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Actress Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols.

She died of a drug overdose in 1962.

Who Was Marilyn Monroe?

Actress Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California.

During her all - too - brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols.

During her career, Monroe's films grossed more than $200 million.

Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962, at only 36 years old.

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson.

Husbands

Monroe had three husbands in her lifetime.

As a teen, she wed merchant marine Jimmy Dougherty.

In 1954 she was briefly married to baseball great Joe DiMaggio, and two years later, she married playwright Arthur Miller.

'Some Like It Hot'

In 1959, Monroe returned to familiar territory with the wildly popular comedy Some Like It Hot, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

She played Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, a singer who hopes to marry a millionaire in this humorous film, in which Lemmon and Curtis pretend to be women.

They are on the run from the mob after witnessing the St.

Valentine's Day Massacre and hide out with an all - girl orchestra featuring Monroe.

Her work on the film earned her the honor of "Best Actress in a Comedy" in 1959, at the Golden Globe Awards.

'The Misfits'

Reunited with John Huston, Monroe starred opposite Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift in The Misfits (1961).

Set in Nevada, this adventure drama features Monroe, who falls for Gable's cowboy but battles him over the fate of some wild mustangs.

This was her last completed film.

In her personal life, Monroe had a string of unsuccessful relationships : Her 1954 marriage to baseball great Joe DiMaggio only lasted nine months.

Later, she was married to playwright Arthur Miller from 1956 to 1961.

On May 19, 1962, Monroe made her now - famous performance at John F.

Kennedy's birthday celebration, singing "Happy Birthday, Mr.

President.

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Early Life : Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson (later baptized as Norma Jeane Baker) on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California.

During her all - too - brief life, she overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols.

Monroe never knew her father, and once thought Clark Gable to be her father — a story repeated often enough for a version of it to gain some currency.

However, there's no evidence that Gable ever met or knew Monroe's mother, Gladys, who developed psychiatric problems and was eventually placed in a mental institution.

As an adult, Monroe would maintain that one of her earliest memories was of her mother trying to smother her in her crib with a pillow.

Monroe had a half - sister, to whom she was not close ; they met only a half - dozen times.

Death : On August 5, 1962, at only 36 years old, Marilyn Monroe died at her Los Angeles home.

An empty bottle of sleeping pills was found by her bed.

There has been some speculation over the years that she may have been murdered, but the cause of her death was officially ruled as a drug overdose.

There have also been rumors that Monroe was involved with President John F.

Kennedy and / or his brother Robert around the time of her death.

Monroe was buried in her favorite Emilio Pucci dress, in what was known as a "Cadillac casket"—the most high - end casket available, made of heavy - gauge solid bronze and lined with champagne - colored silk.

Lee Strasberg delivered a eulogy before a small group of friends and family.

Hugh Hefner bought the crypt directly next to Monroe's, and Monroe's ex - husband, Joe DiMaggio, famously had red roses delivered to her crypt for the next 20 years.

“She was the victim of ballyhoo and sensation — exploited beyond anyone’s means.

” — Sir Laurence Olivier.