Marilyn Monroe Success Story

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle"-Norma Jeane Mortenson

In 1947, Monroe had been released from her contract with 20th Century Fox. She then met Hollywood’s noted pin-up photographer Bruno Bernard, who clicked her at the Racquet Club of Palm Springs. The nude spread of Monroe’s photos caused a scandal, when she agreed to admit she had posed for the photo as she was struggling to pay her rent.

Monroe  eloped with DiMaggio in the year 1954. She applied for divorce from DiMaggio on the grounds of mental cruelty. In spite of all the differences, he secured her release from the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Mental Clinic in 1961.By the year 1956, Monroe’s work began to slow down. She got married to playwright Arthur Miller the same year, divorcing him after 4 years.After two divorces, she got addicted to alcohol and pills, and suffered two miscarriages as well.Monroe then took a year gap after the year 1958 and returned to the industry with a comedy, Some like It Hot. ‘The Misfits', a screenplay by husband Miller, was supposed to be her final film. Work was interrupted due to exhaustion, and she was then fired from 'Something's Got to Give' for not turning up for filming.

Achievements

After not much success, she went into seclusion and on 5 August 1962, she was found dead at her home after an overdose of sleeping pills. She was 36 when she died. Monroe suicide was followed after numerous controversies all through her life. Monroe has been portrayed by a number of actresses over the years, including Michelle Williams in 2011's My Week with Marilyn. Her final years of her life were marked with acute illness and a number of personal problems. She has been the sixth greatest film star of her times. She is still remembered as the greatest sex symbol that ever lived.Marilyn Monroe had often been cited as a pop and a cultural icon apart from being labeled as the quintessential American sex symbol.