Clark Gable - Biography - IMDb Clark Gable Biography Showing all 184 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (5) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (107) | Personal Quotes (42) | Salary (19) Overview (5) 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (2) William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, where he stayed until he was two. His father then returned to take him back to Cadiz. At 16, he quit high school, went to work in an Akron, Ohio, tire factory, and decided to become an actor after seeing the play "The Bird of Paradise". He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties.

On December 13, 1924, he married Josephine Dillon , his acting coach and 15 years his senior. Around that time, they moved to Hollywood, so that Clark could concentrate on his acting career. In April 1930, they divorced and a year later, he married Maria Langham (a.k.a. Maria Franklin Gable ), also about 17 years older than him. While Gable acted on stage, he became a lifelong friend of Lionel Barrymore . After several failed screen tests (for Barrymore and Darryl F. Zanuck ), Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg . He had a small part in The Painted Desert (1931) in 1931. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931) the same year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) made him MGM's most important star. His acting career then flourished.

At one point, he refused an assignment, and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra 's It Happened One Night (1934), which won him an Academy Award for his performance. The next year saw a starring role in Call of the Wild (1935) with Loretta Young , with whom he had an affair (resulting in the birth of a daughter, Judy Lewis ). He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). After divorcing Maria Langham, in March 1939 Clark married Carole Lombard , but tragedy struck in January 1942 when the plane in which Carole and her mother were flying crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, killing them both. A grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract.

He freelanced, but his films didn't do well at the box office. He married Silvia Ashley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks , in 1949. Unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles (a.k.a. Kay Williams ) and became stepfather to her two children, Joan and Adolph ("Bunker") Spreckels III. On November 16, 1959, Gable became a grandfather when Judy Lewis , his daughter with Loretta Young , gave birth to a daughter, Maria. In 1960, Gable's wife Kay discovered that she was expecting their first child. In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits (1961), when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month, on November 16, 1960. Gable was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died, at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

In March 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to a boy, whom she named John Clark Gable after his father. Trade Mark (4) Pencil thin mustache that hugged his upper lip Often played a virile, lovable rogue whose gruff facade only thinly masked a natural charm and goodness. Distinctive, powerful voice Oversized ears Trivia (107) Adolf Hitler esteemed the film star above all other actors, and during the war offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and return Gable, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was flying combat missions over Germany, unscathed to him. A few months after his death, his wife gave birth to John Clark Gable . John is into racing and has appeared in at least one film. Actress Judy Lewis is Clark's out-of-wedlock daughter by actress Loretta Young . The two had a romance during the filming of Call of the Wild (1935). 1970s: His Encino, CA, estate was subdivided and turned into a very upscale tract development called "Clark Gable Estates.".

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust, on the left hand side, next to Carole Lombard . 1995: Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#36). It was at Gable's 36th birthday that Judy Garland sang "Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You." Gable's first two wives - Josephine Dillon and Maria Franklin Gable (aka Ria Langham) - were 14 and 17 years older than he was, respectively. 1942: He enlisted in the army in honor of his late wife, Carole Lombard . She had been killed in a plane crash while on tour selling war bonds. When he was first cast in It Happened One Night (1934) opposite Claudette Colbert , he told director Frank Capra that he would give the role a shot, but if things weren't going well after a few days, he would leave the production.

So durable, he could play the same role in both an original ( Red Dust (1932)) with Jean Harlow and Mary Astor , and its remake ( Mogambo (1953)) with Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly . When he was born he was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate. He disliked Greta Garbo , a feeling that was mutual. She thought his acting was wooden while he considered her a snob. Playing a cowboy in his last film, The Misfits (1961), which was also the final film for co-star Marilyn Monroe , the aging Gable diligently performed his own stunts, taking its toll on his already guarded health. He died from a heart attack before the film was released. Pictured on one of four 25¢ US commemorative postage stamps issued on 23 March 1990 honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp features Gable and Vivien Leigh as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939). The other films honored were Beau Geste (1939), Stagecoach (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Grandfather of Clark Gable III , who's the first child of his son John Clark Gable and his ex-wife Tracy Yarro. Clark James was born on September 10, 1988 at a hefty 10 lbs. Gable was dyslexic, a fact which didn't emerge until several years after his death. Cousin-in-law of William B. Hawks . Joined the Army Air Corps during the Second World War, and was commissioned an officer with service number 565390. Rose to the rank of captain and served primarily in Public Affairs, making training films and performing public relations visits to soldiers and airmen in Europe. Inducted into the Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame in 2004. He was seriously considered to play Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), but he was deemed an unknown and Johnny Weissmuller was chosen instead. He was voted the 8th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Was Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster 's inspiration for half of Superman's alter ego name Clark Kent ("Kent" came from Kent Taylor ).

He worked as a lumberman in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in the early 1920s. After a couple of months of doing that, he quit, saying that "the work was too hard" and he would rather act instead. He then left to go to Hollywood, where he began his acting career. 1952: His widow, Kay Williams , divorced her previous husband, Adolph Spreckels Jr., heir to the Spreckels Sugar fortune. In the divorce papers she alleged that he beat her with one of her slippers. His wife Sylvia Ashley was born Edith Louise Sylvia Hawkes in 1904. She was the widow of Douglas Fairbanks . Her first husband was Lord Anthony Ashley (they divorced November 28, 1934), her third was Lord Stanley of Alderney, and her fifth was Prince Dimitri Djordjadze (whom she married in 1954 and stayed married to until her death). She died June 29, 1977.

Her grave stone refers to her as "Princess Sylvia Djordjadze." His widow, Kay Williams , was born August 7, 1917, and died in May of 1983. He was voted the 21st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine. Named the #7 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends List by the American Film Institute In some radio interviews at the end of his life, his voice has a haunting similarity to Walt Disney 's. Served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II making training films. Also trained as an aerial gunner, he flew 5 combat missions with the 8th Air Force's 351st Bombardment Group (Heavy) while making his films and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Is the subject of the song "Clark Gable" by The Postal Service.

