Who is Marilyn Monroe?

Norma Jeane Mortenson was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. When she was about 20 years old, she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. She also changed her hair color from brown to blond. Marilyn Monroe is one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time.  As one of the Ladies Of The Chorus (1948), she made a promising start with Lester Lee and Allan Roberts’ ‘Every Baby Needs A Da-Da-Daddy’, which, with its reference to ‘Tiffany’s’, was a precursor to one of her most celebrated performances a few years later, when the same New York store cropped up in ‘Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend’, from Jule Styne and Leo Robin’s score for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). In that film Monroe duetted with another of Hollywood’s top glamour girls, Jane Russell, on ‘Two Little Girls From Little Rock’, ‘Bye Bye, Baby’ and a Hoagy Carmichael / Harold Adamson number, ‘When Loves Goes Wrong’. Monroe’s final performance, a sultry rendering of ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ and ‘Thanks For The Memory’, was given in May 1962 for President John F. Kennedy’s birthday celebrations in Madison Square Garden. Just over two months later she died as the result of an overdose of barbiturates, at the age of 36.

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