Marilyn Monroe
I was born Norma Jean Baker on June 1, 1926 at nine am. I was named after Norma Talmadge, but not Jean Harlow. I had a rough childhood: I never knew my father. I had no stable mother figure. I went through three orphanages and more than a dozen foster homes. I was sexually assaulted twice, by my stepfather and my cousin. I was exposed to many religions including Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, and Christian Science. I was forced by Grace, later my guardian, to idolize Jean Harlow, and despite everything I was also unpopular among my peers. I ended up living with Grace Goddard, my mother's boss and best friend, after she was declared unfit to care for me. Grace married a man named ...
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so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months) with Ben Lyon who worked for Twentieth-century Fox Productions, on August 24, 1946. He was responsible for changing my name. While working at Fox, I met someone who was later to become my best friend, Allan Snyder, and got two bit roles. In August of 1947, Fox downsized and did not renew my contract. I went to the Actor's Laboratory and studied drama and met a long string of influential people including Lee and Paula Strasberg, who in turn introduced me to Joe Shenck who wanted one thing, and I gave it to him. In return, he got me a job with Harry Cohen, who paid me $125 per week for six months on one condition: I had to cut my hair and go blonde. Through Harry Cohen I met several more important people like John Huston, Joe Mankiewitz, Natasha Lytess, my lesbian drama coach, and Johnny Hyde, who fell in love with me soon after our first meeting. Johnny, in return for my 'love' got me a screen ...
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for not showing up to film one week, and I began to look for good scripts not good pay, so my friend Milton and some others organized Productions to help me do just that. In 1954, Joe married me and on our honeymoon in Japan, the crowds and press around me was worse than in the US. Fox wanted me back so they said that if I did No Business Like Show Business they would give me the lead in The Seven Year Itch. I agreed. Natasha continued working on the set with me, although no one from Fox approved of her. Rumors floated about me and Hal Schafer, the musical director, and I will admit that they were true. That combined with the skirt blowing scene in The Seven Year Itch led Joe to ...
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