Marilyn Monroe Biography

Marilyn Monroe was born June first 1926 in Los Angeles California. Marilyn was a foster child because her mother suffered of mental illness. Her real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson. She changed her name to Marilyn Monroe march 1956. Marilyn’s father didn’t want to meet her, his name was Stanley Gifford. She was almost killed at age two. It is also believed that Marilyn was raped by the son of one of the foster homes she lived in. When Marilyn was nine years old she lived in a foster home where they would pay her a nickel a month for cleaning the kitchen and they would take a penny every Sunday for church. Marilyn went through eleven sets of foster parents. Finally at age 16 she escaped and married a 21 year old named Jim Dougherty. She met him in a aircraft plant where she worked and he did too. She divorced him four years later. By this time she had already started modeling, she would do swimsuits, pin ups, and glamour shots. Marilyn dyed her hair bleach blond .
Howard Hughes tried to get her a screen test but he was too late she had a contract for six months already with 20th- century fox. They would start paying her 125 dollars a week. She also did a few small parts in “ love happy “ and “ all about eve “. She found fame in 1953 when she started doing bigger films like “Niagara”, “Gentlemen prefer blonds”, and “How to marry a millionaire”. That same year she started dating a baseball player named Jo DiMaggio. She also appeared in an issue of playboy, she was playboys first sweetheart. Hugh Heffner bought the picture for five hundred dollars. She got in trouble with her studio and told them she did it because she didn’t have enough money to pay the rent.
She got married to Jo DiMaggio, not knowing that their marriage woul...

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...E and Paula Strasberg. In 1999 in an aoction Mariah Carey bought marilyns white baby grand piano for 662,500 dollars. The dress she wore when she sang happy birthday to president kennedy was sold in 1999 for 128,000 dollars. The dress she wore in the movie “seven Year Old Itch” was sold in 2011 for 4.3 million dollars.
Many of Marilyn’s friends believe that Marilyn was murdered. Marilyns death was ruled a probable suicide by toxicologytests were only carried out on her liver, when the deputy coroner Thomas noguoni tried to obtain her other organs for testing he was told they had been destroyed. New York times said the number of suicidees in new York city after Marilyn monores death a week after hit the record of 12 people in one day. Someone left on their suicide note “if the most wounderful, beautiful thing in the world has nothing to live for then neither must I”.