Marilyn Monroe
Acting
Born: June 1, 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: August 5, 1962 (aged 36)
Highest Rated
Biography
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Monroe as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage; she married at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. She faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photographs prior to becoming a star, but the story did not damage her career and instead resulted in increased interest in her films. By 1953, Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars; she had leading roles in the film noir Niagara, which overtly relied on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a "dumb blonde". The same year, her nude images were used as the centerfold and on the cover of the first issue of Playboy. She played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, but she was disappointed when she was typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project but returned to star in The Seven Year Itch (1955), one of the biggest box office successes of her career. When the studio was still reluctant to change Monroe's contract, she founded her own film production company in 1954. She dedicated 1955 to building the company and began studying method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Later that year, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. Her subsequent roles included a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and her first independent production in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959), a critical and commercial success. Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).
Known for
Some Like It Hot
1959
All About Eve
1950
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
The Seven Year Itch
1955
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
River of No Return
1954
Niagara
1953
The Misfits
1961
Monkey Business
1952
Bus Stop
1956
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957
Photos (7)
Movies (61)
How to Marry a Millionaire
Pola Debevoise
The Asphalt Jungle
Angela Phinlay
Some Like It Hot
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Clash by Night
Peggy
All About Eve
Miss Caswell
The Misfits
Roslyn Taber
Bus Stop
Cherie
There's No Business Like Show Business
Vicky
Love Nest
Bobbie Stevens
The Seven Year Itch
The Girl
Let's Make Love
Amanda Dell
Niagara
Rose Loomis
The Prince and the Showgirl
Elsie
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee
Home Town Story
Iris Martin
We're Not Married!
Annabel Jones
River of No Return
Kay Weston
Monkey Business
Lois Laurel
Bardot
archive footage
Don't Bother to Knock
Nell Forbes
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
The Girl (archive footage)
Love Happy
Grunion's Client
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
archive footage
Right Cross
Dusky Ledoux (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Love, Marilyn
archive footage
Let's Make It Legal
Joyce Mannering
O. Henry's Full House
Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Green Grass of Wyoming
Extra at Square Dance (uncredited)
Crushtime
L'actrice blonde
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Clara
Ladies of the Chorus
Peggy Martin
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
archive footage
As Young as You Feel
Harriet
Dangerous Years
Evie
Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011
Marilyn, Her Final Secret
2022
Voyage to Nowhere
(archive footage)(uncredited)
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn…
2015
Fatal Addiction: Marilyn Monroe
(archive footage)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Marilyn
1970
The Fireball
Polly
Marilyn vs Marilyn
archive footage
Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003
My Life as Marilyn
archive footage
Norma Jean Alias Marilyn Monroe
archive footage
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021
Marilyn, a woman of today
archive footage
Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
1998
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
archive footage
The Casting Couch
1995
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Betty (uncredited)
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
(archive footage)
Marilyn Magdalene
1972
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Miss Caswell (archive footage)
We Remember Marilyn
archive footage
Marilyn Monroe: Portrait of a Legend...Suicide Or Murder?
1995
Marilyn despite herself
2012
Andy Warhol's America
2022
TV Shows (5)
Self / Appearances (89)
Mentiras verdaderas
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Bob Hope Show
Self · 1 eps
ABC Stage 67
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
First Ladies
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
James Dean: Forever Young
Self (archive footage)
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Un film et son époque
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Hollywood Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive) - actress, subject · 3 eps
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Beautiful Like a Poem
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe Declassified
Self (archive footage)
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archival footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self (archive footage)
Becoming Marilyn
Self (archive footage)
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
Mi Marilyn
Self (archive footage)
Zwischen Glück und Krone
Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self (archive footage)
Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Self (archive footage)
The Prince, The Showgirl and Me
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Self (archive footage)
Aliens Uncovered: Marilyn Monroe Exposed
Self (archive footage)
Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
Self (archive footage)
Mansfield 66/67
Self - Actress(archive footage)
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
Self(archive footage) (voice)
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Miller's 2nd Wife (archive footage)
Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates
Self (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Self - Actress (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Playboy's Playmates: The Early Years
Self (archive footage)
Una foto de Marilyn
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain
Self (archive footage)
La Rabbia
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: The Rise of an Icon
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn in Manhattan
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn: Portrait of a Legend
Self (archive footage)
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
Self
Faces of Death VII
Self (archive footage)
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe for Sale
Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Signoret and Montand, Monroe and Miller: Two couples in Hollywood
Self(archive footage)
Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini
Self (archive footage)
Lykke og krone
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Complete Marilyn Monroe
Self
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures
Self
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage)
Marilyn on Marilyn
Self (archive footage)
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Unclaimed Baggage
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn's Man
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn and I
Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'All About Eve'
Self (archive footage)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: The Story of Her Iconic Life
Self
Say Goodbye to the President: Marilyn and The Kennedys
Self (archive footage)
The Marilyn Monroe Story
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Self (archive footage)
The Life And Music Of Marilyn Monroe
Herself
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give
Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn, dernières séances
Self(archive footage)
Eve and Marilyn
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
