Монро Мэрилин (Monroe Marilyn) (1926–1962), американская киноактриса.
Родилась 1 июня 1926 в благотворительном приюте больницы графства Лос Анджелес. Урожденная Норма Джин Мортенсон (Norma Jeane Mortenson); по другой версии Норма Джин Бейкер (Norma Jeane Baker).
Мать девочки Гледис Пирл Монро (Gladys Pearl Monroe) происходила из бедной семьи, постоянно скитавшейся в поисках заработка. Дважды выходила замуж. От первого брака (1917–1919) с Джаспером Бейкером родила двоих детей. В 1924 Гледис Монро вышла замуж за потомка норвежских иммигрантов Мартина Эдварда Мортенсона (Martin Edward Mortenson). Во всех документах именно он записан как отец Мэрилин Сама Гледис Монро неоднократно утверждала, что настоящим отцом ребенка является Чарльз Стенли Гиффорд (Charles Stanley Gifford), менеджер компании «Консолидейтед филм», на которой она работала монтажницей.
До семи лет девочка проживала в семье приемных родителей Альберта и Иды Болендер. Родная мать посещала ее раз в неделю по субботам. В 1932 у Гледис Монро начались проблемы с психикой. Начиная с 1934, она неоднократно лечилась в психиатрической клинике в Норуолке; покончила с собой в 1984. Оставшись сиротой, Мэрилин воспитывалась в различных детских приютах. Летом 1935 подруга матери Грейс Мак Ки (Grace McKee) взяла над ней опекунство.
В шестнадцать лет Мэрилин вышла замуж за Джеймса (Джима) Дагерти (James Dougherty, 1921–2005), на тот момент работавшего в похоронном бюро. Она надеялась обрести в браке защиту от нищеты и одиночества. Свадьба состоялась 19 июня 1942. Однако, замужество не принесло перемен к лучшему. В 1944 Д. Дагерти нанялся на Тихоокеанский торговый флот. Мэрилин устроилась на военный авиационный завод, где попалась на глаза армейскому фотографу Дэвиду Коноверу. Он готовил репортаж о доблестных тружениках тыла и Мэрилин согласилась позировать ему за пять долларов в час. Результаты съемок превзошли все ожидания. Работы Д. Коновера заметили на киностудии «Двадцатый Век Фокс» и в августе 1946 предложили Мэрилин контракт на 125 долларов в неделю.
13 сентября 1946 Мэрилин официально развелась с первым мужем. Впоследствии она называла этот брак ошибкой молодости. Зато сам Д. Дагерти очень неплохо заработал на имени Мэрилин. Он написал несколько мемуарных книг («The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe»; «To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie» и др.), полных явного вымысла. По его словам, он был первым мужчиной Мэрилин и она угрожала спрыгнуть с пирса Санта Моники из за безумной любви к нему («Marilyn Monroe Was My Wife», 1953). Мэрилин, якобы, согласилась на развод только по настоянию хозяев киностудии. В одном из интервью Д. Дагерти утверждал также, что это он придумал сценическое имя Мерилин Монро и до конца дней оставался ее преданным другом. На самом деле Д. Дагерти никогда не встречался с Мэрилин после своего повторного брака в 1947. В 1962, узнав о смерти Монро, он не выразил особого сожаления и не присутствовал на ее похоронах.
По воспоминаниям Мэрилин, в конце 1940-ых Голливуд был «переполненным борделем». Начинающая актриса оказалась в водовороте многочисленных, по большей части, случайных связей. В 1948 увлеклась Энтони ЛаВеем (Anthony LaVey; 1930–1997), 18 летним тапером одного из лос-анжелесских стрип клубов, впоследствии основателем и Верховным жрецом Церкви Сатаны, автором «Сатанинской Библии». Непродолжительные романы возникали у Мэрилин с композитором Фредом Каргером (Fred Karger; 1916–1979), комедийным актером Милтоном Берлом (Milton Berle; 1908–2002), режиссером Робертом Слетцером (Robert F. Slatzer; 1925–2005) и др. Позже Р. Слетцер даже утверждал, что они поженились во время пребывания в Мексике, но затем договорились считать этот брак шуткой.
