The child who would become Marilyn Monroe

was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California.

The name that appears on Marilyn's birth certificate is Norma Jeane Mortenson. She was baptized Norma Jeane Baker. Baker was the last name of her mother, Gladys', first husband, Mortenson the last name of her second husband. When she married James Dougherty, she became Norma Jeane Dougherty, and when she married Joe DiMaggio she became Norma Jeane DiMaggio. She legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe in 1956, although she had been using the name publically since 1946. During her marriage to Arthur Miller, she went by Marilyn Monroe Miller, the initials "MMM" appear on various items. Although it is not uncommon to see Norma Jeane spelled Norma Jean, with no "e" on the end, the spelling on her birth certificate and other legal documents is Jeane with the "e".

There are various stories as to how Marilyn got her name, and several people have claimed to have named her. The most common (and most likely true) version is that the name Marilyn was chosen by Fox talent scout Ben Lyon, who got Marilyn her first screen test. It is said to have come from stage actress Marilyn Miller. The last name Monroe was Marilyn's mother's maiden name. It was suggested either by her mother Gladys, her guardian Grace McKee Goddard, or by Marilyn herself, according to various versions of the story. Norma Jeane began using the name in 1946, but did not legally change it until 1956.

Marilyn appeared in 29 films, although she is difficult to catch in her first few appearances, as much of her footage wound up on the cutting room floor. Her incomplete film, Something's Got to Give, would have been her 30th film. Some filmographies include The Shocking Miss Pilgrim as Marilyn's earliest role. If this is so, the role is uncredited and Marilyn's appearance was cut from the film.

In 1946 a photograph was taken of Norma Jeane that appears to show a sixth toe on her right foot. Some claim she had the sixth toe surgically removed shortly thereafter. However, first husband James Dougherty has firmly stated that Marilyn had five toes on each foot.

Marilyn's size fluctuated during her lifetime, but her measurements are most commonly given in the range of 36-24-34 to 38-23-36. (bust-waist-hips). Marilyn was 5' 5 and 1/2" tall and weighed 117 pounds when she died, according to the coroner's report. She wore a size 7 to 7 1/2 shoe. Her eyes were cornflower blue and her natural hair colour was reddish-brown.

Although it is commonly reported that Marilyn was a lefty, photographic evidence and the word of those who knew her confirm that Marilyn was actually right-handed.

Marilyn's paternity remains an issue of debate to this day. The two main candidates are Gladys' second husband, Edward Mortenson, who was listed as the father on Norma Jeane's birth certificate, and Stanley Gifford, a co-worker of Gladys' with whom she apparently had an affair around the time of Norma Jeane's conception. Several other men have been suggested as candidates, but these two remain the most commonly debated. Marilyn herself believed Gifford to be her father, having been shown a picture of the man as a child by her mother and told "this is your father". Her attempts to contact Gifford over the years were rebuffed.

Although Marilyn worked very hard and fought her way to stardom, so that Fox executive Darryl Zanuck would say no one discovered her, she made her own way to stardom, the first step towards Marilyn's career as model came about when photographer David Conover was sent out to take pictures of pretty girls helping out the war effort in 1945. Norma Jeane was working at a Radio Plane factory at the time. Conover photographed her and she was soon on her way to fame as a model. Marilyn's first screen test was arranged by Ben Lyon at Fox studios in 1946, and she was offered her first contract there by Darryl Zanuck.

Marilyn died late on the evening of August 4th, 1962 of acute barbiturate poisoning. She overdosed on the drugs Nembutal and Chloral Hydrate, both prescribed for insomnia. How this overdose came about is the subject of much curiousity and controversy. The death theories can be summed up into four main categories: Suicide, Self-administered accidental overdose, Accidental overdose administered by someone else, and Murder. Here are the basic theories:
SUICIDE: Depressed over her firing from her last film and the failure of her romantic relationships, Marilyn consumed a lethal dose of sleeping pills with the intention of ending her own life. "Probable suicide" was the official verdict on Marilyn's death.
SELF-ADMINISTERED ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE: Marilyn ingested a fatal overdose of sleeping pills without realizing what she was doing. Either she took more pills having forgotten how many she had taken before, or she had ingested so many pills over the preceding days and hours that a lethal build-up of the drugs had occured in her system, so that the final dose was fatal.
ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE ADMINISTERED BY SOMEONE ELSE: Marilyn was given the fatal dose through either an enema or an injection administered by someone else; most commonly named are Dr. Ralph Greenson and Marilyn's housekeeper, Eunice Murray.
MURDER: Marilyn was deliberately given the fatal dose with the intention of killing her, either via enema or injection (a "hot shot"). The most commonly named suspects, either directly or indirectly, are the Kennedys, with the motive that Marilyn "knew too much" that she had learned due to her affairs with these powerful men. Other suspects who have been named include the Mafia, most specifically Sam Giancana.
While every theory has its believers, it is most commonly held that whatever truly happened on August 4th, 1962, it wasn't suicide. An overwhelming propensity of evidence suggests that Marilyn did not die by orally ingesting sleeping pills. The scene of death appears to have been tampered with and important tissue samples from the autopsy mysteriously dissappeared, among other odd occurrances. There is very strong evidence that the circumstances surrounding Marilyn's death were covered up for some reason. The theories continue to be debated to this day.

Marilyn's crypt is located in the Corridor of Memories, Crypt Number 24, at Westwood Memorial Park, 1218 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Fast Facts

Birth Name: Norma Jeane Mortenson
Also Known As: Norma Jeane Baker

Birth date: June 1, 1926
Birth place: Los Angeles, CA
Death date: August 5, 1962
Death place: Brentwood, CA
Burial location: Corridor of Memories, #24, at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, CA

Height: 5 feet 5 1/2 inches
Weight: 140 lbs.
Writing hand: Left
Measurements: 37-23-36 (Studio's Claim); 35-22-35 (Dressmaker's Claim)
Hair color: Blond
Eyes: Blue

High schools: Van Nuys High School; University High School
Occupations: Model, Actress, Singer

Mother: Gladys Baker
Half-brother: Hermitt Jack Baker
Half-sister: Berniece Miracle

Marriages: Jimmy Dougherty (1942-1946); Joe DiMaggio (1954); Arthur Miller (1956-1961)
Stepchildren: Joe DiMaggio, Jr., Jane and Robert Miller

Did you know?
In 1999, Marilyn was named the Number One Sex Star of the 20th Century by Playboy magazine

In 1999, Marilyn was voted the 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine.

Issued on June 1, 1995, Marilyn was featured on a 32? US commemorative postage stamp.

Elton John recorded the song "Candle in the Wind" as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe.

In December 1953, she was the Playboy "Sweetheart" of the Month.

In February 1953, Marilyn was named the ?The Most Advertised Girl in the World? by the Advertising Association of the West.

She was crowned Miss California Artichoke Queen in 1947.

In 1946, she began using the stage name Marilyn Monroe, but did not legally change her name until February 23, 1956.

Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio in San Francisco City Hall.

Marilyn Monroe was nominated for the 1956 British Academy Award for "Best Foreign Actress" in the Seven Year Itch.

Norma Jeane as a little girl.

Norma Jeane is the one on the right.

Norma Jeane (right) and another young friend, around 1930.

Norma Jeane as a baby.

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Marilyn Monroe and her mother on the beach. Snapshot in 1929.


Marilyn little girl 10 years old jokes are in the garden.


Marilyn Monroe and her husband first (year 1943). Her marriage to Jimmy Dougherty when 16 years old. They divorced in 1946 after 4 years living.


Marilyn Monroe spent much time in learning to dance in and out (in 1947).


Marilyn Monroe in a photograph for Life (May 1950).

Foto onder Marilyn 14 jaar

In 1942, Grace and her husband were facing financial difficulties and decided to move to the East Coast to start a new beginning. They decided it would be best for Norma Jeane not to come, so Grace encouraged Norma Jeane to marry the son of a neighbor, 21-year-old Jim Dougherty. Following a courtship lasting only several weeks, Jim Dougherty and Norma Jeane married on June 19, 1942. Norma Jeane hadonly just turned 16 several weeks earlier. Although the marriage was one of convenience, she earnestly tried in the beginning to be a good wife and housekeeper. It was not a role that came naturally to her.

In 1943, Jim joined the Merchant Marines and a year later he was shipped off to New Guinea and then to the Pacific during the war. To fill the time and put extra money in her pocket, Norma Jeane worked at an aircraft and parachute-inspecting plant named Radio Plane Munitions Factory, where she inspected and painted planes. However, the job did little to ease her boredom and she grew increasingly lonely and insecure during her husband's absence. Norma Jeane began to escape into alcohol.

James E. Dougherty, Norma Jeane's first husband (Corbis)

In mid-1944, Norma Jeane was offered an exciting break and a way to escape the humdrum life, which she was beginning to resent. An army photographer named Private David Conover was doing a piece for Yank magazine on women at work for the war effort, when he spotted the uncommon and surprisingly natural beauty of Norma Jeane. Conover paid her $5 an hour to model for him for several weeks, and the two traveled around southern California on a photo shooting session. The pictures were quickly produced and it wasn't long before she gained the attention of the Blue Book Model Agency.

Within a year Norma Jeane's popularity skyrocketed and she appeared on the covers of 33 national magazines. Her modeling career quickly became a success, but her relationship with Dougherty began to fail. Norma Jeane's fear of loneliness and boredom propelled her into several affairs during her marriage.

Although there are many reports of men who claimed to have been Norma Jeane's lover during her earlier modeling days, only a few accounts were ever substantiated. One such affair was with 32-year-old photographer Andrι de Dienes. During a photo shoot of Norma, he became infatuated with her beauty and fell in love with her wholesomeness. According to de Dienes, he urged her to divorce her husband so that he could marry her. Norma eventually agreed to marry de Dienes, but she quickly withdrew the offer and remained married to Dougherty.
It is unclear exactly how many lovers Norma had during her first marriage. However, what was clear was that she was no longer satisfied in her marriage. According to a later interview, she claimed her marriage was neither unhappy nor painful just extremely boring. During the summer of 1946 Norma Jeane filed for divorce, an event that would be a turning point in her life.
Norma Jeane set her sights higher and began to dream of becoming a movie star

One month after her 20th birthday, she interviewed with casting director Ben Lyon at 20^th Century Fox. Several days later she was called to do her first screen test, which was followed by a contract delivered on August 26, 1946. She was offered the sum of $75 a week, to be reviewed after six months, to act for the studio.