Is portrayed by James Brolin in Gable and Lombard (1976), Bruce Hughes and Shayne Greenman in Blonde (2001), Charles Unwin in Lucy (2003), Larry Pennell in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Edward Winter in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), Boyd Holister in Grace Kelly (1983) and Gary Wayne in Malice in Wonderland (1985). Military records on celebrities released by the Pentagon in 2005 reveal that Gable, upon enlistment, was described as a "motion picture specialist" and his weekly wage was listed as $7,500. A movie cameraman, Andrew J. McIntyre , enlisted along with Gable and trained with him, the documents showed. "In order to have something definite to describe and some tangible evidence of his experiences, it is proposed that there be enlisted his cameraman to be trained as an aerial gunner also who may make pictures of Gable in various theaters of operations," one Army memo said. Prior to making The Misfits (1961), he crash-dieted from a bloated 230 lbs.

to 195 lbs. Twice in the previous decade he had suffered seizures that might have been heart attacks; once, ten years earlier, while driving along a freeway he had chest pains so severe that he had to pull off the road and lie down on the ground until he felt well enough to continue on. His father was of German, some Swiss-German, and distant Irish, ancestry. His mother was of half German and half Irish descent. Gave his Oscar for It Happened One Night (1934) to a child who admired it, telling him it was the winning of the statue that had mattered, not owning it. The child returned the Oscar to the Gable family after Clark's death. Had to have almost all of his teeth extracted in 1933 due to pyorrhea. The infection would have killed him had he not been rushed to a private hospital for treatment. 1933: Underwent cosmetic surgery on his ears and teeth. Gable's first screen test was made by director Mervyn LeRoy for Warner Bros. When studio head Jack L. Warner and production chief Darryl F.

Zanuck saw the test they were furious at LeRoy for wasting their money on that big "ape" with those "huge floppy taxi-cab ears". Years later when Gable made it big, LeRoy used to tease Warner and say, "How would you like to have him and those huge floppy ears now?". He served as a pallbearer and usher at Jean Harlow 's funeral in 1937. 1938: In a poll of entertainment readers, he was overwhelmingly selected "King of Hollywood" and was officially crowned by columnist Ed Sullivan . When MGM remade Red Dust (1932) in 1953 as Mogambo (1953), Ava Gardner played the Jean Harlow part, Grace Kelly had the Mary Astor role, and Gable played his old part. Only Gable could fill Gable's shoes, even 21 years later. At the time of his death, his gun collection was valued at half a million dollars. He had a special gun room in his house filled with gold-inlaid revolvers, shotguns and rifles.

11/6/60: Gable was devastated to learn of the unexpected death of his close friend Ward Bond from a heart attack. Shortly afterwards Gable himself suffered a massive heart attack, and died ten days later in the hospital. Although it is often claimed that Gable died as a result of Marilyn Monroe 's behavior and performing his own stunts in The Misfits (1961), he was already in terrible health when filming began from years of excessive drinking and smoking more than three packs of cigarettes a day. He is the second cousin of film producer Thomas R. Bond II , President of American Mutoscope & Biograph, a motion picture and entertainment company. 1939: Part of Gable and Carole Lombard 's honeymoon was spent at the Willows Inn in Palm Springs, CA. Today the Inn continues to operate and anyone can stay in the same room, which is largely unaltered since that time. Some sources say he turned down the role of Colonel William Travis in The Alamo (1960) because he didn't want to be directed by John Wayne .

However this seems unlikely, since Travis was 26 at the time of the battle, and Gable would have been 58 when the movie was filmed. Although he was never crowned #1 at the Box Office in the Top 10 Poll of Money-Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications' annual survey of movie exhibitors, he made the list a then-record 15 times from 1932 to 1949, and a 16th time in 1955. Gable, "The King", was ranked in the top four of Box Office stars every year from 1934 to 1939 (the "Golden Age" of Hollywood), ranking #2 in 1934 and 1936 through 1938, inclusive, when he was topped by Shirley Temple . After ranking #3 at the Box Office in 1940, he slumped to #10 in 1941, a position he also held in 1942 and 1943.

After returning from the war, he took the #7 spot in the Box Office poll in 1947 and 1948, before again slumping to #10 in 1949. He made his last appearance in the Top 10 in 1955, when he again placed #10. Despite his dyslexia, Gable became an avid reader. He would never allow himself to be photographed reading on film sets, fearing it would undermine his macho screen image. Discouraged by his failure to progress in films, Gable tried the stage and became an employable actor, first in stock and eventually on Broadway, without acquiring real fame. When he returned to Hollywood in 1930 for another try at movie acting, his rugged good looks, powerful voice and charisma made him an overnight sensation as the villainous Rance Brett in his first sound picture, The Painted Desert (1931). Gable exploded onto the screen in a dozen 1931 releases, in small parts at first, but he was an established star by the end of the year. Soon his success threatened to eclipse every other star, including his rival Gary Cooper .

He was an early member of the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Attempted suicide using a high-powered motorbike following his wife Carole Lombard 's death. During his time on Broadway Gable worked as a stage gigolo, performing stud services for such actresses as Pauline Frederick and Laura Hope Crews , who were considerably older than he. His much older first wife served as his first acting coach and paid for his false teeth. Later he married a woman seventeen years his senior, Texan heiress Maria Franklin Gable , who had underwritten his successful assault on Hollywood. Gable became increasingly unhappy with the mediocre roles offered him by MGM as a mature actor. He refused to renew his contract with them in 1953 and proceeded to work independently. He was a conservative Republican, although his third wife Carole Lombard , a liberal Democrat, encouraged him to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal reforms. In February 1952 Gable addressed a televised rally at Madison Square Gardens in New York in support of the Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower , and a few days before his death he voted by post for Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election.

