BIOGRAPHY :
Marilyn Monroe, whose real name is Norma Jeane Mortenson was born on 01 June 1926 in Los Angeles, California (United States). She leads a dissolute childhood, family ballotée host homes. She was raped at the age of twelve. She finds a semblance of calm in her life when she married Jim Dougherty in 1942. In 1944, Marilyn worked in a weapons factory, where she will pose for the first time to illustrate an article on women's involvement in the war effort. Its beauty has not escaped the editors of magazines who commit to raise as pin-ups. In 1946, it signed its first contract with the Twenty Century Fox, which it finds its nickname. Until 1951, it will turn in a dozen films, but his new look; platinum blonde, in "Honey, I feel Rajeunir" which will finally launch his career.

It became a major Hollywood actors and producers of films mount anything on his behalf. The success s'enchainent: "Niagara" and "The Men Prefer Blondes" in 1953, "The River of no return" in 1954. That same year, wedding flash (eight months) with Joe DiMaggio and absences on the first film to illness. Third and last marriage in 1956 with Arthur Miller (they divorced in 1961). Marilyn is increasingly fragile and becomes dependent on drugs. In 1959 she acted "Some Like It Hot" and then in 1960 "Billionaire". Marilyn to more and more difficult to cope with life and sees a psychiatrist every day. After an affair with Yves Montand, it approximates DiMaggio and even plans to remarry him. In 1962, Marilyn left the filming of "Something's Got to Give" (this will be his last film) to sing "Happy Birthday, Mister President" on 19 May 1962 to President John Kennedy. Century Fox turns and re Marilyn who becomes increasingly unstable and announced the resumption of filming of "Something's Got to Give." On 5 August 1962, she was found dead in her home. The medical examiner will conclude that a death by absorption of barbiturate. Several other versions exist on the death of Marilyn (the conspiracy of the CIA and FBI, medical error following a lethal mixture of two drugs, crime). In any case, Marilyn Monroe has become a global icon that generates an annual turnover gigantic.