The contract had one condition -- that she change her name from Norma Jeane Dougherty to something more catchy and alluring. At first, the studio decided to change her name to Carol Lind, however the name didn't fit her and it was eventually scrapped. Ben Lyon then suggested the name Marilyn, because it reminded him of his favorite actress Marilyn Miller. Norma Jeane was pleased with the suggestion and added the last name Monroe, which was her mother's maiden name. It was then that Hollywood launched the new face and name -- Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe was determined to be a star. Even as a child she would often fantasize about it. In an interview, she stated, "I used to think as I looked out on 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."

Marilyn threw herself into her acting, dancing and singing classes that were provided by the studio every day of the week. She knew that if she were to succeed, she'd have to be more than just good, she had to be the best. One of Marilyn's teachers, Phoebe Brand, told Donald Wolfe that Marilyn was "a self-conscious girl who never spoke up in class...She was extremely retiring. What I failed to see in her acting was wit, her sense of humor. It was there all the time this lovely comedic style, but I was blind to it. Frankly, I never would have predicted she would be a success."

A rare outtake from the Milton Greene "Ballerina" setting.

Ballerina rare by Milton Green

Rare photo taken by Eve Arnold.Another photo from that set taken by Eve Arnold. Marilyn blowing a bubble!

M reading by Eve Arnold.

Young Marilyn modeling a dove swimmingsuit!

A rare swimsuit photo taken by Bob Beerman.

Marilyn in jeans for the movie "Clash by Night".

Marilyn being photographed on the beach.

Marilyn with red hair, this was the color of her hair when she first dyed it.

From a series of photos of her first modeling gigs, the photo is taken by Andre DeDienes.

Belangrijke data

01-06-1926 Geboortedag 13-09-1935 Naar een weeshuis 26-06-1937 Verlaat het weeshuis 19-06-1942 Trouwt met Jim Dougherty 26-06-1945 Gefotografeerd door David Conover voor Yank Magazine 02-08-1945 Aanmelding bij de Blue Book Modeling Agency 17-07-1946 Eerste besprekingen bij Fox met Ben Lyon 19-07-1946 Eerste screentest voor Fox 29-07-1946 Voor het eerst genoemd in een Hollywood roddelblad 26-08-1946 Eerste studiocontract bij Fox 13-09-1946 Gescheiden van Jim Dougherty 25-08-1947 Door Fox de laan uitgestuurd 09-03-1948 Contract bij Columbia Studios 08-09-1948 Door Columbia Studios de laan uitgestuurd 27-05-1949 Poseert voor naaktkalender 24-07-1949 Eerste gesprek met Earl Wilson 15-08-1949 Begin opnames A Ticket to Tomahawk 05-01-1950 Begin opnames The Fireball 10-12-1950 Nieuw contract met Fox 18-12-1950 Johnny Hyde overleden 29-03-1951 Presentatrice bij de Academy Awards Ceremony 18-04-1951 Begin opnames Love Nest 08-09-1951 Eerste volledige fotoserie in het National Magazine, thema colliers 13-03-1952 Verhalen over de naaktkalender doen de ronde bij het publiek 07-04-1952 Voor de eerste keer op het omslag van LIFE 01-06-1952 Krijgt de rol van Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 02-09-1952 Grand Marshal tijdens de Miss America verkiezing 04-10-1952 Gerucht: Marilyn is getrouwd met Robert Slatzer. 26-06-1953 Haar voetafdrukken in het cement bij Grauman's Chinese Theatre 13-09-1953 Eerste televisieoptreden in de Jack Benny Show 04-11-1953 Premi貥 van How to Marry a Millionaire 15-12-1953 Begin van de opnames van Girl in Pink Tights. Marilyn komt niet opdagen 04-01-1954 Geschorst door Fox 16-02-1954 Trouwt met Joe DiMaggio 16-02-1954 Treedt op voor de troepen in Korea 15-09-1954 Draaidag van de opname in de beroemde, opwaaiende jurk in The Seven Year Itch 05-10-1954 Verlaat Joe DiMaggio 27-10-1954 Gaat scheiden van Joe DiMaggio 05-11-1954 "Wrong Door Raid" vond plaats 06-11-1954 Hollywood's grote sterren eren Marilyn bij Romanoff's party 31-12-1954 Marilyn Monroe Productions opgericht met Milton Greene 15-01-1955 Weer geschorst door Fox 31-03-1955 Rijdt op een roze olifant in Madison Square Garden voor een inzameling voor arthiritis 08-04-1955 Gast in Edward R. Murow's Person to Person 01-06-1955 Premi貥 van The Seven Year Itch 01-11-1955 Scheiding van Joe DiMaggio een feit 31-12-1955 Het grote nieuwe contract met Fox 04-01-1956 Maakt het nieuwe contract met Fox bekend 09-02-1956 Persconferentie met Laurence Olivier over hun gezamelijke project The Prince and the Showgirl 25-02-1956 Terug naar Hollywood na haar verblijf in New York 05-03-1956 Begint met Bus Stop 22-03-1956 Darryl Zanuck verlaat Fox 03-06-1956 Keert terug naar New York na de laatste opnames van Bus Stop 29-06-1956 Trouwt met Arthur Miller in een burgerlijke ceremonie 01-07-1956 Trouwt met Arthur Miller in een Joodse ceremonie 14-07-1956 Arriveert in London en houdt een persconferencie met Laurence Olivier over The Prince and the Showgirl 29-10-1956 Ontmoet Koningin Elizabeth bij de koninklijke filmpremi貥 20-11-1956 Verlaat England 18-12-1956 Radio Show uit het Waldorf-Astoria 03-06-1957 Premi貥 van The Prince and the Showgirl 01-08-1957 Miskraam 04-08-1958 Begint van de opnames van Some Like It Hot 11-06-1958 Some Like It Hot is af 17-12-1958 Tweede miskraam 29-03-1959 Premi貥 van Some Like It Hot 08-03-1960 Ontvangt Golden Globe Award voor Beste Actrice in de komedie Some Like It Hot 18-07-1960 Begint met de verfilming van The Misfits 26-08-1960 Vliegt naar Los Angeles, is depressie 05-09-1960 Keert terug naar de productie van The Misfits 04-11-1960 Laatste opnames van The Misfits 11-11-1960 Persconferentie waarop zij het einde van haar huwelijk met Arthur Miller bekend maakt 16-11-1960 Clark Gable overlijdt 20-01-1961 Scheiding van Arthur Miller is een feit 31-01-1961 Premi貥 van The Misfits 07-02-1961 Laat zich opnemen in de Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic van het New York Hospital 11-02-1961 Verlaat Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic en word opgenomen in het Columbia Presbyterian Hospital 05-03-1961 Ontslagen uit het Columbia Presbyterian Hospital 19-11-1961 Gaat naar Peter Lawford's Strandhuis om bij President John F. Kennedy te zijn 01-02-1962 Diner ter ere van Robert Kennedy 03-04-1962 Begint met de film Something's Got to Give 19-05-1962 Zingt "Happy Birthday" en "Thanks for the Memory" voor President Kennedy in Madison Square Garden 28-05-1962 Naaktfoto's in zwembad gemaakt voor Something's Got to Give 01-06-1962 Voor de laatste keer in de Foxstudio's; laatste publieke verschijning in het openbaar 08-06-1962 Ontslagen door Fox 23-06-1962 Bert Stern schiet de fotoreeks de "Last Sitting" 28-06-1962 Overleg met de filmbazen van Fox over Something's Got to Give 06-07-1962 Maakte Allan Grant foto's voor LIFE magazine 12-07-1962 Gesprek met filmbazen van Fox in de studio 20-07-1962 Schijnt naar het Cedars of Lebannon Hospital te gaan voor een abortus 30-07-1962 Paula Strasberg gaat naar New York terug 03-08-1962 Staat voor de laatste keer op het omslag van LIFE 04-08-1962 Marilyn's laatste dag van haar leven 08-08-1962 Marilyn's begrafenis 28-08-1962 Marilyn's overlijdensakte getekend!

Her first husband, Jim Dougherty, recalls that she used to rinse her face fifteen times after every wash.

At times she would smear Vaseline, cold cream, or hormone cream over her face.

When not wearing makeup, she would apply lanolin or olive oil to her face as a protecting agent.

She would sometimes take ice baths, prepared by her masseur, Ralph Roberts, into which she would add Chanel No. 5.

She told photographer Bert Stern in 1962 that she always used Nivea Skin Moisturizing Lotion.

Interview met Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe! What a thrill it is to talk with you! You have made so many great movies, and you have been on the covers of hundreds of magazines all over the world!

Marilyn Monroe: "A career is wonderful, but you can?t curl up with it on a cold winter?s night."

You know, that?s what people forget about you?that you are such a great comedienne.

MM: (Smiles that Marilyn smile.)

So what do you like to collect?

MM: "Records."

Who is your favorite singer?

MM: "Frank Sinatra."

What are your hobbies?

MM: "Swimming, collecting records, reading and dancing?when I have time."

I know making movies keeps you busy, but what do you do in your spare time?

MM: "What little there is I spend in reading and studying."

Really? That?s not the image you often project.

MM: "That?s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing."

It must be tough living up to your own legend?being labeled as the "Perfect Woman" and all.

MM: "I am content to be Marilyn Monroe, to the best of my ability. Being one's self is a twenty-four hour a day job anyway, isn't it?"

So are you happy with the type of publicity you?ve gotten or would you rather be known for something else besides your figure?