6/11/33: He was hospitalized for an infection of the gums the day before he was to begin shooting Dancing Lady (1933). He was hospitalized for several days, after which most of his teeth were extracted. Afterwards, he went on a vacation to Alaska and Canada with his wife, as it would take a couple of weeks for his gums to heal enough so he could be fitted for dentures. MGM shot around Gable until he returned and was fitted with a dental plate, but on July 30, after one day's shooting, the infection felled him again. In the days before antibiotics, the infection was so serious Gable's gall bladder was removed. Out another month, the film had to be shut down and went $150,000 over budget. MGM boss Louis B. Mayer docked Gable two weeks pay, which caused bad feelings between the studio and its top star. In order to teach him a lesson, Mayer lent him to Columbia Pictures, then a poverty-row studio, to make a comedy.

The movie, Frank Capra 's masterpiece It Happened One Night (1934), swept the Academy Awards the next year and brought Gable his only Oscar. 3/15/46: Was injured in a car crash at the traffic circle at Sunset Blvd. and Bristol Ave. in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. According to a press release from MGM, Gable was driving east on Sunset Blvd. and had entered the south half of the traffic circle when he was struck by another car, whose driver apparently had become confused by the "round-about" and was driving in a westerly direction on the same arc of the circle. Gable drove his car over a curb to avoid hitting the the other car, and it struck a tree, throwing him against the steering wheel. He was treated at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for a bruised chest and a cut on his right leg that required stitches. The driver of the other car drove away from the site without checking on Gable or reporting the accident. The hit-and-run accident gave rise to the urban legend that Gable had struck and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, an incident that allegedly was covered up by MGM.

Though reported in several biographies, there is no basis in fact for the allegations. In the 1950s Gable joined Walt Disney , John Wayne , James Stewart and other politically conservative entertainers to "assist" the House Un-American Activities Committee in its efforts to find alleged Communist infiltration in the film industry. 11/16/60: Gable sat up in his hospital bed while reading a magazine and suffered his fourth and final heart attack. He was dead within seconds and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. Proposed his headstone should read: "Back to silents." It was not used by his widow though. 1948: Proposed marriage to Nancy Reagan . As head of the actors' division of the Hollywood Victory Committee, Gable sent his wife Carole Lombard on one of the first tours, in January 1942, to her home state of Indiana, where she sold $2 million worth of bonds. On the plane trip back to Hollywood the plane crashed, killing Lombard and her mother. Gable drank heavily for six months before enlisting as a private in the Army Air Corps.

He served as a combat cameraman in Britain, rose to the rank of major, and eventually was furloughed to Fort Roach, as the First Motion Picture Unit headquarters came to be known. Gable's discharge papers were signed by Captain Ronald Reagan . 1999: The American Film Institute named Gable among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #7. Turned down Cary Grant 's role in The Philadelphia Story (1940) because he thought the film was too wordy. His private funeral service at the Church of the Recessional in Forest Lawn Park was attended by 200 mourners including Spencer Tracy , Robert Taylor , James Stewart , Norma Shearer , Ann Sothern , Marion Davies , Frank Capra , Robert Stack , Jack Oakie , Roy Rogers , Dale Evans , Van Johnson and Howard Strickling , Gable's longtime publicity man at MGM. There was no eulogy. The closed casket was adorned with yellow roses shaped like a crown, befitting the one-time King of Hollywood. He was baptized as a Catholic, but raised as a Protestant. However, he did not practice any religion as an adult.

11/5/60: His heart attack happened when he was changing a tire on his jeep. President Dwight D. Eisenhower , a close friend of Gable's, sent him a message of support wishing him a speedy recovery. Contrary to popular belief, Gable did not perform his own stunts in The Misfits (1961). He was only used for the close ups while a stunt double stood in for him in the long shots. His heart attack was caused by his lifestyle - thirty years of heavy smoking and drinking, plus his increasing weight in later years. It is also believed his crash diet before filming began may have been a contributing factor. Director Howard Hawks had long intended to make Hatari! (1962) with Gable and John Wayne . However, by the time filming began Gable was already dead. In the mid-1950s he started to receive television offers but rejected them outright, even though some of his peers, like his old flame Loretta Young , were flourishing in the new medium.

In 1955, he formed a production company with Jane Russell and her husband Bob Waterfield , and they produced The King and Four Queens (1956), the star's one and only production. The stress of making the film took such a toll on his health that Gable decided not to produce again. Well known for his pipe smoking, sustaining at least two bowlfuls a day. To this day he still has pipes named after him. Originally the image of Gable as an outdoors man was an invention of the studios, designed to bolster his masculine screen image during the early 1930s. However, he soon discovered that he enjoyed hunting, shooting and fishing, so the image swiftly became the reality. In order to expedite divorce from his second wife Ria so he could marry Carole Lombard , Gable paid his ex-wife a $500,000 settlement in 1939, nearly everything he had at the time. Despite his rising popularity, Gable balked at playing gangsters and overtly callous characters, and was therefore very pleased to be cast in Red Dust (1932), the film that set the seal on his stardom.

As a teenager his voice was very high-pitched, however with vocal training he was able to lower it over time. His voice later proved a major asset in his climb to fame. Once named Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as his favorite of his movies, despite the fact that he did not like his co-star Charles Laughton . He was also initially disappointed by the casting of Franchot Tone as Midshipman Byam since the two actors had been bitter rivals for the affections of Joan Crawford . However, during filming they became close friends. He disliked his most famous film Gone with the Wind (1939), which he regarded as "a woman's picture.". He liked westerns, and once expressed his regret that he didn't make more of them. He was highly patriotic, a staunch anti-communist and a firm believer in military intervention. Among the political leaders he admired were President Dwight D. Eisenhower , Sir Winston Churchill and King George VI . Until John Wayne 's stardom eclipsed Gable's in the late 1940s, many Americans thought of Gable as THE American star.

