In 1944 Norma Jeane moved to Los Angeles to live with the mother-in-law. Here he worked as a factory worker at the Radio Plane, the same factory where he formerly worked for her husband initially did the packing of parachutes, then became attaché to the airframe painting of various models of airplanes. In his own department workedRobert Mitchum , which will end after eight years in the River of No Return.
The June 26 1945 the photographer David Conover went to the military establishment to take pictures of "girls that keep up the morale of troops on the front" for a service for Yank magazine. The photographer urged her to pursue a modeling career and that picture was elected Miss flamethrower .
After an unpleasant experience - that she told - with a John Sylvester, who pretended collaborator Samuel Goldwyn groped for the advantage of her, he bought a small car, but failing to pay off the $ 150 that was, she was confiscated. Contacted by Tom Kelleydecided on May 27 1949 to pose nude for $ 50, convinced that being an anonymous face that would not have damaged his public image. While posing for this shot was asked to play the disc in the background Begin the Begun performed by Artie Shaw . The photograph was reproduced without mentioning his name in sexy calendar Miss Golden Dreams: The picture was sold for 900 dollars to a publisher who decided to make a schedule , and eventually earned $ 750,000. In 1952 a blackmailer threatened to make public the fact, but she ruined herself by revealing plans to the media. When reporters asked her why she posed nude, she shrugged and said, "I was hungry." In his biography said that, we heard about the spread of this calendar, was on the verge of tears thinking that her career was over, but the writer confessed that his thoughts began to laugh, recalling what had happened some time ago to another actress and the reputation that was derived through this form of advertising. Hugh Hefner bought the rights to use the photograph for the first issue of his new magazine Playboy . His photos were banned in several states. Marilyn won the 1947 Miss California beauty contestartichoke Queen (Queen of the artichokes).
He put so for Andre De Dienes , who paid $ 200 for each photo shoot. Then came the pictures on the tableEmmeline Snively , director of the Blue Book of Charm and Modeling School (commonly known by the Blue Book Modeling Agency ), the most important agency Advertising in Hollywood: the Snively cleared the hair, taught her how to smile and the right tone of voice to use, but, he said, failed in teaching how to walk. He worked then with Joseph Jasgur Hollywood Citizen-News for a service photography.
The April 26 1946 , at the age of 19 years and a half, a photo taken by de Dienes was chosen for the cover of the magazine Family Circle . Norma Jeane signed the contract on July 23 1946 : was his first cover. The pictures went around the world: the weekly Italian theater and cinema films of today appeared dressed for the beach in France on Cinemonde appeared in the guise of a babysitter announcing one of his early films. One of these pictures, according to legend, he created a disturbance in the great film producer Howard Hughes .
In those days Norma also worked with Earl Moran . The girl was happy to use this work when he was hungry. Moran withdrew even close to a bus stop sign with the title of a film that would have turned. On July 29, appeared under the name of Norma, the Los Angeles Times .
The agent used the occasion of Norma Jeane managing to get some calls from major movie studios, Howard Hughes and 20th Century Fox . Norma Jeane, and made an appointment, having previously talked to the scout Ivan Kahn, went to 20th Century Fox making a good impression on filmmaker Ben Lyon , who compared her to Jean Harlow : It got her first film contract for a period of six months, for a fee of $ 125. It was August 24 1946 .
The choice of the name of art
In My Story is told as he was chosen the name of art. In 1946 Norma Jeane had told Grace that the casting director at Fox, the same as Jean Harlow, had suggested "Marilyn", thinking of Marilyn Miller, dancer, actress and singer ( 1898 - 1936 ), although more like Norma Jean Adair ( 1873 - 1953 ). Grace said he was fine with her grandmother's maiden name: Monroe, for the sound, but also for the double "M" of the first and last name, then to retain documents proving able to prove that Gladys was a direct descendant of the President James Monroe . Those documents have never come to light. Marilyn's maternal grandfather, Otis Monroe, Monroe was the son of Jacob (1831 - 1,872 ), such a descent is rather unlikely, since Jacob was born the same year, he died the former President James Monroe.Altri names suggested were those of Norma Jean (or Jean) Monroe, Monroe Norma Jean Norman Claire Norman and Carole Lind.
Coincidence or possibility for the choice of name was also an obituary that appeared a few years earlier, November 5, 1939, the New York Times , where he spoke of a seventeen year old girl who died inMassachusetts during a football game, Marilyn Monroe.
