to these questions are very streamlined and it is unlikely that one will ever be able to establish the truth.

She has been gone for a long time, and the elusive, crumbling and at the same time such a visible image of the actress still excites the hearts of people. The audience does not care what the magical charm of this extraordinary and at the same time such an earthly woman was connected with - with an amazing intuitive ability to combine seduction and innocence, with her acting talent and skill, or with "her uncertainty, unhappiness and somnambulistic procession through life" . The important thing is that for more than half a century, her existence on the screen and outside of it excites and electrifies, makes you cry and laugh. What Marilyn Monroe achieved in her life, she got not only through sex, as is commonly believed, but also through hard work and inherent brilliance, which comes from her even in the most empty films.

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Marilyn Monroe, also known as Norma Jean Mortenson (real name) and Norma Jean Baker (baptismal name), was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles. She was an actress, singer, and also a sex symbol of the 1950s. She was desired by every man, was a role model for women, many people knew the filmography of Marilyn Monroe by heart, and various film companies invited her to act in films for huge fees.

Real name: Norma Jean Mortenson
Years of life: 07/01/1926 - 08/05/1962
Zodiac sign: Cancer
Height: 166 centimeters
Weight: 56 kilograms
Waist and hips: 58 and 91 centimeters
Shoe size: 38 (EUR)
Eyes and hair color: Blue, blonde.

As mentioned above, Norma was born in Los Angeles. The name of the girl's mother is Gladys Pearl Baker (before her marriage she bore the surname Monroe), was born in Mexico and was a film editor. Gladys' parents were from Europe: her mother, Marilyn's grandmother, was originally from Ireland (Della Monroe), and her grandfather was from Scotland (Otis Monroe).

Nothing is known about Marilyn Monroe's biological father. It can only be noted that her mother was married to Martin Edward Mortenson, so he was recorded on the birth certificate. Gladys and Martin were already a broken couple, but they were not officially divorced, because the mother of the future sex symbol had so many lovers.

In general, there is a lot of discussion about who was the father of Marilyn Monroe. For example, in fact, Mortenson was Mortensen, and the surname was distorted due to an error in the documents when Martin emigrated from Norway.

Monroe herself said that her mother once in her childhood showed her a photograph of a certain Charles Stanley Gifford, who was a traveling salesman. The mother stated that the man was the biological father of the girl. In addition, Marilyn Monroe reported that outwardly this man in the photograph was very similar to Clark Gable, who was a sex symbol in the 30s, and also a famous movie star (he was called the "King of Hollywood").

In general, Monroe as a child was not at all a happy child and experienced a lot of grief. Her mother had financial problems as well as mental problems. Mental problems are a different story altogether. Monroe's grandfather died in a psychiatric hospital. Grandmother tried to strangle Marilyn in infancy, after which she went there too.

Marilyn Monroe was Gladys' third child. Because of the problems described above, she gave away the two-week-old Marilyn to her grandmother's neighbors, the Bolender family. The girl lived with them until the age of 7. And in the autumn of 1933, Gladys arrived and took her daughter to her. But just a couple of months after the move, Marilyn's mother began to have serious mental problems, as a result of which she ended up in a mental hospital in 1934. According to some versions, she went crazy because her daughter was raped by a partner. However, the reality of this story has not been confirmed.

After that, Marilyn Monroe lived with Grace McKee. This woman was a friend of her mother. A little later, McKee filed for guardianship of Monroe. Together with Grace, the girl began to go to the cinema and experiment with cosmetics, and then her guardian said that someday Marilyn would become a movie star.

Grace McKee married Erwin Goddard in 1935. Erwin worked intermittently and, in the end, the family had no money left to feed Marilyn. As a result, the girl ended up in an orphanage. She lived there for 2 years, after which Grace again took her to her. At the time, the family lived with Erwin's daughter from an ex-wife.

The quiet life did not last long. Soon, the stepfather, who was in a state of intoxication, attempted to rape 11-year-old Marilyn Monroe (or maybe raped), because of which Grace had to send Marilyn to Olivia Brunings, who was her great aunt. But there the girl was waiting for a repetition of the nightmare - Olivia's son tried to rape her. For this reason, Marilyn had to move again in 1938. Another aunt, Ani Lowe, became her new guardian.

