“ I knew I belong to the public and to the world not because I was talented or even beautiful but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” Marilyn knew what her life was when she gave up her life for her career. Following this will be the real life of Marilyn Monroe, what she went through in her childhood and her professional life, her career, her affair, her death, and her legacy.
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) was born in Los Angeles, California on June 1st, 1926. Marilyn faced a difficult childhood; she spent most of her time in an orphanage. Marilyn’s mother, Gladys Pearl Baker was a film cutter. She never knew her father. She also did not spend much time with her mother, due to the mother's illness. At one
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That same year that she got her first movie contract, the couple ended their marriage. They got a divorce.
With the new movie contract, Marilyn Monroe was born. She started calling herself “Marilyn Monroe” she also dyed her hair blond and soon became the most famous Hollywood actress.
She then surprised everyone by leaving Hollywood. To the press and the public, Monroe’s move to New York City at the end of 1954 came as a shock. A look at the many reasons behind her move makes neither the decisions nor the timing surprising at all. Monroe’s decision reflected her growing dissatisfaction with her public image and with the press and studio that perpetuate that image.
In 1959, at the Golden Globe Awards, one of her films got her the award for “Best Actress in a Comedy.” The last film she was able to complete was “The Misfits” in 1961.
The beginning of Kennedy’s affair. That affair got well known. It is said that Kennedy’s and Marilyn’s first date was arranged by Kennedy’s sister and his brother-in-law. That was where it all began. From 1961 to early 1962’s Kennedy started spending time in Hollywood which made their affair more obvious. There is a theory that claims that Marilyn was killed by Kennedy. He started growing feelings for her, and he had her killed to protect his
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Ralph Greenson made a ‘special agreement.’ That ‘special agreement’ consisted of one big goal: the death of the Hollywood goddess.
There are also other death theories that follow Monroe's death.
“ Dr. Keith Simpson, the forensic pathologist consulted by Anthony Summers, agrees with the verdict of accidental overdose. He cited the absence of drug residue in her stomach combined with the high level of drugs found in her liver. These factors together indicate that the fatal dose began several hours before her death, since they apparently had time to move from the stomach to the liver.” (Woog 58)
“ Some researchers, including Robert Slatzer, have suggested that the drugs found in Monroe’s body were administered by injection. They point to the autopsy report, which noted a lack of drugs in Monroe’s kidneys. This pattern indicates that the stomach was completely bypassed when the drug took effect, which is what would happen in the case of an injection.” (Woog 60-61)
Marilyn was just 36 years old when she died at her Los Angeles home on August 5, 1962. An empty bottle of sleeping pills was found near her bed. Her death was marked as a drug overdose. She was buried in her favorite dress by Emilio Fucci. What Marilyn loved the most was wearing “Chanel Number 5” (Cologne) to
Some Like It Hot, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, and The Seven Year Itch are just a few of the movies that the actress Marilyn Monroe is known for. However the life of the movie star was cut short when she died at age 36 from an acute barbiturate poisoning. It was suspected that Marilyn took her own life, however she could have just as easily been taken out by the Kennedy family to prevent her from spilling all the dirty secrets she knew because of her alleged affairs with John and Robert Kennedy. Monroe was murdered by the Kennedy family in order to keep her from revealing government secrets that she gained knowledge of during the affairs she has with John and Robert Kennedy, which she threatened to make public after both
There are many clues to lead to the fact she took her own life. I found it interesting Bobbie Ann Mason gave the character the name Norma Jean. Norma Jean was also the real name of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe’s depression and inability to find lasting happiness resulted in psychological disorders with the end result of her taking her own life.
