The life of world-famous actress Marilyn Monroe (real name Norma Jean Baker) was short-lived and left behind many questions that still have no definite answers. “Only Girls in Jazz”, “How to Marry a Millionaire” - films with the participation of a Hollywood star are known to a wide range of moviegoers.
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Marilyn Monroe, who was born in Los Angeles in 1926, received her name in honor of the actress Norma Tolmage, which is popular with viewers. Parents did not remain in the memory of the daughter: the girl was very young when her mother was in the hospital for the mentally ill, and the father left the family before the birth of the child.
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The character traits of the future movie star evolved under the influence of a bitter feeling of loneliness. From the age of two weeks, Norma was transferred to different families for upbringing (the longest residence in a foster family was the first six years of her life), the orphanage became the final place of her stay. Young Marilyn understood that only at the cost of her own efforts she could achieve something in her life.
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And the girl began to act. At first, she herself got rid of congenital stuttering. I had to go to the first victory for three years, during which the future actress loudly and slowly read monologues and sang, moreover, she intentionally did this with noise in the rooms of neighbors pouring water in the bathroom. Young Norma Baker took great care in her appearance, hiding her flaws under a masterful make-up. The girl learned to give special expressiveness and beauty to her appearance and, having become famous, Marilyn Monroe did not trust others to deal with her appearance.
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The career of the model begins in 1944. At first it was pictures of a military photographer, estimated at five dollars per hour of posing.
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The film studio "Twentieth Century Fox" took the young girl in the position of statistician. It was here that Marilyn received her new first and last name. And on the covers of American magazines began to appear portraits of Marilyn Monroe. Then there was an offer to act in Hollywood. But so far these have been minor roles in the wide-screen films.
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Many believe that Monroe’s career was due to her rare appearance: a beautiful figure, blond curly hair (by nature she was brown-haired, so she constantly dyed it), corrected makeup and plastic surgery to her face beauty. However, the actress blew such a deep charm that the audience was fascinated by her.
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Marilyn Monroe worked seriously to become a real actress: she attended classes in the studio of actors, took private lessons. But, unfortunately, filmmakers were primarily interested in the look of Monroe.
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In 1950, playing talented episodic roles, the young Marilyn was seen by critics, directors and producers. Subsequent roles became important for the actress: her name was included in the list of best young film actresses. Then came the time of the main roles in films known to the general public and the triumph that came after them. And invitations to act were followed one after another. In 1954, Marilyn Monroe established herself as the first movie star of Hollywood. The painting "Only Girls in Jazz" became a real triumph of the movie star.
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Acting luck confidently went up, and scandals and troubles began to appear in his personal life. First, scandalous posing in naked form, then excessive use of tranquilizers. In addition, the last hope of becoming a mother was finally lost. The actress experienced mental discomfort, which gave rise to a serious addiction to alcohol and potent drugs. Because of the movie star, shooting was disrupted, films with her participation were expensive.
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Revered by many as the goddess of love, the actress always needed her and died from a lack of this feeling. Kind, reading Chekhov and Dostoevsky, who loved American poetry, she preferred reliable, serious and intelligent men. Successful life of the star turned into a tragedy. The popular actress belonged to the viewer, because, as she believed, "no one else needed."
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Crowds of fans did not save Marilyn Monroe from loneliness. She often experienced a state of depression, at a young age she even tried to commit suicide, in the last years of her life she was a patient in a psychiatric clinic. A movie star died in 1962, taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills, but so far for some her death is considered a mystery.
