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Marilyn Monroe(B)
Marilyn did not stop struggling.
She next won a small part in a movie called"Love Happy."
It was a comedy starring the famous Marx brothers.
Critics said it was not one of their better efforts.
Marilyn,though,earned praise for simply taking a short walk in the movie.
The movie called for her to say,"Some men are following me."
Grouch Marx answered that he did not understand why.
As he said that, he watched Marilyn walk her famous walk.
His eyes opened very wide.
That short scene in the movie made many people in Hollywood talk about Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn got her first major chance when director John Houston invited her to act in a movie called "The Asphalt Jungle".
Houston said her performance as a criminal's girlfriend was good.
It gained Marilyn her dream of a long,term agreement with 20th Century Fox,
the company that had dismissed her earlier.
Now its officials gave her a part in "All about Eve".
The movie, released in 1950, was about...a movie star.
She played a golden-haired woman who did not have much intelligence--a dumb blonde.
In 1952, Marilyn again appeared as a dumb blonde in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
This performance at last won her widespread fame.
Marilyn Monroe was now a lead actress, a star.
Huge successes now followed. Between 1953 and 1959 she appeared in lead parts in many popular movies,
"How to Marry a Millionaire",
"The Seven-year Itch", "Bus Stop",
"Some Like It Hot".
Her part in "Some Like It Hot" showed that she as very good at making people laugh.
Marilyn's picture appeared on the front cover of many magazines and the front pages of many newspapers.
She began to earn more money.
Life should have been good.
But Marilyn was not happy.
She was being asked to repeat her part as a dumb blonde in movie after movie.
She wanted to be accepted as a good actress.
She went to the actors' studio school in New York City with many serious actors.
She thought she could change the way people thought of her.
But she did not succeed, People thought of Marilyn Mon,roe as "That blonde bombshell,'.
Few people thought of her as a serious actress, She also failed in her attempts at marriage.
She admitted that she got married the first time only to escape from being forced to live in a group home for children rents,
In 1954 she married again. Her husband was the famous New York Yankee baseball player, Joe Di Magi.
They were together for only a few months.
Later, she tried again.
She married Arthur Miller, a famous writer of plays.
That marriage ended unhappily in 1961, after five years.
Marilyn returned to Hollywood.
But things were different now.
Friends said she was drinking too much alcohol.
They said she was taking too many drugs she seemed to always be in trouble with the movie company.
She had gained too much weight.
Or, she had, not learned what she was to say in the movie.
Or she had arrived late for the filming.
By 1962, Marilyn's problems were threatening her work in the movies.
She was to appear in the 20th Century Fox movie called "Something's Got to Give".
She lost weight for her part.
She tried to arrive on time for the filming.
She reportedly knew her part.
However, she became sick several times and missed work.
Fox company officials dismissed her.
On August 4,1962, Marilyn Monroe died alone in her home.
She was thirty-six years old.
Reports said taking too many drugs killed her.
But people who knew her said failed marriages,and the failure of her latest movie also led to her death.
Many people said Marilyn Monroe never escaped her past.