The following years were difficult. His mother Gladys, during his hospitalization at the psychiatric hospital, she married her late husband, John Stewart Eley, who died in 1952 . Meanwhile, Marilyn, to hone his acting skills, he studied at the ' Actors Lab in Hollywood and starred in the Bliss-Hayden Theatre Thumbnail of Beverly Hills. He also attended the film Scudda Hoo!Scudda Hay! , for some problems that came up in only much later, his hand was almost completely cut off during assembly, remaining at the end of one scene where she greets the film starring June Haver . The other movie was filmed Dangerous Years , where the name of the star appeared to be the fourteenth in the credits. On August 25, 1947, the relationship with the studio ended and the contract was not renewed: Darryl Zanuck , head of 20th Century, the deemed it unsuitable for its "dramatic enough drama»
He met and attended for a short time the two sons of Charlie Chaplin , Charlie Chaplin Junior and Sydney Chaplin .
He found himself again without work, and this period is an episode that tells her: he tried to cash the check received by 20th Century without success, when a policeman showed an interest in her. The two went into a store and through the intercession of the agent, the check was changed. The man had written down the address he had left and decided to follow it: we waited until nightfall and climbed around midnight trying to get from his bedroom window. Marilyn thought initially to a thief, and when he realized what had happened and moved left the new home for days, afraid from the episode.
Then, through agent Max Arnow , got a new contract at Columbia Pictures , which lasts another six months for $ 175 a week. He turned the only film expected, Orchid blondeunder the supervision of Harry Cohn , but not limited to acting, singing also, for the first time, provided two songs in the film. To make it the best making it look like Rita Hayworth , Laurie physically lifting them with the hairline ' electrolysis .
He followed the recitation of courses Lytess Natasha , who fled long ago from Germany .The woman was embarrassed the young actress and how annoyed she had been taught to speak without moving your lips: "I can not hear you my dear "(I can not hear you my dear), he said. Since then the two began a long collaboration, which ended only in 1954, during which Natasha always respected the privacy of Marilyn. To set the most of his vocal timbre and diction in singing took lessons from vocal coach Fred Karger . Marilyn fell in love with his singing teacher, who was separated and lived with his son. Initially, he just constantly criticize, to mistreat, and eventually left her, ending years later to marry the actress Jane Wyman . The film ended and the 9 September 1948 the contract expired, without any offer of renewal.
Biographers tell the parties that participated Marilyn. She herself said that in one of these festivals Zsa Zsa Gabor was infuriated by the constant attentions of her husband leil'attore George Sanders , reserved for the young Monroe, until he no longer wants to attend a party if there was Marilyn among invited. Shortly thereafter, as confirmed byRichard Lamparski , was reduced to make the stripper in the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles .
In 1949 he worked for United Artists in Love Happy , produced by Lester Cowan . There he met Groucho Marx and Harpo Marx , Groucho asked the meeting to walk and to see it defined it as Theda Bara , Bo Peep and Mae West merged together.
Having read the Los Angeles Examiner , the section devoted to the films written byLouella Parsons , who wanted to put himself under contract to Cowan, he went straight to him but, according to the manufacturer, the contract was not ready. So he decided to make a gift, a ring to his beloved Karger: $ 500 for the purchase, buying it on credit just because that article in the newspaper. When, years later, he finished paying the ring, the man was married to Wyman. Following Cowan retired as promised in part, by communicating that was starting to advertise the film Love Happy, and gave her $ 75 to renew the wardrobes , which were used by Monroe to buy three new suits, so he left the train going to New York first, then to Detroit , to Cleveland to Chicago to Milwaukee andRockford , unable to get any engagement. To Launch the film was interviewed by Earl Wilson , who introduced her to the public as Mmmmmmm Girl and the two then shook friendship.
Another small part got in the sheriff's daughter , working at Fox, where a western standard appeared in more scenes than in the past, but where he jokes. He was the subject of the Hungarian photographer Laszlo Willinger , who pushed her to do some minor adjustments of plastic surgery of the nose and chin.
In December 31 1948 he met Johnny Hyde , an associate of the William Morris, at a party given by the producer Sam Spiegel . Hyde, too, like Grace Goddard, believed that Marilyn was destined to become a big star but, unlike Grace, had the means to help in this regard. Hyde had already discovered Lana Turner counted and Rita Hayworth in her clients, and told her that she had a tuner than something more. Although married and old enough to be her father, Hyde fell in love with her. With his insistence, thanks to her friend Lucille Ryman of MGM, had it put in the cast of The Asphalt Jungle and later also in All About Eve . For the first film he met John Huston and producer Arthur Hornblow , when the director asked her if she liked the part Monroe panicked, and only with the request to read the part lying on the ground in front of their shots trust lost. Hyde went looking for a work contract with the Metro but could not, despite contact with Dore Schary, finally managed to find a role for Fox. His salary had been agreed to $ 350 but managed to bring it to Hyde for the second film 500, the same convincing Darryl Zannuck than in the past made a mistake in not renew her contract.
It was during the filming of Joseph Mankiewicz began to read a book that gave her problems, it was taken by the director, it was the autobiography of Lincoln Steffens , for which he could be labeled a radical. At first friendly warning was followed by a second set of a manager, then decided to follow our advice and avoid talking about it in an enthusiastic way he wanted.
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