Marilyn Monroe pictures, bio, profile
Marilyn Monroe's profile page at Celebrity Index
Born: 1 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Norma Jean Mortensen
Height: 5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Awards: Won Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 9 nominations
Credited Years: 1947 - 2006
Profession: Actress / Soundtrack / Miscellaneous Crew
Known for: Some Like It Hot / The Seven Year Itch / Let's Make Love
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Biography:- Her mother was a film-cutter at RKO who, widowed and insane, abandoned her to sequence of foster homes. She was almost smothered to death at two, nearly raped at six. At nine the LA Orphans' Home paid her a nickel a month for kitchen work while taking ... more
Quotes:
- "I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there's something going on inside them."
- "My problem is that I drive myself... I'm trying to become an artist, and to be true, and sometimes I feel I'm on the verge of craziness, I'm just trying to get the truest part of myself out, and it's very hard. There are times when I think, 'All I have to be is true'. But sometimes it doesn't come out so easily. I always have this secret feeling that I'm really a fake or something, a phony."
- "They were terribly strict. They didn't mean any harm...it was their religion. They brought me up harshly." - on living with the Bolenders when she was a little girl
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Trivia:
- Voted 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine. [1999]
- Was 1947's Miss California Artichoke Queen.
- In her autobiography "My Story," she recounted her guardian told her she was a direct descendant of James Monroe. Her mother's maiden name was Monroe, but there is no evidence she was a descendant of the president.
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News:
- Review: The House Bunny - Canada.com
Shelley is a slightly different type: she has a sexy canniness modelled on Marilyn Monroe or maybe Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. It's a funny turn, ... - Variety has been spice of life for Tony Curtis - Arizona Republic
In 1959, he made the classic Some Like It Hot, an audacious comedy in which Marilyn Monroe falls for a guy in drag. In 2000, the American Film Institute ... - Frogs, salmon and other friends - The Daily Astorian
When it comes to Columbia River fishing, the difference between chinook and coho salmon has always been like Marilyn Monroe vs. Bette Davis. ... - ?Psychopathia? really just a delightfully witty jaunt - TheNewsTribune.com
He is engaged to Lucille (Anne Kennedy), a sexy, John Wayne-worshipping Texas cowgirl who reminds me so much of Marilyn Monroe in ?Bus Stop,? although she ... - Fame has its price - Washington Times
Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando - the best of the best are represented on that storied walk. The tradition continues to the present. ... - No sunset for this cowboy - The Gazette (Montreal)
As many well-wishers in the lobby remind him, it seems like only yesterday that he was cavorting with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe on-screen - and in the ... - Holly Willoughby: I want to feel sexy like Marilyn Monroe - Now Magazine Online
Now presenting The Xtra Factor on ITV2, Holly also admires super-slim Victoria Beckham's sense of style. 'People say she hasn't got much fashion sense but ... - Reincarnating James Dean - BlackBook Magazine
There will never be another Audrey Hepburn or Marlon Brando or Marilyn Monroe or Charlie Chaplin. These guys were monoliths when alive, and when they went, ... - Local author scribes fictional account of 'The Misfits' movie - Reno Gazette Journal
"The Misfits" is a classic John Huston-directed film about a chance meeting and friendship of a depressed divorcee played by Marilyn Monroe and an aging ... - Remembering Kim Novak - International Herald Tribune
Still, she is not usually mentioned in the same breath with the other major actresses of the period - Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner. ...