Gable and then future wife Carole Lombard first met in late 1924 while working as extras on the set of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). They would make three films together as extras, Ben-Hur, The Johnstown Flood (1926) and The Plastic Age (1925) and star together in No Man of Her Own (1932), but not become romantically attached until 1936. On Easter weekend, 1935, Gable flew to Houston to give away step-daughter Jana in her marriage to Dr. Thomas Burke. He separated from wife Maria ('Ria') in October, 1935. Met his second wife Ria when he was in a play. Her brother, Booth Franklin, brought her backstage and introduced them. His two step-children from wife Ria were George Anna "Jana" (b. circa 1913) and Alfred Lucas (b. circa 1919).

In order to hide that she and Gable had an illegitimate child, fearing that it would ruin both of their careers, Loretta Young secretly gave birth to her daughter Judy Lewis pretending she was vacationing in Europe. When she returned to Hollywood, she claimed that Judy was adopted. Gable met Judy only once when she was a teenager. His father always opposed his decision to become an actor, and even after Gable became a major star he still denounced acting as a "sissy" occupation. Gable became a Freemason in 1933 just to please his father. However, he showed no grief when his father died aged 78 from a heart attack on 4 August 1948, having outlived his three wives. Died on the first birthday of his granddaughter, Maria. In 1949 he served as a pallbearer at the funeral of director Victor Fleming , whom he considered something of a father figure. Turned down Robert Mitchum 's role in Home from the Hill (1960). He was so disappointed by the critical and commercial failure of Adventure (1945) that he did not agree to make another film until more than a year had passed.

Fortunately, The Hucksters (1947) proved to be a success and his performance was acclaimed. Although discharged from the US Army Air Force early in 1944, he refused to make another movie until the war had ended. Watched very little television except boxing matches. Had a fear of flying, and made all long journeys across America by train. Grandfather of Kayley Gable . He was already good friends with Hattie McDaniel prior to their making Gone with the Wind (1939) together, and wanted her to play the part of "Mammy", but it was her coming fully dressed and nailing the part that got her the coveted role. When it came time for the premiere on December 15, 1939, producer David O. Selznick attempted to bring along McDaniel. MGM advised him not to because of Georgia's strict segregation laws, which would have prevented McDaniel from being at the same function, on an equal basis, with whites. Gable was so outraged he told MGM he would not attend the premiere unless she was allowed to attend, also. She eventually convinced him to attend without her.

In the late 1940s MGM wanted to cast him alongside Angela Lansbury in a drama to be called "Angel's Flight" but Gable strongly disliked the storyline and the studio canceled the picture. He appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners, the first two of which were in consecutive years: It Happened One Night (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Gone with the Wind (1939). Wallis Clark also appeared in all three films. Gable was a chain smoker by the time he was sixteen. He was known to smoke 3 or 4 packs of cigarettes a day as an adult. He declined an offer to make a film with Errol Flynn , as Flynn was eight years younger than him. He was the second husband of Carole Lombard while his Manhattan Melodrama (1934) co-star William Powell was her first husband. Played the part of newspaper reporter in nine films, more than any other kind of role. Recovering alcoholic Spencer Tracy tried to avoid Gable when he was trying to stay off drink, as Gable was always surrounded by alcohol.

Personal Quotes (42) The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it. [on his acting ability] I worked like a son of a bitch to learn a few tricks and I fight like a steer to avoid getting stuck with parts I can't play. This "King" stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like everybody else. There's no special light that shines inside me and makes me a star. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio. I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I had a lot of smart guys helping me--that's all. Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended. [about The Misfits (1961)] This is the best picture I have made, and it's the only time I've been able to act. Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it. It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out-and-out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time. I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me. [on rumors he was dull in bed] I can't emote worth a damn. Everything Marilyn [ Marilyn Monroe ] does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. [on Spencer Tracy ] The guy's good. There's nobody in the business who can touch him, and you're a fool to try.

And the bastard knows it, so don't fall for that humble stuff! Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it. I am intrigued by glamorous women . . . A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to. [about Gary Cooper ] Coop is a right guy, the kind you like to hunt and fish with and not talk about making movies. I laid it on him one time about his romance with Carole [ Carole Lombard , Gable's wife] and he got pale as hell. She told me about it during a drunken argument we had. After that, Coop and I didn't hunt together so much and when we did, we kept an eye on each other. She used to throw him up to me in my face and that was hard to take, especially since I didn't know the whole truth until years later. I got to admit I was jealous. [on playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)] I discovered that Rhett was even harder to play than I had anticipated.

With so much of Scarlett preceding his entrance, Rhett's scenes were all climaxes. There was a chance to build up to Scarlett, but Rhett represented drama and action every time he appeared. He didn't figure in any of the battle scenes, being a guy who hated war, amid he wasn't in the toughest of the siege of Atlanta shots. What I was fighting for was to hold my own in the first half of the picture--which is all Vivien's [ Vivien Leigh ]--because I felt that after the scene with the baby, Bonnie, Rhett could control the end of the film. That scene where Bonnie dies, and the scene where I strike Scarlett and she accidentally tumbles down stairs, thus losing her unborn child, were the two that worried me most. Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour. [on Jean Harlow ] She didn't want to be famous. She wanted to be happy. I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it. I don't believe I'm king of anything, but I know why they like to think I am. I'm not much of an actor, but I'm not bad unless it's one of those things outside my comprehension. I work hard. I'm no Adonis, and I'm as American as the telephone poles I used to climb to make a living. So men don't get sore if their women folks like me on the screen. I'm one of them, they know it, so it's a compliment to them. They see me broke, in trouble, scared of things that go bump in the night, but I come out fighting. They see me making love to Jean Harlow or Claudette Colbert and they say, 'If he can do it, I can do it,' and figure it'll be fun to go home and to make love to their wives. [in 1958] My days of playing the dashing lover are over. I'm no longer believable in those parts.

