Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926. Making her 36 years old when she died on August 5, 1962 in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. Monroe became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and continues to be considered a major popular culture icon. Monroe was a 1950s actress and model. She stared in many movies and became a top-billed actress for 10 years. Her films grossed at about $200 million by the time of her demise in 1962.…
Norma Jeane Mortenson, also known as Marilyn Monroe, was and still is an icon because of her bravery and high self-esteem. She is so famous because she didn’t cover up her body, she embraced her curves and never hid them like most girls did back in the day “Imperfection is beauty,madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” Many women from her era weren’t as sexualized as she was and that made her more entertaining also. In 1962 Marilyn Monroe died at age 36. No one knows how she died, but 50 years later she is still an icon.…
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was an American actress and model. Famous for playing "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962.[1] She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon.[2]…
On May 27, 1902, Della Monroe, who had schizophrenia, gave birth to a new daughter named Gladys Pearl in Piedras Negras, Mexico. That baby grew up and developed Schizophrenia also, and moved to California. On May 17, 1917, Gladys Pearl Monroe married Jasper Newton Baker. The newly-weds later had two kids; Robert Kermit Baker (Jack), and Bernice Baker. Jasper and Gladys divorced in 1923, under the terms of abuse. Jasper, an alcoholic, had abused Gladys and had given her two concussions. But, along with the divorce came the loss of kids for Gladys because Jasper took the kids with him and said Gladys was an “unfit mother”. On October 11, 1924, Gladys, now a film cutter at Consolidated Studios in Southern California, married Martin Edward Mortenson. They had no kids and they divorced on August 15, 1928. After that marriage Gladys had many affairs, so many that in 1925 when she became pregnant, she did not know who the father was.…
she was announced dead due to an overdose. She was accused of suicide but other…
She grew up with a single mother. She never knew her dad was. She died at the age 36 with a drug overdose. When Norma Jean was a little girl she was a model. Monroe always wanted to be an actress. Growing up Monroe was a sex symbol for her movies.…
October 11, 1809 was a date that lead too many unanswered questions and confused people, the day of Meriwether Lewis’ death. Meriwether Lewis was the governor of the upper Louisiana territory and a leader in the Lewis & Clark expedition. Lewis died of 2 Gunshot wounds, one to his head and the other to his stomach. His death was initially ruled as a suicide and many people believed that theory besides Lewis’ family. More theories and conspiracies were made that made more people have different believes on the topic. Meriwether Lewis committed suicide because of becoming overwhelmed by personal problems and physical disease.…
Her father was a mechanic who died in a motorcycle accident when she was only three years old. Her mother was a film technician who suffered frequent mental breakdowns due to her severe paranoid schizophrenia. Because of this, Marilyn Monroe couldn’t stay in her care, so she stayed in a series of twelve foster homes in which she was was sexually abused several times ("Marilyn Monroe." American Decades). This constant abuse and lack of stability created a lack of trust and mental problems. She was noted to be very beautiful from a young age, but very lonely and did not receive very much schooling and ended up dropping out when she was only fifteen years old 9 ("Marilyn Monroe Biography." Biography.com). She barely knew her mother, occasionally visiting her in the mental hospital from time to time. By sixteen, she was tired of being jumping from home to home, so to prevent herself…
In the days leading up to her death, Martha was in pain and lost her eyesight by the age of 89 (“Martha Gellhorn Biography, n.d.”). Martha could barely write stories and basically gave up. In 1998 at 89 Martha Gellhorn took her life by overdosing on drugs.…
Although, Monroe did not have an easy life growing up. She spent most of her life in foster homes and an orphanage, as her mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe, was not mentally, nor financially prepared for a child. The identity of Monroe’s father is unknown, seeing as her mother was married twice but divorced both before Marilyn was born. Marilyn had two half siblings from her mother. Her sister, Berniece, whom she had not known about until she was 12 and had not met until she was an adult. Her brother, Robert, who passed away in 1933 of kidney failure as a result of Tuberculosis of the bone. When Gladys put Marilyn in the fostering care of two Christians by the names of Albert and Ida Bolender, Gladys lived with them to care for Marilyn herself. In 1927, longer shifts at…
Marilyn Monroe, her given name Norma Jeane Mortenson, was born on June 1, 1926. The name Norma Jeane Mortenson was baptized as Norma Jeane Baker (Bio True Story, 2012). When Marilyn was born, during the 1920’s, single parenting was not regarded highly. Marilyn’s mother, Gladys Mortenson, named Marilyn after Norma Tallmadge, famous actor during the mid- 1920’s. Marilyn was born with no father figure in which to influence her life. Marilyn’s birth certificate lists Edward Mortenson as the father, of which he was Gladys’ second husband, biographers have since agreed that Norma Jeane’s father was actually Stanley Gifford. Gifford abandoned Gladys upon learning of the pregnancy (Bio True Story, 2012).…
She was married to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. Tragically, she died in 1962 because she overdosed on sleeping pills. She did not like the way the public viewed her and all of the fame pushed her to the edge (Rich). Another rising star from the 1950s was James Dean. Even though he died young, he still had a spectacular career.…
The poem “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” by Edwin Morgan explores the themes of isolation and loneliness throughout. The poem does this by adding in the use of imagery and tone. This poem by Morgan examines the theme of isolation by looking at the situation that Marilyn Monroe was in at the height of her fame. The poet looks at how Monroe was treated and how desolate she was even though she was surrounded by the likes of the press and she was constantly in the public eye. I am going to discuss how isolated Marilyn Monroe was and how Morgan carried this theme of isolation throughout the poem with the imagery, grammar and structure.…
In a lot of ways, the Misfits can be described as painfully and “cringeworthily” misogynistic. Marilyn Monroe’s innocent blonde characterization in a world of a majority of men, but one, visually objectifying her would send the feminists of today’s time into a frenzy on Twitter. In some ways, the treatment of women seems self-aware from a writing standpoint. To the point where it’s so extreme, there’s no way it’s not used as a plot device. But for what purpose? I saw the treatment of women and Marilyn Monroe by men as a self-analysis of the effect women have on men. Misfits explores the sacrifices men make for the affection of women while women show their power to change a man’s world view and force them to do deep self-exploration.…
Since 1962 one of Hollywood’s famous icons Marilyn Monroe, death still remains as an unforgettable and compelled mystery. As the population discovers her death many became startled and speechless for her to become deceased at such a young age. Many had viewed her as a beautiful model and an actress who symbolizes as a sex symbol of the 1950’s. Although Marilyn Monroe had an unfortunate childhood by the negative impacts that led up to many difficulties over time she managed to fulfill many of her dreams as a star. At the age of 36, she was found dead on August 5th, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angeles California possibly caused by an overdose of Barbiturates in which investigators believed it’s a probable suicide. There are many theories that may…