Birthplace: Los Angeles General Hospital, 1200 State Street, Los Angeles, California.
Norma Jeane named after one her mother’s (Gladys) favourite actresses: Norma Talmadge.
Marilyn Monroe named after actress Marilyn Miller and Gladys’ maiden name of Monroe.
At the age of nine, stayed for twenty-one months at Los Angeles Orphans Home Society, 815 North El Centro Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Orphan #3463.
Attended Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles, California and Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, California. Marilyn did not complete high school.
Marries Jim Dougherty on June 19,1942 in Los Angeles, California.
(Divorced September 13, 1946)
Marries Joe DiMaggio on January 14, 1954 in San Francisco, California.
(Divorced October 27, 1954)
Marries Arthur Miller on June 29, 1956 in White Plains, New York.
(Divorced January 20, 1961)
Rumoured to have set date to re-marry Joe DiMaggio on August 8, 1962.
Measurements: 37-23-36 (studio’s claim), 35-22-35 (dressmaker’s claim).
Bra size:36D.
First national magazine cover in Family Circle, April 26,1946.
First studio contract with 20th Century Fox, August 26, 1946.
Signs contract with Columbia Pictures, March 9, 1948.
Signs contract with MGM, August 15, 1949.
Had minor plastic surgery to narrow tip of her nose and correct jaw line. Had teeth whitened and slight overbite fixed.
Poses nude for photographer Tom Kelley, May 27, 1949. Pictures not used until 1952 for “Golden Dreams” calendar. These photos were also bought by Hugh Hefner and published in the very first issue of Playboy magazine.
Oscar presenter at the Academy Awards, March 29,1951.
First full length feature in Collier’s magazine, September 8, 1951.
First cover Life magazine, April 7, 1952.
Last cover Life Magazine, August 3, 1962.
First TV appearance on “The Jack Benny Show”, September 13, 1953.
Signs recording contract with RCA, October, 1953.
Forms Marilyn Monroe Productions with photographer Milton Greene, December 31, 1954.
Edward R. Murrow interview on “Person To Person”, April 8, 1955.
Receives Golden Globe Award for “World Film Favourite”, 1953.
Receives Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy “Some Like It Hot”, March 8, 1960.
Receives Golden Globe Award for “World Film Favourite”, March 5, 1962.
Most successful movie was “Some Like It Hot”, 1959.
Favourite actors: Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Laughton, Will Rogers, Cary Grant, John Barrymore, Tyrone Power, Richard Widmark.
Favourite actresses: Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Marie Dressler, Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland.
Favourite artists: Goya, Picasso, El Greco, Michelangelo, Botticelli.
Favourite singers: Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra.
Ella Fitzgerald is quoted as saying in 1972: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. It was because of her that I played Mocambo (an important L.A. club in the 1950′s). She personally called the owner of the Mocambo and told him she wanted me booked immediately and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again.”
Favourite musicians: Louis Armstrong, Earl Bostick, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Favourite playwrights: Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams.
Favourite authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J.D. Salinger, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Wolfe.
Favourite poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman.
Some of the cars Marilyn owned: 1935 Ford Coupe, 1948 Ford Convertible, 1950 Pontiac Convertible, 1953 Black Cadillac Convertible, 1955 Ford Thunderbird, 1960 White Cadillac.
Following the advice of Dr. Marianne Kris, Marilyn voluntarily checks into the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, February 7, 1961.
With the help of Joe DiMaggio, she is transferred to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital on February 11 and is released March 5, 1961.
Sings “Happy Birthday” and “Thanks For The Memories” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Gardens, May 19, 1962.
Last day at work at 20th Century Fox and final public appearance at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for a Muscular Dystrophy benefit, June 1, 1962.
After Marilyn was fired from “Something’s Got To Give” and replaced by Lee Remick, co-star Dean Martin exercised a clause in his contract and refused to return to the production without Marilyn.
In 1963, 20th Century Fox reshot “Something’s Got To Give” with Doris Day and James Garner and retitled it “Move Over, Darling”.
Purchased last home at 12305 5th Helena Drive, Brentwood, California, February, 1962. Purchase price was less than $90,000 , with a nineteen year mortgage of $37,500. Her monthly payments were $320.
Marilyn was presented with her own star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 1960. It’s location is 6774 Hollywood Boulevard.
Funeral at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, California, August 8, 1962. Joe DiMaggio made the arrangements and barred the Hollywood crowd from attending. Lee Strasberg delivered the eulogy and as requested by Marilyn, Allen “Whitey” Snyder made her up for the last time. One of Marilyn’s favourite songs “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” was played. She was laid to rest in a lime green Pucci dress in a bronze casket. For twenty years DiMaggio sent fresh roses three time a week to Marilyn’s crypt, as he had promised.
ohhh my geee, i love marilyn monroe to death. i really wanna get my monroe pierced and one day i will figure out what really happend to her. but for now i will just be completely in love with her, and fantsize about her. im her biggest fan and i don’t know what i’d do without her in my life!!!!! this website was super duper easy to use and read the creator of this website sure does know their stuff about marilyn, but probably not as much as me.. but still i love her quotes and her speaking and this website!!
love, xoxox,
Marilyn Monroe’s biggest fan!
Good day,
I would like to inform you that the Marilyn Monroe “golden dreams” pictures were made public prior to 1952.
I make this statement because I own an original 1951 MM golden dreams calendar made by Amalgamated Lithographers of America in Chicago, Illinois, for a business advertising in the state where I reside.
The 1951 calendar does not have ” posed by MM on it, but it does say golden dreams below her and measures 16″ by 33″ long.
ohhh my geee, i love marilyn monroe to death. i really wanna get my monroe pierced and one day i will figure out what really happend to her. but for now i will just be completely in love with her, and fantsize about her. im her biggest fan and i don’t know what i’d do without her in my life!!!!! this website was super duper easy to use and read the creator of this website sure does know their stuff about marilyn, but probably not as much as me.. but still i love her quotes and her speaking and this website!!
love, xoxox,
Marilyn Monroe’s biggest fan!
i love marilyn!!
oh yeah did i mention that im her biggest fan, i wish she was still alive, im getting plastic surgery soon to look like her.
Good day,
I would like to inform you that the Marilyn Monroe “golden dreams” pictures were made public prior to 1952.
I make this statement because I own an original 1951 MM golden dreams calendar made by Amalgamated Lithographers of America in Chicago, Illinois, for a business advertising in the state where I reside.
The 1951 calendar does not have ” posed by MM on it, but it does say golden dreams below her and measures 16″ by 33″ long.