Marilyn Monroe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 1, 1926
- Died
- Aug 5, 1962 (aged 36)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Credits
- 170
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 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 Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage; she married at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. She faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photographs prior to becoming a star, but the story did not damage her career and instead resulted in increased interest in her films.
By 1953, Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars; she had leading roles in the film noir Niagara, which overtly relied on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a "dumb blonde". The same year, her nude images were used as the centerfold and on the cover of the first issue of Playboy. She played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, but she was disappointed when she was typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project but returned to star in The Seven Year Itch (1955), one of the biggest box office successes of her career.
When the studio was still reluctant to change Monroe's contract, she founded her own film production company in 1954. She dedicated 1955 to building the company and began studying method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Later that year, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. Her subsequent roles included a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and her first independent production in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959), a critical and commercial success. Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).
Known for
Some Like It Hot
1959Movie
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
All About Eve
1950Movie
Miss Caswell
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953Movie
Lorelei Lee
The Seven Year Itch
1955Movie
The Girl
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953Movie
Pola Debevoise
The Asphalt Jungle
1950Movie
Angela Phinlay
Filmography
Portrait of Norma Jeane
2027Movie
(archive footage)
Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness
2026Movie
Self (archival footage)
Marilyn Monroe: The Rise of an Icon
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Celebrity Crime Scene: Marilyn Monroe
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn and the Mob
2026TV
archive footage
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Bardot
2025Movie
archive footage
Crushtime
2025Movie
L'actrice blonde
Aliens Uncovered: Marilyn Monroe Exposed
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
2023Movie
Self (archival footage)
My Life as Marilyn
2023Movie
archive footage
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
2023TV
Self (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
2022TV
Self (archive footage)
Fatal Addiction: Marilyn Monroe
2022Movie
(archive footage)
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
2022TV
Self (archive) - actress, subject
Becoming Marilyn
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn, Her Final Secret
2022Movie
Marilyn, a woman of today
2022Movie
archive footage
Una foto de Marilyn
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe
2022TV
archive footage
Rat Pack
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Andy Warhol's America
2022Movie
Andy Warhol's America
2022TV
archive footage
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021Movie
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Signoret and Montand, Monroe and Miller: Two couples in Hollywood
2020Movie
Self(archive footage)
First Ladies
2020TV
Self (archive footage)
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Scandalous: The Death of Marilyn Monroe (Director's Cut)
2019TV
archive footage
Marilyn and I
2019Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe for Sale
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
2017Movie
Self(archive footage) (voice)
Hollywood-Diven von ihrer erotischen Seite
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
Код доступа
2017TV
Self
Mansfield 66/67
2017Movie
Self - Actress(archive footage)
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
2016Movie
(archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016Movie
The Girl (archive footage)
Destins secrets d’étoiles - Grace, Jackie, Liz, Marilyn…
2015Movie
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015Movie
Self - Miller's 2nd Wife (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe Declassified
2015Movie
Self (archive footage)
Jayne Mansfield: The Tragedy of a Blonde
2015Movie
Self (archive footage)
Love, Marilyn
2013Movie
archive footage
Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013Movie
Miss Caswell (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies
2012Movie
Marilyn despite herself
2012Movie
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Unclaimed Baggage
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012Movie
(archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: The Story of Her Iconic Life
2012Movie
Self
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments
2011Movie
archive footage
Marilyn at the Movies
2011Movie
Self (archive footage)
Mentiras verdaderas
2011TV
Self (archive footage)
Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011Movie
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010Movie
archive footage
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009Movie
Self (archive)
Marilyn, dernières séances
2008Movie
Self(archive footage)
The Life And Music Of Marilyn Monroe
2006Movie
Herself
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006Movie
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
2006Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006Movie
Self (archive footage)
Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds
2006Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures
2005Movie
Self
James Dean: Forever Young
2005Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn's Man
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Prince, The Showgirl and Me
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Body of Marilyn Monroe
2004Movie
archive footage
Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini
2004Movie
Self (archive footage)
Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003Movie
Un film et son époque
2003TV
Self (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
2002Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn vs Marilyn
2002Movie
archive footage
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days
2001Movie
archive footage
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Complete Marilyn Monroe
2001Movie
Self
Marilyn on Marilyn
2001Movie
Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'All About Eve'
2000Movie
Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999Movie
Self (archive footage)
Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
1998Movie
Marilyn in Manhattan
1998Movie
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Hall Of Fame - Marilyn Monroe
1998Movie
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997Movie
Self (Archival Footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996Movie
Self (archive footage)
We Remember Marilyn
1996Movie
archive footage
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Portrait of a Legend...Suicide Or Murder?
