10 Lesser Known Facts About Marilyn Monroe And Her Passing

Long before the screen goddesses that many have come to know today came to the party, there was a lady who paved the way and literally took screen guilt to unprecedented levels at the time. . In her glitz, Marilyn Monroe was not your average actress, she was the ultimate sex symbol in a movie industry that was looking to shed its conservative character.

Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, after some adjustments she settled on the name Marilyn Monroe. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, did not prepare herself well to welcome a child and placed Marilyn with adoptive parents – Albert and Ida Bolender. After Gladys became more financially stable, in the summer of 1933 she returned for her daughter. Here are some lesser-known details of Marilyn Monroe’s eventful life.

Lesser known facts about Marilyn Monroe

1. In 1953, Monroe was unveiled as Playboy’s first Lover of the Month (later called Playmate of the Month) in the first issue of Playboy magazine. The magazine would become a mainstay of American lifestyle culture. She was paid $50 to model the picture in 1949.

2. During the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl, Marilyn’s weight varied so much that the costume designer, Beatrice Dawson, had to create dresses for her in different sizes.

3. There is a consensus among modern day filmmakers that Marilyn Monroe was relatively poorly paid even at the height of her powers, for example actress Jane Russell earned almost 10 times as much as Marilyn when they shared the same film in the movie Gentlemen prefer blondes. In another case, Marilyn Monroe was paid $100,000 for Something Has to Give Less popular Elizabeth Taylor received a million dollars for Cleopatra.

4. The Louis Louisienne denim wedding dress that Marylyn sang Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy wore, sold for a record price of £820,000 in 1999. This record was broken by another item sold at auction by Marylyn Monroe , this time her white Seven Year Itch dress sold by Debbie Reynolds in 2011. The dress cost £2.8million.

5. At age 16, she married a neighbor’s son, Jim Dougherty. on June 19, 1942. It was a strategy to circumvent California child welfare laws that prevented her from settling down with his guardians in West Virginia. After their divorce, Dougherty was banned by his second wife from seeing Marilyn Monroe movies.

6. Marilyn Monroe had a preference for nudity whenever she found herself among studio workers, stylists, wardrobe mistresses. On some occasions, she gave interviews with small clothes.

7. Twentieth-Century Fox sent her packing after production on Something Has To Give because of her chronic lateness. In fact, she didn’t hit the set for the first two weeks of filming. During the filming of Let’s Make Love, his losses (not showing up for reshoots) added an additional 28 days to filming time, meaning the film’s budget increased by $1 million.

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8. His popularity and celebrity status even spilled over to his grave – literally. Burial vaults close to his resting place have been put up for sale. When the widow of the man buried in the vault above Marilyn went up for sale on eBay, she received offers totaling £2.8 million. Playboy Boss, Hugh Hefner has already purchased the burial vault next to Marilyn Monroe. He shelled out £50,000 in 1992.

9. At death, two men claimed the paternity of MarilynMonroe. The first, Stanley Gifford, who refused to meet her while she was alive (Marilyn and her mother considered him her father) and Edward Mortensen, married to his mother at the time of his birth.

10. In 1999, at an auction of some of her personal belongings, Mariah Carey bought Marylyn’s white grand piano for $662,500. The piano was estimated at around $15,000.

How did Marilyn Monroe die?

On the night of August 5, 1962, Marilyn’s housekeeper woke up around 3 a.m. after feeling uneasy. She called Marylyn’s personal psychiatrist who broke into her room and found her lying naked on her bed, face down and with a phone in her hands. Empty bottles of prescription pills meant to treat his depression were found littered around the room.

At the end of the investigation, the LAPD came to the conclusion that his death was due to a self-administered overdose of sedatives. Over the years, many of her friends (and some members of the American public) believed her murder, murdered by a powerful individual with close ties to the government or the mob, and gave her the appearance of committing suicide.