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She was born in Los Angeles County Hospital and originally her name was Norma Jeane Mortenson. Her mother's name is Gladys Pearl Baker and Martin Edward Mortensen -
Gladys became mentally unstable and was forcibly removed to the State Hospital of Norwalk and Marilyn became a ward of the state. Her mother's best friend, Grace McKee, became her guardian. -
Grace Mckee then married Ervin Silliman Goddard and sent 9 year old Marilyn to live at the Los Angeles Orphans Home. -
After several failed attempts to find someone to watch her, the Goddards asked their neighbor if her son could marry Marilyn so that she wouldn't go back to the orphanage. -
She signed with the agency and died her brunette hair to golden blonde. She became one of Blue Book's most successful models. -
Marilyn saw her possibilities of a successful modeling and acting career and decided to divorce him when he returned from overseas in 1946. -
Ben Lyon, a 20th Century Fox executive, was impressed by her screen test that he offered her a starting salary of $125.00 a week. Lyon did not like her original name and suggested that she take the name, Marilyn Monroe. -
Her contract ended with Twentieth Century Fox and she was still looking for other jobs. While waiting she decided to pose for nude photographs for $50.00. -
Henrietta Award:
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Niagara was Monroe's first major role. She played a femme fatale scheming to murder her husband. -
Monroe got married to Joe DiMaggio. They traveled to Japan on a business trip and also combined it as their honeymoon as well. -
Marilyn and DiMaggio got a divorce after a dispute about her scene in The Seven Year Itch. She had to stand while the air from a subway grate blew her skirt up. -
At the outset of her acting career, Norma Jeane dyed her brown hair blonde and changed her name again, calling herself Marilyn Monroe the “Monroe” was her grandmother's last name. -
Monroe and Arthur Miller married after a reporter was following them and after trying to elude him he crashed into another car and killed the woman driver. -
First Pregnancy: Marilyn got pregnant with Arthur, but lost it
Second Pregnancy: Also with Arthur, lost it again due to an ectopic pregnancy.
Third Pregnancy: Had a miscarriage. Attempted suicide the months after the lost pregnancy. -
Monroe was asked to attend John F. Kennedy's birthday where she performed Happy Birthday along with a specially written verse. -
Monroe was found dead at her bed with his phone in her hand after taking 47 pills to sleep, Pentobarbital, chloral hydrate, and a mix of Nembutal at her house in Brentwood, California between midnight and 1:00 a.m. There has been some speculation over the years that she may have been murdered, but the cause of her death was officially ruled as a drug overdose. They indicate that she was assassinated by order of Robert Kennedy, brother of that time the American President John F. -
Monroe was buried in her favorite Emilio Pucci dress, in what was known as a "Cadillac casket" the most high-end casket available, made of heavy-gauge solid bronze and lined with champagne-colored silk.