Marilyn Monroe - A Tragic Icon

Perhaps the most memorable of all movie stars

, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson on June the first, 1926, in LA, California. Marilyn went through childhood clueless as to who her dad actually was and her mum, Gladys, got through numerous relationships, confounding her daughter concerning who could be the dad in her life. Subsequently, Gladys christened her by the surname of Baker, a gentleman she met before Marilyn's father. Gladys was also exceptionally eye-catching and worked at RKO Studios having the status of tape cutter, experienced psychological problems and was regularly placed in mental health institutions for the remainder of her years. Norma Jean lived a good deal of her formative years in foster homes, once she was 9 she was put in an orphanage where she was to live for the following 2 years. Soon after being freed from the orphanage, she made the move to one more foster home. Breaking this succession of care, she married her lover Jimmy Dougherty on June the 19th, 1942. Being a sailor, Dougherty was soon despatched to the South Pacific and Monroe commenced to work in a armaments manufacturing facility in Burbank where she was spotted by a photographer. When Dougherty was given leave in 1946, Monroe had a profitable job as a model. Subsequently they split in 1946 - the same year she agreed her original motion picture deal, with the motion picture deal she marketed herself as Marilyn Monroe and dyed her hair blonde. Nevertheless her big-screen career did not truly kick off till the 1950s, her minor role in John Huston's crime drama The Asphalt Jungle (1950) put her in the limelight. Soon Marilyn delighted cinema goers and producers alike in the role of Claudia Caswell in All About Eve, Marilyn Monroe accomplished celeb standing by way of major parts in 3 1953 movies - Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How To Marry a Millionaire. Throughout the same period a variety of nude calendar photos, taken in 1948, appeared in the first ever issue of Playboy. Her personal problems, with failed marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller led to an increasing reliance on drugs to combat depression and physical ailments. Her demons, and precarious involvement with people in high places, finally became too much for her. On August 5, 1962, she was found dead of an overdose of sleeping pills. Certainly one of the most heartbreaking cases of public self-destruction ever, and her unmistakable air and personality have continued to legacy in canvas art prints for generations after her passing.

Marilyn Monroe - A Tragic Icon

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