Who is marilyn monroe

She began to attract attention as an actress in after appearing in minor roles in the The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. Although she was onscreen only briefly playing a mistress in both films, audiences took note of the blonde bombshell, and she won a new contract from Fox. Her acting career took off in the early s with performances in Love Nest , Monkey Business , and Niagara The Seven-Year Itch showcased her comedic talents and features the classic scene where she stands over a subway grating and has her white skirt billowed up by the wind from a passing train.

In , she married baseball great Joe DiMaggio, attracting further publicity, but they divorced eight months later. In , she married playwright Arthur Miller. She made The Prince and the Showgirl —a critical and commercial failure—with Laurence Olivier in but in gave an acclaimed performance in the hit comedy Some Like It Hot. Empty pill bottles were found in Marilyn Monroes bedroom after she was found dead in By , Monroe, beset by depression, was under the constant care of a psychiatrist.

Increasingly erratic in the last months of her life, she lived as a virtual recluse in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home. Ralph Greenson, who gained access to the room by breaking a window. Entering, he found Marilyn dead, and the police were called sometime after.

An autopsy found a fatal amount of sedatives in her system, and her death was ruled probable suicide. How Much Have You Seen? How much of Marilyn Monroe's work have you seen? Alliterative Celebrities A - Z M.

They've Never Even Been Nominated! See more polls ». See more awards ». Known For. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Lorelei Lee. The Prince and the Showgirl Elsie. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Actress 33 credits.

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Geburtstag Hide Show Producer 1 credit. Hide Show Thanks 10 credits. Hollywood, Unapologetic! Show all 10 episodes. And so I got married. A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. 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 No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.

I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty. Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I never had belonged to anything or anyone else.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being 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. The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning themand fooling them.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation. I want to grow old without face-lifts I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol.

Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings. Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has it's compensations but it also has it's drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent? An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin? There was my name up in lights. I said, "God, somebody's made a mistake!

And I sat there and said, "Remember, you're not a star". Yet there it was up in lights. Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh.

Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time. You know, when you grow up you can get kind of sour, I mean, that's the way it can go.

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt and sleep with most attractive men and not get emotionally involved? I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star.

But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. I used to say to myself, "What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe? All those people I don't know, sometimes they're so emotional. I mean, if they love you that much without knowing you, they can also hate you the same way.

And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.

Kennedy ] It would be so nice to have a president who looks so young and good-looking. I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public -- talent in private. Talent is developed in privacy They'd all like sort of a chunk at you. They'd kind of like to take pieces out of you. I want to be an artist I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiacal.

I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now. He's never sure what he wants to do. He and Monty Clift have a lot in common, though they're totally different people, but they don't plan their careers too well and they're not ambitious enough for their talents.

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine. You know, he got an Oscar for From Here to Eternity He has helped more people anonymously than anybody else. And the miserable press smears him with lies about his being involved with the Mafia and gangsters. And Frank just takes it. That just shows how smart she is. Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms.

I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy. I soothed him by telling him I thought his Hamlet was one of the greatest films ever made. You know he won an Oscar for it. When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight.

I couldn't eat or sleep. He makes it so understandable. And he is so right. Didn't he say himself that [ William Shakespeare ] and [ Fyodor Dostoevsky ] had a better understanding of psychology than all the scientists put together? Damn it, they do. Can he, does he really know her innermost thoughts? But after I read the whole book, I could better understand that Joyce is an artist who could penetrate the souls of people, male or female.

It really doesn't matter that Joyce doesn't have To me Leopold Bloom is a central character. He is the despised Irish Jew, married to an Irish Catholic woman. It is through them Joyce develops much of what he wants to say. Do you agree that the scene where Bloom is looking at the little girl on the swing is the most erotic in the book?

Kennedy ] When he has finished his achievements, he will take his place with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and [ Franklin D. Roosevelt ] as one of our greatest Presidents. I'm glad he has [ Robert F. Kennedy ]. It's like the Navy.

Bobby would do absolutely anything for his brother. And so would I. I'll never embarrass him. You can't wander through looking at all the pretty clothes and pretending to buy something. Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. I felt very uneasy at different times with him, the real reason I was afraid of him is because I believe him to be homosexual Peter wants to be a woman and would like to be me, I think. It was the creative part that kept me going, trying to be an actress.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. He could have written anything and he comes up with this. If that's what he thinks of me, well, then I'm not for him and he's not for me. Arthur says it's his movie. I don't think he even wants me in it. I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault.

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