There has been considerable talk about older guys wooing and winning leading ladies half their age. I don't think the public likes it, and I don't care for it myself. It's not realistic. Actresses that I started out with like Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck have long since quit playing glamor girls and sweet young things. Now it's time I acted my age. Let's be honest. It's a character role, and I'll be playing more of them. There's a risk involved, of course. I have no idea if I can attain the success as a character actor as I did playing the dashing young lover, but it's a chance I have to take. Not everybody is able to do it. I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead. When I die, don't let them make a circus out of it. Method actors are like hams. If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave. The public interest in my playing Rhett [in Gone with the Wind (1939)] puzzled me. I was the only one, apparently, who didn't take it for granted that I would.

I found myself trapped by a series of circumstances over which I had no control. It was a funny feeling. I think I know now how a fly must react after being caught in a spider's web. Scarlett doesn't always love Rhett. It's the first time that the girl isn't sure that she wants me from the minute she sets eyes on me. Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen. I don't discuss women at all with anyone. There are good qualities in all women. Some may be lacking in some of these qualities and should have them. I'm liable to say so and hurt their feelings, and it wouldn't be meant that way at all. I was scared, when I discovered that I had been cast by the public. I felt that every reader would have a different idea as to how Rhett should be played on the screen, and I didn't see how I could please everybody. ["Miami News" article 1939 on public reaction to Gone with the Wind (1939)] Damn it. I never conceived of this.

When I rode through Atlanta's streets today it wasn't like an opening at Grauman's Chinese at Hollywood. It wasn't like anything I ever experienced in my life. It was almost too big for me to take. For the first time I actually realized I wasn't Clark Gable to Atlanta, but Rhett Butler [laughs] . . . and I hope to heaven when I leave here tomorrow night, after everybody has seen the picture, that I leave as Rhett Butler and not Clark Gable. [In 1932] I have been in show business for 12 years. They have known me in Hollywood but two. Yet as picture-making goes, two years is a long time. Nevertheless, my advice has never been asked about a part in a picture. I found out I was going into "Susan Lenox" in Del Monte. Read it in a paper. When I walked on the set one day, they told me I was going to play Red Dust (1932) in place of John Gilbert . I have never been consulted as to what part I would like to play. I am paid not to think. I was pretty sore because they insisted on taping my ears back.

One day, in a scene with [ Greta Garbo ], the tape snapped loose and one ear flapped in the breeze. That was the end of the taping. They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano. It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right - and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million - then you'll be a star. [on playing Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)] The character is a pansy. And I'm not going to be seen wearing a pigtail and knickers. [on Carole Lombard ] After we got married, I asked her what she wanted more than anything. We were looking over the property and she said, "I'd like manure for the bottom thirty." And she meant it, too. [on The Misfits (1961)] The title sums up this mess. [ Arthur Miller , [ Marilyn Monroe ]and [ Montgomery Clift ]--they don't know what the hell they're doing. We don't belong in the same room together.

[What he wants on his tombstone] "He was lucky and he knew it". [on his preference for brothels] When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. When I came to town 25 years ago my six feet, two inches were considered pretty high up. But year by year they keep coming in - taller and taller. Today, it would appear than an actor under six feet is virtually a runt. (1955) Salary (19) Marilyn Monroe, horoscope for birth date 1 June 1926, born in Los Angeles, with Astrodatabank biography - Astro-Databank Marilyn Monroe Biography American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s. She was the subject of a lush nude calendar, photographed on 5/27/1949. Marilyn was born in the charity ward of the Los Angeles General Hospital. Both her mom and her grandmom suffered from mental illness, probably manic depression.

She maintained that one of her earliest memories was that of her mom trying to smother her with a pillow. Her mom paid a couple $25 a week to take care of her and she lived with these foster parents until she was seven. After her mom was hospitalized with a breakdown, Norma Jeane was placed in an orphanage and a series of foster homes, where she was sexually assaulted several times. She later said she had been raped when she was 11. She left school with a youthful and short marriage at the age of 15 to merchant marine James Dougherty. Only 5' 1", she matured early into a shapely 110 lbs. Deeply insecure about her abilities, she was chronically late. When astrologer Richard Ideman remarked that New York was a lonely town, she said, "Any town is lonely when you don't know who you are." She had, nonetheless, a sly wit; once asked by a reporter what she wore to bed, she replied "Chanel No.5." Her drug and alcohol dependency was long-standing and well known among her intimates.

Marilyn made a second marriage to baseball player Joe DiMaggio, then to writer Arthur Miller (a NY Times article gave June 29, 1956, 7:21 PM in White Plains, NY). She was romantically involved at one time or another to Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand and director Elia Kazan. Hundreds of biographies have been written about her by everyone from her lovers to her plumber. One lesbian relationship was related in a biography by her maid. Historians find no documented evidence that Marilyn had an affair with Robert Kennedy, though there is credible evidence that she was intimate with John Kennedy, starting sometime in the 1950s. By the '60s, the relationships was so obvious that aides warned him to be more discreet. During the Thousand Days of his administration they continued to meet, though not at the White House, and she told her friends about the trysts. She met Robert Kennedy in February 1962 and many reports state that he soon shared her favors. By early summer she was telling friends that he would marry her.

They were together at the home of Peter Lawford in late June and then, suddenly, both brothers cut her off and she was told to not contact either of them again. She began trying, without success, to reach Bobby by phone. She slumped into a deep depression, survived a drug overdose and told friends she had had an abortion. A close friend later recalled that "she looked like death." The gossip continued for years that she was intimate with both Kennedy men and that they were involved in her death. She possessed handwritten notes from Bobby and had kept a diary. She was privy to numerous secrets about the Kennedys and their underworld connections. Moreover, she was unstable and might talk at any time. A world-famed celebrity, the actress had the power to do incalculable damage to the Kennedy image. Monroe died of a drug overdose on 8/05/1962, Hollywood, CA. The prior night she had called Lawford about 10:00 PM, expressing fear that she had taken too many sleeping pills. She died sometime that night and about 3:00 AM, her housekeeper called her psychiatrist. She was found in her bed, nude, with a telephone in her hand.