MM: "I want to be known as a good actress."

If you weren't an actress, what would you want to be?

MM: "It's funny, but I've never thought of being anything but an actress."

What would you say is your worst fault?

MM: "I probably have many, but my worst is my difficulty in remembering that there are only 60 minutes in an hour. I'm invariably late, but I can't break myself of it."

Everyone has this image of you that you?ve had an idyllic life. It hasn?t always been that way for you, has it? In truth, you had a tough life growing up, starting out by being born illegitimate.

MM: "It?s true that I was illegitimate. But everything that?s been said about my father?or my fathers?is wrong. My mother?s first husband was named Baker. Her second was Mortensen. But she?d been divorced from both of them by the time I was born. As far as my real father is concerned, I wish you wouldn?t ask?but there are a couple of things that could clear up some of the confusion. When I was very young, I was always told that my father was killed in a car crash in New York before I was born. Strangely enough, on my birth certificate under father?s profession there?s the word baker, which was the name of my mother?s first husband. When I was born?illegitimate, as I said?my mother had to give me a name. She was just trying to think quickly, I guess, and said ?Baker.? Anyway, my name was Norma Jeane Baker. It was in all my school records. Everything else that?s been said is crazy."

Your mother was mentally ill and was institutionalized several times, so you were raised in foster care and in orphanages.

MM: "I know a lot of people say that the orphanage wasn?t so bad. But of course even the most modern orphanage is still an orphanage?if you know what I mean. At night, when the others were sleeping, I?d sit up in the window and cry because I?d look over and see the RKO studio sign above the roofs in the distance, where my mother worked as a cutter. When I went there to work, years later in 1951, doing Clash By Night, I went up to see if I could see the orphanage. But there were too many tall buildings in the way."

What was it like living in an orphanage?

"I once read that there were only three or four of us in a room in the orphanage. That?s not true. I slept in a room with 27 beds, where you could work your way to the ?honor bed,? if you behaved. I got to the honor bed once. But one morning, I was late and was putting on my shoes when the matron said, ?Come downstairs!? I tried to tell her I was tying my shoes, but she said, ?Back to the 27^th bed.? "

During your early years, you were fostered by several families.

MM: "I had?let?s see?ten, no, eleven families. The first one lived in a small town near Los Angeles?I was born in Los Angeles. I stayed with them until I was around seven. They were terribly strict. They brought me up harshly, and corrected me in a way I think they never should have?with a leather strap. That finally came out, and so I was taken away and given to an English couple. Life with them was pretty casual and tumultuous."

No one would guess this from your on-screen performances, but you actually stuttered at one time.

Were you popular in school?

MM: "I won no popularity awards, but I did have a number of good friends."

I?ve read that your first marriage to James Dougherty was arranged to prevent your going back into foster care.

MM: "When I was 15 turning 16, Grace McKee arranged a marriage for me. There?s not much to say about it. In the State of California, a girl can marry at 16. So I had a choice: go to a home ?til I was 18 or get married. And so I got married."

But you divorced him when you were 20 and started working in a factory during World War II, which is actually how your modeling career started.

MM: "I was in what they called the "dope room." I had to paint dope on the fabric used in making [remote-controlled] target airplanes. And then one day, the Air Force wanted to take pictures of our factory. So I worked as a model for several days, holding things in my hand, pushing things around, pulling them?One of the photographers?David Conover?said to me, "You should be a model. You?d easily earn five dollars an hour." Five dollars an hour! I was earning twenty dollars a week for ten hours a day and I had to stand on a concrete floor.

"I started off [modeling] slowly. The war was over, so I left the factory and went to an agency. They took me on, for ads and calendars."

You really didn?t just break into the movies and become a star overnight, did you? In fact, you signed contracts with several studios, but they turned around and dropped you.

MM: "Fox dropped me, and the same thing happened later at Columbia. They at least put me in a movie called Ladies of the Chorus. It was dreadful. It was a terrible story and terribly badly photographed?so they dropped me. But you learn from everything."

But your talent began to shine through. However, you didn?t just jump right into the star scene.

MM: "There came the time when I began to, let?s say, be known, and nobody could imagine what I did when I wasn?t shooting, because they didn?t see me at previews or premieres or parties. It?s simple. I was going to school. I?d never finished high school, so I started going to UCLA at night, because during the day I had small parts in pictures. I took courses in the history of literature and the history of this country, and I started to read a lot, stories by wonderful writers.

That was one of the nicest compliments I ever got."

And now after all the great movies you?ve made and the worldwide recognition, do you think your fame will ever fade?

MM: "If it goes by, I?ve always known it was fickle. Fame will go by, and so long, I?ve had you, fame."

So what does Marilyn Monroe really want?

MM: "I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. 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."

Marilyn's Woon adressen

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Haar maten en facts!

Measurements( studio's claim): 37-23-36 (inches)
93.9 - 58.4 - 91.4 (centimeters)
Measurements (dressmaker's claim): 35-22-35 (inches)
88.9 - 55.8 - 88.9 (centimeters)
Hair: Natural Brown, dyed Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5 feet, 5? inches 166.62 (centimeters)
Weight: 118 pounds 53.5 kilograms
Dress size: 12
Pant Size: 8
Shoe Size: 7AA (US) 38-39 (European)
Bra Size: 36D

Her favorite colors: . Beige, Black, White, Red.

Her favorite perfume: Chanel No. 5

Her favorite beverage: Dom Perignon 1953

Her favorite place to shop: Bloomingdales

Her favorite restaurant: Romanoff's

Her favorite Actors: Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin

Her favorite actresses: Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Marie Dressler, Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland

Did she wear underwear? Depends on who you ask

Social Security Number: 563-32-0764

Phone Numbers at 5th Helena Home: 476-1890 and 472-4830

marilyn monroe - misfits

Marilyn's Favorites

"THE MISFITS "

River of no return

Marilyn ,who was pregnant at the time, but sadly lost the baby later--granted few interviews. She lamented, "Why do reporters ask if I'm happy, or unhappy? Making movies is just one part of my life. My ambition is to grow old gracefully like Marie Dressler, who was my idol."


Haar handschrift,
aan tekeningen van de film,Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!

I.

I left my home of green rough wood,
A blue velvet couch.
I dream till now
A shiny dark bush
Just left of the door.

Down the walk
Clickity clack
As my doll in her carriage
Went over the cracks-
"We'll go far away."

II.

Don't cry my doll
Don't cry
I hold you and rock you to sleep
Hush hush I'm pretending now
I'm not your mother who died.

Marilyn's echtgenoten

Jim Dougherty, June 1942-September 1946


Joe DiMaggio, January 1954-October 1954






Arthur Miller, June 1956-January 1961

Marilyn Monroe's Idol

Abraham Lincoln was one of Marilyn Monroe's heroes. A photo of him and a copy of the Gettysburg Address always hung in her homes. On a street in Los Angeles in 1954, Milton Greene took this image of Marilyn in the back of a Cadillac given to her by Jack Benny. Benny gave Marilyn the Cadillac for appearing on his TV show­which really contradicts his on-screen reputation for being a skinflint

Kleuren:	beige, zwart, wit en rood
Acteurs:	Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Laughton, Will Rogers, Cary Grant, John Barrymore, Tyrone Power en Richard Widmark
Actrices:	Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Marie Dressler en Olivia DeHavilland
Kunstenaars:	Goya, Picasso, El Greco, Michelangelo and Botticelli
Drankje:	Dom Perignon 1953
Boek:	How Stanislavsky Directs door Michael Gorchakov
Zangeres:	Ella Fitzgerald
Zanger:	Frank Sinatra
Film optredens:	The Asphalt Jungle en Don't Bother to Knock
Foto:	Cecil Beaton's foto van Marilyn in haar witte jurk
Musici:	Louis Armstrong, Earl Bostick, Ludwig Van Beethoven en Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toneelstukken:	A Streetcar Named Desire en Death of a Salesman
Toneelschrijvers:	Arthur Miller en Tennessee Williams
Dichters:	John Keats en Walt Whitman
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Marilyn Monroe

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She was born on June 1, 1926, at 9:30 AM PST, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Marilyn's laatste interview

Marilyn's Last Interview
By Richard Meryman
1962

Sometimes wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no make up and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just looking at people living. But then you know,there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp and they'll say, "Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?" And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind. I realize some people want to see if you're real.The teenagers, the little kids, their faces light up. They say, "Gee," and they can't wait to tell their friends. And old people come up and say, "Wait till I tell my wife." You've changed their whole day. In the morning, the garbage men that go by 57th Street when I come out the door say, "Marilyn, hi! How do you feel this morning?" To me,it's an honor, and I love them for it. The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape, and then they say, "Gosh,it's Marilyn Monroe!" And that has it's, you know, those are times it's nice. People knowing who you are and all of that, and feeling that you've meant something to them.

I don't know quite why, but somehow I feel they know that I mean what I do, both when I'm acting on the screen or when if I see them in person and greet them. That I really always do mean hello, and how are you? In their fantasies they feel "Gee,it can happen to me!"

But when you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who is she 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. Like it's happening to your clothing. One time here I am looking for a home to buy and I stopped at this place. A man came out and was very pleasant and cheerful, and said, "Oh, just a moment, I want my wife to meet you." Well,she came out and said, "Will you please get off the premises?" You're always running into peoples unconscious. Let's take some actors or directors. Usually they don't say it to me, they say it to the newspapers because that's a bigger play. You know, if they're only insulting me to my face that doesn't make a big enough play because all I have to say is, "See you around, like never." But if it's in the newspapers, it's coast to coast and all around the world. I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other. I don't like to say this, but I'm afraid there is alot of envy in this business. The only thing I can do is stop and think, "I'm all right but I'm not so sure about them!" For instance, you've read there was some actor that once said that kissing me was like kissing Hitler. Well, I think that's his problem. If I have to do intimate love scenes with somebody who really has these kinds of feelings toward me, then my fantasy can come into play. In other words, out with him, in with my fantasy. He was never there.

