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She was born in June 1926
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Her father was unknown. a turbulent mental state, so she was babysat.For the first six years, Marilyn was brought up by foster parents, Albert and Ida Bolender in the town of Hawthorne, California.
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She married a 21-year-old next-door neighbor Jimmy Dougherty. Marilyn became a housewife. they divorced after.
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She needed to get money so David Conover was covering the munitions factory to show women at work for the War effort. He put her in lots of photographs. This enabled her to start a career as a model
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She took drama lessons and got her first movie contract with Twentieth Century Fox.
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she died of an overdose.
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She became an iconic figure of Hollywood glamour and fashion.
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Monroe soon filed for divorce, though the couple retained a friendship despite the divorce. The FBI opened a file on her, worried about the political views of her husband.