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She has one of the most recognized faces in the world. Over thirty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is still a
household name. Her trademark platinum hair and beauty mark, her
famous skirt-blowing scene from The Seven-Year Itch, all of these things are a part of our
culture. Marilyn Monroe is an icon, a legend.
Who was this luminous woman, this glamorous star? Behind the glitter and the smiles, who was the woman
who made it all possible?
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Born: As Norma Jeane MortensonNorma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 (Los Angeles, California) Died: August 5, 1962 (Los Angeles, California)Occupation: Model, Singer, Film Actress
Spouse: James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller
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""I want to be a big star more than I want to be a big star more than anything. anything.
It's something precious" It's something precious" Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years.
She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career.
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To this day, she is one of the 20th century's most famous movie stars, sex symbols and
pop icons. In 1946, she began using the stage name
Marilyn Monroe, but did not legally change her name until February 23, 1956.
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does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man."
Clark Gable
Awards and nominations:
1952 Photoplay Award: Special Award
1953 Golden Globe Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite Female 1953 Photoplay Award: Most Popular Female Star
1956BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Seven Year Itch
1957Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Bus Stop
1958BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
1958 David di Donatello Award (Italian): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
1959 Crystal Star Award (French): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl
1960 Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Some Like It Hot
Golden Laurel, Top Female Comedy Performance for Some Like It Hot.
1962 Golden Globe, World Film Favorite: Female Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6104 Hollywood Blvd.
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She's become a mythical figure. So many books have been written about her, so many stories constructed
about her, that she seems more like a made-up character than a real person. But she was a genuine star - she may even be Hollywood's last great and
legendary star.
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In 1999, Marilyn was named the Number One Sex Star of the 20th Century by Playboy magazine
In 1999, Marilyn was voted the 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine.
Issued on June 1, 1995, Marilyn was featured on a 32¢ US commemorative postage stamp.
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Hollywood is a place where Hollywood is a place where they'llthey'll
pay you a thousand dollars pay you a thousand dollars for a kissfor a kiss
and fifty cents for your soul. and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe
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and to the world, not because I and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, was talented or even beautiful,
but because I never had but because I never had belonged to anything or anyone belonged to anything or anyone
else.“else.“Marilyn Monroe
Favorites:Colors: Beige, black, white and red
Actors: Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Laughton Will Rogers, Cary Grant, John Barrymore, Tyrone Power and Richard Widmark
Actresses: Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Marie Dressler and Olivia DeHavilland
Artists: Goya, Picasso, El Greco, Michelangelo and Botticelli
Beverage: Dom Perignon 1953
Book: How Stanislavsky Directs by Michael Gorchakov
Female Singer: Ella Fitzgerald
Male Singer: Frank Sinatra
Film Performances: The Asphalt Jungle and Don't Bother to Knock
Photograph: Cecil Beaton's photo of Marilyn in her white dress
Musicians: Louis Armstrong, Earl Bostick, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Plays: A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman
Playwrights: Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
Poets: John Keats and Walt Whitman
Restaurant: Romanoff's (in Hollywood)
Store: Bloomingdale's
Writers: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J.D. Salinger, George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Wolfe
Personal Remembrance: Korea
Perfume: Chanel No. 5
Beauty Product: Nivea moisturizerMar
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"People had a habit of looking at "People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of me as if I were some kind of
mirror instead of a person. They mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by white-masked themselves by
calling me the lewd one." calling me the lewd one." Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled glow and energy that enamored the
world. Although she was an alluring beauty with voluptuous curves and a generous pout, Marilyn was
more than a '50s sex goddess. Her apparent vulnerability and innocence, in combination with an innate sensuality, has endeared her to the global
consciousness. She dominated the age of movie stars to become, without question, the most famous woman
of the 20th Century.
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Sadly, in a shocking turn of events on the early morning of August 5, 1962, 36-year-old Marilyn died in her sleep at
her Brentwood, California home.
The world was stunned. Marilyn's vibrant spirit and beauty made it impossible to
believe she was gone.
On August 8, 1962, Marilyn's body was laid to rest in the Corridor of Memories, #24, at Westwood Memorial Park in
Los Angeles, California.
