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About Marilyn Monroe Essay, Research Paper

Marilyn Monroe’s career as an actress spanned 16 years.

She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career.

Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in

Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the fathers address as unknown.

Marilyn would never know the true identity of her father.

Due to her mother’s mental instability and the

fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in the foster home of

Albert and Ida Bolender. It was here she lived the first 7 years of her life.

"They were terribly strict…they

didn’t mean any harm…it was their religion. They brought me up harshly."

In 1933, Norma Jeane lived briefly with her

mother. Gladys begin to show signs of mental depression and in 1934 was admitted to a rest

home in Santa Monica. Grace McKee, a close friend of her mother took over the care of

Norma Jeane. "Grace loved and adored her", recalled one of her co-workers.

Grace, telling her…"Don’t worry, Norma Jeane. You’re going to be a beautiful girl

when you get big…an important woman, a movie star." Grace was captivated by Jean

Harlow, a superstar of the twenties, and Marilyn would later say…"and so Jean

Harlow was my idol."

Grace was to marry in 1935 and due to financial

difficulties, Norma Jeane was placed in an orphanage from September 1935 to June 1937.

Grace frequently visited her, taking her to the movies, buying clothes and teaching her

how to apply makeup at her young age. Norma Jeane was to later live with several of

Grace’s relatives.

"The world around me then was kind

of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to…I don’t know…block the

grimness. The whole world seemed sort of

closed to me…(I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up

any kind of pretend-game."

In September 1941 Norma Jeane was again living

with Grace when she met Jim Dougherty, 5 years her senior. Grace encouraged the

relationship and on learning that she and her husband would be moving to the East Coast,

set in motion plans for Norma Jeane to marry Dougherty on June 19, 1942.

"Grace McKee arranged the marriage

for me, I never had a choice. There’s not much to say about it. They couldn’t support me,

and they had to work out something. And so I got married."

Dougherty joined the Merchant Marines in 1943 and

in 1944 was sent overseas. Norma Jeane, while working in a factory

inspecting parachutes in 1944, was photographed

by the Army as a promotion to show women on the assembly line contributing to the war

effort. One of the photographers, David Conover, asked to take further pictures of her. By

spring of 1945, she was quickly becoming known as a "photographers dream" and

had appeared on 33 covers of national magazines.

In the fall of 1946 she was granted a

divorce…later saying, "My marriage didn’t make me sad, but it didn’t make me happy

either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn’t because we were angry. We

had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom."

On July 23, 1946 she signed a contract with

Twentieth Century-Fox Studios. She selected her mother’s family name of Monroe. From this

point on she would be known as Marilyn Monroe to all her fans. She had a minor part in the

movie "Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay! and was dismissed as a contract player in August.

Rehired in 1948, Marilyn sang here first song in the movie "Ladies of the

Chorus".

Johnny Hyde, of the William Morris Agency, became her

mentor and lover in 1949. Also, in 1949, Marilyn agreed to pose nude for a calendar. A

fact that was to stir controversy later in her career as a superstar.

"Hollywood is a place where they’ll

pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

Her first serious acting job came in 1950 when

she had a small but crucial role in "The Asphalt Jungle" and received favorable

reviews. "Clash By Night" in 1952 earned her several favorable notices…Alton

Cook of the New York World-Telegram and Sun wrote…"a forceful actress, a gifted new

star, worthy of all that fantastic press agentry. Her role here is not very big, but she

makes it dominant." Monroe’s first leading part in a serious feature was to be in

"Don’t Bother to Knock", also filmed in 1952.

Marilyn met Joe DiMaggio in early 1952, she was

25 and he was 37. DiMaggio, recently retired from baseball, had expressed a desire to meet

this famous star. By February the romance was in full bloom.

"I was surprized to be so crazy

about Joe. I expected a flashy New York sports type, and instead I met this reserved guy

who didn’t make a pass at me right away! He treated me like something special. Joe is a

very decent man, and he makes other people feel decent, too!"

In 1952 Marilyn began filming "Niagara"

with Joseph Cotten…a film that was to establish her stardom. After her next big film,

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", she and Jane Russell signed their names and placed

their hands and feet in the wet cement in front of the Chinese Theatre on Hollywood

Boulevard…the same place she had visited with Gladys and Grace years earlier as a child.

"I want to be a big star more than

anything. It’s something precious"

Fox suspended Marilyn in 1954 for failure to

appear on the set of "Pink

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