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Marilyn Monroe
Last Words:
Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe award winning American actress, model, Hollywood icon, Cultural icon, beauty ideal, fashion icon, pop icon and sex symbol. She was known for her comedic acting skills and screen presence. Monroe became one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. During the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles and her fame surpassed that of any other entertainer of her time. Her premature death was classified as a "probable suicide". Many individuals including Jack Clemmons, the first LAPD Police officer to arrive at the death scene believed that she was murdered. She is the only woman on the Forbes top earning dead celebrities list. ChildhoodFamily and early lifeMarilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. According to biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles, her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, had her baptized Norma Jeane Baker by Aimee Semple McPherson. Although she took a stagename of Marilyn Monroe in 1946, she did not legally change her name to Marilyn Monroe until February 23, 1956. Her mother was Gladys Pearl (Monroe) Baker. For many years it was believed that Gladys's second husband Martin Edward Mortenson (1897-1981) was Monroe's father. His name was listed on her birth certificate. However this has been disputed with Monroe herself believing a salesman named Charles Stanley Gifford was her father. Throughout her life Marilyn always believed that Gifford was her father.Foster homesMentally unstable and unable to care for Monroe, Gladys placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, California, where she lived until she was seven. In her autobiography My Story, Monroe states she believed Albert was a woman. One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house. A few months after they had moved in, Gladys suffered a breakdown. In My Story, Monroe recalls her mother "s
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