[00:04.96]Marilyn did not stop struggling.
[00:09.01]She next won a small part in a movie called"Love Happy."
[00:13.58]It was a comedy starring the famous Marx brothers.
[00:17.58]Critics said it was not one of their better efforts.
[00:21.97]Marilyn,though,earned praise for simply taking a short walk in the movie.
[00:28.03]The movie called for her to say,"Some men are following me."
[00:33.46]Grouch Marx answered that he did not understand why.
[00:38.03]As he said that, he watched Marilyn walk her famous walk.
[00:42.81]His eyes opened very wide.
[00:45.90]That short scene in the movie made many people in Hollywood talk about Marilyn Monroe.
[00:53.42]Marilyn got her first major chance when director John Houston invited her to act in a movie called "The Asphalt Jungle".
[01:03.56]Houston said her performance as a criminal's girlfriend was good.
[01:09.46]It gained Marilyn her dream of a long,term agreement with 20th Century Fox,
[01:16.83]the company that had dismissed her earlier.
[01:19.80]Now its officials gave her a part in "All about Eve".
[01:24.38]The movie, released in 1950, was about...a movie star.
[01:31.12]She played a golden-haired woman who did not have much intelligence--a dumb blonde.
[01:39.11]In 1952, Marilyn again appeared as a dumb blonde in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
[01:48.49]This performance at last won her widespread fame.
[01:53.66]Marilyn Monroe was now a lead actress, a star.
[01:59.43]Huge successes now followed. Between 1953 and 1959 she appeared in lead parts in many popular movies,
[02:10.53]"How to Marry a Millionaire",
[02:12.70]"The Seven-year Itch", "Bus Stop",
[02:16.25]"Some Like It Hot".
[02:18.00]Her part in "Some Like It Hot" showed that she as very good at making people laugh.
[02:24.09]Marilyn's picture appeared on the front cover of many magazines and the front pages of many newspapers.
[02:32.56]She began to earn more money.
[02:35.43]Life should have been good.
[02:37.81]But Marilyn was not happy.
[02:40.16]She was being asked to repeat her part as a dumb blonde in movie after movie.
[02:46.79]She wanted to be accepted as a good actress.
[02:50.40]She went to the actors' studio school in New York City with many serious actors.
[02:57.66]She thought she could change the way people thought of her.
[03:01.73]But she did not succeed, People thought of Marilyn Mon,roe as "That blonde bombshell,'.
[03:10.30]Few people thought of her as a serious actress, She also failed in her attempts at marriage.
[03:18.61]She admitted that she got married the first time only to escape from being forced to live in a group home for children without parents,
[03:28.56]In 1954 she married again. Her husband was the famous New York Yankee baseball player, Joe Di Magi.
[03:39.95]They were together for only a few months.
[03:43.16]Later, she tried again.
[03:45.80]She married Arthur Miller, a famous writer of plays.
[03:50.43]That marriage ended unhappily in 1961, after five years.
[03:57.90]Marilyn returned to Hollywood.
[04:00.25]But things were different now.
[04:02.52]Friends said she was drinking too much alcohol.
[04:06.05]They said she was taking too many drugs she seemed to always be in trouble with the movie company.
[04:14.56]She had gained too much weight.
[04:17.10]Or, she had, not learned what she was to say in the movie.
[04:21.25]Or she had arrived late for the filming.
[04:24.52]By 1962, Marilyn's problems were threatening her work in the movies.
[04:31.44]She was to appear in the 20th Century Fox movie called "Something's Got to Give".
[04:38.05]She lost weight for her part.
[04:40.48]She tried to arrive on time for the filming.
[04:44.08]She reportedly knew her part.
[04:47.35]However, she became sick several times and missed work.
[04:52.75]Fox company officials dismissed her.
[04:56.46]On August 4,1962, Marilyn Monroe died alone in her home.
[05:04.64]She was thirty-six years old.
[05:07.46]Reports said taking too many drugs killed her.
[05:12.22]But people who knew her said failed marriages,and the failure of her latest movie also led to her death.
[05:21.12]Many people said Marilyn Monroe never escaped her past |