In Too Deep
August 5, 1962, was a day that will never be forgotten in Hollywood history. This was the day that Marilyn Monroe mysteriously committed suicide, or did she? She was found lying on her bed, with numerous pill bottles on the night stand beside her that were intended to help her sleep and manage depression. However, this time, she went to sleep for good and never woke up. Was this great loss in the acting world and society as a whole from the infliction of her own hand and substances or was it all because of her knowledge of the dirty little secrets from the Oval Office that brought her to her fate? There are speculations that she
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With her father absent and mom mentally not stable enough to take care of her, Norma drifted in and out of foster care or an orphanage for quite some time. Her only way out was to get married which she did in 1942 at the age of 16. The newly wedded couple were on good terms until her husband was sent to the South Pacific for military duty. Norma then proceeded to go work in a munitions factory in California. This one job changed her life simply because of one photographer that discovered her and the camera fell in love with Norma’s face. When her husband later returned in 1946, Norma had a career as a model in which her husband did not approve of and the couple later divorced. It was then that Norma became a whole new person as she dyed her hair blonde and changed her name to what we all know her by best, Marilyn Monroe. She turned into a sex icon of the 50s that no one in history has ever become close to comparing with. Her modelling later evolved to an acting career as she started to take drama classes. Monroe later went on to star in movies such as “Some Like It Hot”, “The Seven Year Itch”, and “The Misfits” just to name a few of the many (“Marilyn Monroe Filmography”). It has been said that Marilyn was like her mother in some ways when it came to her mentality. Some say that she was happy go lucky and a hoot to be around. Others, however, cannot