Marilyn Monroe's biography

Norma Jeane Mortenson is 36 years old film actor born at Los Angeles, California, USA. She was born on Tuesday 1st of June 1926. She is often nicknamed as Norma Jeane Baker, Norma Mortenson, Norma DiMaggio, Blonde Bombshell, Norma Jeane Mortenson. According to year of birth 1926 she belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 1st of June means she is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.She was married 3 times.

Marilyn is native american english speaker. She is white american. Marilyn is citizen of United States of America. She is jewish. Marilyn´s primary profession is to be film actor. You can know Marilyn also as model, film producer, singer, autobiographer, Playboy Playmate, fashion model. Marilyn is recently known as actor. Marilyn received Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Some Like It Hot in 1959

Marilyn Monroe's dad

Marilyn Monroe's father's name is Charles Stanley Gifford. Marilyn´s father was born in 1898. Marilyn´s father died in 1965. Charles Stanley Gifford was 39 years old, when this happened.

Marilyn Monroe's mom

Marilyn Monroe's mother's name is Gladys Baker. Marilyn´s mother was born on Tuesday 27th of May 1902. Marilyn Monroe was born when she was 24 years old. Her mother died on Sunday 11th of March 1984. Gladys Baker was 58 years old, when this happened.

Marilyn Monroe's family

Marilyn Monroe's ex spouses

Arthur Miller

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller have been together since 1956 for 5 years. He is known as playwright. Her ex spouse was born on Sunday 17th of October 1915 in New York City. Marilyn´s ex spouse died on Thursday 10th of February 2005 in Roxbury. Arthur Miller was 79 years old, when this happened.

Joe DiMaggio

Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio have been together since 1954 for a year. He is known as baseball player. Marilyn´s ex spouse was born on Wednesday 25th of November 1914 in Martinez. Her ex spouse died on Monday 8th of March 1999 in Hollywood. Joe Dimaggio was 73 years old, when this happened.

James Dougherty

Marilyn Monroe and James Dougherty have been together since 1942 for 4 years.

Marilyn Monroe's schools

We found 4 schools Marilyn attended. Complete list of schools: University High School, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Van Nuys High School.

Detailed informations about her schools

Went to Van Nuys High School (Los Angeles) in the early 1940s but never graduated.

Marilyn Monroe's career

Her main focus is to be film actor. She is famous thanks to Niagara, Some Like It Hot, Something's Got To Give. You could see Marilyn also in The Prince and the Showgirl.

Is Marilyn Monroe gay ?

Marilyn is known to be bisexual.

Marilyn Monroe's partner

John F. Kennedy

Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy have been together. He is known as politician. Marilyn´s partner was born on Tuesday 29th of May 1917. Her partner died on Friday 22nd of November 1963. John F. Kennedy was 37 years old, when this happened.

How did Marilyn Monroe die

Marilyn died on on Sunday 5th of August 1962 when he was 36 years old. Marilyn Monroes death was caused by barbiturate overdose.

Awards and competitions

Marilyn Monroe's Awards

Marilyn received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Some Like It Hot in 1959
She received award for Targa d'Oro for work The Prince and the Showgirl in 1958

Marilyn Monroe's Rankings

Ranked #8 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Ranked #3 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of all Time (2011).

What else you don't know about Marilyn Monroe ?

She likes to spend time in: Romanoff’s (in Hollywood), Bloomingdale’s.

What Marilyn Monroe has done for a first time

She was Playboy's first "Sweetheart of the Month" in December 1953.
Appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953.
Her first modeling job paid only five dollars.
The first time she signed an autograph as Marilyn Monroe, she had to ask how to spell it. She didn't know where to put the "i" in "Marilyn".
Divorced first husband, James Dougherty, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The first stamp released in the USPS's Legends of Hollywood series, issued on Friday, June 1st, 1995.
The first Playboy magazine cover, featuring her, is pictured on one of six stamps issued in a souvenir sheet, issued by Grenada & the Grenadines on Saturday, December 1st, 2003 to celebrate Playboy's 50th and golden anniversary.
One of the first Los Angeles natives to become a major movie star.
In 1946, she signed her first studio contract with 20th Century Fox and dyed her hair.
The mole on her cheek would first appear on her chin. In her early photos, it was nowhere to be seen.