But one thing about fame is the bigger the people are, the simpler they are, the more they are not awed by you! They don't feel they have to be offensive, they don't feel they have to insult you. You can meet Carl Sandburg and he is so pleased to meet you. He wants to know about you, and you want to know about him. Not in any way has he ever let me down. Or else you can meet working people who want to know what it is like. You try to explain to them. I don't like to disillusion them and tell them it's sometimes nearly impossible. They kind of look toward you for something that's away from their everyday life. I guess you call that entertainment, a world to escape into, a fantasy. Sometimes it makes you a little bit sad because you'd like to meet somebody kind of on face value. It's nice to be included in peoples fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure alot of people have. Including, well, one corporation in particular which shall be nameless. If I'm sounding picked on or something, I think I am. I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do alot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. These are the ones you aren't interested in seeing everyday of your life.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

When I was 5 I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries. It goes beyond house, you could make your own situations and you could pretend, and even if the other kids were a little slow on the imagining part you could say, "Hey, what about if you were such and such, and I were such and such wouldn't that be fun?" And they'd say, "Oh, yes," and then I'd say, "Well, that will be a horse and this will be..."it was play, playfulness. When I heard that this was acting, I said that's what I want to be. You can play. But then you grow up and find out about playing, that they make playing very difficult for you. Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

When I was 11, the whole world which was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. Suddenly, everything opened up. Even the girls paid a little attention to me because they thought, "Hmmm, she's to be dealt with!" And I had this long walk to school 2 1/2 miles to school, 2 1/2 miles back. It was just sheer pleasure. Every fellow honked his horn you know, workers driving to work, waving, you know, and I'd wave back. The world became friendly. All the newspaper boys when they delivered the paper would come around to where I lived, and I used to hang from the limb of a tree, and I had sort of a sweatshirt on. I didn't realize the value of a sweatshirt in those days, and then I was sort of beginning to catch on, but I didn't quite get it, because I couldn't really afford sweaters. But here they come with their bicycles, you know, and I'd get these free papers and the family liked that, and they'd all pull their bicycles up around the tree and then I'd be hanging, looking kind of like a monkey, I guess. I was a little shy to come down. I did get down to the curb, kinda kicking the curb and kicking the leaves and talking, but mostly listening. And sometimes the family used to worry because I used to laugh so loud and so gay; I guess they felt it was hysterical. It was just this sudden freedom because I would ask the boys, "Can I ride your bike now?" and they'd say, "Sure." Then I'd go zooming, laughing in the wind, riding down the block, laughing, and they'd all stand around and wait till I came back, but I loved the wind. It caressed me. But it was kind of a double edged thing. I did find too, when the world opened up that people took alot for granted, like not only could they be friendly, but they could suddenly get overly friendly and expect an awful lot for very little. When I was older, I used to go to Grauman's Chinese Theater and try to fit my foot in the prints in the cement there. And I'd say, "Oh, oh, my foot's too big! I guess that's out." I did have a funny feeling later when I finally put my foot down into that wet cement. I sure knew what it really meant to me. Anything's possible, almost.

It was the creative part that kept me going, trying to be an actress. I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife. Well, also, I had to eat. I was never kept, to be blunt about it. I always kept myself. I have always had a pride in the fact that I was my own. And Los Angeles was my home, too, so when they said, "Go home!" I said, "I am home." The time I sort of began to think I was famous, I was driving somebody to the airport, and as I came back there was this movie house and I saw my name in lights. I pulled the car up at a distance down the street, it was too much to take up close, you know, all of a sudden. And I said, "God, somebody's made a mistake." But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, "So that's the way it looks," and it was all very strange to me, and yet at the studio they had said, "Remember you're not a star." Yet there it is up in lights. I really got the idea I must be a star, or something from the newspapermen, I'm saying men, not the women who would interview me and they would be warm and friendly. By the way, that part of the press, you know, the men of the press, unless they have their own personal quirks against me, they were always very warm and friendly and they'd say, "You know, you're the only star," and I'd say, "Star?" and they'd look at me as if I were nuts. I think they, in their own kind of way, made me realize I was famous.

I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell, she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was ,you know, considerable. She by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. I said, finally, I really got to this kind of level, I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!" And I want to say the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did. There was a reaction that came to the studio, the fan mail, or when I went to a premiere, or the exhibitors wanted to meet me. I didn't know why. When they all rushed toward me I looked behind me to see who was there and I said, "My heavens!" I was scared to death. I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody. I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, "Hi," that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. I do have feelings some days when there are scenes with alot of responsibility toward the meaning, and I'll wish, "Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman." On the way to the studio I would see somebody cleaning and I'd say, "That's what I'd like to be. That's my ambition in life." But I think that all actors go through this. We not only want to be good, we have to be. You know, when they talk about nervousness, my teacher, Lee Strasberg, when I said to him, "I don't know what's wrong with me but I'm a little nervous," he said, "When you're not, give up, because nervousness indicates sensitivity." Also, a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine. There is a censor inside us that says to what degree do we let go, like a child playing. I guess people think we just go out there, and you know, that's all we do. Just do it. But it's a real struggle. I'm one of the world's most self conscious people. I really have to struggle.

An actor is not a machine, no matter how much they want to say you are. Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever. Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, "One tear, right now," that one tear would pop out. But once there came two tears because I thought, "How dare he?" Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? 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. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. They kind of like to take pieces out of you. I don't think they realize it, but it's like "rrr do this, rrr do that." But you do want to stay intact. Intact and on two feet.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection. I am not an actress who appears at a studio just for the purpose of discipline. This doesn't have anything at all to do with art. I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. But I'm there to give a performance and not to be disciplined by a studio! After all, I'm not in a military school. This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

If you've noticed in Hollywood where millions and billions of dollars have been made, there aren't really any kind of monuments or museums, and I don't call putting your footprint in Grauman's Chinese a monument, all right this did mean a lot, sentimentally at the time. Gee, nobody left anything behind, they took it, they grabbed it and they ran, the ones who made the billions of dollars, never the workers.

You know alot of people have, oh gee, real quirky problems that they wouldn't dare have anyone know. But one of my problems happens to show, I'm late. I guess people think that why I'm late is some kind of arrogance and I think it is opposite of arrogance. I also feel that I'm not in this big American rush, you know, you got to go and you got to go fast but for no good reason. The main thing is, I want to be prepared when I get there to give a good performance or whatever to the best of my ability. A lot of people can be there on time and do nothing, which I have seen them do, and you know, all sit around and sort of chit chatting and talking trivia about their social life. Gable said about me, "When she's there, she's there. All of her is there! She's there to work."

I was honored when they asked me to appear at the President's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing Happy Birthday, like if I had been wearing a slip I would have thought it was showing, or something. I thought, "Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!"

A hush like that from the people warms me. It's sort of like an embrace. Then you think, by God, I'll sing this song if it's the last thing I ever do. And for all the people. Because I remember when I turned to the microphone I looked all the way up and back, and I thought, "That's where I'd be, way up there under one of those rafters, close to the ceiling, after I paid my $2 to come into the place." Afterwards they had some sort of reception. I was with my former father-in-law, Isadore Miller, so I think I did something wrong when I met the President. Instead of saying, "How do you do?" I just said "This is my former father-in-law, Isadore Miller." He came here an immigrant and I thought this would be one of the biggest things in his life, he's about 75 or 80 years old and I thought this would be something that he would be telling his grandchildren about and all that. I should have said, "How do you do, Mr.President," but I had already done the singing, so well you know. I guess nobody noticed it. Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden. Like the man was going to show me around but the woman said, "Off the premises." I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour, it's based on femininity. I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. This is where alot of them miss the boat. And then something I'd just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

I never quite understood it, this sex symbol. I always thought symbols were those things you clash together! That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of! These girls who try to be me, I guess the studios put them up to it, or they get the ideas themselves. But gee, they haven't got it. You can make alot of gags about it like they haven't got the foreground or else they haven't the background. But I mean the middle, where you live.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them, don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out and I'll answer all your questions. Don't be afraid to ask anything. After all, I have come up from way down.

I wanted them to know of life other than their own. I used to tell them, for instance, that I worked for 5 cents a month and I washed one hundred dishes, and my step kids would say, "One hundred dishes!" and I said, "Not only that, I scraped and cleaned them before I washed them. I washed them and rinsed them and put them in the draining place, but I said, "Thank God I didn't have to dry them." Kids are different from grown ups. You know when you get grown up you can get kind of sour, I mean that's the way it can go, but kid's accept you the way you are. Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness, even for a waif and I was brought up a waif. But fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know, it's good to have caviar but not when you have it every meal every day.

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. Yet because of fame I was able to meet and marry two of the nicest men I'd ever met up to that time.

I don't think people will turn against me, at least not by themselves. I like people. The "public" scares me but people I trust. Maybe they can be impressed by the press or when a studio starts sending out all kinds of stories. But I think when people go to see a movie, they judge for themselves. We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

Once I was supposed to be finished, that was the end of me. When Mr. Miller was on trial for contempt of Congress, a certain corporation executive said either he named names and I got him to name names, or I was finished. I said, "I'm proud of my husband's position and I stand behind him all the way," and the court did too. "Finished," they said. "You'll never be heard of."

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. It's sort of like, I don't know, what kind of a yard dash you're running, but then you're at the finish line and you sort of see you've made it! But you never have. You have to start all over again. But I believe you're always as good as your potential.

