Marilyn Monroe

1. Marilyn Monroe “She was really two people - Marilyn Monroe, the glamorous actress, and Norma Jean, the fragile, damaged little GIRL”

2. AUTOBIOGRAPHY • “MY STORY” book • Published by Taylor Trade Publishing 2007 • Foreword: Joshua Greene • Milton H. Greene, Joseph Schenck, Ben • Hechtdecided to put her life in book • Marilyn had dictated her own words and • Ben Hecht put them to paper.

3. “I daydreamed chiefly about beauty. I dreamed of myself becoming so beautiful that people would turn to look at me when I passed. And I dreamed of colors—scarlet, gold, green, white. I dreamed of myself walking proudly in beautiful clothes and being admired by everyone and overhearing words of praise. I made up the praises and repeated them aloud as if someone else were saying them.”

4. Marilyn was born as Norma JeaneMortenson (later Baker); June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, US • Her mother: Gladys Monroe & “father”(?): Edward Mortenson biological father: Charles Stanley Gifford • Her mother ended up mental hospital • -> Marilyn’s got to orphanage

6. Orphanage girl -> was placed at 9 different families • Sexually harassedby Mr. Kimmel when she was only 9! • Later on by John Sylvester molested • Dealing with constant loneliness • Daydreams • Wanting attention, beauty, success • Impulse to appear naked • Later on pornography shoots

7. “As I grew older I knew I was different from other children because there were no kisses or promises in my life. I often felt lonely and wanted to die. I would try to cheer myself up with daydreams. I compromised by dreaming of my attracting someone’s attention (besides God), of having people look at me and say my name.” • “This wish for attention had something to do, I think, with my trouble in church on Sundays. No sooner was I in the pew with the organ playing and everybody singing a hymn than the impulse would come to me to take off all my clothes. I wanted desperately to stand up naked for God and everyone else to see. I had to clench my teeth and sit on my hands to keep myself from undressing. Sometimes I had to pray hard and beg God to stop me from taking my clothes off.”

8. “My impulse to appear naked and my dreams about it had no shame or sense of sin in them. Dreaming of people looking at me made me feel less lonely. I think I wanted them to see me naked because I was ashamed of the clothes I wore—the never changing faded blue dress of poverty. Naked, I was like other girls and not someone in an orphan’s uniform”

9. Marriage with James(Jim) Dougherty: • she was 16, he was 21 • saved her from orphanange • “Marilyn and Jimmy, officially husband and wife, lived almost like brother and sister."(Pamela Keogh) • Norma Jeane was always a butterfly. We had a wonderful, joyful marriage. But in the end, it was not enough for Norma Jeane. Like all beautiful butterflies, she had to fly away." (James) • divorced on September 13, 1946.

10. Marilyn Monroe Becomes a Model • World War II Dougherty sent to Shanghai she got job at the Radio Plane Munitions Factory • “discovered” by David ConoverYank Magazine in 1945 • Blue Book Model Agency – largest agency in Los Angeles • full-time modelling • from brunette she went blonde • Several magazine covers

11. Blue Book Model Agency Photos

12. Several nude photography shoots • Tom Kelley "Red Velvet" Calendar shoot (1949) • Vogue Magazine "Last Sitting" session with Bert Stern (1962) • The very first issue of Playboyfeatured her as the cover girl.

13. “Nudity and sex are the most commonplace things in the world. Yet people often act as if they were things that existed only on Mars. I thought of such matters as I posed, but the nudging continued in my head. What if I became an actress sometime? A great star? And somebody saw me on the calendar, and recognized me?”

14. “I spent the afternoon posing. I was a little confused at first, and something kept nudging me in my head. Sitting naked in front of a camera and striking joyous poses reminded me of the dreams I used to have as a child. I felt sad that this should be the only dream I ever had to come true. • After a few poses the depression left me. I liked my body. I was glad I hadn’t eaten much in the past few days. The pictures would show a real washboard stomach. And what difference would it make—the nude of a “beautiful nobody”?

15. Marilyn Monroe Signs With a Movie Studio • 1946 , Ben Lyonof 20thCentury Fox  6 months contract • Divorce from Jim Dougherty in 1946 • New screen name  Lyon suggested Marilyn Miller  she chose the Monroe( her mother’s maiden name)

16. Marilyn Monroe’s film debut • 1948 , Columbia Pictures – “Ladies of the Chorus” singing • 1949 – “Love Happy”  only 60 seconds on screen • producer Lester Cowan sent her to the 5 week long publicity tour • Johnny Hide again minor role in “Asphalt Jungle” (1950) • 1952 – “Don't Bother to Knock” – role: mentally unbalanced babysitter

17. “He knew all the pain and all the desperate things in me. When he put his arms around me and said he loved me, I knew it was true. Nobody had ever loved me like that. I wished with all my heart that I could love him back.”

18. On the movie screen “Love Happy” “Asphalt Jungle” “Don’t Bother to Knock”

19. 1952 - nude scandal  threatened her career  told the press about her childhood  she was more loved than ever • 1953 – “Niagara” • – “Gentlemen prefers blondes” • – “How to Marry a Millionaire” • 1954 – “River of no Return” • – “There’s no Business like Show Business” • Marilyn is a major movie star by now!

20. Marriage with Joe DiMaggio • 1954 January 14 - marriage • world-famous former New York Yankee • star baseball player • “The Seven-Year Itch” •  director Billy Wilder •  scene: blowing her skirt up into • the air  DiMaggio • flew into a rage  end of • marriage in 1954

21. “The truth is that we were very much alike. My publicity, like Joe’s greatness, is something on the outside. It has nothing to do with what we actually are. What I seem to Joe I haven’t heard yet. He’s a slow talker. What Joe is to me is a man whose looks, and character, I love with all my heart.”

22. Marriage with Arthur Miller • 1956 June 29- marriage • American playwrighter • Legendary Movie roles: • 1956 – “Bus Stop” • 1959 – “Smoke Like it Hot”  Global Movie Award • 1961 – “The Misfits” (Miller wrote it) • Monroe took sleeping pills • Nervous breakdown • Hospital for 10 days • Monroe and Miller divorced in 1961

23. Rumours of Affairs • 1962 May 19th – Monroe sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to President John F Kennedy on his birthday •  Rumours of affair • another one: with the President’s brother • Robert Kennedy

24. Death in 1962 • probably suicide – overdosed on drugs • Had constant depression • Some people thinks it was murder  her death forever mystery

25. “A man who had kissed me once had said it was very possible I was a lesbian because I apparently had no response to males—meaning him. I didn’t contradict him because I didn’t know what I was. There were times even when I didn’t feel human and times when all I could think of was dying. Now, having fallen in love, I knew what I was. It wasn’t a lesbian. The world and its excitement over sex didn’t seem crazy. In fact, it didn’t seem crazy enough.”

26. “I could never be attracted to a man who had perfect teeth. A man with perfect teeth always alienated me. I don’t know what it is but it has something to do with the kind of men I have known who had perfect teeth. They weren’t so perfect elsewhere.”

27. “I walked over to have a look at this Hungarian bombshell. I saw she was one of those blondes who put on ten years if you take a close look at them. I also saw that the tall, handsome man she was clucking and making other Hungarian chicken noises at was George Sanders. I learned from Tony beside me that Mr. Sanders was her husband.” (about ZsaZsaGabor)