Marilyn Monroe
( 1926 - 1962)Added Date: July 20, 2022
Born: June 01, 1926
Died: August 04, 1962
Country: United States
The life of the lush Marilyn Monroe, golden girl, sex symbol, Hollywood icon, ended as it began – in misery and tragedy. Ms. Monroe was found dead in her bed at her home in Brentwood, a section of Los Angeles. Beside her bed were fourteen bottles of medicines and tablets, including an empty bottle of sleeping pills.
She had committed suicide at the age of 36. Her life began as an illegitimate, unwanted baby, born Norma Jean Mortenson. Her surname was that of the man who fathered her, and who then abandoned her mother.
She later took her mother’s last name, Baker. Her maternal grandparents and her mother were all committed to mental institutions. And her uncle killed himself. When she was three, her father died in a motorcycle accident. With her mother in an asylum, Norma Jean was placed in at least twelve different foster homes, as well as an orphanage.Her dream since childhood was to be a movie star. And so it came to pass that Marilyn was not just an ordinary movie star.
She became a bigger-than-life glamour icon, with the figure, face, and image of an earthbound goddess.At 5 feet 5 ½ inches, with a voluptuous figure (37-23-37), soft blonde hair, and wide, dreamy, gray-blue eyes, she spoke in a high baby voice that was little more than a breathless whisper.
She captivated movie audiences around the world. Living through three failed marriages and two miscarriages, and being unable to come to terms with Hollywood glamor and fame, Marilyn was suffering from emotional insecurity and deep psychological anguish.In one of her last interviews, she spoke wistfully about her career:“It might be kind of a relief to be finished. It’s sort of like running a yard dash, but then you’re at the finish line and you sort of sigh–you’ve made it! But you never have–you have to start all over again.”
The brief and tragic life of Marilyn Monroe is forever woven into the fabric of American culture as the soft, shapely, seductive, blonde sex-goddess.
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