Marilyn Monroe Biography

Marilyn Monroe was the name Norma Jeane Mortenson, baptized Norma Jeane Baker June 1, 1926 – 5 August 1962, Monroe, born in the vicinity of love the Los Angeles County Hospital. According to biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles, his grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, called his Norma Jeane Baker by Aimee Semple McPherson. Even if she has a stagename of Marilyn Monroe in 1946, she has not legally change his name until February 23, 1956. His mother was Gladys Pearl (Monroe) Baker (1902-1984). The identity of his father, was the subject of discussions for decades, biographer of Donald H. Wolfe In the last days of Marilyn Monroe, writes its conviction that Norma Jeane the biological father was Charles Stanley Gifford, a seller of RKO Pictures, where Gladys worked as a cut-film and during his life always thought that Marilyn Gifford was his father. However, Monroe official birth certificate lists Gladys the second husband, Martin Edward Mortenson, as the father. The family would have been Monroe English-Spanish origin, with a story from the beginning of the State of California and cultural ties and the start of the avant-garde Spanish colonists as Sepulvedas.

During its first husband was in the merchant navy during the Second World War dragged Monroe with his mother, where she began to work in the factory radio Plane ammunition from Hollywood actor Reginald Denny. They sprayed parties with an aircraft fire and inspected the parachutes. During this time, the army photographer David Conover break a photo of his Yank, an article in the journal. He called on his Blue Book Modeling Agency. She has worked with the Agency and began research on the work of the famous actress Jean Harlow and Lana Turner. Monroe in the dramatic arts and singing classes and had their hair cut, slightly improved, and the golden blonde. Monroe is one of the best models Blue Book, based on dozens of magazines. In 1946, it has the attention of talent scout Ben Lyon. It was a screen for his trial, with the 20th Century Fox. It has offered a standard six months to a contract with the payment of $ 125 per week.

Since Norma Jeane was not considered a name for commercial scene in Lyon, she suggested, Marilyn (after the famous actress Marilyn Miller). To his name to the family, she took her mother’s maiden name of Monroe. During the first half of Fox, Monroe was no work, but Fox renewed his contract, and she has performed in smaller Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and dangerous years, both released in 1947. In Scudda Hoo! Its share was with the exception of a brief look on his face, two words when she speaks. Fox has decided not to renew his contract. Monroe was, is the modeling and started the establishment of networks and contacts. It has naked for photographs, were subsequently included in the first edition of Playboy. In 1948, during a period of six months stay at Columbia Pictures, Monroe had a party in a three Stooges short and the star of this film ladies of the choir. The low budget musical was not a success and Monroe was canceled. She met a Hollywood’s top agent Johnny Hyde, the Fox-MGM characters after his tour. Darryl F. Zanuck, the Vice-President of Fox, is not convinced of its potential for Monroe, but because of the ongoing Hyde bought it in pieces, the Marx Brothers movie Love Happy (1949) and Fox’s All About Eve and the MGM Asphalt Jungle (1950 ). Even if the roles were small, film fans and the criticism has taken note. Hyde organised to enable smaller plastic surgery on the nose and chin, and added that everything in the hour dental surgery. The next two years were filled with rolls standard fare, as we are not honeymooners! And love nest. However RKO Monroe framework for the promotion box-office potential for the production of Fritz Lang, Clash by Night. After the film has good results, Fox is a job similar tactics, and he was cast as a ditzy receptionist with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers Howard Hawks in the slapstick comedy Monkey Business. The reviewers are no longer ignored them and the two films’ success at box office was partly due to Monroe is becoming increasingly popular. Monroe Fox has a leading role in 1952 with not disturb, Knock, in which she describes a baby sitter disrupted attacks, the little girl to his expense. It was with little effort a B-movie, and although the comments were mixed, they argued, he has the ability of Monroe and has confirmed that it was prepared for the major roles. His performance was seen as one of its most beautiful.