I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Interviews met Marilyn

Terug naar Hollywood Male Reporter: How do you feel about coming back to Hollywood? Is it a happy time for you or... Marilyn: Yes it is, it's a very happy time. I'm happy to be back... My home town. Male Reporter: Yes Female Reporter: Well you're a happy girl now Marilyn: (Makes an indifferent noise and laughs) Female Reporter: Well Marilyn... Marilyn: (laughs again) I'm much happier though, I'm very pleased Female Reporter: Is it true that you submitted a list of directors Marilyn: (clears throat) Female Reporter: that you would work with? Marilyn: Ummmm Female Reporter: We only know the rumors we hear, you know. Marilyn: I would rather say, uh, that I have director approval, and that is true. Female Reporter: This you think is important? Marilyn: Yes it is, very important to me. Female Reporter: You're wearing a high neck dress, now the last time I saw you, you weren't. Is this a new Marilyn? A new style? Marilyn: No, I'm the same person. But it's a different suit. (Reporters All Laugh) Opleiding Well I started going to UCLA I have never finished high school. Took, um, a course in Backgrounds of Literature. I'm reading, I hadn't read before. Arthur sent me a list of books I should read, and I started to read. Find out such things as the history of this country, um, different things, different. And just some stories. Marilyn over Clark Gable On Clark Gable, I'm sure he won't mind if I say it. Uh, I used to always think of him as my father. I pretended that he was my father. I never pretended anyone was my mother, I don't know why. But, I always pretended he was my father Marilyn over Jean Harlow Uh, when I was seven years old, my favorite was Jean Harlow. And the reason was she was my favorite because she had white hair and I had white hair. I dreamed of having golden hair but instead mine was white. So when she had white hair, I felt, close to her. Marilyn over Korea (Cheering) The highlight of my life was singing for the soldiers there. I stood out on an open stage and it was cold, but I swear I didn't feel a thing except good. (The tape then cuts to one of her live performances of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend from her trip to Korea.) Marilyn over Sexualiteit Uh, we are all born sexual creatures, Thank God! It's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural feeling. And I think that sexuality is only attractive when its natural and spontaneous. I guess that's where a lot of them missed the boat. Know what I mean? (laughs) Marilyn over het Publiek Coming out of my apartment, in New York, you know, 57th street. When I come out of the door they say "Marilyn! Hi! How ya feel this morning?" You know, to me it's an honor. At first it wasn't because they, they'd be "Oh, it's a girl, she's got blonde hair, she's not outta shape." And then he says "My God! It's Marilyn Monroe!" (laughs) Marilyn de Actrice I wanna be an artist. An actress, with integrity. When I'm older, then I'll play all kinds of parts. My teacher, Lee Strasberg, has always said to me, you know, and I said "I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm a little nervous." He says, "When you're not, Give up!" (laughs) Because nervousness indicates sensitivity. I guess I think just go out there, and you know. That's all we do, you know, go out there and do it. But, it's a real struggle. I mean, I really have to struggle. De Naakt kalender Did you pose for a calendar? And I said, "Yes, anything wrong?" "Well, you are, but don't say you did!" I said, "But, I did." I signed the release and I did and I feel I should say it, so I did. De Ster If I am the star the people made me a star. There was no studio and no person but the people made me a star.

Britney Spears is de trotse eigenares van een paar oude Jeans die van Marilyn Monroe zijn geweest. Ze zijn uit de periode dat ze de film River of No Return draaide. Mode ontwerper Tommy Hilfiger overhandigde de zangeres de historische jeans nadat Britney de jeans ontdekte op zijn New Yorkse kantoor. Hilfiger stond erop dat de zangeres de jeans van hem zou aannemen.

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Allan Grant's brilliant photographs made it 28 times onto the cover page of LIFE magazine.
Mr. Grant will be remembered as a photographer/artist.

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
		1926 - 1962
	"Her beauty of face and figure and sweetness of spirit had brightened the world of untold thousands of men and women. Thankful for what they saw of her, they found life sweeter because she lived and sadder because she died. " Paris Match - August, 1962 .....Many famous people die thru the years but it is hard to think of anyone who's death caused more shock , confusion and stunned disbelief than Marilyn Monroe's. Surely James Dean's sudden and tragic death, at age twenty-four, was a real shocker. But we knew how he died. There were photographs of the twisted and torn metal of his brand new Silver Porsche - a sudden death with adequate proof There was no mystery there to be solved. It was just a terrible tragedy. .....Marilyn suffered severely from insomnia, and, at that time, I was convinced she died from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills with the added mix of alcohol. Not as dramatic, perhaps as other theories, but considering the real evidence, nonetheless, a viable one. Still, the conspiracy theories abound. .....Marilyn was fired from her last film, "Something's Got To Give", Twentieth Century Fox claiming that she had been constantly late for work or had not shown up at all. Marilyn claimed that she was ill and unable to work. She was also drinking quite a bit and she was rumored to be mentally unstable. It was a desperately lonely time for her. .....While her lawyers negotiated, Marilyn stayed at home, living in the house in Brentwood she had recently purchased and was in the process of finishing But whatever her worries, during the last two months of her life, she seemed to be determined to prove that she still had a life to live and to refute all the rumors, she made herself available to three major magazines - Vogue, Cosmopolitan and LIFE. LIFE was the last to approach her. She was happily looking forward to doing those articles. .....The LIFE piece was not to be the usual Hollywood glamour assignment. I was told to forget Marilyn Monroe the movie star, Marilyn Monroe the sex goddess' "Just give us Marilyn without the Monroe attached." It was going to be a challenging assignment. .....When I first got the assignment I was put on "standy-by" for what eventually turned out to be two weeks of waiting for Marilyn, to make herself available. Finally on July 6th I got a phone call promising that Marilyn would be available and ready on Saturday July 7th. at 2 pm LIFE had already set a closing date of August 3rd. for the story. The article entitled, "Marilyn Lets her hair down about being famous" was already written by LIFE writer Richard Meryman. They were waiting for my photographs. .....On July 7th, 1962 1 had arrived at her Brentwood home for what turned out to be her very last photo session. It was a little over three weeks before she died .....I arrived at 1:45 pm. Marilyn, I was told, was on the telephone and would be ready in a few minutes. Pat Newcomb, Marilyn's publicist and close friend, introduced me to Alan Snyder, Marilyn's make-up man and Eunice Murray, her live-in housekeeper and companion. Marilyn" s hairdresser was in another room doing her hair. I set up my lights and loaded my cameras and waited. Twenty minutes later she showed up, in a bathrobe and , not surprisingly, with glass of Champaign. (Most movie stars would have a drink or two before a LIFE cover shoot.) Marilyn was still far from ready and I had to get my film on an airplane in three hours. I was getting nervous .....She offered me some champagne which I gladly accepted. It helped. She asked me what she should wear for the photographs. Told her to dress very casually. I told her what I had in mind and she should make her own choices as to what would make her comfortable. She left with her make-up man and hairdresser. About twenty-five minutes later she appeared in tight fitting Capri pants and a dark v-neck sweater. There was nothing about her that reminded me of the lush, laughing, Marilyn Monroe of the big screen. To me she seemed somewhat thinner and much more fragile than I expected. and I detected a sadness about her. She had become the Marilyn they asked for. .....I had spotted an interesting looking antique chair sitting in the comer of the dining room and moved it in front of a sunlit window to catch the light which would be coming from behind her. I sat her down and explained to her what we were trying to do was to illustrate the interview she had done two weeks before which she had approved and was scheduled to be published on August 3rd. LIFE also agreed to give her the right to disapprove of any of the photographs that I had shot. .....I remembered some of the text in the article and asked her to talk about her childhood. As she talked one minute she was the pale schoolgirl, frightened and unsure; then she became cheerful, seductive and glamorous. "Tell me about fame," I asked. There was a vulnerability about her which was quite touching. But, somehow her sexuality always managed to cut through the haze of her personality. .....We took a break to reload my cameras and relax. At that point she grabbed my hand and took me on a quick tour of her recently purchased house. .....When she first saw the house in Brentwood, Marilyn liked it immediately. She liked the simplicity and the privacy of the property as well as the fact that it was not new but had been lived in by a family with small children. It was a small but charming Spanish style house that was built in the nineteen twenties. The family who lived there decided they needed a bigger home where their children could grow. ....."I didn't want a house in Beverly Hills, and I didn't want a 'Movie Stars Palace' she said, "I just wanted a small house for me and my friends." .....Her privacy was very important to her so she had her neighbors carefully checked out - it was a dead end street with two other houses on the property. She discovered that one of the neighbors was a UCLA professor; she felt better about it. .....When Marilyn signed the papers for the purchase of the house she was legally alone. Yet, for her, it was the beginning of a new dream. She wanted some changes made as soon as possible. New cabinets in the kitchen, new fixtures in the bathroom new paint on the walls and hand made furniture from Mexico. .....Later on, since there would be people working on the house, she had replaced the her private unlisted phone number with a phone number from the West Los Angeles police department. She knew that the going rate for her private number was a substantial sum of money. Any plumber or carpenter might see it and pass it on to someone. who would make an obscene phone call and find himself talking to a cop. The thought tickled her. .....Although each room she showed me was devoid of furniture, she described each piece in detail as if it was already placed in the room. She told me of her interest in designing furniture and of her trips to Mexico where the furniture was being made. It was three weeks before her tragic death, I'm sure suicide was the furthest thing from her mind. .....Once again Marilyn sat on the antique chair in front of the sunlit window. She appeared to be more at ease, more peaceful. I adjusted my lights and resumed shooting.. In two hours my film was on an airplane heading for New York. A copy of the article - for her approval - was in her hands on July 14th and approved the next day. LIFE published the article in the August 3rd issue as planned. .......................................................Marilyn died on August 5th, 1962 .....In the LIFE article, an outspoken and gutsy Marilyn talked angrily about the Major studios, stardom and fame. Fame, for all it had brought her was not the most important thing in her life, she concluded: ....."I now live in my work and in relationships with a few people I can count on ... Fame will go by and, so long I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it is something I have experienced, but that's not where I live..." .....Where she lived at that moment was in her new Brentwood home, and that house was happily absorbing much of her attention and providing much to look forward to...

