In the Netflix documentary, "The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes," Milton Greene, a photographer who was a close friend and associate, said that Monroe always talked about having kids. There's little evidence that confirms Monroe had an abortion, although Oates' claimed in her introduction to her novel that Monroe went through several abortions.īut it's well known that she had two miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy during her relationship with playwright Arthur Miller, according to Spoto's biography. She also appears to have a deep desire to raise children.
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The movie shows a few dramatic scenes of Monroe going through an abortion and having a miscarriage. Marilyn Monroe made comfortable in a car by her husband Arthur Miller after the actor was hospitalized due to a miscarriage. I just think she was thrown into a nest of vipers." "She did such a good job and personally, I think she stole the whole damn show. "I never saw anybody work so hard," Mitzi Gaynor, Monroe's co-star in "There's No Business Like Show Business," told The Times. Other colleagues testified to Monroe's work ethic while also struggling on the set. "For somebody who the camera loved, she was still terrified of going before the camera and broke out in a rash all over her body."
"I think it was a lack of confidence," he said. Murray also recalled how she had trouble remembering her lines and sometimes broke out into a rash. "That was very strange, that lack of discipline," he said. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Don Murray, Monroe's co-star in the 1956 film, "Bus Stop," said that Monroe was determined to prove she was a "serious actress," but she was also very nervous behind the camera and often several hours late to the set. There are testimonies that suggest some of this is true. Part of the reason, the film suggests, is because Monroe was a perfectionist in her pursuit to embody the role she was playing. In the movie, Monroe is portrayed as an actor ridden with anxiety or on the verge of a breakdown whenever she's on the set. She legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe almost a decade later. It was just days before she signed her contract with 20th Century Fox on August 24, 1946. Monroe was 20 years old at the time when she got her new name. Miller and Lyon were rumored to be romantically involved, according to The Los Angeles Times. The studio executive took the name from Marilyn Miller, a Broadway musical actor.
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Multiple people contributed to the creation of her full stage name, but it was Lyon who came up with "Marilyn," Spoto wrote. She then changed her surname to Dougherty after her first marriage to James Doughtery at 16 years old.īen Lyon, a studio executive from 20th Century Fox, took issue with the last name because he felt people wouldn't be able to pronounce it properly, according to Daniel Spoto's "Marilyn Monroe: The Biography." Her birth certificate states her full name as Norma Jeane Mortensen, according to a 1981 New York Times article, before she was later baptized as Norma Jeane Baker. There's no mention of how Monroe got her iconic name in "Blonde," but it's a critical part of her metamorphosis.Īs shown in the movie, Monroe's real name was Norma Jeane. The closest to a confirmation that Gifford was Monroe's father was a documentary released this year, "Marilyn, Her Final Secret." Using a lock of Monroe's hair and a saliva sample from Gifford's great-grandchild, the documentary used DNA tests to conclude that Gifford was Monroe's long-lost father. Monroe had made efforts to reach out to Gifford, according to Charles Casillo's biography "Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon." But the man would deny the claim. Similarly, the real Monroe never met her real father, and his identity has always been the subject of speculation.Īccording to Inside Edition, Monroe believed that her father was Charles Stanley Gifford, who had a brief affair with her mother.
In the movie, Monroe's mother refers to him as a "titan" of the acting industry, whom Monroe desperately hopes to meet.
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He's an unnamed voice in a series of mysterious letters to his daughter or a black-and-white image on the wall. It often indicates a user profile.ĭominik's film maintains a mystery around the identity of Monroe's biological father. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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