Most Famous Person in the World: Celebrities
Marilyn Monroe
Living years: 1926-1962
Nationality: American
Baptized as Norma Jeane Baker, she spent her childhood in and out of foster homes. In 1942, she married Jimmy Dougherty and began working at a munitions factory, during the WWII, in the South Pacific. This is where she met David Conover, a photography who was covering a story on women at work. He used her in many of his photographs and helped her start her career as a model, where she was featured on the front of several magazines. In 1946, she divorced her husband and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. She then took drama classes and landed her contract with Twentieth Century Fox. Her first few movies were not well-known, but her fame grew and she became an icon of glamour and fashion.
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