Today, 90 years after the birth of Marilyn Monroe is met, one of the biggest sexual myths of Hollywood, that under that shell of stunning and ravishing blonde hid a fragile skin deep, the product of a broken whose ghosts childhood never achieved escape.
“He died with 36 years leaving a fascinating empire,” said Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien’s Auctions, the house launched an auction historic objects belonging to the diva in commemoration of its 90th anniversary . “He had a very difficult childhood. He grew up in orphanages while her mother was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. He never knew his father. He married three times, but never found the loyalty or closeness of their partners. He wrote poetry for refuge from the outside” valued Nolan, an expert on the life of the artist.
Marilyn, natural (File Clarin)
“It was extremely vulnerable and insecure “he added Nolan. “Therefore, to achieve fame, created the personality of explosive, voluptuous and sexual woman. He lifted his own company and made his own films. In the end, wanted to escape from all that had been achieved, but it was too big,” he said.
He played endless “dumb blondes” in Hollywood, but it was not one of them. He won three Golden Globes -Won as best comedy actress for “Some Like It Hot” (1959) and the other two were honorifics as public- favorite actress, was nominated twice for the British BAFTA like better foreign actress for “the Seven Year Itch” (1955) and “the Prince and the Showgirl” (1957) – and he recorded their mark on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. his star is still one of the most sought after and photographed by curious.
Marilyn Monroe, in a photo of 1953 (AFP)
Norma Jeane Mortenson, daughter Gladys Monroe (mounter in several Hollywood studios) and Edward Mortenson, was born on 1 June 1926 at the County hospital Los Angeles, now known as the LAC_USC medical center, located in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood of working class.
After a childhood steeped in orphanages, married at age 16 with James Dougherty, an employee of the aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. The marriage only lasted four years and divorced in 1946, at which time Jeane began modeling in suits swimsuit and show off their oxygenated hair giving rise to that perfect blend of innocence and sex.
Some of those snapshots were published in magazines and caught the attention of Howard Hughes, President of RKO Pictures, who offered him his first audition. Advised by Ben Lyon agent, he preferred to listen to rival studio 20th Century-Fox and signed his first contract: $ 125 a week for a period of six months. The myth began to take its steps.
Marilyn and her second husband, Joe Dimaggio (AP)
It adopted that name for being the family of his mother and the stage name of Marilyn prevailed in memory of Marilyn Miller, one of the favorite actresses of Lyon. Little could imagine then that the nude photo shoot she did in 1949 would reach legendary status after its publication in the pages of Playboy magazine four years later, coinciding with the beginning of her relationship with baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
cover of Playboy magazine December 1953. AP.
The couple married in 1954 in full artistic streak to Monroe with “Niagara,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) or “How to Marry a Millionaire” (How marry a millionaire). Even his very fast DiMaggio divorce nine months later-barely affected his image and “The Seven Year Itch” (The Seven Year Itch) left to remember some of the scenes most immortal film.
However, were increasingly frequent complaints about their behavior studies. He appeared not to work on time, he argued alleged diseases of absence and tilled to pulse the fame of torment among producers, directors and actors, while raged rumors of romances with multiple celebrities of the time.
Monroe he struggled to prove he could be considered a serious actress ( “Bus Stop”, 1956), to which he contributed his new marriage, this time with the playwright Arthur Miller, who was able to direct it and make it shine like never before. Thus the famous “Some like it hot” (A Eva and two Adams, 1959) came alongside Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. After her divorce from Miller in 1960, Monroe filmed his latest work: “The Misfits” (The Misfits, 1961), which also marked the farewell of Clark Gable, another Hollywood legend
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