Marilyn monroe brief biography of george michael
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COLUMNS ON MARILYN MONROE
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Dana Andrews Meets Marilyn Monroe
Sometime in 1950, Charles Feldman, a powerful Hollywood agent, brought a struggling actress with him to the home of Dana Andrews. This actress had been signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1946 and then dropped after six months. She had worked another six months at Columbia and was again dropped. Her few other small parts seemed to sum up a desultory career. I’m referring, of course, to Marilyn Monroe. Dana greeted his visitor, he later told an interviewer in an oral history now in the archives at Columbia University, but she made no impression on him. This was not unusual. Although a few people in Hollywood did perceive Monroe’s potential, most did not. What grieves me is that it took Marilyn Monroe nearly nine years to become a star—virtually the same amount of time it took Dana to progress from roles in the Van Nuys community theater and at the Pasadena Playhouse, to second leads in B pictures, to small parts in A list productions, to stardom in Laura. Fox studio head Darryl Zanuck initially deemed Monroe unphotogenic! And after Dana's first screen test, the cameraman told him he photographed "heavy." At best, Dana could expect t
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe | |
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Marilyn Monroe sight 1953 | |
| Born | Norma Jeane Mortenson (1926-06-01)June 1, 1926 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | August 4, 1962(1962-08-04) (aged 36) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Barbiturate overdose |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Norma Jeane Baker |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Filmmaker, actress |
| Years active | 1945–1962 |
| Known for | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dominant The Seven-Year Itch (1955) |
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an Americanactress, writer, sculpt, singer endure filmmaker. Renowned for in concert comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became individual of representation most popular sex symbols of say publicly 1950s.[1]
Between 1946 and 1962, she completed 44 movies. Although she was a top-billed actress cherish only a decade, relation films grossed $200 billion by depiction time of her unexpected death in 1962.
Early life
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We’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t know that Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson (later baptized Norma Jean Baker), or about the famous men she married—James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, and playwright Arthur Miller.
Most people know that the American sweetheart solidified her sex-symbol status with her femme fatale role in Niagara. In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with co-star Jane Russell, she flaunted her triple-threat versatility with an unforgettable performance of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” And, with features like How to Marry a Millionaire, The Seven Year Itch, The Prince and The Showgirl, and Some Like It Hot, she popularized the “dumb blonde” stereotype—for better or for worse.
But there was much more to the bombshell than her well-known stage name, relationships, and the radical reinvention she underwent to become one of Hollywood’s most iconic (and marketable) stars.
For instance, Monroe had a challenging childhood, spent in 10 foster homes and two orphanages; her mother, Gladys, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was admitted to a mental health facility for most of her adolescence. To escape her reality, the screen siren often sought solace at the cinema, harboring dreams of one day be