Marilyn Monroe was an American actress who had a difficult childhood and was passed between orphanages. After minor roles, she broke through with films like The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve in 1950. She became a major Hollywood star and sex symbol through films in the 1950s like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Niagara, and Some Like It Hot. Her marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller both ended in divorce. Her struggles with Hollywood and frustrations in her personal life took a toll on her mental health, and she died of an overdose of sleeping pills at age 36.
2. ( Norm Jean Mortenson; Los Angeles, 1926 - be going., 1962) American Actress. She had a difficult infancy, which passed in diverse orphanages. After taking part in several minor movies, in 1950 the talent-scout J. Hyde proposed him to take part in The concrete jungle and Eve to the nude , with which his, career started being consolidated.
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4. From then, movies like The gentlemen are preferred by blondes (1952), Niagara (1953), With skirts and to the mad thing (1959) and rebellious Lives (1961) they converted her into an authentic erotic myth of Hollywood, thanks to her, special photogenic. In 1954 she was married, for nine months, with the player of baseball Joe Di Maggio and in 1956 she joined the playwright Arthur Miller, of whom she separated in 1961.
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6. Her sentimental frustrations, as well as her, constant clashes with the industry of Hollywood in her attempt of being imposed as dramatic actress, ended up by doing notch in her spirit. His, death, happened after consuming an overdose of sleeping pills, shocked to the world and helped to increase furthermore her legend.