1995Movie
The Casting Couch
1995Movie
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1994Movie
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Intimate Portrait
1993TV
Self (archive footage)
The Marilyn Files
1992Movie
Self(archive footage)
Marilyn: Portrait of a Legend
1992Movie
Self (archive footage)
Playboy's Playmates: The Early Years
1992Movie
Self (archive footage)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Faces of Death VII
1992Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Discovery Of Marilyn Monroe
1991Movie
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991Movie
Self (archive footage)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give
1990Movie
Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
1990Movie
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990Movie
Self (archive footage)
Two Tragic Blondes - Marilyn Monroe And Jean Harlow
1989Movie
Self (archive footage)
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
1989Movie
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988Movie
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Marilyn
1988Movie
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Uncensored
1987Movie
Self (archive footage)
Eve and Marilyn
1987Movie
Self (archive footage)
Norma Jean Alias Marilyn Monroe
1987Movie
archive footage
Voyage to Nowhere
1986Movie
(archive footage)(uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986Movie
archive footage
Marilyn Monroe
1986Movie
Self (archive footage)
Say Goodbye to the President: Marilyn and The Kennedys
1985Movie
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982Movie
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979Movie
Self (archive footage)
Mi Marilyn
1975Movie
Self (archive footage)
Spécial cinéma
1974TV
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Magdalene
1972Movie
Marilyn
1970Movie
Fake Newsreal
1970Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966Movie
Self (archive footage)
ABC Stage 67
1966TV
Self (archive footage)
The Marilyn Monroe Story
1963Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn
1963Movie
Self (archive footage)
La Rabbia
1963Movie
Self (archive footage)
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962Movie
Self
Lykke og krone
1962Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Misfits
1961Movie
Roslyn Taber
Let's Make Love
1960Movie
Amanda Dell
Some Like It Hot
1959Movie
Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Zwischen Glück und Krone
1959Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957Movie
Elsie
Bus Stop
1956Movie
Cherie
The Seven Year Itch
1955Movie
The Girl
There's No Business Like Show Business
1954Movie
Vicky
River of No Return
1954Movie
Kay Weston
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953Movie
Pola Debevoise
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953Movie
Lorelei Lee
Niagara
1953Movie
Rose Loomis
O. Henry's Full House
1952Movie
Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Monkey Business
1952Movie
Lois Laurel
Don't Bother to Knock
1952Movie
Nell Forbes
We're Not Married!
1952Movie
Annabel Jones
Clash by Night
1952Movie
Peggy
Let's Make It Legal
1951Movie
Joyce Mannering
Love Nest
1951Movie
Bobbie Stevens
As Young as You Feel
1951Movie
Harriet
Home Town Story
1951Movie
Iris Martin
All About Eve
1950Movie
Miss Caswell
The Fireball
1950Movie
Polly
The Jack Benny Program
1950TV
Marilyn Monroe
Right Cross
1950Movie
Dusky Ledoux (uncredited)
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950Movie
Clara
The Asphalt Jungle
1950Movie
Angela Phinlay
The Bob Hope Show
1950TV
Self
Love Happy
1949Movie
Grunion's Client
Ladies of the Chorus
1948Movie
Peggy Martin
Green Grass of Wyoming
1948Movie
Extra at Square Dance (uncredited)
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
1948Movie
Betty (uncredited)
Dangerous Years
1947Movie
Evie
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947Movie
Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee