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Marilyn Monroe

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Childhood pictures show that Marilyn was born a blonde, but her hair turned "mousy" (brunette) as she grew up. She dyed her hair several different shades of blonde as an adult.
# The song Candle in the Wind (1973), which was written by Bernie Taupin and performed by Elton John, was about Marilyn Monroe. In 1997, Elton John rewrote the song for Diana, Princess of Wales and performed it at her funeral.
# Unlikely fans of Marilyn included Albert Einstein and Ayn Rand.

# People rarely looked past the image Marilyn portrayed, but she was said to be quite intelligent - it was hidden behind her image as a dumb blonde with beautiful features. She herself always regretted not being able to continue with high school and wrote poems and was very much involved in literature.

# Celebrity photographer George Barris claims he took the last pictures of Marilyn. However, it was confirmed Allan Grant took the last pictures of Marilyn during her invterview with Life magazine on July 7, 1962.

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress of the 20th century. Her sizzling screen presence and premature death would make her a perennial sex symbol and later a pop icon.
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She was born Norma Jeane Mortensen, and baptized Norma Jeane Baker, in the charity ward of Los Angeles County Hospital (now County-USC) in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Gladys Pearl Monroe. While biographers agree the man listed on her birth certificate, Martin Edward Mortensen, Gladys's second husband, was not her biological father, her paternity has never been firmly established. The most likely candidate seems to be Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for the studio where Gladys worked as a film-cutter. The just-divorced Gifford had no desire to be tied down and left Gladys when she informed him of her pregnancy.

She posed nude for photographer Tom Kelley on May 27, 1949, and was paid $50.00. The model of the Miss Golden Dreams calendar from that shoot was billed as "anonymous." In 1952, a blackmailer threatened to identify her as Marilyn, but Monroe thwarted the scheme by announcing the fact herself. When asked by reporters why she did it, she shrugged, and said, "I was hungry." Hugh Hefner bought the rights to use the photo for the first issue of his new men's magazine, Playboy.

She married James Dougherty on June 19, 1942. Grace, moving with her husband, wanted Norma Jeane to marry to avoid going to an orphanage. In "The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe" and "To Norma Jeane With Love, Jimmie," Dougherty claims they were in love and would have lived happily ever after had not dreams of stardom lured her away. By contrast, Monroe always maintained it was a marriage of convenience foisted upon them by Grace, who paid Dougherty to take her charge on dates. She divorced him in 1946.

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California, home at age thirty-six from an overdose of barbiturates. Circumstances surrounding her death have led many to believe she was murdered because of her involvement with the Kennedy Family (President John F. Kennedy had recently broken off their affair). However, one problem with this theory is that Kennedy's many other alleged girlfriends, including Judith Campbell Exner (who was also the paramour of mobster Sam Giancana, and acted as a secret go-between for the two men), outlived the president.

 

 

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