Вплоть до 1952 Монро снималась лишь в эпизодических ролях. Путь к успеху ей открыли связи с влиятельными голливудскими продюсерами. В их числе был 70-летний директор студии «United Artists» Джо Шенк (Joseph Michael Schenck; 1878–1961). Зимой 1949 Монро познакомилась с миллионером и завзятым любителем женщин Джонни Хайдом (Johnny Hyde; 1895–1950). Сын эмигранта из России, урожденный Иван Гайдабура. Он так увлекся Мэрилин, что даже предлагал ей выйти за него замуж. Д. Хайд оплатил Мэрилин дорогостоящую пластическую операцию и добился для нее главных ролей в фильмах «Асфальтовые джунгли» (1950) и «Все о Еве» (1950).
Известность пришла к Мэрилин Монро после участия в фильме «Don’t Bother to Knock» (1952), затем последовал драматический триллер «Niagara» (1953).
В декабре 1953 Монро снялась обнаженной для журнала «Плейбой». Настоящей звездой Мэрилин стала после фильмов «Джентльмены предпочитают блондинок» («Gentlemen Prefer Blondes», 1953) и «Как выйти замуж за миллионера» («How to Marry a Millionaire», 1953).
В последующие годы Монро участвовала в таких разноплановых фильмах как вестерн «Река, откуда не возвращаются» («River of no Return», 1954), драма «Автобусная остановка» («Bus Stop», 1956), комедии «Некоторые любят погорячее» («Some Like It Hot», 1959), мюзикле «Займемся любовью» («Let’s Make Love», 1960) и др.
Личная жизнь Мэрилин Монро всегда оставалась запутанной и нестабильной. Вторым ее мужем стал знаменитый игрок в бейсбол Джо Ди Маджио (Joe Di Maggio; урожденный Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, 1914–1999). Сын эмигрантов из Сицилии. Впервые Монро увидела его в 1951 во время одного из матчей высшей лиги. В своих воспоминаниях («My Story», 2000) Монро призналась, что долгое время опасалась разочарования и избегала встреч с Д. Ди Маджио. Сближение произошло только спустя два года. Брак был зарегистрирован 14 января 1954 в муниципалитете Сан Франциско. Медовый месяц молодожены провели в Японии и Корее.
Кумир спортивных фанатов Д. Ди Маджио болезненно переживал повышенное внимание публики к своей жене. Воспитанный в патриархальных традициях, он требовал от нее скромности и послушания. По рассказам, Д. Ди Маджио сильно ревновал Мэрилин и даже позволял себе рукоприкладство. Супружеский союз распался менее, чем через год после свадьбы. Официальный развод оформлен 31 октября 1955. Тем не менее, Д. Ди Маджио всегда хранил память о Монро и поддерживал ее в трудную минуту. После ее смерти он в течение двадцати лет каждую неделю посылал на ее могилу букет алых роз.
Еще в 1951 Мэрилин познакомилась с известным интеллектуалом, писателем Артуром Миллером (Arthur Asher Miller, 1915–2005). Вся Америка следила за их романом, который пресса окрестила «союзом тела и духа». Монро даже приняла иудаизм, чтобы доказать глубину и серьезность своих чувств. Церемония бракосочетания состоялась 29 июня 1956 в узком кругу родственников и друзей. Третье замужество Мэрилин также оказалось несчастливым. Она дважды беременела, но оба раза случились выкидыши. А. Миллер часто обвинял Монро в духовном убожестве, считал причиной своего творческого кризиса. Вместе с тем, охотно пользовался ее гонорарами, из которых выплачивал алименты своей бывшей жене и покупал дорогие автомобили.
Спустя пять лет отношения между супругами окончательно испортились. Развод был оформлен 24 января 1961. Личная драма Мэрилин усугубилась провалом двух ее очередных фильмов. Монро впала в тяжелую депрессию. Она начала злоупотреблять алкоголем, запивала снотворное шампанским. 5 февраля 1961 друзья поместили Мэрилин в психиатрическую клинику Нью Йорка. В этот период с лучшей стороны проявил себя Д. Ди Маджио. Он трогательно ухаживал за бывшей женой и даже предлагал заключить повторный брак.
Любвеобильность Монро являлась постоянной темой желтой прессы. Газетчики приписывали ей сотни любовных увлечений.
Доподлинно неизвестно, при каких обстоятельствах М. познакомилась с президентом США Джоном Фитцджеральдом Кеннеди (John Fitzgerald «Jack» Kennedy, 1917–1963). Биографы зафиксировали, по крайней мере, четыре их встречи. Первая произошла в октябре 1961 в Санта Монике, в доме сестры Д. Кеннеди Патриции. Вторая – в феврале 1962 на званом обеде в честь главы государства в Манхэттене. В третий раз Монро встретила Д. Кеннеди в гостях у певца и актера Бинга Кросби 24 марта 1962. По всей вероятности, именно в этот раз между ними произошла физическая близость. Во всяком случае, позднее ее личный массажист Ральф Робертс утверждал: «Мерилин сказала мне, что та их ночь в марте была единственной».
