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No female movie star has held the public's imagination for as long as Marilyn Monroe. A struggling, uncomfortable spirit throughout her short life, an American phenomenon during her tumultuous career, and an almost instant icon after her death from an overdose of barbiturates, Monroe possessed a face and body that, along with diligence, single-mindedness, evident talent, and the help of publicists, promoters, and photographers, transformed her into an enduring screen goddess and sex symbol.

Born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles, she was raised Norma Jean Baker, the illegitimate daughter of Gladys Monroe Baker Mortenson, a film editor who was hospitalized with paranoid schizophrenia when Monroe was seven. She would spend a sad and lonely childhood in a series of foster homes, where she was often sexually abused, as well as two years in a Los Angeles orphanage. She lived for a time with her mother's friend and coworker Grace McKee Goddard, who fostered in Monroe the idea of becoming a movie star with the movies being an escape from her daily experience.

In 1942, she dropped out of high school to marry an aircraft factory worker, James Dougherty, and she found an assembly-line job. There, she was chosen by an army photographer for Yankmagazine to illustrate an article on female defense workers. Other modeling assignments followed. In 1946, soon after divorcing Dougherty, she was given a screen test by 20th Century Fox and a contract, then advised to change her name to "Marilyn." To go with it, she chose her mother's maiden name "Monroe." She appeared in a few bit parts in films. Her first important roles were in Asphalt Jungle (1950) and All about Eve (1950), after which the studio began to hone her image as a shapely, sexy, not-toobright, blonde bombshell. Her movie performances reflected variations on that image. She could be comically naïve (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Seven-Year Itch, Some Like It Hot); poignantly vulnerable and compassionate (Bus Stop, The Misfits); and sometimes dangerously seductive (Niagara). Throughout her career, her greatest desire was to be taken seriously as an actor. In 1954, she moved to New York, where she began studying at the prestigious Actors Studio.

Monroe was equally famous off-screen. Her second husband was baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, whom she wed in 1954 and divorced later that year. In 1956, she married playwright Arthur Miller and became pregnant twice, each time suffering a miscarriage. She suffered from depression and began to show signs of increasing mental and emotional instability. Her film work was marked by erratic behavior and temperamental outbursts. She divorced Miller in 1961. Filming Something's Got to Give, she failed to appear on the set regularly and was fired. A month later, she was found dead in her bed. Much speculation has occurred over the cause of her death, from suicide to murder. The most likely explanation remains an accidental overdose.

Like no other twentieth-century American woman, Marilyn Monroe embodied the exploitation of sexuality in the mass media and the marketing of women as sexual icons and objects, issues with which women continue to struggle.