Marilyn Monroe Murdered
Brandie Perkins
November 2, 2012
French-Hart
Eng. 101
Rough Draft
Marilyn Monroe Murdered She was the most celebrated woman in the world, a platinum-blonde bombshell who fought her way up from a troubled childhood to conquer not only Hollywood but the likes of baseball great Joe DiMaggio (her second husband) and playwright Arthur Miller (her third) as well. When her body was found in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Calif., hacienda on Aug. 5, 1962, no one wanted to believe she had taken her own life…Had despair over her fading youth and the elusiveness of love really driven the 36-year-old star of The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot to end it all? An insomniac and habitual pill popper, had she ingested deadly drug cocktail by accident? Or was it murder? “What happened to Marilyn Monroe,” says a biographer James Spada, “is one of the great mysteries of the 20th century” (Baker 52-60). According to factual evidence, Marilyn Monroe was murdered. Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. During her all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbols (Bio. True Story., 2004). Saturday, August 4, 1962 was the last day of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Marilyn was found in her bedroom, naked on the bed. The light was on, and Mrs. Murray, the housekeeper, said she thought Monroe looked “peculiar” as “one arm was stretched across her bed and a hand hung limp on one of her telephones (Churchwell, 2004). First, Marilyn Monroe became very “acquainted” with the Kennedy’s, which is believed to be what caused her murder, simply because she knew too much (Bell, 2012).
“Marilyn Monroe, according to friends, developed a relationship between the two Kennedy brothers. She was believed to have had separate affairs with the two men simultaneously. Her relationships with Robert and John, unknown to the public, became the talk of Hollywood.
November 2, 2012
French-Hart
Eng. 101
Rough Draft
Marilyn Monroe Murdered She was the most celebrated woman in the world, a platinum-blonde bombshell who fought her way up from a troubled childhood to conquer not only Hollywood but the likes of baseball great Joe DiMaggio (her second husband) and playwright Arthur Miller (her third) as well. When her body was found in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Calif., hacienda on Aug. 5, 1962, no one wanted to believe she had taken her own life…Had despair over her fading youth and the elusiveness of love really driven the 36-year-old star of The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot to end it all? An insomniac and habitual pill popper, had she ingested deadly drug cocktail by accident? Or was it murder? “What happened to Marilyn Monroe,” says a biographer James Spada, “is one of the great mysteries of the 20th century” (Baker 52-60). According to factual evidence, Marilyn Monroe was murdered. Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. During her all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbols (Bio. True Story., 2004). Saturday, August 4, 1962 was the last day of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Marilyn was found in her bedroom, naked on the bed. The light was on, and Mrs. Murray, the housekeeper, said she thought Monroe looked “peculiar” as “one arm was stretched across her bed and a hand hung limp on one of her telephones (Churchwell, 2004). First, Marilyn Monroe became very “acquainted” with the Kennedy’s, which is believed to be what caused her murder, simply because she knew too much (Bell, 2012).
“Marilyn Monroe, according to friends, developed a relationship between the two Kennedy brothers. She was believed to have had separate affairs with the two men simultaneously. Her relationships with Robert and John, unknown to the public, became the talk of Hollywood.