On her birthday...the most important milestones in Marilyn Monroe's life

Today marks the birthday of the late star Marilyn Monroe, who continues to reign as a beauty even more than half a century after her death.

The most important information about Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, and her real name is “Norma Jean Baker” after the artist Norma Talmadge. She lived during the first years of her life with her grandmother’s relatives, until she was 7 years old, and then she lived with her mother for a short period before her mother suffered a hysterical attack. She is transferred to inpatient hospitalization.

At the age of sixteen, Marilyn married her neighbor, James Dougherty, who was five years older than her, and they remained together for a short time until they divorced in 1942.

Her artistic beginnings Marilyn Monroe's beginnings with fame were through pictures that were published of her as part of the US Army's campaign to highlight the efforts of women in the war. Within a few months, Monroe appeared on the covers of about 30 magazines, and she became known as the "Mmm Girl." After that, she left her job to focus on modeling. She worked in a modeling agency and in September 1945, Marilyn passed her first acting audition, for a swimsuit promotion, and two months later, she dyed her hair blonde for an advertising campaign for a shampoo brand.

In order to achieve her cinematic dreams, Monroe enrolled in theater courses and continued to dye her hair the blonde color that became known as her trademark. She aroused the interest of Ben Leon, the American actor who greatly admired her, and she signed her first contract with Fox for a salary of $125 per week for 6 months. With the studio changing her name to Marilyn Monroe, the name Marilyn was inspired by the actress “Marilyn Miller”, and she got the name Monroe from her mother.

Marilyn appeared for the first time on screen in 1947 in the films “Fight over the Blonde” and “The Dangerous Years”. In 1948, she signed a new contract with Columbia for a period of 6 months and played the title role in the musical film “Queens of the Music Hall”, but the film failed. As a result, the contract was not renewed.

Her appearance in the film “Treasure Hunt” with the Marx Brothers impressed the producers, who sent her to New York to promote the film. She also attracted the attention of John Hyde, an agent at the William Morris Agency, who became her lover and gave her a role in John Hest’s film “When the City Sleeps.”

The pinnacle of her fame In the sixties, Marilyn reached the peak of her fame, and agreed to act in George Corker's film "The Billionaire", but she did not like the script, and she asked her then-husband, "Arthur Miller", to rewrite it, and this film was a major failure.

During this period, Marilyn began to suffer from health problems, so she began consulting with Dr. Ralph Greenson, a psychiatrist from Los Angeles. The latter had a strong influence on Marilyn, and his marital relationship was tense for a while, but he did everything he could. possible to keep her with Marilyn, and his main goal was to reduce the dose of drugs that Marilyn was taking.

The beginnings of her illness She later played a role in the film “The Misfits”, written by Arthur Miller, and filming began in July of 1960, but due to the disease taking over Marilyn, she was unable to play the role and was hospitalized for 10 days.

In the following months, Marilyn became more addicted to alcohol and drugs, and in January, she divorced Arthur Miller and filed her will on January 14, 1961.

Her psychoanalyst, Marian Reckris, agreed to keep her in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Hospital, and then she moved to the open center at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York. After three weeks of treatment, Marilyn was discharged from the hospital, and during her exit a crowd of journalists followed her, and because of her inability On acting, she returned to California to rest.

Her death At the end of July 1962, <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88#:~:text=%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%8C%20%D8%A3%D9%8F%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%AA%20%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88,%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%8A%20%D9%88%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%20%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8.">Monroe became depressed and admitted to her hairdresser that she was going to have an abortion. In the last weeks of her life, doctors prescribed sleeping pills for her.

Doland Spoto, the author of Marilyn’s biography, believes that she was the victim of a medical error, as Marilyn died on the night of August 4 or 5. After research and investigation, the coroner recorded in her death file “possible suicide,” and the real cause of her death was not discovered, despite widespread There are many rumors about the possibility of her being killed.