Rare images show Marilyn Monroe as you've never seen her before

A brunette Norma Jeane in 1946, the year she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.A studio executive chose the name Marilyn, and she picked her grandmother’s surname, Monroe

In 1946, the year Marilyn signed her first film contract, with 20th Century Fox

Marilyn posing with ski sticks in a 1944 photo shoot 

 

On a swimwear shoot in 1946

  

Marilyn with her magazine covers in 1946

 

Marilyn posing outdoors in 1945

In 1945, the year she signed with the Blue Book modelling agency

As a Blue Book model in 1946

Marilyn posing with a fellow Blue Book Model in 1946

In 1949, the year she appeared in the Marx Brothers film Love Happy

About Marilyn Monroe(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

• was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s

• spending much of her childhood in foster homes,began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with 20th Century Fox

• By 1952 she had her first leading role in '' Don't Bother to Knock''

• her dramatic performance in  Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe Nomination

• her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released '' The Prince and the Showgirl'' (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award Nomination and won a David di Donatello Award

• received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in  Some Like It Hot (1959)

• last completed film was '' The Misfits '' (1961), co-starring Clarke Cable  with a screenplay written by her then-husband, Arthur Miller

• On August 5, 1962, at 4:25 a.m., LAPD Sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, saying that Monroe was found dead at her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. She was 36 years old. At the subsequent autopsy, 8 mg/dL of Chloral hydrate and 4.5 mg/dL of  Nembutal were found in her system, and Dr.Thomas Noguchi (known as the "coroner to the stars") of the Los Angeles County Coroners office recorded cause of death as "acute barbitirate poisoning", resulting from a "probable suicide"