Remembering Marlin Monroe on her 53rd Death Anniversary August 05, 1962 - August 05,2015

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926.

Her mother was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jean was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage.

At the age of 16, Marilyn Monroe married a fellow worker in an aircraft factory, but they divorced a few years later.

Marilyn Monroe took up modeling in 1944 and in 1946 signed a short-term contract with 20th Century Fox, taking as her screen name Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe had a few bit parts and then returned to modeling, famously posing nude for a calendar in 1949

Marilyn Monroe began to attract attention as an actress in 1950 after appearing in minor roles in the The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve.

 

Although she was onscreen only briefly playing a mistress in both films, audiences took note of the blonde bombshell, and she won a new contract from Fox.

Marilyn Monroe 's acting career took off in the early 1950s with performances in Love Nest (1951), Monkey Business (1952), and Niagara (1953)

 

 

Celebrated for her voluptuousness and wide-eyed charm, Marilyn Monroe won international fame for her sex-symbol roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)

 

 

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe married baseball great Joe DiMaggio, attracting further publicity, but they divorced eight months later.

The Seven-Year Itch (1955) showcased Marilyn Monroe's comedic talents and features the classic scene where she stands over a subway grating and has her white skirt billowed up by the wind from a passing train

In 1955, she studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York City and subsequently gave a strong performance as a hapless entertainer in Bus Stop (1956)

In 1956, Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller

In 1957 Marlin Monroe made The Prince and the Showgirl–a critical and commercial failure–with Laurence Olivier

In 1959 Marlin Monroe gave an acclaimed performance in the hit comedy Some Like It Hot

Marlin Monroe's last role, in The Misfits (1961), was directed by John Huston and written by Miller, whom she divorced just one week before the film’s opening

By 1961, Monroe, beset by depression, was under the constant care of a psychiatrist. Increasingly erratic in the last months of her life, she lived as a virtual recluse in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home

After midnight on August 5, 1962, her maid, Eunice Murray, noticed Monroe’s bedroom light on. When Murray found the door locked and Marilyn unresponsive to her calls, she called Monroe’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who gained access to the room by breaking a window.
Entering, he found Marilyn dead, and the police were called sometime after.
Marlin Monroe was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room.

After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was “caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.”


Medical attendents removing the body of Marilyn Monroe from her home