As Marilyn Monroe herself said, the 4-year period of life with Ani Lowe was the calmest. Unfortunately, due to her aunt's health problems, the girl had to go back to Grace in 1942.

As soon as Marilyn moved back in with Grace, the family set out to move to the East Coast. Marilyn decided to choose a different path: she became the wife of James Dougherty, with whom she had an affair. She soon moved in with him and dropped out of school. By the way, Dougherty claimed that Marilyn Monroe was still a virgin at that time, which calls into question all the facts of rape.

A year after her marriage, Marilyn Monroe was forced to go to an aircraft factory, and her husband to the merchant marine. In 1945, a fateful event happened. At the factory where Monroe worked, an army photographer showed up, who, on behalf of the future US president, Ronald Reagan, took campaign photographs of women. After filming, this photographer offered Monroe to pose for a fee, and she agreed. It was after this event that Marilyn decides to quit her job at the factory and become a model.

Thus ended the youth of Marilyn Monroe. It was saturated, unfortunately, with negative events. But this is what led her to future worldwide fame.

Career

After Marilyn left the factory, she went to a modeling agency, and at the same time changed her image: she dyed her hair blonde (her native color is chestnut), and also straightened her hair (Marilyn Monroe was curly in her youth). Soon after, the girl began to gain popularity - her photographs appeared on the covers of many magazines.

And so, in 1946, she was taken as an extra in a film company. It was there that she became Monroe Marilyn. So she named herself after Marilyn Miller, a movie star of the 20s. Due to the desire to become an actress, a divorce from her husband occurred in the same year.

Marilyn Monroe gets her first role in 1947 (although she was very tiny) in the movie The Dangerous Years. The actress receives her first major role in 1948, in the film Chorus Girls. After that, she signed a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox, as well as one of several leading roles in the movie Asphalt Jungle.

According to some versions, she received a seven-year contract thanks to an affair with Johnny Hyde, who was a Hollywood agent. According to this version, Johnny gave Marilyn money for plastic surgery, and also convinced the film company to conclude a contract with the girl.

In addition, Marilyn did not stop working as a model. In 1949, she posed nude for the first time. It was a photo shoot for a calendar. In 1953, these photos were included in one of the first issues of Playboy magazine.

Marilyn Monroe was also given roles in "The Ladies of the Corps de Ballet" in 1949, "Thunderball" in 1950, "All About Eve" in the same year, "In the Hometown" in 1951, "We're Not Married" in 1952. Full filmography with Marilyn Monroe, in total, is 30 films (1947-1962).

The film company used Marilyn Monroe solely because of her external data. She always played the role of empty-headed, but charming girls. Naturally, Marilyn did not like this, which is why she enrolled in drama school, and also began taking art lessons from Mikhail Chekhov (nephew of Anton Chekhov, a Russian writer). More than once, the movie star has stated in interviews that she wants to take part in the filming of more serious works, but, unfortunately, her efforts were not paid attention, although many directors stated that Marilyn Monroe had undeniable talent.

Irrevocably in 1953, Marilyn Monroe was entrenched in her external image: blond hair, pale skin, dark eyebrows in the form of arches and a front sight on her left cheek. In the same image, she played in the noir “Niagara” (noir is a Hollywood crime drama of the era of the 40-50s, when pessimistic inclinations and oppression reigned in America after the war). There was a lot of hype about this film: many considered the film immoral, others considered it a masterpiece. But the fact that the film was incredibly popular remains.

In the same year, the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was released, where two sex symbols of those times played at once: Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The film's budget was $7 million. Fees also amounted to 12 million, that is, almost twice as much. The film was mega-popular, like the previous one.

And in the same 1953, another film with Marilyn was released - How to Marry a Millionaire. The film's budget was quite modest (almost $2 million), but the box office paid back the film by more than 4 times (they amounted to $8 million).

