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Marilyn Monroe

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Marilyn Monroes birth.

  • Kindergarden

    Marilyn Monroe went to Ballona Elementary and Kindergarten.

  • Difficult Childhood

    Difficult Childhood
    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.

  • Elementary School

    Elementary School
    Marilyn Monroe attended Selma Avenue Elementary School .

  • High School

    High School
    Van Nuys High School

  • First Marriage

    First Marriage
    When Marilyn was just 16, she married her first husband, 21-year-old James Dougherty.

  • Marilyn Monroe met her sister

    Marilyn Monroe met her sister
    Monroe was not told that she had a sister until she was 12.

  • Model

    Model
    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.

  • Film

    Film
    Signed with Twentieth-Century Fox.

  • Dangerous Years

    Dangerous Years
    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.

  • Role

    Role
    In 1950 Monroe played a small uncredited role in The Asphalt Jungle that reaped a mountain of fan mail.

  • First Magazine

    First Magazine
    She only graced LIFE's cover six times while she was alive.

  • Niagara

    Niagara
    Niagara is her second movie.

  • Second Marriage

    Second Marriage
    Marilyn Monroe and baseball legend Joe DiMaggio wed in 1954.

  • Carrier

    Carrier
    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.

  • GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD

    GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD
    She got her first Award.

  • Health Problems Arise

    Health Problems Arise
    Monroe suffered from insomnia, depression and anxiety and had begun to struggle with alcoholism and prescription drug addictions.

  • The Misfits

    The Misfits
    The Misfits was her last film.

  • Last marriage

    Last marriage
    Marilyn's third and final marriage to playwright Arthur Miller lasted until 1961.

  • Death

    Death
    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.