Marilyn Monroe

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Childhood

Family and early life

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 . //query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DC1639F930A25751C0A967948260 |quote= Eighteen years after Marilyn Monroe's death, the widely held belief that the movie star was born illegitimate has been disproved. Authorities say they have found copies of her birth certificate at the home of a dead man they believe was her father. Martin Edward Mortensen, 85 years old, died on Tuesday, apparently of a heart attack, Lisle Ford, a Riverside County coroner's investigator, said. He said that he had found copies of Monroe's birth certificate at Mortensen's apartment, as well as marriage and divorce papers for Mortensen and Gladys Baker, Monroe's mother. The birth certificate states that Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. Her father is listed as Edward Mortensen, address unknown, age 29. Monroe died in Los Angeles on August 5, 1962, apparently a suicide from an overdose of barbiturates.  |publisher=Associated Press |date=February 13, 1981 |accessdate = 2007-07-21 }}</ref> However this has been disputed with Monroe herself believing a salesman named Charles Stanley Gifford was her father.<ref>www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.marilyncollector.com/legend/faq.html#father</ref><ref>www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,,500022,00.html</ref> Whatever the case, Monroe had no father in her life.//search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ssdi%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Gladys&gsln=Eley&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&ufr=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=5&recid=19890451&recoff=1+2 Social Security Death Index] showing "Gladys Eley, last residence Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, Born: 27 May 1900, Died: Mar 1984, SSN issued by Oregon (Before 1951)"</ref>  Monroe's birth father was never identified.  For many years it was believed that Gladys's second husband Martin Edward Mortenson (1897-1981) was Monroe's father. His name was listed on her birth certificate.<ref>"
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 . //query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DC1639F930A25751C0A967948260 |quote= Eighteen years after Marilyn Monroe's death, the widely held belief that the movie star was born illegitimate has been disproved. Authorities say they have found copies of her birth certificate at the home of a dead man they believe was her father. Martin Edward Mortensen, 85 years old, died on Tuesday, apparently of a heart attack, Lisle Ford, a Riverside County coroner's investigator, said. He said that he had found copies of Monroe's birth certificate at Mortensen's apartment, as well as marriage and divorce papers for Mortensen and Gladys Baker, Monroe's mother. The birth certificate states that Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. Her father is listed as Edward Mortensen, address unknown, age 29. Monroe died in Los Angeles on August 5, 1962, apparently a suicide from an overdose of barbiturates.  |publisher=Associated Press |date=February 13, 1981 |accessdate = 2007-07-21 }}</ref> However this has been disputed with Monroe herself believing a salesman named Charles Stanley Gifford was her father.<ref>www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.marilyncollector.com/legend/faq.html#father</ref><ref>www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,,500022,00.html</ref> Whatever the case, Monroe had no father in her life.

Foster homes

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One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house. A few months after they had moved in, Gladys suffered a breakdown. In My Story, Monroe recalls her mother "screaming and laughing" as she was forcibly removed to the State Hospital in Norwalk. According to My Sister Marilyn, Gladys's brother, Marion, hanged himself upon his release from an asylum, and Della's father did the same in a fit of depression.

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www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A26655555</ref> Monroe stated in her autobiography that she did not feel like a wife; instead she enjoyed playing with the neighborhood children until her husband would call her home for the evening. The marriage would last until 1946 when Monroe decided to pursue her career.//www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A26655555</ref> Monroe stated in her autobiography that she did not feel like a wife; instead she enjoyed playing with the neighborhood children until her husband would call her home for the evening. The marriage would last until 1946 when Monroe decided to pursue her career.

Career

Early years

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The next two years were filled with inconsequential roles in standard fare such as We're Not Married! and Love Nest. However, RKO executives used her to boost box office potential of the Fritz Lang production Clash by Night. After the film performed well, Fox employed a similar tactic, and she was cast as the ditzy receptionist with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers in Howard Hawks's slapstick comedy Monkey Business. Critics no longer ignored her, and both films' success at the box office was partly attributed to Monroe's growing popularity.

