Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was known as an American actress and cultural icon. She is most famous for being one of the biggest appealing sex symbols and for her alleged affair with president John F Kennedy.

Background

Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson. Monroe never knew her father, and once believed Clark Gable to be her father, a story rehashed regularly enough for a version of it to be believed by most. There's no proof that Gable at any point met or knew Monroe's mom, Gladys, who had mental issues and was eventually put in a psychological hospital.

Marriage, Divorce and Husband

Monroe had three spouses in her lifetime. As a high schooler, she married trader marine Jimmy Dougherty. In 1954 she was quickly married to baseball extraordinary star Joe DiMaggio, and after two years, she married playwright Arthur Miller.

On August 5, 1962, at just 36 years of age, Marilyn Monroe passed on at her Los Angeles home. An unfilled container of sleeping pill medication was found by her bed.

There has been some theory throughout the years that she may have been killed, yet the reason for her passing was formally ruled as a medication overdose. There have been bits of gossip that Monroe was involved with President John F. Kennedy as well as his sibling Robert Kennedy around the time of her demise.

Career and Net Worth

The year 1946 brought a great deal of changes for Monroe. She separated from her significant other, Jimmy Dougherty, however she signed her first film contract. With the motion picture contract came a new name and image. She started calling herself "Marilyn Monroe" and colored her hair blonde, however her acting career didn't generally take off until a couple of years after the change.

Monroe's little part in John Huston's crime drama The Concrete Jungle accumulated a great deal of praise and consideration. That same year, she inspired gatherings of people and pundits alike with her performance as Claudia Caswell in All About Eve, featuring Bette Davis.

She would before long turned out to be a standout amongst Hollywood's most well-known actresses. However she wasn't at first viewed as star acting material, she later demonstrated her aptitude by winning different awards and pulling in enormous crowds to her movies.

In 1953, Monroe conveyed a star-production turn in Niagara, as a youthful married lady out to slaughter her better half with assistance from her sweetheart. The developing sex icon was matched with another stunner, Jane Russell, for the music parody Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.