description: Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Baker in Los Angeles in 1926, the illegitimate child of a salesman; when she died aged 36, from a drug overdose, she was perhaps the greatest star in the history of motion pictures. After an unhappy childhood, Marilyn became a photographer's model and, spotted by Howard Hughes, was signed up by Twentieth Century Fox. In the 1950's she played in a series of highly successful comedies-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot but, exploited as a sex symbol, her personal life deteriorated. Her marriage to the baseball player Joe DiMaggio quickly collapsed, and her relationship with the playwright Arthur Miller (who wrote The Misfits for her) came under severe strain as her bent for self-destruction, which would end with her death, began to overwhelm both.
language: English
title: Marilyn Monroe
titlecomplete: Marilyn Monroe
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Isis Audio Books