Marilyn monroe

Marilyn Monroe

By vanemaryjessi

  • Birth

    Birth
    Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, in the Los Angeles County Hospital as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was the third child born of Gladys Pearl Baker.

  • The economics and emotional problems begin

    The economics and emotional problems begin
    In 1932 Gladys couldn’t care for her daughter because of the economic and emotional problems she had, so she left the little Norma Jeane with her adoptive parents, the marriage of Albert and Ida Bolender, who lived in Hawthorne, California after a few months, the mother suffered a nervous breakdown, so the girl's custody was given to Grace McKee, her best friend. She was who encouraged her to become an actress in the future.

  • Adoption

    Adoption
    McKee married Ervin Silliman Goddard in 1935 and moved to the west coast of the United States, and Marilyn was given in custody to several families.

  • Sexual abuse.

    Sexual abuse.
    Two years later in 1937, after the wedding she left with the girl. However after a couple of month McKee gave the custody to her uncle Olive Brunings after the child accused Goddard of sexually abused her

  • Second sexual abuse and her half sister.

    Second sexual abuse and her half sister.
    In 1938 When she have 12 years she suffer another sexual abused, this time was one of the son of Burnings, this change her life and then she met her half sister, her name was Bereniece. The relationship with her sister was a joy for her

  • First marriage.

    First marriage.
    In 1942 To avoid having to go to an orphanage, McKee proposed to Norma Jeane, who have 16 years old, married with a son of his neighbor, a policeman of 21 years named James Dougherty, and she accepted. Dougherty and Norma Jeane married in June 1942 she abandoned his studies to play the role of wife and homemaker.

  • Divorced and auditions.

    Divorced and auditions.
    In 1946 after the divorced, Monroe start to go to auditions and try to participate in films and television series. After 4 years of failure in 1952 she received good reviews for his film Clash by night.

  • Cover of playboy magazine.

    Cover of playboy magazine.
    In December of 1953 she appear in the number one cover of Playboy, and she was the first girl of the month in the magazine.

  • Awards.

    Awards.
    Since 1955 to 1959 she was nominated to the BAFTA awards, Golden Globes and The Oscars for best actress in film or musical.

  • Hospitalization.

    Hospitalization.
    In August 1960, the actress was hospitalized in LA for ten days, the newspaper say that she was nearly to her death but the don’t say the cause. The next couple of month Monroe have an a addiction for drugs and alcohol put she nearly to her death.

  • Second divorce and the psychiatric clinic.

    Second divorce and the psychiatric clinic.
    The 20 of January in 1961 she divorced of Miller.In February she ingress in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, and then she said that was a nightmare. Then she communicate with Joe DiMaggio and he moved her from the Clinic to a normal hospital. And because of her health she couldn’t work all the year.

  • Death

    Death
    The 5 of August in 1962 at the 4:55, the boss of the Los Angeles Police Department, Jack Clemmons, receive a call from the psychiatrist Dr. Greenson and he said that the actress die in her house. The official Clemmons was the first who saw the scene and the first autopsy revealed she died of an overdose of barbiturates. The police report and describe the event as a "probable suicide", but for lack of evidence investigators left open the possibility that she had been murdered.