Due to Robert Kennedy being in town on the day that Marilyn died, suspicions arose that after one of Marilyn and Robert’s affair happened that night, Marilyn overdosed and was rushed to the hospital. In the ambulance ride, Marilyn passed away and Robert Kennedy took her back to her home and proceeded to cover it up as a suicide in order to hide the affair. In other words, “Summers claims Monroe accidentally OD’d, but died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, so her body was returned to her home where Lawford, Kennedy, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover staged her death as a suicide”
She was taking multiple pills to help her make it on a daily basis. Dailymail.com stated,”The actress famously suffered from severe insomnia and relied on a cycle of sedatives and amphetamines to help her function.” Marilyn Monroe had gone to the doctor two days before she died. She was given a mix of Nembutal and amphetamines to help her get through the day. But 53 years later, they found out that Nembutal and amphetamines are a fatal combination.
Robert F Kennedy had gone to Marilyn's home that day, they had gotten into an argument and sometime after that he left with a partner of Ginancana named Johnny Roselli. He visited her around 10pm, purposely leaving the front door unlocked, letting five hit men enter her house. One crept up behind her and slipped a chloroform-soaked washcloth over her face and gave her an enema of barbiturates and took her to her bathroom. Departing the house when they hear Marilyn's housekeeper come into the house” said Darwin Potter, biographer and travel writer. Police contact and a man named Peter Lawford arrived and stole Marilyn Monroe's little red diary, which she kept all her sexual affair details in, which all made the scene after a while.
From humble beginnings, the girl born Norma Jeane Mortenson was baptized Norma Jeane Baker. In high school, she dropped the E from her middle name and lost her last name altogether. It wasn't until her career had begun that she became known as Marilyn
Dr. Howard found more evidence stating, “On Marilyn’s bedside table was a virtual pharmacopoeia of sedatives, soporifics, tranquilizers, opiates, “speed pills,” and sleeping pills. The vial containing the latter, a barbiturate known as Nembutal, was empty” (Markel). Monroe, someone who is very famous, would never need to take that many different medications. She had medications she had to take but she never had to take that may at once. The reporters found, “An empty bottle of sleeping pills was found by her bed” (“Marilyn Monroe”). It was normal for Monroe to take sleeping pills, but not normal to have them sitting by her bed empty with many other different types of medication. Taking too many sleeping can depress someone's breathing while that person is trying to sleeping making if difficult to breath. An article released by Columbia College stated, “With the high levels of barbiturates in her system as a clear cause of death, the presence of the coordinating medication bottles in her room, as well as the absence of any clear signs of foul play on the body, pointed to the conclusion of suicide” (Mallia). They know what she died from and no one was in her room with her when she died. She was found in her bed with all of the different medications and bottles next to her bed indicated that someone else was not who killed her. It is found through the evidence of many different articles that Monroe had committed
Also, Marilyn was mostly famous for playing a funny dumb blonde in her movies.{wikipedia.org} Some movies she was famous for are “Some like it hot”,[1959] “Monkey Business”[1952], “How to Marry a Millionaire”[1953] and “Gentlemen prefer Blondes”[1953] .To begin, Marilyn Monroe won a golden globe for playing a role in “Some like it hot” [1959]. Marilyn Monroe won the Golden Globe Henrietta Award for World Film Favorite Female in 1953. {google.com/site/monroetheicon/awards-and-achievements} Marilyn was nominated for the golden globe award for playing the character Sugar Cane in “Some like it hot”. Also, Marilyn Monroe often struggled with depression. {marilyn monroe and her struggle with depression} Many people think she struggled with depression because of her three failed marriages and 2 miscarriages. Joe Dimaggio was one of Marilyn’s husbands. When they divorced in 1954, Marilyn accused him of “mental cruelty”. She also married Arthur Miller, a famous playwright, but sadly their marriage ended in 1961. Which left her in a fragile state. Some people also believe that her depression came from her mother’s illness. She had many Achievements but marilyn monroe still did have many struggles in her
Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane Mortenson. A devious soul but a pure heart, a black past, but a bright future; she became one of the most idolized figures in society. Norma was definitely not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and she never sugar coated her life to the media. She was straight forward which made her heavily known for her quotes such as “I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.” (Marilyn Monroe). This was the beginning to her life story as a hero. This may not seem inspiring or heroic to many by the lack of knowledge a person may have on Norma. In the depths of her quotes lay a deep, heartfelt life though. For this quote may seem sensational and comical to the ear, but Marilyn was transferred to many foster homes not really having a parent that would show her the way. What a good role model would do though, and what Norma courageously has shown society, is that when life knocks you down, get up and hit life back twice as hard. Norma Jeane Mortenson, married Jim Dougherty, and started working. Soon she created the character Marilyn Monroe, she dyed her hair blonde, wore short dresses, and she became the momentous and inspirational character that everyone saw through television, newspapers, and photos. She was one of the greatest actors, singers, and models of the nineteen forties and fifties. But like every hero they suffer and create their own demise. Jeane, Marilyn Monroe, is a shakespearean tragic hero, because like every hero she must fall.
