Posted on 08/05/2005 9:25:54 PM PDT by kellynla
On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was "caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide."
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her mother was emotionally unstable and frequently confined to an asylum, so Norma Jean was reared by a succession of foster parents and in an orphanage. At the age of 16, she married a fellow worker in an aircraft factory, but they divorced a few years later. She took up modeling in 1944 and in 1946 signed a short-term contract with 20th Century Fox, taking as her screen name Marilyn Monroe. She had a few bit parts and then returned to modeling, famously posing nude for a calendar in 1949.
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Teddy shoudl introduce legislation kinda like what they did with Presidents Day. Combine Mary Jo and Marilyn's deaths into a single holiday.
That top photo--- eeuuww, jeez
The Marilyn death is related to the Kennedy and MLKing jr deaths.
The Kennedy's passed her around to and including MLK jr and she suicided in shame.
Nothing evokes the warm feelings of 'Happy Birthday' more than a good mugshot.
Kennecide?
"August 5, 1861... a day that will live in FReeper infamy."
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