Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) Model, actress, singer and disputably one of the most famous women of the twentieth century. Monroe has become an iconic representative of fame and female resplendency. She is widely regarded as one of most influential figures in American culture.
Monroe was born, Norma Jeane Mortenson, in June 1926. Her mother was Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe, 1902–84) Her father was unknown and she was baptised as Norma Jeane Baker. Her mother Gladys had a turbulent noetic state and struggled to cope with bringing up her children. For the first six years, Marilyn was brought up by foster parents, Albert and Ida Bolender in the town of Hawthorne, California. Her mother then endeavored to take back Marilyn, but she suffered a phrenic breakdown and Marilyn was moved between different orphanages and foster homes. The traumatic childhood made her shy and reserved.
Just after her 16th day of inchoation, in 1942, Monroe espoused her 21-year-old, next-door neighbour Jimmy Dougherty. Marilyn became a housewife, but the couple were not proximate, and Monroe reports being bored. In 1943, her husband left to join the Merchant Marines to participate in America’s War effort. They split up shortly after.
To earn a living, Marilyn took a job at a local munitions factory in Burbank, California. It was here that Marilyn got her first immensely colossal break. Photographer David Conover was covering the munitions factory to show women at work for the War effort. He was struck by the resplendency and photogenic nature of Norma, and he utilized her in many of his photographs. This enabled her to commence a vocation as a model, and she was anon featured on the front of many magazine covers.
1946 was a pivotal year for Marilyn, she divorced her adolescent husband and transmuted her designation from, the insipid, Norma Baker to the more glamorous Marilyn Monroe (after her grandma). She took drama edifications and got her first movie contract with Twentieth Century Fox. Her first few films were low key, but from these commencements, it gained her more prominent roles in films such as All About Eve, Niagara and later Gentleman Prefer Blondes and How To Espouse A Millionaire.
These prosperous film roles thrust her into the ecumenical limelight. She became an iconic figure of Hollywood glamour and fashion. She was an epitome of sensuality, comeliness and effervescence and was naturally photogenic. But she often found the trappings of fame arduous to deal with.
In 1954, she espoused baseball star Joe DiMaggio, a friend of over two years. Monroe was now one of most astronomically immense box-office draws of Hollywood, but her contract, negotiated in 1950, left her paid less than other stars. Additionally, Monroe didn’t wish to be typecast as a ‘blonde bombshell’ – just playing simple roles in comedies and musicals. In a dispute over pay and cull of acting, she was ephemerally suspended by 20th Century Fox, but ineluctably, they acceded to some of Monroe’s demands and gave her higher pay. In September 1954, she starred in The Seven Year Itch, which was relinquished to widespread media interest – after a prosperous media stunt on Lexington Avenue, Incipient York.
In 1955, she sought more preponderant independence from Fox, and commenced her own movie engenderment and commenced studying method acting. Despite the media often being dismissive of Monroe’s potential, her efforts to ameliorate acting paid off, and later films received critical acclaim for her wider scope of acting. She was nominated for Golden Globe Best Actress Award for Bus Stop (1956). In 1959, she won a Golden Globe for her role in ‘Some Like It Hot‘.
Her relationship with Joe DiMaggio was expeditiously strained, due to his jealous and controlling nature. Monroe anon filed for divorce, though the couple retained an amity despite the divorce. Monroe commenced dating playwright Arthur Miller and in 1956 espoused. To get espoused, Monroe converted to Judaism. The espousement received consequential media interest for the cumulation of Miller the left-wing astute and Monroe, the perceived ‘dumb blonde’. The espousement was sometimes referred to, rather unkindly, as “Egghead Weds Hourglass”.
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