Marilyn Monroe born as Norma Jeane died when she was only 36 on August 5, 1952. She left endless marks in showbiz, fashion, and even the centerfold. She acted in 30 amazing movies, she won a 1962 Golden Globe for Female World Film Favorite. She was also the most photographed person of the 20th century. One of her most famous scenes that everyone knows about is when she was standing on a subway gate, and the train going by sends a gust of air to her white halter dress that made her dress blowing.
Even though she has been deceased for more than fifty years, people today still are interested in Marilyn Monroe's childhood, love stories, and whether she died by suicide or not. ...
Monroe's talent for the comedy-drama genre played will on screen and with her fans. In many ways her talent for the comedy-drama film was a reflection of her attempt to cope with and avoid the fate that had terrified her since childhood. It was a sense of tragedy that came through as an underlying current of sadness that she could not hide even when she was laughing like a whimsical child. She yearned for the kind of normal life that she fantasized about in her youth and gave up in her teens. She fantasized about living in a small house with a husband who went to work every day and came home every night. A stable home. A home that she barely knew as a child. A stability that she had never had but needed to stay alive. She needed all of those things that she lost when she became Marilyn Monroe. But, she also needed the tangible symbols that fame and adulation only her fans could provide. Over all else, she needed to be loved and this required others to incessantly shown their loved for her. In her world, admiration was more important than wealth. It was a source of life itself.
Marilyn Monroe was a deeply troubled woman and I believe that in applying a Psychoanalytic Perspective to her life, the first theorist that comes to mind is Erik Erickson and his stage theory of personality. In applying his theory we see that we can assess Marilyn’s personality through Erickson’s psychosocial stages of “Identity vs. Role Confusion” and “Intimacy vs. Isolation” (Friedman & Schustack 133-134). Marilyn’s childhood, the most critical time in any child’s life when any and all relationships are crucial to their healthy development proved to be the catalyst for her later problems in life as evident by the lack of any solid and
Norma Jean, most famously known as Marilyn Monroe was a famous actress in Hollywood that was one of the biggest sex symbols to come by in the 1900’s. Marilyn Monroe did not start out as an actress or one of the world’s biggest sex symbols, she began her career as a model. Monroe began work in a weapons factory in Burbank, California, where she was later discovered by a photographer. She was married to her first husband Jimmy Dougherty who was a marine. Jimmy had been deployed for some time and when he returned in 1946, Monroe had a fruitful career as a model, and she also changed her name from Norma Jean Baker to Marilyn Monroe in preparation for an acting career (Cinnamon,
...ed was to be loved. She never received the affection she needed, and she wanted to achieve that from stardom. No one really knows why Marilyn took all those sleeping pills on August 5th 1962. Marilyn Monroe had a personality captivating and intriguing as her beauty. There was more beyond her platinum blonde hair, and blue eyes. Behind all the beauty, was Norma Jeane, the girl that no one knew. Marilyn Monroe was an illusion, and no one tried to see the person she was beneath this illusion.