Marilyn Monroe's 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.
[on living with the Bolenders when she was a little girl] They were terribly strict. They didn't mean any harm . . . it was their religion. They brought me up harshly.
[on why Joe DiMaggio didn't accompany her on one of her USO tours] Joe hates crowds and glamor.
[on why she divorced James Dougherty] My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
[on why her marriage to Joe DiMaggio didn't work] I didn't want to give up my career, and that's what Joe wanted me to do most of all.
I want to be a big star more than anything. It's something precious.
[on her favorite actress] Jean Harlow was my idol.
[on her early marriage to James Dougherty] Grace McKee arranged the marriage for me, I never had a choice. There's not much to say about it. They couldn't support me, and they had to work out something. And so I got married.
I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die, young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know yourself...
A dollar for your thoughts...
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I never had belonged to anything or anyone else.
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere.
I want to grow old without face-lifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has it's compensations but it also has it's drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
[on her famous nude calendar pose in 1949] My sin has been no more than I have written, posing for the nude because I desperately needed 50 dollars to get my car out of hock.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?
There was my name up in lights. I said, "God, somebody's made a mistake!" But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said, "Remember, you're not a star". Yet there it was up in lights.
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
You know, when you grow up you can get kind of sour, I mean, that's the way it can go.
Wouldn't it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt and sleep with most attractive men and not get emotionally involved?
I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
I used to say to myself, "What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?" And I'd answer, "Everything, everything".
[on stardom] It scares me. All those people I don't know, sometimes they're so emotional. I mean, if they love you that much without knowing you, they can also hate you the same way.
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
[on John F. Kennedy] It would be so nice to have a president who looks so young and good-looking.
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public -- talent in private.
Talent is developed in privacy... but everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk at you. They'd kind of like to take pieces out of you.
I want to be an artist... not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiacal.
[about Montgomery Clift] He's the only person I know that is in worse shape than I am.
I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
[on Mae West] A nice lady even though she turned down making a picture with me. That just shows how smart she is.
Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
[on Marlon Brando] He's very sweet and tender, not at all the Stanley Kowalski rapist people think he is.
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50c for your soul.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
It was the creative part that kept me going, trying to be an actress. I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
I love to do things that censors won't pass.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime, it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
How or why I can act - and I'm not sure I can - is the thing for me to understand. The torture, let alone the day to day happenings - the pain one cannot explain to another.
[on homosexuality] No sex is wrong if there's love involved.
As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.
What the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
[why she converted to Judaism] I believe in everything a little, and if I have kids, I think they should be Jewish. Anyway, I can identify with the Jews. Everybody's out to get them no matter what they do.
It might be kind of a relief to be finished. It's sort of like you don't know what kind of a yard dash you're running, but then you're at the finish line and you sort of sigh - you've made it! But you never have. You have to start all over again.
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
Who said nights were for sleep?
We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
People had a habit of looking at me like I was some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
For the first family I lived with, to go to a movie was a sin. Every night I was told to pray that I would not wake up in hell.
I'm only comfortable when I'm naked.
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be nice to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Fame is like caviar. It's good to have caviar, but not every damned day!
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.
I want the world to see my body.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are stupid. A woman can bring a new love to each man that she loves, providing that there are not too many.
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
If you get massages, you'll never need another sleeping pill.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius.

Marilyn Monroe's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

Lets describe how Marilyn Monroe looks. We will focus on her height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color and shoe size. Marilyn is tall as 5' 5½" (166 cm). Marilyn weights 120lbs (54 kg). Body build is voluptuous. Marilyn´s eyes are tinted blue. Marilyn´s hair is shade of dyed blonde. If you are really curious, you may find interesting Marilyn´s shoe size is 7.

Marilyn Monroe