Marilyn Monroe: Filmography and several facts from life

Marilyn Monroe is a name known all over the world. What is remarkable about this actress?

Marilyn Monroe, biography, filmography, childhood, whose professional and personal life has long been studied, is hardly of great interest for fans to deeply analyze the personalities of famous people. And yet the interest in it has not faded for several decades. It is amazing. She was neither particularly beautiful, nor talented, nor very rich. Even an affair with the Kennedy brothers biographies of the actress is questioned. And yet it is more about her than about anyone else, they make films and write songs. In this article, we will recall the enchanting Norma Gin, or, as it used to be called, Marilyn Monroe. Filmography, marriages, rumors and some episodes from her life can be of interest to those who consider themselves a fan of this sweet, tender, but unfortunately unhappy woman.

Ridiculous rumors

The charming blonde was a redhead in her childhood. It is said that, having lived only 36 years, she managed to make herself a few plastic operations - changed the shape of the nose and chin. Her marvelous gait, which Dushechka-Marilyn demonstrated in the film "In Jazz Only Girls", is explained by six-fingered feet. The rumors about her are one more absurd than the other, but the truth is so simple that she unwittingly wants to embellish. You can compose an idea of the personality of the star by reading the interviews and memories of the actors, directors, writers or musicians with whom Marilyn Monroe brought fate. The filmography of the actress includes thirty-five paintings. And this is only fifteen years of cinematic career. Not all of its roles are known to the Russian audience. Translated only the best movies Marilyn Monroe. The complete filmography is in numerous books about it. However, are there any masterpieces among them? Unfortunately no. Much more interesting films are the story of the actress herself.

The true story of Cinderella

About the life of Marilyn Monroe, you can say that this is a real, real story of Cinderella, which she can only be. Only a fictitious, fairy tale from a poor family, almost an orphan, can organically fit into the society of the king and his retinue. In real life, everything is much more complicated. It is not by chance that by the end of her life the actress often began to suffer from depressions - the need to maintain the image of a successful movie star, divorce from husbands, an unsuccessful pregnancy and the inability to have children, and at the same time - a complete lack of preparation for such a life in childhood.

Selfish or generous? The opinion of the famous Ella Fitzgerald

There is an opinion that Monroe was very self-interested. However, the famous jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald did not think so. For the rise of her own career, she thanks exactly Marilyn Monroe. In the fifties of the last century, when Monroe was already famous and the reporters fought for taking photos of the star, "the voiceless singer", as Marilyn said about herself in the film "In Jazz Only Girls," persuaded the owner of the fashionable nightclub Mocambo to take To work black Fitzgerald. This was at a time when many African Americans were closed in the US. Marilyn promised the owner that every evening she would take a table near the stage, and reporters, taking it off, would make an excellent advertisement for the institution. So it happened. After the "Mocambo", Ella Fitzgerald no longer sang in second-rate restaurants. And where did the rumors about money-loving Marilyn Monroe come from? The filmography of the actress gives the answer to this question - in the tape "Gentlemen prefer blondes" she sings a song "Diamonds are the best friends of girls".

Main Role

Most of the heroines of Monroe are stupid blondes who are unaware of this quality and consider themselves to be quite practical. They are very feminine, gentle and soft-hearted, besides, they are always modest - there are not enough stars from the sky, but from film to film they try to provide themselves a comfortable existence at the expense of a profitable marriage with a rich man. The stories usually end with the same thing - the heroine Monroe falls in love, and Napoleonic plans are carelessly rejected.

The films, in which Marilyn Monroe is involved (the filmography of the actress is a testament to this), can hardly be called masterpieces of cinematography. Her most famous roles are Rosa Loomis in Niagara, Dushechka Dan Kowalski in Jazz Only Girls, Peggy Martins in The Choristers, Annabelle Jones Norris in We Are Not Married, Laureli Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, A girl in The Seven Year Itch and Roslin Taber in The Uncaused.

Marriage with Arthur Miller

The filmography of Marilyn Monroe, whose main roles were mostly comedic, is remarkable for the dramatic character in the film according to the script of her husband - writer Arthur Miller. It was her penultimate work in the cinema. The last film with the symbolic title "Something must happen" was never finished.

About four and a half years lived together Miller and Monroe. What about their relationship, if a week after the wedding, the young husband wrote that his wife reminds him of a small child, and then added: "I hate her!"?

Marriage with Joe Di Maggio

Under Marilyn Monroe make-up and hairstyles, and the famous dress from the film "Itchy Seventh Year" for sixty years is not out of fashion. The shooting in this film cost her a marriage with baseball player Joe DiMaggio. They were married only a few months - in January 1954 married, and parted in October of the same year. Joe was very jealous of her, even beaten several times, well, and the spectacle of the pantaloon of the wife, exposed to the whole world in the presence of another five thousand witnesses, served as a drop that filled the cup of patience. Within a month they divorced.

Probably only Joe really loved Marilyn from all men. He is the only one who came to her funeral, and then, until the end of his life, he always kept fresh flowers near the urn with her ashes.