Marilyn Monroe was a famous American actress, singer and glamour model. She is best known for being a pop culture icon and figurehead of the sexual revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. Popular Marilyn Monroe films include “The Seven Year Itch”, “Bus Stop”, “Some Like It Hot”, “The Misfits”, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, and “How to Marry a Millionaire”.
Mini biography: Born Norma Jeane Mortenson on the 1st of June, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Her mother was Gladys Pearl Monroe and her biological father was Charles Stanley Gifford. Monroe was married to the police officer James Dougherty between 1942 and 1946. Her second husband was the famous American baseball player for the New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio (1954 to 1955). And her third husband was the screenwriter Arthur Miller (1956 to 1961). The actress died on the 4th of August, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, U.S. at the age of 36. She died from an overdose of barbiturates. Marilyn Monroe is buried at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, Westwood, Los Angeles 90024 California, United States.
List of Famous Marilyn Monroe Quotes
I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. Marilyn Monroe
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.. If fame goes by, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live. Marilyn Monroe
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. Marilyn Monroe
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. Marilyn Monroe
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world. Not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. Marilyn Monroe
My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation.. but I’m working on the foundation. Marilyn Monroe
When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature.. and it won’t hurt your feelings.. like it’s happening to your clothes not you. Marilyn Monroe
The studio people want me to do ‘Good-bye Charlie’ for the movies, but I’m not going to do it. I don’t like the idea of playing a man in a woman’s body — you know? It just doesn’t seem feminine. Marilyn Monroe
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. Marilyn Monroe
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