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Stardom

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Playboy playmate

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A-list actress

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Maryiln Monroe Productions

Once in New York Monroe set up her own production company Maryiln Monroe Productions with fashion photographer Milton H. Greene.

As The Seven Year Itch raced to the top of the box office in the summer of 1955, and with Fox starlets Jayne Mansfield and Sheree North failing to click with audiences, Zanuck admitted defeat and Monroe returned to Hollywood. A new contract was drawn up, giving Monroe approval of the director as well as the option to act in other studios' projects.

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Later years

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After Some Like It Hot, Monroe shot Let's Make Love directed by George Cukor and co-starring Yves Montand. Monroe was forced to shoot the picture because of her obligations to Twentieth Century-Fox. While the film was not a commercial or critical success, it included one of Monroe's legendary musical numbers, Cole Porter's "My Heart Belongs to Daddy".

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In 1961, some of the most famous photographs of Monroe were taken by Douglas Kirkland as a feature for the 25th anniversary issue of LOOK magazine.

Monroe returned to Hollywood to resume filming on the George Cukor comedy Something's Got to Give, a never-finished film that has become legendary for problems on the set and proved a costly debacle for Fox. In May 1962, she made her last significant public appearance, singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President at a televised birthday party for President John F. Kennedy.

After shooting what was claimed to have been the first ever nude scene by a major motion picture actress, Monroe's attendance on the set became even more erratic. On June 1, her thirty-sixth birthday, she attended a charity event at Dodger Stadium.

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Before the shooting of Something's Got to Give resumed, Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home on the morning of August 5, 1962. She remains one of the 20th century's legendary public figures and archetypal Hollywood movie stars.

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Marriages and Relationships

James Dougherty

Monroe married James Dougherty on June 19, 1942. In The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe and To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie, he claimed they were in love, but dreams of stardom lured her away. In 1953 he wrote a piece called "Marilyn Monroe Was My Wife" for Photoplay, in which he claimed that he left her. In the 2004 documentary Marilyn's Man, Dougherty made three new claims: he was her Svengali and invented the "Marilyn Monroe" persona, studio executives forced her to divorce him, and that he was her only true love.

He remarried in 1947. The August 6, 1962 New York Times reported that, on being informed of her death, he replied "I'm sorry," and continued his LAPD patrol. He did not attend Monroe's funeral.

His sister wrote in the December 1952 Modern Screen Magazine that Dougherty left Monroe because she wanted to pursue modeling. He admitted to A&E Network that his mother asked him to marry her and told Lifetime in 1996 that he cut off her allotment after being served with divorce papers.

Joe DiMaggio

In 1951, Joe DiMaggio saw a picture of Monroe with two Chicago White Sox players but did not ask the man who arranged the stunt to set up a date until 1952. She wrote in My Story that she did not want to meet him, fearing a stereotypical jock. They eloped at San Francisco's City Hall on January 14, 1954. During the honeymoon, they visited Japan, and she was asked to visit Korea. She performed ten shows over four days in freezing temperatures for over 100,000 servicemen. Biographers have noted that DiMaggio, who stayed in Japan, was not pleased with his wife's decision during what he wanted to be an intimate trip.

Back home, she wrote him a letter about her dreams for their future, dated February 28, 1954:

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Years later, she turned to him for help. In February 1961, her psychiatrist arranged for her to be admitted to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, where, according to Donald Spoto, she was placed in the ward for the most seriously disturbed. Unable to check herself out, she called DiMaggio, who secured her release. She later joined him in Florida. Their "just good friends" claim did not stop rumors of remarriage. Archive footage shows Bob Hope jokingly dedicating Best Song nominee The Second Time Around to them at the 1960 Academy Awards telecast. The two conceived a child, but it was stillborn.

