Marilyn Monroe (Presentation by Claudia)

Marilyn Monroe

She, was born at Los Angeles in 1926. She´s real name is Norma Jeane Baker. Marilyn had difficult chilhood, because she didn´t know her dad and her mum is take to a psychiatric hospital. Then, Marilyn was in foster homes and orphanages. She was married at 16 years whith James Dougherty, at 4 years after their marriage, they divorced. That same year one photographer of fashion the convented of she has a model. From then Norma Jeane became known as Marilyn Monroe and became a blonde instead of brown. She made more publicity campaigns. She did art dramatic and she was actress and model. Marilyn made some important films in this period. (In Fog in the Soul, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, etc…) On 14 January 1954, she married whith baseball player Joe DiMaggio, one of the first American sportsmen. A few months later, on 27 October, DiMaggio and Marilyn divorced. This same year she was awarded the Golden Globe for best actress. Later, she began to have depressions. On 29 June 1956, she married the writer Arthur Miller. As with the others, she divorced in 1961.

She was created her production company in Britain. Back to the United States made a new film. Her last film appearance was in Rebel Lives. She died on 5 August 1962 of an overdose of barbiturates at her home in California. At three o'clock in the morning, her housekeeper found her in bed in a strange position, with the telephone in one of her hands and the lights on. An empty bottle of Nembutal on the bedside table ensured massive ingestion of pills. A doctor pronounced her dead and said it was suicide. It was not the first time she had taken an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol. The police, strangely, did not reveal the name of the substance Marilyn had taken, nor did they release the telephone tapes from the telephone company on which the calls that took place on the night of her death were recorded. This only confirmed suspicions that Marilyn had called someone for help, someone whose high public position did not allow him to face the scandal of being involved in such an affair. In the present is an important symbol of fashion and will always be remembered as one of Hollywood's most important actresses.

•Housekeeper: ama de llaves

•Overdose: sobredosis

•Convented: convencer

•Orphanages: orfanato

•Foster homes: casas de acogida

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