Top 10 Things to Know
about Marilyn Monroe
10. FBI Documents
9. Didn't Like Diamonds
8. Playboy's First Sweetheart
She was Playboy's first Sweetheart (later Playmate) of the Month, in 1953. Marilyn had been paid $US50 to model for the picture in 1949; Hugh Hefner bought it for $US500.
7. Flowers on her grave for 20 years
Before her death, Monroe made her husband, Joe DiMaggio, promise that he would leave flowers on her grave every week, if she died. He kept that promise for twenty years and half a dozen roses were delivered to her crypt. Three times a week.
6. Facial Hair Problem
5. Made Ella Fitzgerald A Star
Initially, Ella Fitzgerald couldn't get a booking at the Hollywood nightclub, Mocambo, because she was black. Marilyn Monroe stepped in to help and told the nightclub club owner that, if he booked Ella Fitzgerald to play there, then Monroe would be on a front row table every night to watch. Monroe was as good, as her word, and Ella Fitzgerald was catapulted into the limelight.
4. Own Production Company
3. She Had a Stammer
Monroe had a stutter all the way through her childhood and into her teens, but it disappeared, later on in her life. It returned later in her life during the filming of her final movie, ‘Something’s Got to Give’, because of the stress she was under at the time.
2. Foster Parents
1. Learning Lines
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