"I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful." "A dollar for your thoughts?" "I've been on a calendar, but never on time." "A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night." "I've never dropped anyone I believed in." "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." "It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far." "I'm very definately a woman and I enjoy it." "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." "What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course." "Dogs never bite me. Just humans." "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." "If I'm a star, then the people made me a star." "I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent." "There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth -- albinos." "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 them---and fooling them." "To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation." "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." "I want to grow old without face-lifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made." "If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere." "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..." "Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature." "People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony." "I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful" ~ Marilyn Monroe

"I want to grow old without face-lifts...I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. 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." "With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself -for survival and living day to day with what comes up." "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful." "Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both." "No-one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't." "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!" "Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it." "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?" "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 don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other." Press comment on posing nude for calendar in 1949... "My sin has been no more than I have written posing for the nude picture because I need fifty dollars desperately to get my car out of hock." "There was my name up in lights. I said 'God, somebody's made a mistake. But there is was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, your're not a star'. Yet there it was up in lights." "An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?" "That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes 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 only people I care about are the people in Times Square, across the street from the theatre, who can't get close as I come in. If I had light make-up on, they'd never see me. This make-up is for them..." "Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many." "It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you -and it won't hurt your feelings -like it's happening to your clothing."

POETRY

Life - I am of both your directions Existing more with the cold frost Strong as a cobweb in the wind Hanging downward the most Somehow remaining Those beaded rays have the colors I've seen in paintings - ah life they have cheated you... thinner than a cobweb's thread sheerer than any- but it did attach itself and held fast in strong winds and sindged by leaping hot fires life - of which at singular times I am of both your directions - somehow I remain hanging downward the most as both of your directions pull me.

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From time to time I make it rhyme but don't hold that kind of thing against me- Oh well what the hell so it won't sell what I want to tell- is what's on my mind taint Dishes taint Wishes it's thoughts flinging by before I die and to think in ink

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To the Weeping Willow I stood beneath your limbs and you flowered and finally clung to me and when the wind struck with … the earth and sand- you clung to me.

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I left my home of green rough wood, A blue velvet couch. I dream till now A shiny dark bush Just left of the door. Down the walk Clickity clack As my doll in her carriage Went over the cracks- "We'll go far away."

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Don't cry my doll Don't cry I hold you and rock you to sleep Hush hush I'm pretending now I'm not your mother who died.

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Help Help Help I feel life coming closer When all I want is to die - 1958

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I could have loved you once and even said it But you went away, A long way away. When you came back it was too late And love was a forgotten word. Remember? - A poem from Marilyn to Bill Burnside in the late 40's.

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I've got a tear hanging over my beer that I can't let go It's too bad I feel sad When I got all my life behind me. If I had a little relief From this grief Then I could find a drowning straw to hold on to It's great to be alive. They say I'm lucky to be alive It's hard to figure out - When everything I feel - Hurts.

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O, time Be kind Help this weary being To forget what is sad to remember. Lose my loneliness, Ease my mind, While you eat my flesh.

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Nite of the nite Soothing Darkness Refreshes Air Seems different Night has no eyes nor no one Silence Except for the night itself.

Attributed

• "It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
  • When asked what she was wearing when she posed nude. (The pictures were in the very first issue of Playboy)

• "The most unsatisfactory men are those who pride themselves on their virility and regard sex as if it were some form of athletics at which you can win cups. It is a woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or by just staring into space."

• "I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself."

• "Those people have been writing all those lies about me, all I know, it's their problem. Those people, I don't even know them or if we met it's been brief. Can I take it? Most of course! I'm used to it and remember the old saying: 'consider the source'."

• "Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men."

• "For breakfast, I have two raw beaten eggs in a glass of hot milk. I never eat dessert. My nail polish is transparent. I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely. I wash my hair everyday and I am always brushing it. Every morning I walk across my apartment rolling an empty soda bottle between my ankles, in order to preserve my balance."

• "Joe doesn't think any man can love me except him. He's my best friend in the world. I don't want to lose him. I don't want to lose Jose (Bolanos). Oh, help me, somebody..."

• "It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

• "I never intentionally mean to hurt anyone, but you can't be too nice to people you work with, else they will trample you to death."

• "As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions."

• "If I am a star the people made me a star."

• "Dogs never bite me, just humans."

• "With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, and somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself- for survival and living day to day with what comes up."

• "You know who I always depend on? Not strangers, not friends. The telephone! That's my best friend. I seldom write letters, but I love calling friends, especially late at night, when I can't sleep."

• "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."

• "I was a mistake. My mother didn't want to have me. I guess she never wanted me. I probably got in her way. I know I must have disgraced her. A divorced woman has enough problems getting a man, I guess, but one with an illegitimate baby.... I wish, I still wish, she had wanted me."

• "I always felt I was nobody and the only way for me to be somebody was to be... well, somebody else."

• "Well behaved women rarely make history."

• "My how fast the months go - and the calendars!"

• "My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances."

• "It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

• "I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me."

• "I am a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me because of the image they have made of me and that I have made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much and I can't live up to it. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy's the same as any other woman's. I can't live up to it."

• "You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way."

• "No sex is wrong if there is love in it. But, too often, people act like it's gymnasium work, mechanical."

• "I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other."

• "No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."

• "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

• "She (character, Sadie Thompson) was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. That's important, you know?"

• "I want to grow old without face-lifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. Sometimes, I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know yourself."

• "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

• "Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

• "Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring new love to each man she loves, providing there aren't too many."

• "That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it sex than some of the things we've got symbols of."

• "Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it."

• "I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."

• "Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both."

• "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

• "It stirs up envy, fame does. People... feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing."

• "Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime. It's your right if you want to, though it doesn't get you anywhere."

• "I always felt insecure and in the way - but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world."

Marilyn Monroe
Movie Legend

1926 - 1962

Hollywood is a place where they'll
pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss
and fifty cents for your soul.
?Marilyn Monroe


Andereover Marilyn:

I did know her, and out of that sentiment for her, I could never talk about her for publication.
Marlon Brando
Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: 'How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?' Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can't believe that life wasn't important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere.
Marlon Brando
I got a cold chill. This girl had something I hadn't seen since silent pictures. She had a kind of fantastic beauty like Gloria Swanson, when a movie star had to look beautiful, and she got sex on a piece of film like Jean Harlow.
Leon Shamroy, on MM's 1946 screen test
I took her as a serious actress before I ever met her. I think she's an a great comedienne, but I also think that she might turn into the greatest tragic actress that can be imagined.
Arthur Miller

'Marilyn was an incredible person to act with ... the most marvelous I ever worked with, and I have been working for 29 years.
Montgomery Clift
When she's there, she's there. All of her is there! She's there to work.
Clark Gable
Still she hangs like a bat in the heads of the men who met her, and none of us will ever forget her.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Marilyn Monroe is not a raving beauty, and her legs are too short for the rest of her. Laurence Willinger
Marilyn is a dreamy girl. She's the kind who's liable to show up with one red shoe and one black shoe.
Jane Russell
The trouble with Marilyn was she didn't trust her own judgment, always had someone around to depend on. Coaches, so-called friends. Even me.
Allan 'Whitey' Snyder
She's scared and unsure of herself. I found myself wishing that I were a psychoanalyst and she were my patient. It might be that I couldn't have helped her, but she would have looked lovelv on a couch.
Billy Wilder
I asked her where she lived, and when she said at the Studio Club, I was impressed because I knew that a girl who looked like that could have the biggest house in Beverly Hills, she could have whatever she wanted because men would give it to her. Therefore, if she lived at the Studio Club it was because she had character.
Ben Lyon on his 1946 meeting with Norma Jeane Dougherty
I have great faith that her career would have continued. She was one of the greatest draws in the history of motion pictures, and today I think she would have been tops. Marilyn had a childlike quality which made men adore her. Yet women weren't jealous. Like John Wayne and a few other giants, she had a star quality that had nothing to do with acting. . . . What women in pictures can compare with her today? Nobody.
Ben Lyon
She'd come out of our apartment in a shleppy old coat, looking like my maid, and all the people would push her aside to get my autograph. She loved it.
Shelley Winters

I had always thought that all those amusing remarks she was supposed to have made for the press had probably been manufactured and mimeographed by her press agent, but they weren't. She was a very bright person, an instinctive type.
Photographer Elliott Erwitt

She had such magnetism that if 15 men were in a room with her, each man would be convinced he was the one she'd be waiting for after the others left.
Publicist Roy Craft
It's no fun being married to an electric light.
Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio may not have made a good husband for Marilyn, but no one cared more for her. He was always, before the divorce, and after the divorce, her best friend.
Allan 'Whitey' Snyder
Gone was the shy, tense little girl voice, the slow groping for just the right word, the hesitation in answering a question . . . she came up, in a few minutes, with sprightlier conversation than most stars can manage in hours.
Dorothy Manning on the "new" Marilyn, circa 1956 "
[She was] so terrified she couldn't speak a word, just stood there mute but refusing to engage in the vacuous small talk.
Arthur Miller on early Marilyn Monroe
She was a difficult woman, you know. We liked her and we said the nicest things about her and she deserved them; but, she was trouble and she brought that whole baggage of emotional difficulties of her childhood with her.
Norman Rosten
It can't be, it can't be, she couldn't have killed herself, she had three deals going.
A Hollywood agent
Since her divorce from Arthur Miller, she's been in her best condition for a long time. She's happy!
Allan "Whitey" Snyder, shortly before Marilyn's death

* What did the boys in high school nickname Norma Jeane? The MMmmmm Girl.
* Hugh Hefner bought a crypt next to Marilyn for $85,000, and the other crypt next to her was sold for $125,000. There are no empty spots available near Marilyn.

"Marilyn Monroe's Last Home - 12305 5th. Helena Drive, Brentwood"

Where Marilyn lived with Natasha Lytess, her drama coach.

A closer view.

