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Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ / MARR-ə-lin mən-ROH; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution.
Gladys Pearl Monroe was born on May 27, 1902, [b] in Porfirio Díaz (now named Piedras Negras, Coahuila) in Mexico, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.Her mother, Della Mae Monroe (née Hogan), was born in Missouri [2] [3] and she was from Bentonville, Arkansas, and her father, Otis Elmer Monroe, was a house painter from Indianapolis.
At the same time, Mortenson began a modeling career and became an actress under the stage name Marilyn Monroe. She remained in contact with her sister, who visited her in 1961 in her New York home after Monroe divorced her third husband, Arthur Miller, and had undergone surgery for her cholecystectomy. [11]
In the immortal words of Tracee Ellis Ross, Marilyn Monroe had a ~wheel of lovers~, aka three marriages and a bunch of boyfriends dotted in between. But like many romance matters, the ...
Label News has just wrapped the production of “Marilyn, Her Final Secret,” an investigative documentary shedding light on the identity of Marilyn Monroe’s biological father whom she never met.
Around this time, Dougherty met 15-year-old Norma Jeane Baker (later known as Marilyn Monroe) at Van Nuys High School. [7] [8] Monroe was living with her foster parents, Dougherty's neighbors named Grace and Doc Goddard, as her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, had been committed to a sanatorium for paranoid schizophrenia in 1934. [9]
Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate the world more than 61 years after her death in 1962, and her life is once again taking over the big screen in the film, Blonde, starring Ana de Armas.
Sinatra met Marilyn Monroe in 1954 (while he was still married to Ava Gardner, although some sources say that Sinatra and Monroe first met several years earlier) and was a friend of Monroe's second husband Joe DiMaggio, and after DiMaggio and Monroe divorced, he joined his friend DiMaggio and the writer James Bacon on a raid set up by DiMaggio ...