Marilyn Monroe

Also Known As: Мерілін Монро, Norma Jeane Baker, Norma Jeane Mortenson, مرلین مونرو

Biography: Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 – 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Monroe as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage; she married at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. She faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photographs prior to becoming a star, but the story did not damage her career and instead resulted in increased interest in her films. By 1953, Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars; she had leading roles in the film noir Niagara, which overtly relied on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a "dumb blonde". The same year, her nude images were used as the centerfold and on the cover of the first issue of Playboy. She played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, but she was disappointed when she was typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project but returned to star in The Seven Year Itch (1955), one of the biggest box office successes of her career. When the studio was still reluctant to change Monroe's contract, she founded her own film production company in 1954. She dedicated 1955 to building the company and began studying method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Later that year, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. Her subsequent roles included a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and her first independent production in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959), a critical and commercial success. Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Birthday: June 01, 1926

Deathday: August 05, 1962

Adult: No

Gender: Female

Popularity:

4.96%

Known For:

Some Like It Hot
All About Eve
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
How to Marry a Millionaire
River of No Return
Arthur Miller: Writer
The Seven Year Itch
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Love, Marilyn
The Misfits
There's No Business Like Show Business
Green Grass of Wyoming
Let's Make It Legal
O. Henry's Full House
We're Not Married!
Clash by Night
Don't Bother to Knock
Monkey Business
Let's Make Love
Bus Stop
The Prince and the Showgirl
Cher: In Her Own Words
Love Happy
Home Town Story
Jane Russell - Der Star aus dem Heu
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
Love Nest
Fake Newsreal
As Young as You Feel
The Asphalt Jungle
Marilyn and I
Ladies of the Chorus
Hollywood Uncensored
Niagara
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Smash His Camera
The Fireball
Dream Girl: The making of Marilyn Monroe
Dangerous Years
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain
Marilyn in Manhattan
I Am Jackie O
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Right Cross
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds
Una foto de Marilyn
Becoming Marilyn
La Rabbia di Pasolini
Marilyn, divine et fragile
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give
Marilyn Monroe for Sale
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
Marilyn: Portrait of a Legend
Marilyn Monroe Declassified
Rat Pack
The Two Kennedys
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates
Marilyn
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Always at The Carlyle
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
Marilyn on Marilyn
The Kennedy Detail
Something's Got to Give
Electric Blue Special: Nude Celebrity Special
Volunteers
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
That's Entertainment! III
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
We Remember Marilyn
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime
Marilyn, dernières séances
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Marilyn
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Mi Marilyn
Bert Stern: Original Madman
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Making 'The Misfits'
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
La Rabbia
Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller : Deux couples à Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
The Marilyn Monroe Story
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Tunnel to Freedom
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Marilyn Magdalena
Aliens Uncovered: Declassified
Aliens Uncovered: Marilyn Monroe Exposed
Året var 1962
Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot