14. Oh MY dear quiz-taker, the life of this lovely NORMA has long been cloaked IN mystery and LORE, and though she started as just one of the "Ladies of the Chorus" (1948), she proved to be extremely difficult to ignore.
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Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jeane Mortenson, aka Marilyn Monroe, was born on the 1st of June, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. Despite having had a troubled home life, and a mother who was eventually institutionalised due her declining mental health, Norma Jeane carved out an enormously successful film career for herself, under the now iconic stage name, Marilyn Monroe. After securing several non-speaking parts in various 20th Century Fox films, Monroe was finally cast in a major role in 1948's "Ladies of the Chorus", for which she was commended by the majority of the film's reviewers. Even so, it was another two years before she secured the role in "The Asphalt Jungle" that would reignite her career, and truly set her on the path to stardom, Following this, Monroe's career went from strength to strength, and was considerably boosted by the many pin-up shots that she allowed photographers like Andre de Dienes to take of her. Meanwhile Monroe's personal life was also taking off, following her divorce from her first husband, James Dougherty, and by 1954 she was married to baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio. However this was the not Monroe's final marriage, and some eleven years later she married American playwright, Arthur Miller. Tragically, on the 5th of August, 1962, when she was just thirty-six years old, Marilyn Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose, leading many to speculate that she had either taken her own life, or had been murdered. The sensationalism surrounding her death has never waned in the years since her passing, and many conspiracy theorists continue to insist that she was indeed murdered.