According to Maury Allen, on August 1, 1962, DiMaggio — alarmed by how his ex-wife had fallen in with people such as Frank Sinatra and his "Rat Pack" — quit his job with a PX supplier to ask her to remarry him.

After her death, he claimed her body and arranged her funeral, barring Hollywood's elite. For 20 years, he had a dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week. Unlike her other two husbands, he never talked about her publicly, wrote a tell-all, or remarried.

Arthur Miller

On June 29, 1956, Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller, whom she first met in 1951, in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York. City Court Judge Seymour Robinowitz presided over the hushed ceremony in the law office of Sam Slavitt (the wedding had been kept secret from both the press and the public). In reflecting on his courtship of Monroe, Miller wrote, "She was a whirling light to me then, all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity that few retain past early adolescence". <ref>Arthur Miller, Timebends, 1987, New York, Grove Press, p. 359, ISBN 0-8021-0015-5</ref> Nominally raised as a Christian, she converted to Judaism before marrying Miller. After she finished shooting The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, the couple returned to the United States from England and discovered she was pregnant. However, she suffered from endometriosis, and the pregnancy was found to be ectopic. A subsequent pregnancy ended in miscarriage.

Miller's screenplay for The Misfits, a story about a despairing divorcée, was meant to be a Valentine gift for his wife, but by the time filming started in 1960 their marriage was beyond repair. A Mexican divorce was granted on January 24, 1961. On February 17, 1962, Miller married Inge Morath, one of the Magnum photographers recording the making of The Misfits.

In January 1964, Miller's play After The Fall opened, featuring a beautiful and devouring shrew named Maggie. The similarities between Maggie and Monroe did not go unnoticed by audiences and critics (including Helen Hayes).^{[citation needed]} Simone Signoret noted in her autobiography the morbidity of Miller and Elia Kazan resuming their professional association "over a casket". In interviews and in his autobiography, Miller insisted that Maggie was not based on Monroe. However, he never pretended that his last Broadway-bound work, Finishing the Picture, was not based on the making of The Misfits. He appeared in the documentary The Century of the Self lamenting the psychological work being done on her before her death.

The Kennedys

transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/05/lkl.00.html</ref> Jeanne Carmen, who claims to have been a friend of Monroe's, has said she dated both, though she only loved Robert. Carmen also believes at least one of the Kennedys was responsible for her death.<ref>www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/05/lkl.00.html</ref> Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio had told both his son and attorney that "The Kennedy's killed her."<ref>Engelberg, Morris. DiMaggio, Setting the record straight, page 281, (2003), ISBN 0-7603-1482-9</ref>//transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/05/lkl.00.html</ref> Jeanne Carmen, who claims to have been a friend of Monroe's, has said she dated both, though she only loved Robert. Carmen also believes at least one of the Kennedys was responsible for her death.<ref>www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/05/lkl.00.html</ref> Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio had told both his son and attorney that "The Kennedy's killed her."<ref>Engelberg, Morris. DiMaggio, Setting the record straight, page 281, (2003), ISBN 0-7603-1482-9</ref>

Death and aftermath

Main article: Death of Marilyn Monroe

LAPD police sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call at 4:25AM on August 5, 1962 from Dr. Hyman Engelberg proclaiming that Marilyn Monroe was dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Sergeant Clemmons was the first Police officer to arrive at the death scene.<ref>Wolfe, Donald H. The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe. (1998) ISBN-10: 0787118079</ref> Many questions remain unanswered about the circumstances of her death and the time-line Monroe's body was found.

The official cause of her death was classified as a case of "acute barbiturate poisoning" by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroners office. Her death was classified as "probable suicide",<ref>GRANT ROLLINGS, The curse of the Playmates, The Sun, February 12 2007</ref> but because of a lack of evidence they could not classify her death as suicide or homicide. Also, some conspiracy theories involve John and Robert Kennedy with her untimely death.