Четвертая встреча оказалась самой короткой и, вместе с тем, самой скандальной. Она произошла на глазах миллионов телезрителей 19 мая 1962 в «Мэдисон сквер гардене» на дне рождения Д. Кеннеди. Мероприятие собрало более 15 тысяч человек, заплативших от ста до тысячи долларов за билет. В числе участников были такие звезды, как Элла Фитцджеральд, Пегги Ли, Генри Фонда, Мария Каллас и др. Мэрилин Монро явилась в плотно облегающем, прозрачном платье стоимостью в 12 тысяч долларов. Страстное исполнение традиционного поздравления «Happy Birthday to You, Mr. President!» было воспринято публикой как явное признание в любви. Вечер продолжился в пентхаузе отеля «Карлайл», который Д. Кеннеди арендовал в качестве своей нью йоркской квартиры. По некоторым свидетельствам, там присутствовала и Мэрилин.
Больше М. не встречалась с президентом США. Зять Д. Кеннеди Питер Лоуфорд вспоминал: «Мерилин понимала, что роман закончен, но не хотела смириться с этим. Она начала писать страстные письма Джеку и продолжала звонить ему. Она угрожала обратиться к прессе. В конце концов он послал в Калифорнию Бобби, чтобы утихомирить ее». С этого момента, по словам П. Лоуфорда, Роберт Кеннеди (Robert Francis «Bobby» Kennedy, 1925–1968) занял место старшего брата: «Это не входило в намерения Бобби, но в тот вечер они стали любовниками и провели ночь в нашей гостевой спальне. Почти сразу же роман пошел бурно, они начали часто встречаться. Теперь вместо Белого дома Мерилин звонила в министерство юстиции. Энджи Новелло, личный секретарь Бобби, вела с ней долгие беседы, когда шеф отсутствовал в офисе». По словам экономки Монро Юнис Мюррей, Мэрилин и Р. Кеннеди «занимались любовью по телефону»; один из биографов даже называл их «пионерами телефонного секса».
В последние годы жизни Монро злоупотребляла алкоголем и психотропными препаратами. Она чувствовала себя незаслуженно забытой и никому не нужной. Мэрилин плакала и часами говорила по телефону. 5 августа 1962 полицейский сержант Джек Клеммонс, вызванный прислугой, нашел Монро мертвой в спальне собственного дома в Брентвуде, пригород Лос Анджелеса. Согласно официальной версии, причиной смерти явилась передозировка снотворного средства нембутал. Однако, среди исследователей нет единого мнения на этот счет. Многие поддерживают версию убийства, подстроенного ФБР по заказу президента, который опасался разоблачений и шантажа.
8 августа 1962 тело М. было предано земле на Аллее памяти на кладбище Вествуд Вилледж в Лос Анджелесе, Калифорния.
Marilyn Monroe (01.06.1926 - 05.08.1962) - American actress.
Marilyn Monroe (real name Norma Jeane Mortenson ) was an American actress, who became an idol for millions of people. She was considered to be the major sex symbol of the 20th century. Apart from being an actress, she was a singer and a model. She was born on June 1st, 1926, in Los Angeles. She was the third child of a film installer Gladys Baker. Her biological father was unknown. When she was six months old, she was baptized and named after her mother Baker instead of Mortenson. Norma’s mother had a number of financial and mental problems. That’s why the girl spent most of her childhood in foster families and orphanages. For some time she lived with the neighboring family of Della Monroe.
Her tough childhood helped her to mature quickly and to take independent decisions. One of her adolescent decisions was to marry James Edward Doherty. She met him, while studying at high school. She was only 16, when she left the school and started living with this guy. After their wedding James got a job in the merchant navy, while she went to work at the aircraft factory. She met a prominent photographer there, who offered her to become a model. Soon she began to gain popularity and worldwide fame as a sex symbol. The image of sexy blonde as well as her new name was made up by a 53-year-old film agent John Hyde. He also persuaded her to make a few small cosmetic surgeries.
