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12305 5th Helena Dr. is a home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. The house is most famous as the only residence Marilyn Monroe ever owned, and the location of her death on August 4, 1962. [ 1 ]
[8] [a] Later in 1961, she moved back to Los Angeles after six years in Manhattan; she purchased a Spanish hacienda-style house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood. [10] In early 1962, she received a "World Film Favorite" Golden Globe award and began to shoot a new film, Something's Got to Give, a remake of My Favorite Wife (1940). [11]
Margot Patricia "Pat" Newcomb was born on July 9, 1930, in Washington, D.C. She grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland.Her mother, Lillian Levie (1906–2000) was a social worker and married Carman A. Newcomb Jr. (1898–1978) in 1929, [1] who was the son of U.S. House Representative Carman A. Newcomb and an American lawyer.
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe is a 2015 American biographical drama miniseries on Marilyn Monroe.It stars Kelli Garner, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Eva Amurri Martino and was first aired on Lifetime on May 30 and 31, 2015.
Marilyn: Norma Jean is a biography of Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Baker) by feminist Gloria Steinem.Published in 1988, the book features pictures by photographer George Barris and thus evokes Norman Mailer's 1973 controversial biography Marilyn that also essentially is a long essay on Monroe added to a book of photographs.
Margot A. Henriksen, her biographer with the American National Biography, considers the typecast "an unfair stereotype that bothered her throughout her career". [2] Her major breakthrough came in 1953, when she starred in three pictures: the film noir Niagara, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire.
Marilyn Monroe took a fatal overdose of Nembutal at her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood in Los Angeles, apparently at some point between a 7:15 p.m. phone call from her former stepson, Joe DiMaggio Jr. and a 7:30 p.m. call from actor Peter Lawford.
James Edward "Jim" Dougherty was born on April 12, 1921, in Torrance, California. He was the fifth and final child of Edward and Ethel Dougherty (née Beatty), natives of Pueblo, Colorado. [1] [better source needed] After moving to Globe, Arizona, the family suffered from the Great Depression, living in a tent. [2]