![]() Celebrated for her voluptuousness and wide-eyed charm, she 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). Her acting career took off in the early 1950s with performances in Love Nest (1951), Monkey Business (1952), and Niagara (1953). 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. She began to attract attention as an actress in 1950 after appearing in minor roles in the The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. She had a few bit parts and then returned to modeling, famously posing nude for a calendar in 1949. She took up modeling in 1944 and in 1946 signed a short-term contract with 20th Century Fox, taking as her screen name Marilyn Monroe. At the age of 16, she married a fellow worker in an aircraft factory, but they divorced a few years later. Her mother was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jeane was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. 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.” Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. ![]() ![]() She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. ![]()
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