The life and music of Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jeane Mortenson was born on the 1st June 1926. Her mother was Gladys Monroe Baker and as she didn't know who was her father she took her mother's surname.

When she was just 6 weeks old she had been adopted by a lot of different families. Bu finally, when she was 7 years old, her mother bought a house and recovered her custody. Unfortunately, one year later Gladys was taken into a psychiatric because of a hereditary mental disease. That's the reason why Norma was again brought up by a different family and soon she was finally taken to an orphanage or children's home.

At the age of 16, she married James E. Dougherty so that she could have a stable family. During her life, she got married and split up several times: the photographer André de Dienes, the director Elia Kazan, the baseball player Joe Di Maggio, the writter Arthur Miller who wrote the script of "The Misfits"...

In 1945 a photographer made a documentary about the work of women during the war. Then, the magazine "yank" asked her to pose and not much later she joined "Blue Book" model Agency. The she dyed her hair to a brighter colour.

In 1953 she appeared on the first cover of the first magazine of Playboy. In 1960 she was awarded with the Globe Award and one year later she was taken to a mental asylum because she had a nervous break down.

Finally, on the 5th August 1962 an ambulance stopped in front of her house at 9 o'clock in the evening and they took out her dead body at 3 o'clock in the morning. Some people say she died of an overdose and other because she was poisoned, but her death is still a mystery.

Here you have a really old video of her most famous song:





As you have already seen the video and that you have found that the lyrics of the song are comprehensible, I'm not going to explain anything about them.

But in the same video we can see how Marilyn wasn't only an actress; she was also a beloved singer. At the same time, this video shows that Marilyn always wore very attractive and really expensive clothes. Therefore, we can understand that she was very worried about her appearance and that she tried to look perfect.
Moreover, that dress she is wearing in the video was sold at an auction in 1999 for 1.26 million dollars, a world record. Because of that special day, we can also deduce that she loved standing in front of people and making them applauds. Possibly, that would have given her the satisfaction she was looking for. That was pretty difficult because of her controversial behaviour, and that's why I'm not going to get deep into this business.


You will also be impressed, but some people have done a lot of pages of her in myspace as you can see in this link below:

http://la.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=240255185
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=451816

As you can read in those two WebPages, Marylyn would have been 81 years if she was alive, but as we all perfectly know, she isn't. So, those 21st century WebPages aren't really hers, that's why there are so many but none of them are authentic.