Marilyn Monroe
American actress and model (1926-1962) · United States · Actors · Died at 36
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Something wrong?The sex symbol who tried to break her own mold. Monroe made the dumb blonde a commercial juggernaut in the 1950s, then spent years fighting the studio system and studying method acting to prove she was more than the image that made her.
A life in dates
Let's Make LoveFilm, 1960Amanda Dell1959Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or ComedyAward1958“Everyone's childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.”In their wordsMarilyn's diaries (1958), as quoted in Fragments (2010), by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard CommentTarga d'OroAward1957
The Prince and the ShowgirlFilm, Producer1955
The Seven Year ItchFilm, The Girl1954
River of No ReturnFilm, Kay Weston1952
Clash by NightFilm, Peggy1950
The Bob Hope ShowSeries
A Ticket to TomahawkFilm, 1950Clara1948
Green Grass of WyomingFilm, Extra at Square Dance (uncredited)1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1926Born1 June 1926Also in Deutsch
Photos 12
Monroe as an infant, c. 1927
Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943-44. They married when she was 16 and divorced in 1946, when she was 20.
A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in 1944 at the Radioplane Company
Monroe posing as a pin-up model for a postcard photograph, c. 1940s
Monroe in a 1948 publicity photo for Ladies of the Chorus
Monroe in The Asphalt Jungle (1950), one of her earliest performances to gain attention from film critics
In their own words 10
, I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me - and that I've made of myself - as a sex symbol.
Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, and say goodbye to yourself because you're a nice guy. ... I'll see, I'll see.
Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
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SpotifyFilmography 40
BMBecoming Marilyn
AWArthur Miller: Writer
MAMansfield 66/67
ASAll Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
LMLove, Marilyn
FGFinal Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
CCCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
MDMarilyn Monroe: The Final Days
CHCleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
TMTrinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
TIThat's Entertainment! III
JMJohn Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
VNVoyage to Nowhere
LRLa Rabbia
TMThe MisfitsLLLet's Make Love
SHSome Like It HotTSThe Prince and the Showgirl
BSBus StopTIThe Seven Year ItchRRRiver of No Return
TBThere's No Business Like Show Business
GBGentlemen Prefer Blondes
HMHow to Marry a Millionaire
NINiagara
MBMonkey Business
DKDon't Bother to KnockCNClash by Night
OHO. Henry's Full House
WMWe're Not Married!
LLLet's Make It Legal
AFAs Young as You Feel
HSHome Town Story
LNLove Nest
AEAll About Eve
TJThe Asphalt JungleATA Ticket to Tomahawk
LHLove Happy
LCLadies of the ChorusGWGreen Grass of Wyoming174 credits on file
Television 17
MMMarilyn and the Mob
PSPretty Baby: Brooke Shields
RMReframed: Marilyn Monroe
TIThe Century of Icons
DMDream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
AAAndy Warhol's America
FLFirst Ladies
SCScandalous: The Death of Marilyn Monroe (Director's Cut)
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MVMentiras verdaderas
UÉUn film et son époque
IPIntimate Portrait
SCSpécial cinéma
ASABC Stage 67TSThe Bob Hope Show
TPThe Jack Benny ProgramGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles in 1926, she cycled through foster homes and an orphanage before marrying at 16. A wartime factory job led to pin-up modeling, then minor film contracts with Fox and Columbia. By 1951 she'd landed a longer Fox deal, breaking through in comedies and dramas until a nude photo scandal in 1953 only sharpened the public's interest. That year she became one of Hollywood's top earners with Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and How to Marry a Millionaire - the roles that locked in the blonde bombshell type. Frustrated by typecasting and low pay, she founded her own production company in 1954 and enrolled at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. Fox eventually gave her more control and better terms; she won a Golden Globe for Some Like It Hot in 1959 and earned acclaim for Bus Stop and The Prince and the Showgirl. Her marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller both ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, she died of a barbiturate overdose at her Los Angeles home, ruled a probable suicide, at 36.
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