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Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on the 1st of June 1926 at Los Angeles General Hospital in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. Her mother Gladys Pearl Baker had been married to an abusive man named John Newton Baker before divorcing him in 1923.
Biographers Fred Guiles and Lois Banner suggest Charles Stanley Gifford might have been her real father since their separation occurred well before she became pregnant. A DNA comparison conducted in 2022 between Monroe and one of Gifford's descendants supported this theory.
Head executive Darryl F. Zanuck gave her a standard six-month contract to avoid her being signed by rival studio RKO Pictures. She and Lyon selected the stage name Marilyn Monroe with the first name picked by Lyon who was reminded of Broadway star Marilyn Miller while the surname came from Monroe's mother's maiden name.
She married Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco City Hall on the 14th of January 1954 and they flew to Japan combining a honeymoon with his business trip fifteen days later. From Tokyo she traveled to Korea where she sang for over sixty thousand U.S. Marines over four days during a USO show.
The press ridiculed her while she was parodied in Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter featuring lookalike Jayne Mansfield playing a dumb actress starting own production company. Studio urged ending it citing FBI investigation into communism allegations yet Monroe refused leading FBI opening file on her.
Los Angeles Police Department notified died between eight thirty p.m. ten thirty p.m. August 4 toxicology report showed cause acute barbiturate poisoning. Eight milligrams per hundred milliliters chloral hydrate plus four point five mg pentobarbital Nembutal blood thirteen mg pentobarbital liver found empty medicine bottles next bed possibility accidental overdose ruled out dosages several times lethal limit.