On August 8, 1962, Monroe was interred in a crypt at Corridor of Memories, #24, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Lee Strasberg delivered the eulogy.

Over 40 years after her death Forbes.com compiled a survey titled "Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities," which compared the money the celebrities' estates earn annually from sales. Monroe ranked 9th, as the only woman on the list.

Administration of estate

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Strasberg willed his portion to his widow, Anna. She declared she would never sell Monroe's personal items after successfully suing Odyssey Auctions in 1994 to prevent the sale of items which were withheld by Monroe's former business manager, Inez Melson. However, in October 1999 Christie's auctioned the bulk of the items Monroe willed to Strasberg, netting US$12.3 million.

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Filmography

Awards and nominations

• 1952 Photoplay Award: Special Award
• 1953 Golden Globe Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite Female.
• 1953 Photoplay Award: Most Popular Female Star
• 1956 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Seven Year Itch
• 1956 Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Bus Stop
• 1958 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
• 1958 David di Donatello Award (Italian): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
• 1959 Crystal Star Award (French): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
• 1960 Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Some Like It Hot
• 1962 Golden Globe, World Film Favorite: Female
• Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
• 1999 she was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute in their list AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars.

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See also

• Death of Marilyn Monroe
• Marilyn Monroe in popular culture
• Berniece Baker Miracle, her half-sister
• Look alike contest Monroe's popularity as a costume
• Mark Bellinghaus Monroe memorabilia collector and activist

Notes

References

• Modèle:Cite book Examines Monroe's stature as an icon.
• Modèle:Cite book Monroe's "love affair" with the camera.
• Modèle:Cite book Explores Western Civilization's fixation with Monroe.
• Modèle:Cite book A compendium of facts, fantasies and scandals about Marilyn Monroe.
• Modèle:Cite book Examination of Monroe's personal and professional life.
• Modèle:Cite book Reissue of a biography cited in this article.
• Modèle:Cite book His controversial take on Monroe.
• My Sister Marilyn, Miracle, Berniece Baker and Mona Raw Baker. Publisher: Algonquin Books; first edition (1994) Hardcover: 238 pages ISBN 1565120701
• Modèle:Cite book Reprint of her memoirs, ghost-written by Ben Hecht; introduction by Andrea Dworkin.
• Modèle:Cite book Scholarly look at her films.
• Modèle:Cite book Biography cited in this article.
• Modèle:Cite book Alleged transcripts of Monroe's therapy sessions.
• Modèle:Cite book Examines Monroe's influence on numerous artists.
• Vitacco-Robles, Gary (2003). Cursum Perficio: Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood Hacienda: The Story of Her Final Months. IUniverse. ISBN 0-595-01082-2
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• Steinem, Gloria (1988). Marilyn: Norma Jeane, photos by George Barris. Signet. (1988) ISBN 0451155963

External links

• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.marilynmonroecollection.com The Marilyn Monroe Collection]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.marilynremembered.org Marilyn Remembered Fan Club]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.forevermarilyn.com The Forever Marilyn Fan Club]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.parade.com/articles/web_exclusives/2007/04-15-2007/Parade_Classic_Marilyn_Monroe Marilyn Monroe's 1952 interview with Parade]
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• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.marilynmonroe.com Official website]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//mysite.verizon.net/resv9yjn/] Virtual Tour of Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood Hacienda
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=725 Marilyn Monroe's grave site]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/06/marilyn_monroe.html Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio and the 1954 "Wrong Door Raid."]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.nfpl.library.on.ca/nfplindex/search.asp?search=1&db=5&idx=ti&query=marilyn+monroe Images taken at Niagara Falls during the filming of the movie Niagara] Niagara Falls Public Library (Ont.)
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.worldcollectorsnet.com/filmmemorabilia/marilynmonroe.html Marilyn Monroe Collectibles Feature]
• [www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html</ref>}}//www.nybooks.com/articles/9776 Married to Marilyn] by Norman Mailer from The New York Review of Books
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