On the night of August 4, 1962, her friend Peter Lawford spoke to Monroe for what would be the last time. According to police reports from 1962, released in 1985, Lawford sensed “something was wrong” when he spoke to the star on the phone that evening.
Ralph Greenson, broke into her bedroom by smashing a window to find the actress dead in her bed, with an empty bottle of sleeping pills on her nightstand. Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, had awakened in the middle of the night to find a light on in Marilyn's room and the door locked.
Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 'I don't need your Jesus'.
Lawford called Monroe again to see where she was, and with “slurred” speech she said despondently she was tired and wouldn't be coming. ″Then she stated, 'Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to Jack (President John F. Kennedy) and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy,” the report said.
You may have heard part of this story, where Marilyn Monroe told Einstein - “Would it not be wonderful if we had a child with your brains and my beauty?” Einstein replied promptly: “Yes, but imagine a child with my beauty and your brains!” The rest of the story is not well-publicized (for obvious reasons).
The blond, 36-year-old actress was nude, lying face down on her bed and clutching a telephone receiver in her hand when a psychiatrist broke into her room at 3:30 a.m. She had been dead an estimated six to eight hours.
Because Gladys was mentally and financially unable to care for young Marilyn, Gladys placed her in the care of a foster family, The Bolenders. Although the Bolender family wanted to adopt Marilyn, Gladys was eventually able to stabilize her lifestyle and took Marilyn back in her care when Marilyn was 7 years old.
After her marriage to Miller ended in 1961, Monroe is believed to have maintained her Jewish identity. She kept in her possession the prayer book and a menorah, which played the Israeli national anthem, until she died a year later.
The movie shows us a young Monroe before she legally adopted her stage name in 1956, and in those scenes, we see her with her natural hair color. Given Monroe's title of "blonde bombshell," maybe people are surprised to learn that the star's real hair color was more of a light brown.
Some like her because she was sexy and beautiful; others because she was a funny comedienne. There are people who adore her sensitivity and others who love the way she never stopped trying to make her life more fulfilling.
Marilyn Monroe did not have any children. She never had any children with any of her three husbands, but did reportedly have three miscarriages. While married to Miller, Marilyn is thought to have experienced her first miscarriage in September 1956.
Charles's granddaughter, Francine Gifford Deir, claims that Marilyn tried to meet up with her father. "In the 1950s, when she was already famous, Marilyn went to see my grandfather in Hemet, California, but he refused to see her,” she said, per Distractify.
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, at the Los Angeles General Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe; 1902–1984), was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico to a poor Midwestern family who migrated to California at the turn of the century.
The Hollywood icon passed away on August 4, 1962, aged 36, but if she were alive in 2022, she would be 96 years old, the same age as Queen Elizabeth II. Medline Plus states that barbiturates are drugs that lead to 'relaxation and sleepiness.
After several months as a virtual recluse, Monroe died from an overdose of sleeping pills (barbiturates) in her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a “probable suicide,” and this finding was supported by the actress's history of drug use and previous suicide attempts.
Well, as a public, we knew that Marilyn and Elvis had met once at on set at Paramount Studios in June 1960. But did nothing happened after that? Well, a publicity and management agent, Byron Raphael had revealed the most scintillating affair report and it had gone wildfire.
It may be a moment devised for dramatic impact. However, despite no evidence of an attempted drowning, Monroe did speak privately of incidents of abuse. "Her mother tried to kill her three times," Monroe's third husband Arthur Miller told the BBC in 1968.
Charles Stanley Gifford was born in 1898, in Newport, Rhode Island, per Ancestry.com. He died in California in 1965. Aside from Marilyn, Charles fathered two other children with his wife, whom he married in 1919 and later divorced, per Wikitree.
According to the Netflix documentary Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, Monroe had her first miscarriage in 1956. She conceived again in 1957, but had an ectopic pregnancy. The third and last time she became pregnant was in 1958, but she lost the baby once again to a miscarriage.
Monroe's natural eye color was most likely to be blue, as recorded in her sister's autobiography (48) – “but our eyes were different … Norma Jeane's were blue like our mother's” – and on her autopsy report (49), in addition to Capote's description of her “blue-grey eyes” while wearing glasses (46).
Gladys and Monroe lived together briefly during the actress' adolescence near Hollywood Boulevard, a moment that was pivotal for fostering Monroe's passion for acting and her later involvement in the film industry. At some point after, Gladys was interned in a mental hospital, where she lived until her death in 1984.
The Monroe bob is never too polished, and that's the magic that keeps it feeling modern. “To me, Marilyn Monroe's hairstyle has always resembled a more effortless, undone version of the Hollywood wave,” says Redken celebrity stylist Kiley Fitzgerald.