However, the main thing that he did for Marilyn was the arrangement of the contract with “20th Century Fox”. At first she went there to work at the statistics department, but a year and a half later everyone in the USA knew her name. By that time Hyde already died of a heart attack. She was doing her own steps in cinematography. Her first major role was in “Ladies of the Chorus” (1948). Two years later two more successful films were shot: “All about Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle”. Her roles weren’t highly paid at first. But starting with “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”(1953) her fee had grown to thousands of dollars. Soon Marilyn got divorced and fell in love with a famous baseball player Joe DiMaggio. They got married in 1954, but this marriage didn’t last a year.
Her next husband was a famous playwright Henry Miller, who became a father, a friend, a guardian and a psychoanalyst for her. However, soon she started an affair with the French actor Yves Montand, which lasted only for a couple of months. But for Miller this was a solid reason for the divorce. After this divorce she was highly depressed and once again she began to seek salvation dating other men. The list of her lovers included Frank Sinatra, Henry Rosenfeld, Charlie Chaplin Jr., etc. At some point Peter Lawford introduced her to the Kennedy family. She fell in love with John Kennedy, who wasn’t the president of the country yet. Their relationship remained a secret for a long time. Life of a great actress and the sexiest woman of the 20th century was a short one. She died on August 5th, 1962, in her home. Her lifeless body was found near the bed in the morning.
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She was born on 1 June 1926 in the Los Angeles County Hospital, the third child of Gladys Baker. She lived with a number of foster parents, as her mother was mentally unstable, until her mother’s best friend Grace McKee became her guardian.
McKee was inspired by Jean Harlow and allowed the nine-year-old Norma to wear makeup and curl her hair, until McKee married and sent Norma Jean to an orphanage.
The young girl was then sent to live with her great aunt Olive Brunings, where it is thought she was sexually assaulted by Olive’s son. At 16, she escaped her old life by marrying a 21-year-old aircraft plant worker, Jim Dougherty. The couple divorced four years later. By this time she had begun modelling bathing suits and, after bleaching her hair blonde, was posing for pin-ups and glamour photos.
Howard Hughes tried to get her a screen test but was beaten to the punch by 20th Century-Fox, who signed her to a contract — at $125 per week for six months — and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
After appearing in small parts in films including ‘Love Happy’ and ‘All About Eve’, Monroe found fame in 1953 with ‘Niagara’, ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ and ‘How To Marry a Millionaire’. That same year, she began dating baseball player Jo DiMaggio, and a nude spread of her appeared in the debut issue of Playboy magazine. Monroe had hit stardom. The nude spread caused a scandal with her studio, so she agreed to admit she had posed for the photo as she was struggling to pay her rent. The resulting publicity created some sympathy for the struggling actress.
In 1954, she eloped with DiMaggio — a union which was only to last eight months — before filming ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’ and ‘The Seven-Year Itch’, the latter featuring the classic scene in which she stood over a subway grating, skirt billowing. She applied for divorce from DiMaggio on the grounds of mental cruelty. Despite this, he secured her release from the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Mental Clinic in 1961.
Monroe’s work began to slow down, but critics praised her acting in 1956 film ‘Bus Stop’. She married playwright Arthur Miller the same year, divorcing him four years later. In the meantime, she fell prey to alcohol and pills, and suffered two miscarriages.
After a year off in 1958, Marilyn returned to the silver screen for smash comedy ‘Some Like It Hot’. In 1960, she appeared in ‘Let’s Make Love’, with Yves Montand, with whom she had an affair.
‘The Misfits’, written by husband Miller, was to be her final film. Work was interrupted by exhaustion, and she was then fired from ‘Something’s Got to Give’ for not turning up for filming.
On 19 May 1962, the actress attended the early birthday celebration of John F Kennedy at Madison Square Gardens, singing ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ in a performance that became legendary.
She went into seclusion and on 5 August 1962, she was found dead at her home of an overdose of sleeping pills, aged 36. The verdict was suicide but has always been disputed, with countless conspiracy theories triggered by alleged affairs with brothers John F and Robert Kennedy.
Monroe has been portrayed by a number of actresses over the years, including Michelle Williams in 2011’s ‘My Week With Marilyn’.
Родилась Норма Джин в Лос-Анджелесе 1 июня 1926 года. Первые шесть лет в биографии Мерилин Монро были проведены в приемной семье. Так и не закончив обучение, вышла замуж за Джима Догерти. Недолго проработала на авиационном заводе, после чего посвятила себя модельному бизнесу.