A photo of Marilyn drinking Dom Perignon taken by George Barris in 1962. . Marilyn Monroe's Movies ! The Shocking Miss Plgrim. ( 1947 ) Dangerous Years. ( 1948 ) Scudda Hoo ! Scudda Hay ! ( 1948 ) Ladies of the Chorus. ( 1949 ) Right Cross. ( 1950 ) Love Happy. ( 1950 ) A Ticket to Tomahawk. ( 1950 ) All About Eve. ( 1950 ) The Fireball. ( 1950 ) The Asphalt Jungle. ( 1950 ) Let's Make It Legal. ( 1951 ) As Young As You Feel. ( 1951 ) Love Nest. ( 1951 ) Hometown Story. ( 1951 ) O. Henry's Full House. ( 1951 ) Clash By Night. ( 1952 ) Don't Bother to Knock. ( 1952 ) Monkey Business. ( 1952 ) We're Not Married ! ( 1952 ) How to Marry a Millionaire. ( 1953 ) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. ( 1953 ) Niagara. ( 1953 ) There's No Business Like Show Business. ( 1954 ) River of No Return. ( 1954 ) The Seven Year Itch. ( 1955 ) Bus Stop. ( 1956 ) The Prince and the Showgirl. ( 1957 ) Some Like it Hot. ( 1959 ) Let's Make Love. ( 1960 ) The Misfits. ( 1961 )

A Rolex given by Marilyn Monroe to JFK on the occasion of his 45th birthday.

http://www.mmjp.or.jp/amlang.atc/audio/loved.htm

*MARILYN*

Haar laatste foto's 1962

The Death of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was found dead
as a result of a drug overdose
in her bed in her Brentwood home,
12305 Fifth Helena Dr Brentwood, CA,
on the night of 8-4-62 ~ 8-5-62

More Marilyn Monroe Stuff

Thanks to Morbidly Hollywood friend CO for providing us with what is purportedly the toe tag morgue photo of Marilyn Monroe. Thanks CO!

A few photos of Marilyn's house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, California.

Autopsy Report

External examination: The unembalmed body is that of a 36-year-old well-developed, well-nourished Caucasian female weighing 117 pounds and measuring 65-1/2 inches in length. The scalp is covered with bleached blond hair. The eyes are blue. The fixed lividitv is noted in the face, neck, chest, upper portions of arms and the right side of the abdomen. The faint lividity which disappears upon pressure is noted in the back and posterior aspect of the arms and legs. A slight ecchymotic area is noted in the left hip and left side of lower back. The breast shows no significant lesion. There is a horizontal 3-inch long surgical scar in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. A suprapubic surgical scar measuring 5 inches in length is noted. The conjunctivae are markedly congested; however, no ecehymosis or petechiae are noted. The nose shows no evidence of fracture. The external auditory canals are not remarkable:. No evidence of trauma is noted in the scalp, forehead, cheeks, lips or chin. The neck shows no evidence of trauma. Examination of the hands and nails shows no defects. The lower extremities show no evidence of trauma. Body cavity: The usual Y-shaped incision is made to open the thoracic and abdominal cavities. The pleural and abdominal cavities contain no excess of fluid or blood. The mediastinum shows no shifting or widening. The diaphragm is within normal limits. The lower edge of the liver is within the costal margin. The organs are in normal position and relationship. Cardiovascular system: The heart weighs 300 grams. The pericardial cavity contains no excess of fluid. The epicardium and pericardium are smooth and glistening. The left ventricular wall measures 1.1 cm. and the right 0.2 cm. The papillary muscles are not hypertrophic. The chordae tendineac are not thickened or shortened. The valves have the usual number of leaflets which are thin and pliable. The tricuspid valve measures 10 cm., the pulmonary valve 6.5 cm., mitral valve 9.5 cm. and aortic valve 7 cm in circumference. There is no septal defect. The foramen ovale is closed. The coronary arteries arise from their usual location and are distributed in normal fashion. Multiple sections of the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery with a 5 mm. interial demonstrate a patent lumen throughout. The circumflex branch and the right coronary artery also demonstrate a patent lumen. The pulmonary artery contains no thrombus. The aorta has a bright yellow smooth intima. Respiratory system: The right lung weighs 465 grams and the left 420 grams. Both lungs are moderately congested with some edema. The surface is dark and red with mottling. The posterior portion of the lungs show severe congestion. The tracheobronchial tree contains no aspirated material or blood. Multiple sections of the lungs show congestion and edematous fluid exuding from the cut surface. No consolidation or suppuration is noted. The mucosa of the larynx is grayish white. Liver and biliary system: The liver weighs 1890 grams. The surface is dark brown and smooth. There are marked adhesions through the omentum and abdominal wall in the lower portion of the liver as the gallbladder has been removed. The common duct is widely patent. No calculus or obstructive material is found. Multiple sections of the liver show slight accentuation of the lobular pattern; however, no hemorrhage or tumor is found. Hemic and lymphatic system: The spleen weighs 190 grams. The surface is dark red and smooth. Section shows dark red homogeneous firm cut surface. The Malpighian bodies are not clearly identified. There is no evidence of lymphadenopathy. The bone marrow is dark red in color. Endocrine system: The adrenal glands have the usual architectural cortex and medulla. The thyroid glands are of normal size, color and consistency. Urinary system: The kidneys together weigh 350 grams. Their capsules can be stripped without difficulty. Dissection shows a moderately congested parenchyma. The cortical surface is smooth. The pelves and ureters are not dilated or stenosed. The urinary bladder contains approximately 150 cc. of clear straw-colored fluid. The mucosa is not altered. Genital system: The external genitalia shows no gross abnormality. Distribution of the pubic hair is of female pattern. The uterus is of the usual size. Multiple sections of the uterus show the usual thickness of the uterine wall without tumor nodules. The endometrium is grayish yellow, measuring up to 0.2 cm in thickness. No polyp or tumor is found. The cervix is clear, showing no nabothian cysts. The tubes are intact. The right ovary demonstrates recent corpus luteum haemorrhagicum. The left ovary shows corpora lutea and albicantia. A vaginal smear is taken. Digestive system: The esophagus has a longitudinal folding mucosa. The stomach is almost completely empty. The contents is brownish mucoid fluid. The volume is estimated to be no more than 20 cc. No residue of the pills is noted. A smear made from the gastric contents and examined under the polarized microscope shows no refractile crystals. The mucosa shows marked congestion and submucosal petechial hemorrhage diffusely. The duodenum shows no ulcer. The contents of the duodenum is also examined under polarized microscope and shows no refractile crystals. The remainder of the small intestine shows no gross abnormality. The appendix is absent. The colon shows marked congestion and purplish discoloration. The pancreas has a tan lobular architecture. Multiple sections shows a patent duct. Skeletomuscular system: The clavicle, ribs, vertebrae and pelvic bones show fracture lines. All bones of the extremities are examined by palpation showing no evidence of fracture. Head and central nervous system: The brain weighs 1440 grams. Upon reflection of the scalp there is no evidence of contusion or hemorrhage. The temporal muscles are intact. Upon removal of the dura mater the cerebrospinal fluid is clear. The superficial vessels are slightly congested. The convolutions of the brain are not flattened. the contour of the brain is not distorted. No blood is found in the epidural, subdural or subarachnoid spaces. Multiple sections of the brain show the usual symmetrical ventricles and basal ganglia. Examination of and brain stem shows no gross abnormality. Following removal of the dura mater from the base of the skull and calvarium no skull fracture is demonstrated. Liver temperature taken at 10:30 A.M. registered 89 F Specimen: Unembalmed blood is taken for alcohol and barbiturate examination. Liver, kidney, stomach and contents, urine and intestine are saved for further toxicological study. A vaginal smear is made.

At 10:30 Am The Autopsy began. Dr. Thomas Noguchi was joined by John Miner a deputy district attorney specializing in medical and psychiatric law. Also attending the autopsy was Dr. Theodore Curphey.

Noguchi and miner has studied the police report indicating that Monroe had die in a locked room, And that her doctors believed she died of ingestion of an overdose. They also had studied the pill bottles gathered, Dr. Engelberg had told the police he had given Monroe a refill prescription for ?fifty? capsules of Nembutal. On Friday, August 3. Records at the Saint Vincent Pharmacy indicate that the prescription was filled the day before she died. The Nembutal Prescription was for 25 capsules, not 50 like Dr. Engelberg had stated.

The autopsy diagram clearly has the notation ?No needle marks?

However there are serious questions concerning the findings. It is a matter of record, according to a bill submitted to the Monroe estate, from Dr. Engelberg *That Engelberg gave her an injection on August 3. The injection was approximately 4 P. M on Friday. How come this needle mark didn't show?

Noguchi states the question: ? were the drugs that killed her injected into her body by someone else?

He states how difficult recent needle marks are to detect. Also another matter for concern in the external examination is the question of ?Lividity? or ?livor mortis?( blood pools in the lowest level of the body in the hours of death, producing purplish blotches. ) In the report the examiner mentions two such areas, first the face, neck, arms, and chest and abdomen; second, ? a faint lividity which disappears upon pressure is noted in the back and posterior aspect of the arms and legs,? The forensic significance for all of this is that when a body is moved during the ?livor mortis process? which usually extends to 4 hours, this dual lividity areas are know to occur (purplish blotches). so for example if a body lies for 3 hours dead and then is moved to another position , a second lividity will take place.

Also without explanation , Noguchis External Examination points out two fresh bruises on Marilyn's body:? A slight ecchymotic area is noted in the left hip and left side of the lower back.? However according to Gradison, more bruises were found on Marilyn's body.

?When a body is brought into the morgue, it is immediately inspected by a medical assistant. At this time all scars, bruises, cuts, or other trauma are indicated on a special initial examination form. This form becomes part of the official file and is completed before the beginning of the autopsy,?

Gradison saw this form on the morning of August 5, and he said it included the hip bruises indicated in the autopsy report but also revealed additional bruises on Monroe's and the back of her legs. According to Gradison,

?This initial examination form was part of a file that disappeared as the case began."

?That bruise ,? Dr. Noguchi said . ? has never been fully explained.? When reporters asked what may have caused the bruises, Noguchi replied, ? there are no explanation for that bruise. It is a sign of Violence,?

After completing the external examination, Noguchi proceeded with the internal examination. Noguchi then opened the stomach, to their surprise there was no signs of the Nembutal tablets, there was a small quantity of liquid in the stomach, but they did not find anything indicating of heavy drugs or sedatives.

