Marilyn Monroe Role Model

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Marilyn Monroe is one of the most recognized faces in the world. She is known as a role model to a few but a famous actor, model, and sex symbol to others in this generation. Over forty years after her death, Marilyn’s life and death is still a question to many, and years of her life became a blur as she began being a famous sex symbol in the world. She never had a stable childhood or adulthood, and within a career span of sixteen years, her life suddenly came to a halt at the age of thirty-six. Monroe starred in a large number of successful motion pictures during the late 1940s and early 1960s. Numerous factors influenced and shaped Marilyn Monroe’s life into a short irrational distortion.

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She went by many names. “Aside from her birth name of Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was baptized and mainly known as Norma Jeane Baker, and during her modeling days she was also known as Norma Jeane Dougherty (her …show more content…

“According to the funeral directors, Marilyn died sometime between 9:30pm and 11:30pm.” (IMDb 2). “Many of her friends believed she was murdered.” (Biography 10). “She found with a phone in one hand, and her body was completely nude with her face down, on her bed.” (IMDb 4). “It is reported the housekeeper and Marilyn’s personal secretary and press agent, Pat Newcombe, were cooperating in the plan to induce suicide.” (Mysterious Universe 3). “On the day of Marilyn’s death, said the FBI’s source, Robert Kennedy checked out of the Beverly Hills Hotel and flew from Los Angeles International Airport via Western Airlines to San Francisco, where he checked into the St. Francis Hotel; the owner of the hotel being a Mr. London, a friend of Robert Kennedy. From there, Kennedy phoned Peter Lawford “to find out if Marilyn was dead yet.” (Mysterious Universe

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