В 1946 году в биографии Мерилин Монро произошло важное событие – она стала сотрудничать с киностудией «Двадцатый век Фокс». Тогда же взяла имя Мэрилин и бабушкину фамилию. Но получить полноценную роль ей удалось не сразу. В 1948 году на студии «Коламбиа Пикчерс» был снят первый в биографии Мэрилин Монро фильм, где актриса полностью проявила себя. За год до этого она впервые снялась в небольших сценах в фильмах «Ужасная мисс Пилгрим», «Скуда-у! Скудда-эй!». А вот главная роль ей впервые досталась в киноленте «Асфальтовые джунгли».
Известна актриса также благодаря своим романам. В 1954 году в биографии Монро состоялась свадьба с драматургом Артуром Миллером. Мэрилин прожила с ним 4 года. Нашумевшая любовная история Монро и Джона Кеннеди началась в 1961 году, однако, их связь считают слухами, которые не имеют доказательств.
Одни из самых популярных фильмов в биографии Мерилин Монро: «В джазе только девушки», «Семь лет желания» и другие.
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Marilyn Monroe Essay, Research Paper
Who is Marilyn Monroe and is she the biggest sex symbol of the twentieth century? Most people remember her as a beautiful woman, who starred in a variety of movies and who had many memorable photos. What they might not know is how she acquired this or how she became as well known as she did. People also do not realize that during her life she became one of the biggest entrepreneurs of her time. She had many difficult times, like anybody endures in life, but she was almost always able to overcome them and triumph in the end. She was very beautiful as a teenager and a lot of different men took an interest in her. This contributed to the reason the Marilyn Monroe was married at such a young age. Her first marriage was to a man named Jim Dougherty, when she was only at the tender age of sixteen. She met Jim through her Aunt. ?Though Dougherty admits his marriage to Norma Jeane (Marilyn Monroe) was arranged, he said they were happy and very compatible sexually.? (Wayne 14). Just two years after Jim and Marilyn were married (1942), Jim was sent off to Australia and this is when they realized how much they needed each other. While Jim was away Marilyn worked in a defense plant where she packed and inspected parachutes for the war that was going on in the Pacific. While
married to Jim, Marilyn became very sexual and she craved for attention. This is what led her to hang out in bars and become what is known as a ?call girl?.. This would give her the attention that she wanted and help her make a little extra money on the side.
During this time, Marilyn did not have any idea of what she wanted to do with her life and she did not posses any work skills that could take care of her if something was to happen to her marriage. Which, Marilyn knew that it was going to happen because they were growing apart from each other and the war was to blame for this. While all this was going on in her life, she still worked at the defense plant. This decision to keep on working at the plant changed her life forever.
In her town there was a company named Yank magazine and they decided to do a column on women working in defense plants. The assigned photographer was David Conover. The very first time he saw Marilyn working in the plant he knew that she was the one. ?Conover asked the foreman if she could be his model for three days. He was very impressed with the pictures and offered her more modeling jobs in the future.? (Wayne 32). This was a very exciting time for Marilyn and she was infatuated with modeling. She thought it was very exciting and glamorous. She knew right then that modeling is what she wanted to do with her life. Just after this, everything in her life started falling into place for her. A modeling agency, Blue Book Model Agency, saw her pictures and offered her
more modeling jobs. This is what clinched and launched her new career as a model. Marilyn kept her job at the defense plant because she needed the extra
money when she was not modeling. Anytime a modeling job came up though she would call in sick at the defense plant and go do the modeling job. She also attended charm school at night. With all these new changes in her life, she hardly had time or remembered to write to her husband. This kind of neglect for each other would become the main reason for the ending of their marriage. Jim received the divorce papers in the spring of 1946. After being together for four years they were legally separated and the marriage was over. Marilyn never regretted this and looked to the future. By this time, she became well known throughout Hollywood that led to her decision of becoming an actress.
Marilyn Monroe was not the first blonde to become popular in Hollywood. There was others before her, but the only difference between them is they could act better than her. She was the first blonde to be known for her looks rather than her acting. It was once said about Marilyn, ?she had a glow and energy that was unmatched by any other personality before her. The voluptuous curves of her body and wide-eyed girlish giggles dominated every presence?? (Spoto 3). Since people found Marilyn so attractive it did not matter that she was not the best actress. People would come to the movies based on her looks and not on her acting ability. Because of all this commotion going on about Marilyn?s looks, it turned her into one of the biggest sex symbols of the 20th century.