Marilyn Monroe continued to play the role of seductive silly, to her disappointment. Viewers point blank do not see her acting talent and skill. Everyone still associates her with Darling (“Only Girls in Jazz”), but this was the heyday of the film actress’s creativity ...

Marilyn Monroe's personal life

The actress has not been married for 8 years. It wasn't until 1954 that she got married to one of the best baseball players in history, Joe DiMaggio. However, Marilyn's newly-made husband was very jealous and, against this background, often raised his hand to the movie star. Because of all this, the marriage did not last long - they divorced in the same year (more precisely, this marriage lasted about 9 months). But, even despite all Joe's assault, he loved Monroe very dearly.

In 1950, Marilyn Monroe made an acquaintance with Arthur Miller, a playwright. After a short conversation, they had to part. Their new meeting took place in 1955, after which a romance breaks out, in 1956 they got married. This marriage turned out to be the longest of all that the star had, but not the happiest.

Monroe always wanted a man like Miller, but he considered her childish. In addition, Marilyn Monroe dreamed of having children, but she either failed to get pregnant, or the pregnancy was unsuccessful. Monroe and Miller separated in 1961.

There are also rumors of a romance between Monroe and John F. Kennedy, who was the President of the United States in 1961-1963. But they do not have official confirmation.

Did Monroe have children?

Despite the fact that Marilyn always wanted children, her career, as well as early abortions, did not allow her such luxury. As a result, children were a sore subject for Monroe. According to rumors, this may be due to the fact that at the age of 15, Monroe gave birth to a child due to rape and handed him over to a shelter. But this is hardly true.

Moreover, in 2000, a man appeared who called himself Joseph Kennedy. He claimed to be the son of Marilyn Monroe and Kennedy. However, it was just an impostor, because he demanded all the property left after the death of his "mother".

End of the road

It all started after Marilyn was unable to give birth to a child in marriage with Arthur Miller. In 1959, on the set of "Only Girls in Jazz", Monroe was completely glued. She was late for shooting, she didn’t remember the words, she had heaps of unsuccessful takes. Rumors spread that the actress began to go crazy, repeating the fate of her ancestors. But in the next 2 years the situation improved slightly. Unfortunately not for long.

In 1961, after the end of her marriage to Miller, Marilyn Monroe imprisoned at home, stopped eating and constantly used sleeping pills, and then drugs. The movie star began to fade. As a result, she ended up in a mental hospital in February of the same year, where she spent about a month.

The culmination of her work was the film "The Misfits". The actress was dying before our eyes: her hair became like straw, she could not get out of bed, she was hellishly absent-minded, her condition was almost comatose. Make-up artists had to put in a lot of effort to make her look like the same Marilyn Monroe.

By the way, in the film she played with Clark Gable, about whom it was written almost at the very beginning. This actor also did not have long - he heavily abused alcohol. This led to the fact that some time after the end of filming, Gable died.

And Marilyn also did not stay long ... After filming, she again ended up in a mental hospital. From there, Joe DiMaggio was able to pull her out, because only he, as already mentioned, truly loved Marilyn Monroe.

The actress had to star in another film, "Something's got to happen." The film was never completed, as Monroe hardly appeared on the set, and in total only 7 minutes of usable film was shot with her.

Marilyn's condition worsened ... The greatest sex symbol of the past century passed away in August 1962. Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her own home. She was only 36 years old. According to one version, the actress died from an overdose of sleeping pills. The causes of death are still unclear. There are 3 versions of her death: suicide, murder, and suicide by accident. And according to one version of the murder, Marilyn Monroe was eliminated by Kennedy's agents so that her connections with the US president would not be revealed.

Of all the husbands who came to the funeral of Marilyn Monroe, the only one was Joe DiMaggio. This man was sincerely devoted to the great film actress, who will remain alive in the hearts of people for many decades to come.

Marilyn Monroe was born June 1, 1926. She lived only 36 years, but during this time she managed to win fans around the world. And although sometimes it seems that everything is known about her, every now and then unexpected and very interesting facts from her life pop up.

