Popular Name : Marilyn Monroe
Date of Birth : Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Place of Birth : June 1, 1926
Nationality : American
Marilyn Monroe Biography - Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson but baptized and raised as Norma Jeane Baker, was a singer, model and an American actress. During her all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols. Norma Jeane and Berneice first heard of eachother when they were respectivly 12 and 19 years old.
At nine the LA Orphans' Home paid her a nickel a month for kitchen work while taking back a penny every Sunday for church. Jimmy joined the Merchant Marines and was sent to the South Pacific in 1944 : Norma Jeane decided to join the assembly line at the Radio Plane Munitions factory.
In 1959, Monroe returned to familiar territory with the wildly popular comedy Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. In 1962 Marilyn was chosen to star in Fox's Something's Got to Give (1962)By October of 1954, Marilyn announced her divorce from DiMaggio. Marilyn died mysteriously in her bedroom on August 5th, 1962.
