Name: Norma Jeane Baker
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Birthday: June 1st 1926
Height: 5 feet 5 1/2 inches
Weight: 118 pounds
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Measurements: 37-23-37

Norma Jean Baker was born on June 1926 in Los Angeles, California.
Her real name was Norma Jeane Baker.
Her widowed mother was a film-cutter at RKO, and had severe issues
with insanity. She abandoned Norma Jean to sequence of foster homes.

At the age of sixteen she worked in an aircraft plant and married a man by
the name of James Dougherty. While he joined the military,
she began to model, they divorced in 1946.

She Started as a model
Norma Jean studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown.
20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later.
During this time Norma Jean began her transformation to Marilyn Monroe.
She was a brunette but she dyed her hair blond for a shampoo commercial.
She was blond since that.

In 1948 Columbia gave her a six-month contract,
turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in
the B movie "Ladies of the Chorus" for which she sang two numbers.

Joseph Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in "All About Eve",
because of which 20th Century re-signed her to a seven-year contract.
Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her
as a sex symbol superstar.

Also in 1953, she married and divorced baseball great Joe Dimaggio.
Her marriage to Joe was ill-fated though, and it only lasted
a short time.

After "Itch" she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image
and went to New York's Actors Studio. She worked with director
Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more
about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956)
and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller.
True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress
so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned.

Monroe and Miller went to Engl
and where she began the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl with Lawrence Olivier.
During this time, her fighting with Miller became very frequent
and she fell further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages
and gynecological surgery followed.

Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961),
written for her by departing husband Miller was interrupted by exhaustion. She was dropped from "Something's Got to Give"
due to chronic lateness and drug dependency. Four months later,
on August 5, 1962 she was found dead in her Brentwood home,
officially victim of barbiturate overdose.

Candle In The Wind



Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Good-bye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Good-bye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

The following list shows all the films Marilyn
was part of, either as a star or even a walk on.

Something's Got To Give (1962)... Unfinished
The Misfits (1961)
Let's Make Love (1961)..........
AKA The Billionaire (1960), AKA The Millionaire (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Bus Stop (1956)...AKA The Wrong Kind of Girl (1956)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
River of No Return (1954)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
How to Marry a Millionare (1953)
Niagara (1953)
Clash by Night (1952)
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Monkey Business (1952)
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
We're Not Married (1952)
As Young as You Feel (1951)
Hometown Story (1951)
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
Love Nest (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Fireball (1950)...AKA The Challenge (1950)
Right Cross (uncredited) (1950)
A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
Ladies of the Chorus (1949)
Love Happy (1949)
Dangerous Years (1948)
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)..........
AKA Summer Lightning (1948)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

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