Marilyn Monroe

Acting · Born 1926-06-01 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 – 4 August 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…

Filmography

• Some Like It Hot as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
• All About Eve as Miss Caswell
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Lorelei Lee
• The Seven Year Itch as The Girl
• The Misfits as Roslyn Taber
• The Asphalt Jungle as Angela Phinlay
• John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self (archive footage)
• How to Marry a Millionaire as Pola Debevoise
• River of No Return as Kay Weston
• Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)

TV

• Un film et son époque as Self (archive footage)
• Mentiras verdaderas as Self (archive footage)
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields as Self (archive footage)
• Startime
• The Jack Benny Program as Marilyn Monroe
• Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)
• The Century of Icons as Self (archive footage)
• The Jack Benny Program as Self
• The Bob Hope Show as Self
• First Ladies as Self (archive footage)