Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe[2][3] (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)[4]was
an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol,
starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the
1950s and early 1960s.[5]
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a
model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth
Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her
performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve(both 1950), drew attention. By
1952 she had her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock[6] and 1953 brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness.
Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in
subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her
dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and
garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production
company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received aBAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed
film was The Misfits (1961), co-starring Clark Gable,
with a screenplay written by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
The final years of Monroe's life were marked by
illness, personal problems, and a reputation for unreliability and being difficult
to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an
overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. Though
officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibilities of
an accidental overdose or a homicide have not been ruled out. In 1999, Monroe
was ranked as the sixth-greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In the decades
following her death, she has often been cited as both a pop and a cultural icon as well as the quintessential
American sex symbol.[7][8][9] In 2009, TV Guide Network named her No. 1 in Film's Sexiest Women of All Time.[10]
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