Also Nembutals Street name is ?yellow jackets? this is because when swallowed it leaves a yellow dye in the digestive tract- no dye like this was found, so how did she swallow 40 or more capsules, and they still couldn't find any traces in her stomach or her digestive track?

Dr. Noguchi concluded his examination by tacking samples of the brain, blood, urine, and internal organs and sending them for further toxicology study.

Wall Plaque MM 1926 -1962.	Memorial Bench in front of crypt.
View of MM's crypt from driveway.	Hugh Hefner has reserved crypt next to MM.

Marilyn Monroe's Death: The History Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death. Her death was ruled to be "acute barbiturate poisoning" by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroners office and listed as "probable suicide," but because of a lack of evidence, her death was not classified as “suicide”. Marilyn Monroe's funeral took place at 1:00pm on August 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Mortuary Chapel on the grounds of the Westwood Memorial Cemetery. It was a very private service conducted by Reverend A. J. Soldan, a Lutheran minister from the Village Church of Westwood. Readings were made of Psalm 23, chapter 14 of the Book of John, and excerpts from Pslams 46 adn 139. The Lord's Prayer was also read. The somber occasion began with the stains of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, and included, at Marilyn's request, Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow". Lee Strasber delivered the eulogy. During the service Marilyn's body lay in an open bronze casket lined with champagne-colored satin. Partially exposed, she was dressed in her green Pucci dress and a green chiffon scarf. For the last time, Allan "Whitey" Snyder did her makeup, a flask of gin fortifying him enough to carry out a promise he had made in jest many years earlier, and of which Marilyn had reminded him with an inscription on a gold money clip she gave him, saying, "Whitey Dear, While I'm still warm, Marilyn." Because of the damage done by the autopsy, Agnes Flanagan, who prepared her hair that day, had to use a wig similar to how Marilyn had been wearing her hair in her aborted last picture, "Something's Got to Give". In her hands was a posy of pink teacup roses, a gift from DiMaggio, who had sat in vigil the night before. Monroe is interred in a pink marble crypt at Corridor of Memories, #24 at Westwood Memorial park. Monroe had visited the cemetery more than once as a struggling actress because Ana Lower, the adult to whom she had been closest during her juvenile years, had been buried there in 1948. Valentino The Memorial: When: August 5th, 2008. Traditionally, the service begins at 11:00 a.m. Where: Westwood Memorial Park, 1218 Glendon Avenue LA CA 90024

Joe DiMaggio flew in to look after arrangements for Marilyn's funeral. He called her elder half-sister Berniece Miracle to help. Marilyn's business manager Inez Melson also assisted. Under DiMaggio's express instructions, none of Marilyn's Hollywood friends were invited - he held them responsible, morally if not actually, for her death.

Marilyn Monroe's funeral took place at 1:00pm on August 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Mortuary Chapel on the grounds of the Westwood Memorial Cemetery. It was a very private service conducted by Reverend A. J. Soldan, a Lutheran minister from the Village Church of Westwood. Readings were made of Psalm 23, chapter 14 of the Book of John, and excerpts from Pslams 46 adn 139. The Lord's Prayer was also read. The somber occasion began with the stains of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, and included, at Marilyn's request, Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow". Lee Strasber delivered the eulogy, though only after DiMaggio's first choice, Carl Sandburg, was forced to decline due to ill-health.

During the service Marilyn's body lay in an open bronze casket lined with champagne-colored satin. Partially exposed, she was dressed in her green Pucci dress and a green chiffon scarf, a favorite which she had worn at a press conference in Mexico City earlier that year (it was also worn during the photo shoot with Maf). For the last time, Allan "Whitey" Snyder did her makeup, a flask of gin fortifying him enough to carry out a promise he had made in jest many years earlier, and of which Marilyn had reminded him with an inscription on a gold money clip she gave him, saying, "Whitey Dear, While I'm still warm, Marilyn."

Because of the damage done by the autopsy, Agnes Flanagan, who prepared her hair that day, had to use a wig similar to how Marilyn had been wearing her hair in her aborted last picture, "Something's Got to Give". In her hands was a posy of pink teacup roses, a gift from DiMaggio, who had sat in vigil the night before.

Synder was among her pallbearers, along with Allen Abbott, Sidney Guilaroff, Ronald Hast, Leonard Krisminsky and Clarence Pierce.

This is the Eulogy that was performed by Lee Strasberg:

Marilyn Monroe was a legend.
In her own lifetime she created a myth of what a poor girl from a deprived background could attain. For the entire world she became a symbol of the eternal feminine.
But I have no words to describe the myth and the legend. I did not know this Marilyn Monroe.
We gathered here today, knew only Marilyn - a warm human being, impulsive and shy, sensitive and in fear of rejection, yet ever avid for life and reaching out for fulfillment. I will not insult the privacy of your memory of her - a privacy she sought and treasured - by trying to describe her whom you knew to you who knew her. In our memories of her she reamins alive, not only a shadow on the screen or a glamorous personality.
For us Marilyn was a devoted and loyal friend, a colleague constantly reaching for perfection. We shared her pain and difficulties and some of her joys. She was a member of our family. It is difficult to accept the fact that her zest for life has been ended by this dreadful accident.
Despite the heights and brillance she attained on the screen, she was planning for the future; she was looking forward to participating in the many exciting things which she planned. In her eyes and in mine her career was just beginning. The dream of her talent, which she had nurtured as a child, was not a mirage. When she first came to me I was amazed at the startling sensitivity which she possessed and which had remained fresh and undimmed, struggling to express itself despite the life to which she had been subjected. Others were as physically beautiful as she was, but there was obviously something more in her, something that people saw and recognized in her performances and with which they identified. She had a luminous quality - a combination of wistfulness, radiance, yearning - to set her apart and yet make everyone wish to be a part of it, to share in the childish naivete which was so shy and yet so vibrant.
This quality was even more evident when she was in the stage. I am truly sorry that the public who loved her did not have the opportunity to see her as we did, in many of the roles that foreshadowed what she would have become. Without a doubt she would have been one of the really great actresses of the stage.
Now it is at an end. I hope her death will stir sympathy and understanding for a sensitive artist and a woman who brought joy and pleasure to the world.
I cannot say goodby. Marilyn never liked goodbys, but in the peculiar way she had of turning things around so that they faced reality - I will say au revoir. For the country to which she has gone, we must all someday visit.

Here is original film of Marilyn's memorial service in Westwood.

Westwood chapel

Last Will and Testament of Marilyn Monroe

I, MARILYN MONROE, do make, publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.

FIRST: I hereby revoke all former Wills and Codicils by me made.

SECOND: I direct my Executor, hereinafter named, to pay all of my just debts, funeral expenses and testamentary charges as soon after my death as can conveniently be done.

THIRD: I direct that all succession, estate or inheritance taxes which may be levied against my estate and/or against any legacies and/or devises hereinafter set forth shall be paid out of my residuary estate.

FOURTH: (a) I give and bequeath to BERNICE MIRACLE, should she survive me, the sum of $10,000.00.
(b) I give and bequeath to MAY REIS, should she survive me, the sum of $10,000.00.
(c) I give and bequeath to NORMAN and HEDDA ROSTEN, or to the survivor of them, or if they should both predecease me, then to their daughter, PATRICIA ROSTEN, the sum of $5,000.00, it being my wish that such sum be used for the education of PATRICIA ROSTEN.
(d) I give and bequeath all of my personal effects and clothing to LEE STRASBERG, or if he should predecease me, then to my Executor hereinafter named, it being my desire that he distribute these, in his sole discretion, among my friends, colleagues and those to whom I am devoted.

FIFTH; I give and bequeath to my Trustee, hereinafter named, the sum of $100,000.00, in Trust, for the following uses and purposes:
(a) To hold, manage, invest and reinvest the said property and to receive and collect the income therefrom.
(b) To pay the net income therefrom, together with such amounts of principal as shall be necessary to provide $5,000.00 per annum, in equal quarterly installments, for the maintenance and support of my mother, GLADYS BAKER, during her lifetime.
(c) To pay the net income therefrom, together with such amounts of principal as shall be necessary to provide $2,500.00 per annum, in equal quarterly installments, for the maintenance and support of MRS. MICHAEL CHEKHOV during her lifetime.
(d) Upon the death of the survivor between my mother, GLADYS BAKER, and MRS. MICHAEL CHEKHOV to pay over the principal remaining in the Trust, together with any accumulated income, to DR. MARIANNE KRIS to be used by her for the furtherance of the work of such psychiatric institutions or groups as she shall elect.

SIXTH: All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situate, of which I shall die seized or possessed or to which I shall be in any way entitled, or over which I shall possess any power of appointment by Will at the time of my death, including any lapsed legacies, I give, devise and bequeath as follows:
(a) to MAY REIS the sum of $40,000.00 or 25% of the total remainder of my estate, whichever shall be the lesser,
(b) To DR. MARIANNE KRIS 25% of the balance thereof, to be used by her as set forth in ARTICLE FIFTH (d) of this my Last Will and Testament.
(c) To LEE STRASBERG the entire remaining balance.

SEVENTH: I nominate, constitute and appoint AARON R. FROSCH Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. In the event that he should die or fail to qualify, or resign or for any other reason be unable to act, I nominate, constitute and appoint L. ARNOLD WEISSBERGER in his place and stead.

EIGHTH: I nominate, constitute and appoint AARON R. FROSCH Trustee under this my Last Will and Testament. In the event he should die or fail to qualify, or resign or for any other reason be unable to act, I nominate, constitute and appoint L. Arnold Weissberger in his place and stead.

Marilyn Monroe (L.S.)

SIGNED, SEALED, PUBLISHED and DECLARED by MARILYN MONROE, the Testatrix above named, as and for her Last Will and Testament, in our presence and we, at her request and in her presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses this 14th day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-One

Aaron R. Frosch residing at 10 West 86th St. NYC
Louise H. White residing at 709 E. 56 St., New York, NY

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