Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic blonde bombshell characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. She struggled with addiction, depression, and anxiety. Her marriages to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and to playwright Arthur Miller were highly publicized, and both ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Her death was ruled a probable suicide.
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic blonde bombshell characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade, but her films grossed USD 200 million by the time of her death in 1962. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Monroe sixth on its list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Monroe’s troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with addiction, depression, and anxiety. Her marriages to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and to playwright Arthur Miller were highly publicized, and both ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Her death was ruled a probable suicide, although several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital in LA, California, on June 1, 1926. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, was from a poor Midwestern family who had migrated to California at the turn of the century. At the age of 15, she married John Newton Baker, an abusive man nine years her senior. She had two children named Robert and Berniece. She successfully filed for divorce and sole custody in 1923, but Baker kidnapped the children soon after and moved with them to his native Kentucky. In 1924 she married Martin Edward Mortensen, but they later separated and divorced in 1928.
Although mentally and financially unprepared, Monroe’s early childhood was stable and she often visited her daughter on weekends. In 1933, she bought a small house in Hollywood with a loan from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and lived there for the first six months until she was forced to move back to the city due to work. The identity of Monroe’s father is unknown, and most often used as her surname is Gladys Baker. In 1936, she moved with her daughter to the rural town of Hawthorne, where she lived with evangelical Christian foster parents Ida Bolender and Albert Bolender. She also lived with her sister Berniece for six months, and met Berniece as an adult. In 1938, Monroe moved back to Hawthorne with Gladys and began to work as a film negative cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. In 1940, she began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. In 1950, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. She became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don’t Bother to Knock. She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her work in Some Like It Hot, a critical and commercial success. In 1954, she founded her own film production company in The Prince and the Showgirl.
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