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full name : Norma Jeane Mortenson
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His early childhood was very hard. Her mother left her in the hands of a friendly marriage until she turned seven; Then he took her to live with him. But a year later Gladys was admitted to a psychiatric hospital where she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a disease that Marilyn later believed she had inherited, especially when she was hospitalized for her frequent depressions.
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throughout his short, but intense, film career he shot 29 films, some as memorable as The Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or Temptation lives upstairs. Although he never won an Oscar, he won a Golden Globe and several Bafta awards
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March 11, 1942 James Dougherty,, . He was barely 16 years old when he first married
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That same year of 1946 a fashion photographer discovered her and convinced her to become a model. Thus, the still called Norma Jean began her career as a model under the tutelage of agent Emmeline Snively
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The model's face was beginning to be very well known. His innumerable publicity works made that in 1947 the magnate Howard Hughes offered him to make some screen tests in order to know if he could play with a film camera; but Norma Jean preferred to accept an offer from the 20th Century Fox to work a few months as a supporting actress.
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A year later Fox refused to renew the contract, so he accepted a new one of similar characteristics in Columbia. For this company he starred in the musical comedy Ladies of the chorus (1948), by Phil Karlson. Marilyn was a modest striptease dancer named Peggy Martin and sang two songs. To prepare this paper he received lessons from Columbia's musical director Fred Karger
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He marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio, from whom he divorces the same year. Co-stars the western Rio without return and the musical comedy Luces de candilejas.
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Temptation lives up (1955)
In short, despite the strenuous attempts that Marilyn Monroe carried out in life to be considered differently than it was seen, it will hardly ever disappear from the collective imagination as one of the erotic icons of the twentieth century. The image of Temptation lives upstairs, with white blouse and pleated skirt that rise and shake when it passes over a New York subway vent. -
Starring Bus Stop by Joshua Logan. He married the playwright Arthur Miller.
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He stars and produces in England the film The Prince and the Showgirl, along with Laurence Olivier.
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Their depressions and their addiction to alcohol and barbiturates are accentuated.
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Receive a Golden Globe for rebel lives.
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Many said they had no choice: that it was contradictory, self-destructive, with depressive tendencies, that it was always on the verge of suicide; that it was she herself who ended her own life on that fateful August 5, 1962, when she was only 36 years old.
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She was an American film actress, one of the most popular of the twentieth century, considered a pop icon and a sex symbol.