At 4:25 AM the housekeeper called the police. Her diary and personal notes were never found. Relationships associate relationship with Bacall, Lauren (born 16 September 1924). Notes: co-stars in "How To Marry a Millionaire" associate relationship with Curtis, Tony (born 3 June 1925). Notes: co-stars in "Some Like It Hot" associate relationship with Gable, Clark (born 1 February 1901). Notes: co-stars in "The Misfits" associate relationship with Grable, Betty (born 18 December 1916). Notes: Co-star in "How to Marry a Millionaire" associate relationship with Nixon, Marni (born 22 February 1930). Notes: dubbed her voice associate relationship with Russell, Jane (born 21 June 1921).

Notes: co-stars in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" friend relationship with Lawford, Peter (born 7 September 1923) friend relationship with Martin, Dean (born 7 June 1917) friend relationship with Sinatra, Frank (born 12 December 1915) friend relationship with Strasberg, Susan (born 22 May 1938) lover relationship with Kennedy, John F. (born 29 May 1917). Notes: alleged lover relationship with Montand, Yves (born 13 October 1921) child->parent relationship with Monroe, Gladis (born 27 May 1902) spouse relationship with DiMaggio, Joe (born 25 November 1914). Notes: Bitter spouse relationship with Miller, Arthur (born 17 October 1915).

Notes: Bitter sibling relationship with Baker, Berniece (born 30 July 1919) other kin relationship with DiMaggio, Joseph (born 23 October 1941) Events Stunning new revelations: Marilyn Monroe murdered Stunning new revelations: June DiMaggio breaks long silence on details surrounding mysterious death of her friend Published: 10/18/2006 at 1:00 AM Print Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio at Tom DiMaggio’s birthday party, 1954 Marilyn Monroe was talking on the telephone to Louise DiMaggio when she was murdered and was able to utter the name of her attacker before her death, according to a new book by DiMaggio’s niece and Monroe confidante June DiMaggio . In “Marilyn, Joe & Me,” 44 years after the Hollywood superstar’s mysterious death, which was ruled a suicide, June DiMaggio, friend of Marilyn and niece of New York Yankee Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, she discloses that her mother was speaking long distance with Marilyn Monroe when the actress was killed.

DiMaggio says her mother overheard Monroe blurt out the name or names of her killer as they stormed into her bedroom. Now in her late 70s, DiMaggio knew Marilyn before she was married to her uncle and for years afterward – until the star’s death in 1962. “It’s about the truth, and it’s about time,” DiMaggio says, explaining why she is finally publishing her memoirs. “Mother told me that she knew who killed Marilyn, but that knowledge absolutely terrified her,” she writes. To protect her family, she said that she would never reveal the details of what she knew. “I begged mother to tell me who it was, over and over and over again,” says June. Joe DiMaggio also pleaded with her to confide in him many times. Only her mother knew, and she never confided in Marilyn’s former husband or anyone else. “I even asked her on her deathbed,” she recalls. “‘Won’t you tell me now?’ And she just said, ‘No, I want my family to live.'” By DiMaggio’s account, Marilyn was indeed the victim of a wretched childhood and the Hollywood studio system that made her star power last to this day.

Still, she paints a picture of a different Marilyn, one who faced life sunny-side-up, who seemed to accept her fate on many levels. She divulges a Marilyn who read books and loved to talk about politics, who was unwavering in her generosity, who had an almost naive sense of wonder. She portrays a Marilyn sometimes lonely, who wasn’t even aware of her hundreds of Christmas cards that flooded the studio; a Marilyn that cooed over a stuffed Teddy bear and took childlike pleasure in watching cartoons. And yes, a Marilyn who also admitted to spending time on the casting couch. DiMaggio writes, “On the very day of her death, Marilyn phoned me mid-morning and asked if I could bring her one of my homemade pizzas. “When I arrived with the pizza around noon she was in high spirits, chatting about how she and my mother were going to Mexico to shop for wrought-iron patio furniture for the new home where she and Joe would live after they remarried. “Yes, remarried. Authors June DiMaggio and Mary Jane Popp “They were planning to retie the knot on August 8, the day that would instead be her funeral. Marilyn was very happy and excited to be marrying Joe again.

She was even thinking of domestic comforts and bought a set of dishes for their new love nest. “When I saw her that fateful day, she went on and on about her new life and her plans for the future. She had a contract to fulfill, but she was hoping to cut back to perhaps a movie a year so that she could finally begin to enjoy life with her own family, in her own cozy home. “On the night that she was murdered,” DiMaggio relates, “the police were trying to locate Joe to tell him that she’d been found dead. When they arrived at my door that night between 11 p.m. and midnight, I was in shock. I didn’t know where Joe was for sure, so I called to ask Mother. I remember thinking that he might be in San Francisco. When she picked up the phone she was sobbing uncontrollably. “She already knew. So, who was Marilyn’s killer? DiMaggio, whose bright eyes belie her strength and feistiness, is stalwart in her belief. She says her mother never told her the name, because she was desperately afraid for her family. “Only Mother knew, and she never confided in Joe or anyone else.

He kept asking her, ‘Won’t you tell me now, Lee?’ And she just said, ‘No, I want my family to live.’ “Even after the FBI traced that last call that Marilyn made to Mother, not even the country’s G-men could make inroads with her. As she told me directly and in no uncertain terms, she wouldn’t tell anything to the FBI or to another living soul.” But then there’s an interview co-author Mary Jane Popp happened upon, which breathes life into DiMaggio’s account. Popp interviewed Alan Kimble “Kim” Fahey, author of “Hollywood Unlisted,” in which he tells hair-raising stories of the 35 years that he worked as a telephone repairman in the land of stars and stories, when he “kept his ears open and his mouth shut.” “The story took place around the early ’80s, when Kim was sent to do about three days of phone work on a system at Atascadero State Mental Hospital, a maximum-security facility on California’s central coast. Kim was minding his work, converting an old switchboard to a new phone system, when he was confronted by a thin, wiry man.

