Marilyn monroe

In 1926, Norma Jeane Baker was born in Los Angeles, a name that was later changed to Norma Jean due to her admiration for Jean Harlow. . Her childhood was very miserable, especially since she never found out who her father was. To make matters worse, her mother was admitted to an asylum and she was sent to various orphanages. In order not to return to one of these shelters, she hastily married James Dougherty, a guy in whom she was looking for the father figure she lacked, and from whom she divorced very quickly.

During World War II, Norma Jean works in a parachute factory, where she is discovered by a group of photographers who make her a model. A Fox executive offers her a contract and suggests changing her name to Marilyn Monroe. Although she only plays a small production, Scudda-Hoo! Scudda hay! , where her role is very secondary, she decides that acting is her thing and enrolls in an acting school. After various vicissitudes, she takes part in Amor en conservada , along with the incomparable Marx brothers. Groucho directs one of her witty lines at her: “Refrain from walking like that in places guarded by the police.” Her participation as a secondary in The Asphalt Jungle , as a lawyer’s lover, will be decisive.

She becomes a star with Niagara , as a woman willing to murder her husband with the help of her lover. Then came great movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , How to Marry a Millionaire , Footlights or   River of No Return . She collaborates twice with maestro Billy Wilder , on Temptation Lives Upstairs and Like It Hot With Skirts . The director publicly declared that he had ended up fed up with the actress, due to her continuous delays, but he was always satisfied with the results, and considered that the second of the aforementioned titles was one of her best works.

She plays one of her most prominent roles in Bus Stop , as a simple girl eager to make it as a singer. Laurence Olivier directs and accompanies her as the protagonist of The Prince and the Showgirl , a love story between the heir to the throne of an imaginary country and a cabaret artist. Unfortunately, things were not going as well for her in private life as they were in the movies.

Apart from her alcohol problems, she contracted two more failed marriages, with the famous baseball player Joe DiMaggio and with the writer Arthur Miller . The latter writes the script for her latest work, Vidas rebeldes . The actress died on August 4, 1962. It seems that she improperly mixed some sleeping pills prescribed by her doctor, although many conspiracy theories have been written about her death.