* She was married at the age of 16 to Jim Doughterty, known as an all- American young man. * In 1946, she signed a one year $150/wk contract with Twentieth Century Fox studios * Unsatisfied with some of her roles, in 1948 Monroe signed a six month contract with Columbia Pictures * In 1954 she married a second time to famous baseball player Joe Maggio * In 1954, she settled her disagreement and returned to Fox studios * In 1956, she married a third time to Arthur Miller, a renowned playwright * She won the Golden Globe award in 1960 for Best Motion Picture Actress in Some Like It Hot * In 1999, she was ranked as the sixth greatest female actress of all time by the American Film Institute Famous Films Include: * The Jungle Asphalt- 1950s (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) * Gentlemem Prefer Blondes- 1953 (Fox Studios ) * There’s No Business Like Show Business - 1954 (Fox Studios) * The Prince and The Show Girl ( * Some Like It Hot- 1959 (Fox Studios) Life Setbacks At birth, Monroe was considered at orphan. Gladys Baker, her mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
In 1978, Johnson started her own fashion line. Her second collection did not sell well, leaving her with 3,000 pieces of spring clothing and insufficient funds to stage a 1981 fashion show to sell them and Johnson opened a retail store in the SoHo area of New York City. As of 2011, she has more than 65 stores worldwide. In 2002, Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ultimately, she underwent a lumpectomy and radiation treatment.
(Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany. (Brown 2) Anne’s sister, Margot, was the first of both the families to die. (Gale 3) She died of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the camp. (Brown 2) Anne was never informed that her sister had died, but she had a feeling something was wrong. (Brown 2) Ernst Schnabel, on the topic of Anne Frank, wrote: “She sensed it, and soon afterwards she died, peacefully, feeling that nothing bad was happening to her.” (Brown 2) The epidemic killed around 17,000 prisoners.
She knew Norma Jeane was too close for comfort and tried her best to make sure no one found out about the secret she was so desperately trying to hide. About a year passed after she signed her contract with 20th Century-Fox, it was during this time that Marilyn Monroe finally had an opportunity for a role in a movie. (Taraborrelli) While her career seemed to be taking off, there were several incidents concerning Ms. Monroe that had raised a few eyebrows. Diana Herbert, a woman whom Marilyn met while filming Scudda-Hoo! Scudda Hay!, recalled an incident during a pool party she hosted at her family’s mansion in Bel Air.
(Georgia O'Keeffe's lifetime awards, n.d.) In May of 1938 she received her first honorary degree from College of William and Mary. She received many other honorary degrees during her lifetime. April 21st 1928, Stieglitz announces the sale of six O’Keeffe calla lily paintings for $25,000, a first for a living artist. In 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death, she made New Mexico her permanent home and worked in oil, until the mid1970’s. Inspired by macro photography, she used vibrant colors with implied lines, sensualizing and magnifying individual objects.
In 1946 Norma Jeane began modeling for different magazines and started to become popular. She then started taking drama classes and signed her first studio contract with Twentieth Century Fox on August 26, 1946 right after divorcing her husband Jimmy. Marilyn Monroe stared in many infamous movies and on August 5, 1962 at 36 years old she was found dead in her sleep. This is referring to when she signed a contract with Twentieth Century Fox on August 26, 1946. Its talking about how she started her career as an actress which lead to the dying of her hair blonde.
She was alcoholic and drug-addicted due to her emotional imbalance and the problems of insecurity she had. On August 5th 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom with a phone near her, the FBI announced the case as a probable suicide, but there are unsolved mysteries. Nobody knows exactly what happened to Marilyn Monroe, but one thing is true, she had a tragical end.
In 1959, she graduated from Wesley College with a B.A. with honors in political science on a scholarship. Joseph Medill Paterson, a member of the Medill newspaper-publishing family, married her the same year, together they raised three daughters; twins Anne and Alice, and Katie. Even with the difficult job of upbringing her children, she managed to earn a degree of M.A. in Public Law and Government from School of Advanced International Studies and a certificate from the Russian Institute, both at Columbia
First Years a. J. K. Rowling is the child of Peter and Anne Rowling and was born in July of 1965 at Yate General Hospital. b. She grew up in Chepstow, Gwent, and she went to Wyedean Comprehensive School. c. She has one younger sister named Di. 2.
In fact, according to Levy, W., (1999), “until she was sixteen she lived half of the year with her spinster aunts, her father’s sisters, in New Orleans, and the other half with her parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City” (pg. 350). This resulted in her wanting to be alone and quitting college at the age of 19, taking a job with a publisher. Many of her plays drew from her life and family. “The Children’s Hour” was Ms. Hellman’s first success at the age of 29.