A Brief Look At Marilyn Monroe

The person I’m doing my essay on is Marilyn Monroe. Her full name was actually Norma Jeane Mortenson, and she was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. She died on August 5, 1962, at the age of 36. She was a famous actress, model, and a little bit of a singer. I chose to do this essay on her because I had already new some information about her, but I just wanted to learn some more information about her job and her life. Marilyn Monroe grew up with a half sister Bernice Baker Miracle. She had never new who her father was but her mother was Gladys Baker Mortenson. Most of her childhood was spent switching from foster care and orphanages. She spent some time being raised by some family friends who were paid $25 an week by her mother.At
the age 9 the LA Orphans’ Home paid her a nickel a month for Kitchen work. Marilyn Monroe attended High School at Van Nuys High School, and University High School. When she was 15 she dropped out of University High School in West Los Angeles, CA. She enrolled at Van Nuys High School in September 1941. She began attending University High School in February 1942. When she was 16 she married Jimmy Dougherty on June 19, 1942. After they got married, she worked at a munitions factory in Burbank, while her husband Jimmy Dougherty was in the South Pacific. While she was working at the factory she was discovered by a photographer and by the time Jimmy Dougherty returned, she had become a successful model and had changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, and died on August 5,1962 at the age of 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills.
Her occupations were Model, Actress, and Singer. In 1946 she signed a short-term contract with Twentieth Century-Fox, taking the screen name Marilyn Monroe. Her most successful roles were in the movies Bus Stop in 1956 and The Misfits in 1961. She was in a total of 28 films. In 1950 she played a small uncredited role in the movie Asphalt Jungle the reaped a mountain of fan mail. An appearance in All about eve in 1950 won her another contract from Fox and much recognition. In 1954 she married Joe DiMaggio and attendant publicity was enormous. In 1956 she married playwright Arthur Miller and briefly retired from movie making, although she co-starred with Sir Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl in 1957. She traveled to New York City to attend a gala where she famously sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy with whom she was allegedly having an affair. After several months as a virtual recluse, she died from an overdose of sleeping pills in her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a “probable suicide”, though the conspiracy theories persisted. Marilyn Monroe’s relationship with her parents was very weak.As a child she went through the struggles and challenges of moving from foster cares and orphanages through her childhood. At one point she moved in with some family friends for a little bit. Later the family moved to West Virginia and they couldn’t afford to take her with them so she went and lived with her aunt. As she grew older she had trouble trusting people while she was in relationships. she had emotional difficulties through her short
lifetime. What made Marilyn Monroe important as her acting, modeling, and her singing. Her acting and modeling is what mainly made her famous. Her acting career began when she had a small uncredited role in the movie Asphalt Jungle. After that she was in 28 more movies. She had signed a contract with 20th Century Fox. Her modeling career began when she was working in a factory in California and a photographer had noticed her. She really only sang in movies or tv shows that she was in as a little performance. I admire that Marilyn Monroe was able to go through an rough childhood and yet was able to become one of the most famous actresses ever in history. She was able to go from place to place as a child just to have a home and some food to eat. Also that she could handle being such an famous actress with all these haters. She never really knew who her real father was so as she grew up that probably put her down seeing all them families with a father and made it a little tougher to do her career. In one of her first few modeling gigs at an agricultural festival in Castroville, California she was named the state’s first ever Artichoke Queen. In her first movie role she wasn’t actually visually seen in it, it was just her voice. She had played as the telephone operator in the movie “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim” in 1947. She was in only one movie that her character dies in which was called “Niagara”. In the last few years of her life she was seeing a psychoanalyst daily.