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[h3]Norma Jean Baker endured a fatherless childhood of sexual abuse and poverty and was put in a string of orphanages and foster homes after mother Gladys Baker (nee Monroe), who suffered mental illness, was institutionalised.[/h3]

At 16 she escaped her old life by marrying a 21-year-old aircraft plant worker, Jim Dougherty, who she divorced four years later. By this time she had begun modelling bathing suits and, after bleaching her hair blonde, posed for pin-ups and glamour photos.

Howard Hughes tried to get her a screen test but was beaten to the punch by 20th Century-Fox, who signed her to a contract - at $125 per week for six months - and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

After appearing in small parts in films including 'Love Happy' and 'All About Eve', Monroe found fame in 1953 with 'Niagara', 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' and 'How To Marry a Millionaire'. That same year, she began dating baseball player Jo DiMaggio, and a nude spread of her appeared in the debut issue of Playboy magazine. Monroe had hit stardom.

In 1954, she married DiMaggio - a union which was only to last eight months - before filming 'There's No Business Like Show Business' and 'The Seven-Year Itch', with the classic scene in which she stood over a subway grating, skirt billowing.

Monroe's work began to slow down but, after undergoing psychoanalysis, critics praised her acting in 1956 film 'Bus Stop'. She married playwright Arthur Miller the same year, divorcing him four years on. In the meantime, she fell prey to alcohol and pills, and suffered two miscarriages.

After a year off in 1958, Marilyn returned to the silver screen for smash comedy, 'Some Like It Hot'. In 1960, she appeared in 'Let's Make Love', with Yves Montand, with whom she had an affair.

'The Misfits', written by husband Miller, was to be her final film. Work was interrupted by exhaustion, and she was then fired from 'Something's Got to Give'.

She went into seclusion and on 5 August 1962, she was found dead at her home of an overdose of sleeping pills, aged 36. The verdict was suicide but has always been disputed, with countless conspiracy theories triggered by alleged affairs with brothers John F and Robert Kennedy.
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- Marilyn appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953.

- Playboy tycoon, Hugh Hefner owns the burial plot next to hers.

- She had a phobia of blemishes and washed her face fifteen times a day.

- The dress Marilyn wore when she serenaded JFK for his birthday was so tight that she had to be sewn into it.

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Something's Got to Give (1962)

The Misfits (1961)

Let's Make Love (1960)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

Bus Stop (1956)

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

River of No Return (1954)

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Niagara (1953)

O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Monkey Business (1952)

Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

We're Not Married! (1952)

Clash by Night (1952)

Let's Make It Legal (1951)

Love Nest (1951)

As Young as You Feel (1951)

Home Town Story (1951)

Right Cross (1950)

All About Eve (1950)

The Fireball (1950)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

Love Happy (1949)

Ladies of the Chorus (1948)

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)

Dangerous Years (1947)
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