Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1962, in Los Angeles, California 
and was raised in a sequence of orphanages and foster homes.

Her real name was Norma Jean Mortenson.

1st Husband: Jim Dougherty, prior to career
2nd husband: Joe DiMaggio, a baseball hero
3rd Husband: Arthur Miller, a playwright

Playboy Magazine
Marilyn Monroe was
Playboy magazine's first
playmate. In Dec. 1953,
Marilyn appeared on
the cover of Playboy's
very first issue.

Marilyn appears in Royal Tritron Gas Commercial just before hitting stardom. 
In 1952, Marilyn accepts a Photoplay award for fastest rising star 
and thanks the magazine in her classic breathy manner. 
In the mid-1950s Marilyn is photographed by eager paparazzi, 
throws out the first ball, smiles for the camera and visits the troops in Korea. 
Gives classic kiss to the camera.

Huge billboard of Marilyn for THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH goes up in Times Square. 
Marilyn waits on the receiving line with Victor Mature to be greeted by the Queen. 
In Korea, Marilyn gives the boys what they've long been waiting for 
as she comes out in a signature black gown.

Marilyn poses and kisses her new hubbie Joe DiMaggio. 

She meets the press with new hubbie Arthur Miller, 
and in her final and most famous appearance, 
Peter Lawford introduces her as "the late Marilyn Monroe" 
and she sings HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT.
 
JFK comments: 
"I can now retire from politics after having Happy Birthday 
being sung to me in such a sweet and wholesome manner." 

Marilyn Monroe had a glamorous and exciting existance,
but Norma Jeane had a lonely, tragic life.

MM Quotes

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. 
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."

"I'm going to be a great movie star some day."

"I want to feel blonde all over."

"There was my name up in lights. 
I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake' 
But there it was, in lights. 
And I sat there and said, 
'Remember,  you're not a star' 
Yet there it was up in lights."

"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. 
But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, 
I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."

"He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me 
if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."

"I don't want to play sex roles any more. 
I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape."

"I am invariably late for appointments -- sometimes as much as two hours. 
I've tried to change my ways 
but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."

 "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

"Everybody is always tugging at you. 
They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. 
I don' think they realize it, 
but it's like 'grrr do this,  grr do that...' 
But you do want to stay intact --
intact and on two feet."

"It stirs up envy, fame does.
People ...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you 
and say anything to you -- and it won't hurt your feelings --
like it's happening to your clothing."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. 
I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"Fame is fickle and I know it. 
It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks
and I've experienced them both."

 "With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, 
somebody else's ideas about you, 
but what's important is how you feel about yourself --
for survival and living day to day with what comes up."

"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, 
not because I was talented or even beautiful, 
but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."

"Only the public can make a star. 
It's the studios who try to make a system out of it." 

 "What do I wear to bed? 
Why, Chanel No.5, of course."
~MM 1952

 "A photagrapher once told me
that my two best points are
between my waist and neck."

"Always wear flesh-colored shoes with flesh-colored tights, 
black with black and always, always high heels, 
because it lengthens the leg."

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend." - in Gentlemen Prefer Blonde's .

"Thousands of girls sitting alone like me,
dreaming about becoming a movie star.
But I'm not going to worry about them
because I'm dreaming the hardest."

"It was much more fun dreaming of being a star than being one."

"Every star deserves their right to sparkle." - to Grace Kelly on her wedding.

"Chanel #5" - when asked what she wears to bed.

"People respect you because they feel
you've survived hard times and endured,
and although you've become famous, 
you haven't become phony."

"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, 
to die, young, but then you'd never complete your life, 
would you? 
You'd never wholly know yourself...?"

"I feel like I'm just getting started." 

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a
kiss and fifty cents for your soul" 

Today, Marilyn Monroe's glamour still shines 
through her turbulent life and mysterious death. 
No other star has been the subject of so many books and articles. 
She is immortalized in film, print, and canvas.
 
No other star has so often been the subject of renowned 20th Century artists 
such as Andy Warhol, William de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg. 
Whether on screen or off, she added a touch of humor to glamor and sensuality. 
But most of all she was a performer who knew how to dress the part. 
Monroe, literally sewn into her custom made Jean Louis flesh colored dress 
of 'silk souffle' with over 6000 hand-sewn beads, 
gave the performance of our century when she sang 
"Happy Birthday Mr. President." 
 

Marilyn Monroe

1926 - 1962

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