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Marilyn Monroes birth. -
Marilyn Monroe went to Ballona Elementary and Kindergarten.
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Her mother, Gladys Baker, became unstable and had to give Marilyn up to foster parents.But when she was 7 she could again live with her parents. -
Marilyn Monroe attended Selma Avenue Elementary School . -
Van Nuys High School -
When Marilyn was just 16, she married her first husband, 21-year-old James Dougherty. -
Monroe was not told that she had a sister until she was 12. -
In 1944, during World War II, Monroe was working in a factory where she met David Conover, He thought she had the right look for a model, leading her to the Blue Book Model Agency where she became a successful pin up model. -
Signed with Twentieth-Century Fox. -
Monroe spent her first six months at Fox learning acting, singing, and dancing, and observing the film-making process.And finally she got chance to be in a Movie. -
In 1950 Monroe played a small uncredited role in The Asphalt Jungle that reaped a mountain of fan mail. -
She only graced LIFE's cover six times while she was alive. -
Niagara is her second movie. -
Marilyn Monroe and baseball legend Joe DiMaggio wed in 1954. -
Monroe studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors’ Studio in New York City, and in The Seven Year Itch and Bus Stop , she began to emerge as a talented comedian. -
She got her first Award. -
Monroe suffered from insomnia, depression and anxiety and had begun to struggle with alcoholism and prescription drug addictions. -
The Misfits was her last film. -
Marilyn's third and final marriage to playwright Arthur Miller lasted until 1961. -
Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room.