“The Guy, as I will refer to him, was in his late 50s or early 60s, of medium build, maybe 145 pounds, with slicked-back, graying hair. Kim said that he spoke in a streetwise tone and seemed desperate to talk to someone. “He told Kim he was a small-timer in the Sam Giancana crime family in the East. The goal of anyone working for the mob was to move up in the family, so when he was told to go to California to do the deed he had no hesitation. He was told to shut Marilyn up and get a journal she had been keeping. “It seems that what she was writing in that journal was making some very powerful people nervous. The Guy had never been to Los Angeles and didn’t know his way around, so a driver was provided for him and his partner. “They stalked Marilyn for several days to find out her routines. They discovered that part of her nightly routine was to sedate herself a little, take a drink or two, and crash on the bed in her bedroom with the TV on.

Marilyn Monroe takes a break on the set of “The Misfits.” “During the time they stalked her, they also lifted her keys and had duplicates made of all of them, since they weren’t sure which ones they would need. Finally they chose the night to make their move. “They let themselves in the front door. The Guy said they didn’t see anyone else in the house. They entered her room and, as expected, found Marilyn in bed. “Before she could react, they were on top of her. Both men held her down while the Guy inserted a nembutol suppository (supplied for the purpose when they arrived in California) into her rectum. They had been told that it would work quickly and that it would not show up in an autopsy. “The Guy said that Marilyn struggled for only a minute or so, and then she stopped breathing. All was quiet. The search for the journal didn’t take long; they found it under the mattress. They left in a matter of minutes, making sure that the front door was locked behind them and leaving no evidence of a break-in.

“The Guy thought he was going to move up in the Giancana crime family because of his slick work, until he heard that his partner had been murdered and that there was a contract out for him, too. “He told Kim that he stole an ID that had a physical description close to his. He didn’t want to be arrested and put in the general population in prison, because he knew the mob could get to him from inside. “So he got a crazy idea to pretend that he was crazy. He got into an altercation in a restaurant, acted nutty, got arrested, and was subsequently admitted to Atascadero State Mental Hospital. “Crazy as the plan was, it might have worked. He may have thought that he could hide in the hospital and be released when things cooled off. What he didn’t know was that the stolen ID was from a guy with a rap sheet longer than his arm who was a bona fide nut case.” In addition to revealing new and startling information surrounding Monroe’s death, DiMaggio and Popp also tackle rumors and conspiracy theories about Frank Sinatra’s involvement, the FBI, and potential ties to the Kennedy family.

Popp also recently did an exclusive interview with Gene Anthony, world-renowned photographer, who was only one of two photographers allowed to freely photograph Marilyn Monroe’s funeral. As Popp related, “I couldn’t believe my ears when Gene told me how he had gotten a call at about 2 a.m. Pacific time from his New York agent who had already been called by a German magazine from Germany, telling Gene to get down to Hollywood to cover Marilyn Monroe’s death. There have been stories claiming her body was not even discovered until 3:30 a.m. How then did Gene get this early morning call to cover the story? It all comes down to what June has told me all along. Marilyn was murdered before midnight when the police arrived at her door with the news.” Adding yet another timely twist, former Los Angeles County prosecutor John Miner, now 88, has recently spoken again about reopening the investigation into her death and exhuming her body to reexamine it and reconsider the finding that she committed suicide. “What I do know after my investigative interviews and my long relationship with June is that Marilyn was murdered. I have no doubt,” Popp concludes.

If you’d like to sound off on this issue, please take part in the WorldNetDaily poll. Previous stories: Marilyn Monroe - TMS Journal 13/14 Marilyn Monroe Bios ‎ > ‎ Marilyn Monroe Monroe was born in 1926 in the charity ward.Her original name is Norma Jeane Mortinson. Her mother had a mental illness and there is some arguments to who her father is so Monroe bounced from house to house to live with family and friends.She said she moved back and forth between houses so much because she got abused in many of them. When she was sixteen she got married so she could live on her own. Marilyn first was a model then she had many small parts in movies. In 1952 she got her first big part in the movie “Don't Bother to Knock. And played many big roles since then. She has written a few book and has sang some songs. Marilyn didn't have any children although she tried many times and had a few miscarriages. Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962 when she was 36. She died of what appeared to be a suicide.

She was found with her hand on a phone and an empty bottle of pills next to her. No one really know what happened. There is a lot of controversy on the issue. Everyones minds automatically went to suicide because of the fact that there was pills next to her and her door was locked from the inside. There are reports of her talking to her manager before the estimated time of death. Her manager said she was slurring her words and was incoherent. Murder is also suspected. No one knows who would want to murder Marilyn, maybe a woman jealous of her dazzling looks or a man who was lovestruck and got rejected. But all of her “friends” said Marilyn seemed happy. Marilyn was not able to swallow small pills without choking up so it doesn't add up that she would be able to swallow all those pills between phone calls with her manager and photographer. Though her life was short lived she was very successful. She is known as the most beautiful person who has ever lived. Marilyn Monroe is still very popular. You can find her pictures on everything from calendars to shirts.

This picture is from a hit movie "The Seven Year Itch." Marilyn Monroe is most famous for this picture with her her dress flying up in the front. Marilyn Monroe | Biography, News and Photos | Contactmusic.com News Pictures Film Comments Quotes RSS Biography Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1st 1926 - August 5th 1962) Marilyn Monroe is one of the most iconic Hollywood actresses to have ever lived and is best known for starring in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' and 'Some Like It Hot' among others, as well as for being one of the most beautiful women in the world. Net worth: Marilyn Monroe's net worth was around $370,000 at the time of her death ($2.17 million in today's money) (Forbes). Childhood: Marilyn Monroe was born in LA. Her parents were Gladys Baker and, according to Marilyn's birth certificate, her ex husband Martin Mortensen - though Marilyn had always denied he was her biological father, instead believing that it was Charles Gifford.

