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Marilyn Monroe - Paper

Marilyn Monroe

was the world’s sex symbol of the twentieth century. Although she was hugely successful in movies and loved by all, she lived a dissipated life of drugs and depression.
was born June first, 1926 as Norma Jean Mortenson. Her mother was mentally ill and her father was dead so she was sent to an orphanage where she spent her childhood years. She said that the nuns there treated her harshly, but for her own good. At the ripe age of sixteen, Marilyn married Jim Daugherty. But the marriage was ill fated and did not last long at all. In 1944, a United States army photographer discovered Marilyn while working in a defense plant. The photographer noticed her unnatural beauty and ease in ...

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leave without making a few low-budget musicals with the likes of the Marx Brothers in Love Happy, which was made in 1949, and Ladies of the Chorus also made in 1949.
Finally, in 1950, got the break she was waiting for. She once again signed with 20th Century Fox and made several movies including Asphalt Jungle(1950), All About Eve(1950),Love Nest(1951),Clash By Night(1952),Monkey Business(1952), and her first lead role in Don’t Bother to Knock(1952), where she played a psychotic babysitter. By 1953 she was starring in movies such as How to Marry a Millionaire, Niagra, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. These films, as well as some of her later ones, helped propel Marilyn to the top of the box office and everyone’s hearts.
Marilyn was widely known throughout the US as well as throughout the world! Her mannerisms and physical beauty made her the sex symbol of the 20th century and the target of many imitations. From 1954 to 1960 Marilyn made many films that are still recognized as ...

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Added: 10/23/2005 09:18:21 AM
Category: Biographies
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