1 Norma Jean Baker's First Marriage Was Arranged

For much of her childhood, Norma Jean Baker (this is Marilyn's real name) lived with foster families, in state-run shelters, and under the care of various family friends. She never knew her father and her mother was committed to a psychiatric hospital. 15-year-old Baker lived with a friend, Grace Goddard, but when the Goddards decided to move to West Virginia, they found they couldn't take Baker with them. If the girl had not married, she would have been returned to the orphanage again.

So they proposed to 20-year-old James Dougherty, who lived next door, to marry Norma. "I thought she was too young," Dougherty later revealed, "but we talked and got along really well." They got married just 18 days after Norma turned 16.

2. She often referred to the name "Marilyn Monroe" in the third person.

Actor Eli Wallach once recalled that Monroe seemed to "turn Marilyn on and off at will". One evening he walked with her along Broadway, and no one recognized the actress. But literally a minute later a whole crowd of fans gathered around her. “I just wanted to be Marilyn for a minute,” Wallach recalls. Photographer Sam Shaw often heard Norma criticize Marilyn’s performances in films or photo shoots, commenting something like this: “She wouldn’t do it. Marilyn would say that."

3 Truman Capote Wanted Marilyn Monroe To Play The Role Of Holly Golightly

Truman Capote wanted Monroe to star in the film adaptation of his novel Breakfast at Tiffany's, arguing that she was perfect for the part. In the end, Marilyn refused (she was dissuaded by Paula Strasberg, who believed that Marilyn should not play such a role). In any case, Capote was not happy with Audrey Hepburn, who was chosen by the studio.

4. "Monroe" is her mother's maiden name

When Norma Jean Baker started acting, she took her mother's maiden name. In her autobiography, Monroe said she was told that she was somehow related to President James Monroe, but no evidence was found to support this. The name "Marilyn" was suggested by a studio executive who thought Norma looked like Marilyn Miller, an actress who died at the age of 37 (interestingly, Monroe herself was 36 when she died).

5. Marilyn Monroe had a thing about smart people.

Her marriage to writer Arthur Miller probably already suggests this, but there is actually more evidence. Monroe once shared a room with actress Shelley Winters, who said they made lists of men they wanted to sleep with as a joke. “There was no one under 50 on her list,” Winters later said. “I never asked her how many candidates from her list she managed to win over, but among the people who attracted her the most was Albert Einstein.”

6 Monroe Couldn't Cook

Winters said she once asked the actress to wash a salad for lunch. When she entered the kitchen, she found that Monroe was washing each lettuce leaf with a dish sponge.

7. But still learned

Some of Monroe's recipes were only discovered after her death. In 2010, journalists from The New York Times tried to make her a recipe for minced meat, which the actress cooked for Thanksgiving. They found this recipe surprisingly complex and suggested that "Monroe not only cooked, but did it pretty well."

8. Marilyn Monroe loved to read.

Monroe's book collection was extremely impressive. At the time of her death, she owned over 400 volumes, including several unique first editions of various books. Among the many thousands of her photographs, the actress especially loved those in which she was depicted reading.

9 Marilyn Monroe Helped Ella Fitzgerald Get A Job At The Mocambo Club

It has long been rumored that Ella Fitzgerald was initially rejected from performing at Mocambo due to her being black. Marilyn Monroe, who was her fan, arranged with the owner of the nightclub Charlie Morrison to sign a contract with Ella, promising in return to visit the institution every night, thereby guaranteeing a huge number of journalists in the club. Morrison agreed, and Monroe kept her word.

10. Marilyn Monroe had a hard time remembering lyrics.

"The irony was that she couldn't connect the two sentences," said Don Murray, an actor who co-starred with Monroe in the 1956 film Bus Stop. While some attributed this to a lack of professionalism, others, including Murray, thought it was due to nerves.

11. Marilyn Monroe's wardrobe cost crazy money.

The sequined dress Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday" in 1962 cost $1,267,500 and set the world record for the most expensive garment in the world. It was purchased by a collection company. The famous dress from The Seven Year Itch also set a record - it was sold in 2011 for $4.6 million.

12. Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were only married for 8 months.

Although their romance became infamous, Monroe was married to second husband Joe DiMaggio for only 274 days. Although many reasons contributed to their divorce, it was believed that the famous "subway scene" in "The Seven Year Itch" (with Marilyn's white dress hem soaring up) was the last straw. The scene was filmed in front of a large crowd of journalists and onlookers, and DiMaggio got angry about it. Shortly thereafter, Monroe filed for divorce on the grounds of "psychological cruelty." And the most ironic thing was that the scene was declared unusable due to the noise of the crowd and had to be re-shot in a closed studio.

13. Despite the divorce, DiMaggio remained faithful to Marilyn

DiMaggio continued to stay close to Marilyn and always helped her. Shortly before her death, DiMaggio told friends that they were going to get married again. When Marilyn died, he organized her funeral without letting almost anyone in. After that, he brought roses to her grave twice a week for 20 years.

14. Monroe's grave

Monroe was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. The crypt in which she was buried was originally owned by DiMaggio, but he sold it when they divorced. The buyer was Richard Poncher, a fan who asked to be buried face down over Monroe's sarcophagus so he could "stare at her for ages". In 2009, Ponter's widow put the property up for sale on eBay for a whopping $4.6 million.

Biography of Marilyn Monroe. Childhood. 1926 - 1933 years.

Name: Marilyn Monroe

original name: Marilyn Monroe

By the age of twenty-four, Gladys had been married and divorced twice. So she gave birth to Marilyn, being completely free from marital obligations. During this time, she had many affairs and, most likely, it was for this reason that no one ever found out the name of Marilyn's father.

By the time Marilyn was born, her half-brother and sister had been living with their father for several years. Marilyn never saw her half-brother, he died at the age of fifteen, and she will see her sister for the first time when she is 12 years old.

Since her birth, Marilyn never knew a happy family life, although she was supervised, shod, dressed and did not starve all her childhood.

At the age of two weeks, her mother gave her up to the foster family of the Bolenders and only occasionally took her away for the weekend to go to the beach or take the girl to the movies.

Until the age of seven, Norma, the star had such a name from birth, lived in such a family-type orphanage.

Usually, the Borlenders had five or six children at the same time, so the star's childhood passed in strictness and order. In addition, the Bolenders were very pious, which determined the Puritan way of the family.

Della, Norma's grandmother, lived in the house across from the Bolenders. Once Della came to the Bolendars to visit her granddaughter, the door was closed and she broke the glass in order to enter the house. The Bolenders who returned home called the police. Based on this incident and another story by Marilyn that allegedly at the age of one, Della tried to strangle her with a pillow, there is an opinion that Monroe's grandmother was crazy.

However, Della's medical record, from the hospital where she died at the age of 51 from heart failure, does not contain a single record of her insanity, moreover, she never even turned to a neurologist or psychiatrist. So the stories about the generic madness of the Marilyn family are most likely the inventions of reporters with the tacit consent of the star to raise the interest of viewers and readers in the person of Marilyn Monroe. In terms of the madness of the Monroe family, it is enough to recall her great-grandfather, who hanged himself at the age of 82, and his grandfather, who died at the age of 43 with signs of insanity.

In order not to pay attention to these cases, it is enough to understand how this happened.

Monroe's grandfather hanged himself after being bankrupt in anticipation of the confiscation of the farm, and the father's insanity was caused by a special syphilis virus, so there was no curse and generic insanity.

The only one in the Monroe family who really spent many years in psychiatric hospitals is Monroe's mother, Gladys, who managed to get married again between treatment in clinics, and even in the photographs of 1946 she does not look mentally ill.

Even Monroe herself doubted her mother's insanity, although she paid for her treatment all her life.

Whatever it was, Marilyn, aka Norma, lived with her mother for only a year.

It was at the age of seven, when Gladys took her away from the Bolenders, bought a house on installments and sent the girl to school.

At this time, Marilyn's mother led a rather cheerful and dissolute life, changing gentlemen and drinking in the company of her walking friend Gladys.

Real name Marilyn Monroe

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