Marilyn was in and out of foster care all her childhood due to her mother's mental health problems, being cared for first by Albert and Ida Bolender before returning to her mother who was quickly sectioned. She later lived with her mother's friend Grace McKee, who introduced her to the world of cinema, but she left to live with her great-aunt Olive Brunings due to Grace's husband attempts to sexually abuse Marilyn. However, she was once again attacked by family members. She had a positive life living with her Aunt Ana, but she then went back to Grace. During that time she met her first boyfriend Jim Dougherty who she was forced to marry due to her unstable living arrangements. She attended Van Nuys High School, before working at the Radioplane Munitions Factory while husband Jim served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. She then joined the Blue Book Modeling Agency, dying her brunette hair blonde. Her modelling success attracted the attention of film executive Ben Lyon, who encouraged Marilyn's name change. She chose 'Monroe', her mother's maiden name, while Lyon decided on 'Marilyn' because she reminded him of Marilyn Miller. During her early acting career, she enrolled at the University of California studying literature and art appreciation.

Film career: Marilyn Monroe's first credited movie role was in 1947's 'Dangerous Years'. In 1948, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures and subsequently appeared in the musical 'Ladies of the Chorus'. She went back to modelling after her film career then began to wane, and posed nude for photographer Tom Kelly. Things started to look up in 1949 when she appeared in the Marx Brothers' 'Love Happy' and, after a few more brief screen roles, she landed her breakthrough role in 'The Asphalt Jungle' opposite Louis Calhern and later appeared in the comedy 'All About Eve'. In 1952, a nude photograph of Marilyn leaked, but there was much speculation over whether or not it was her. She admitted to posing for the pictures to pay her rent, prompting much sympathy from the media and the public, and the photo later featured in Playboy. There was much interest in Marilyn and her unhappy background thence forth making her 1952 film 'Clash by Night' rather popular.

In 1953, she appeared in 'Niagara', where it started to become clear that she was not the easiest person to work with due to her erratic behaviour caused by her stage fright. Though her performance was well reviewed, many commented negatively on what they viewed as 'vulgarity' during promotional events. Later that year, she starred alongside Jane Russell in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' in which she sang the famous song 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend'. Despite her dedication to the role, she was increasingly late to the set annoying director Howard Hawks. 'How to Marry a Millionaire' came next, also starring Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall. She had further director struggles during the filming of 'River Of No Return' with Otto Preminger becoming annoyed by Marilyn's acting coach Natasha Lytess' constant presence, and thus the actress refused to speak to him. In 1954, she appeared in the poorly reviewed 'There's No Business Like Show Business'. The following year, she landed a role in 'The Seven Year Itch' which featured the famous scene depicting Marilyn in a white dress with her skirt blown up.

She subsequently had a close friendship with photographer Milton Greene, who advised her to break away from her financially crippling contract with 20th Century Fox and even mortgaged his home to help fund her career as well as offering her accomodation. After briefly being mentored in acting by Constance Collier before his death, she went on to study under Lee Strasberg who became extremely impressed with her progress. She appeared in 'Bus Stop' in 1956 opposite Don Murray and, while impressing critics with her much improved acting performance, subsequently landed a Golden Globe nomination. She co-starred with Laurence Olivier in the following year's 'The Prince and the Showgirl' which landed her a BAFTA nomination. Olivier later admitted that he, like 'River Of No Return' director Preminger, found the presence of her acting coach (now Paula Strasberg) irksome. She was in 1959's 'Some Like It Hot' which also starred Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. While it was expected that she would be suffering stage fright and would often be late, director Billy Wilder did not expect her behaviour to be so aggressive as it turned out to be.

However, despite her unpredictability, she won a Golden Globe for her role. Her penultimate film was 'Let's Make Love' in which she starred alongside Yves Montand. Her tardiness became a problem during the filming once again, but Montand was able to improve her attitude. Her last completed film was 1960's 'The Misfits' starring Clark Gable, during which she was frequently ill. She was later hospitalised for undisclosed reasons, while some of the other actors also took ill from exhaustion. Before her death, she began filming 'Something's Got to Give' with Dean Martin, though she was still getting sick a lot. 20th Century Fox attempted to sue her due to her lack of attendance in filming, as she often appeared in the media and magazines looking perfectly well. She famously sang 'Happy Birthday' to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in 1962. Personal life: Marilyn Monroe had surgery to 'soften' her appearance at the suggestion of her early associates. She had a bump removed from her nose and her slight overbite corrected. In the early fifties, she dated baseball player Joe DiMaggio whom she married in 1954.

They divorced that same year. She soon re-married to director Arthur Miller but their marriage also ended in 1961. She suffered two miscarriages during their marriage. She also had an affair with actor Yves Montand, which ended when he refused to leave his wife. There are claims that she was also very briefly married to Bob Slatzer, as well as that she had an affair with both John and Robert Kennedy. In her final years, she began seeing a psychiatrist while suffering from insomnia. She began taking prescription medication from several doctors, while refusing any help from her husband. She also developed a dependence on alcohol. Following her second divorce, she attended the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic before transferring to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. She took a break from acting as she recovered in hospital, during which time she had surgery on her fallopian tubes and gallbladder. Marilyn died on August 5th 1962 from 'acute barbiturate poisoning' in what was thought to be suicide. There has, however, been much speculation surrounding her death, particularly with her last phone call being to President John F. Kennedy. Biography by Contactmusic.com

Question: What year: Marilyn Monroe died, Tom Cruise was born and John Lennon got married for the first time?
Answer: 1962