She had many different parts in movies, but her modeling was the dominant factor that helped her obtain the parts she wanted in the movies. Her beauty was the reason rushed people into the movie theatres. Somebody once said Marilyn is, ?Dazzling, Seductive, Extraordinary. She was, and still is, the All-American sex goddess, a superstar legend with magnetic energy so strong she captured the world at her heels with her woman-child charm.? (Spoto 12) Just like Hollywood, men found Marilyn irresistible. She was known as a sex symbol to the world. Men would stop on the streets, just to watch her walk by. Some men offered her money to see her nude and some even offered her money to sleep with her. Even with all this publicity, Marilyn knew how to keep her fans captivated and interested with what was happening in her life. An example of this is during the filming of one of her movies she decided to do one of the scenes in the nude. The reason this was such a big deal was because in 1962 a semi-nude scene was unheard of. This caused such an upheaval in the industry that Life, Vogue and Cosmopolitan magazines arranged for interviews with Marilyn. Also Playboy bought her most revealing nudes for an unparalleled $25,000 (Haspiel 184). This was not the last time Marilyn Monroe would be seen in Playboy. She would appear as the centerfold for them in the years to come.
This was to be one of the most famous issues Playboy to ever be published. Because Marilyn was just getting known for her looks and nothing else, she started carrying what people would call the ?blonde label?..
There was an innocence to her gullibility that gave people the impression she was not very bright? (Summers 47). Since Hollywood chose to portray her during her with this stereotype during her career, she became known as a beautiful but unintelligent blonde. As Marilyn looked back at her career and her accomplishments she finally realized she would never escape this image. Every important event in her life that helped to make her become famous was some how linked with her being a ditsy blonde. One example of this is the Monroe Nude calendar she put out. All people saw was an unintelligent blonde with a nice figure and because of this she never rose above the busty dumb-blonde stigma. Even in her movies she played a typical dumb blonde. An example of this is in her first movie she played the typical dumb blonde waitress at a restaurant. She also committed acts that did not help her get over this stereotype. ?One night she served her husband only peas and carrots because she said she liked the colors. She made him raw fish and put salt in his coffee by mistake? (Wayne 18). This ?blonde? label that she acquired during her career would make her famous, but would be her downfall in the end. She was ?publicized during her career as a beautiful but unintelligent blonde, she later acquired the tragic public image of a sensitive and insecure woman destroyed by the pressures of Hollywood? (Britannica 1). This goes to show that the image that Hollywood created for her ended up killing her career, and ruining her life altogether. Towards the end of her
career and this is what most people focus on when they think of Marilyn Monroe. What is not really known or talked about, is the men and affairs in her life.
Marilyn had a numerous amount of men through out her life. The reason for this is because she would get tired of them or they would find out she had been cheating on them. Another factor that contributed to this was the fact that Marilyn was sexually active at a very young age. This caused her to crave sexual attention and try knew things. A lot of the men in Marilyn?s life were either famous or they held an important position in Hollywood. She would sleep with directors or any other important people to get parts in movies, but not all her movies. She would also do this to make more money, to become more attached to the person, or to get what ever she wanted. Some of the most famous people that she was involved with were Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Chaplin, and the Kennedy brothers. Joe DiMaggio was probably the person that cared about her the most. An example of this is, he would fill her apartment up with flowers and love letters expressing his love for her. After Marilyn passed away he had a pair of red roses delivered to the crypt three times a week to show how much he was in love with her. Most of all the other men in Marilyn?s life were used just to help her career out and to gain publicity. Marilyn Monroe had a lot of different partners in her life, but she knew what she had to do to further her career. Because of this, it helped her become one of the most famous people of all time.
Clearly, Marilyn Monroe was one of the biggest and most important sex symbols of her time. She knew how to stimulate her fans at all times during her career. This helped her become famous faster than any other person during the twentieth century. Hollywood helped create Marilyn?s career, but in the end it also destroyed it. Another factor that ended her career is all the pressure she had to deal with. This all added up together, eventually causing her to overdose and die. She still remains a key element today, where she carries the label of a sex symbol. Almost anywhere a person goes they could find something having to do with Marilyn Monroe, whether it?s a picture, movie, or an article of clothing. One more example of her being a modern sex symbol is that Playboy named her ?the best playmate of the century? (Wider 107). Marilyn Monroe will always be remembered as the beautiful provocative unintelligent blonde whose beauty will never be forgotten.