"In it, Monroe stands on a subway grate with the air blowing up the skirt of her white dress, which became one of the most famous scenes of her career. After appearing in ""Bus Stop"" (1956), Monroe founded her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, in 1955; the company produced one film independently, ""The Prince and the Showgirl"" (1957). Monroe then appeared in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959) and ""The Misfits"" (1961). She was suspended from the filming of ""Something's Got to Give"" in June 1962, and the film remained uncompleted when she died in August. Although she was a"
"discovered at a soda counter, the location was not Schwab's but another establishment, the Top Hat Cafe, farther east on Sunset Boulevard at McCadden Place, directly across the street from Hollywood High School where she was still a student. The person who discovered her was not LeRoy but ""The Hollywood Reporter"" publisher William Wilkerson. Today there is a replica of the establishment at Universal Studios Florida selling Ben & Jerry's ice cream and drinks. Schwab's was never really referred to as Schwab's Pharmacy, but as Schwab's Drug Store. Schwab's Pharmacy Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard"
"make way for a shopping complex and multiplex theater. Sidney Skolsky, a syndicated Hollywood gossip columnist for the ""New York Daily News"" who was the first journalist to use the nickname ""Oscar"" for the Academy Award in print, made Schwab's famous in the 1930s. He used the drugstore as his office, and called his column in ""Photoplay"", the premiere movie magazine in the U.S. at the time, ""From A Stool At Schwab's"". A persistent Hollywood legend has it that actress Lana Turner was ""discovered"" by director Mervyn LeRoy while at the soda counter at Schwab's. While the 16-year-old Turner was"
"Barbara Lang (film actress) Barbara Lang (March 2, 1928 – July 22, 1982) was an American actress and singer. During the 1950s she was one of the many B-level blondes to be promoted as a Marilyn Monroe-type. She worked a number of jobs prior to breaking into the entertainment industry. She sold jewelry in a Los Angeles department store and was a part-time fashion model at the age of seventeen. She was also a pianist and singer for a time in a cocktail lounge. Lang suffered an attack of poliomyelitis in late 1953. She spent three weeks in the polio"
"the story erroneously has her discovery occurring at Schwab's Pharmacy, which Turner claimed was the result of a reporting error that began circulating in articles published by columnist Sidney Skolsky. By her own account, as a junior at Hollywood High School, Turner skipped a typing class and bought a Coca-Cola at the Top Hat Malt Shop located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place. While in the shop, she was spotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of ""The Hollywood Reporter"". Wilkerson was attracted by her beauty and physique, and asked her if she was interested in appearing"
"Mollie Monroe Mary E. Sawyer (1846-1902), better known as Mollie Monroe, was an American old west woman who was known for crossdressing and for her liaisons with multiple men, among other things. Monroe fell in love with a man as a teenager. Both her family and her boyfriend's family agreed that the couple was too young to marry, and the man was sent away. Monroe then decided to go after her boyfriend, disguised as a man and calling herself Sam Brewer. Her search ended in sadness, when she discovered her boyfriend had been murdered by a gang during a bar"
"Marilyn Nash Marilyn Nash (October 26, 1926 – October 6, 2011) was an American actress and casting director. She was best known for starring in the 1947 Charlie Chaplin film ""Monsieur Verdoux"". Nash was born in Flint, Michigan, and attended the University of Arizona with the intention of pursuing medicine as her chosen career. However, her professional career path changed when she traveled to Los Angeles with her mother while attending Arizona. By chance, Nash met Charlie Chaplin while playing tennis at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Chaplin quickly signed Nash as an actress in his Charlie Chaplin Studios. He then"
"Roberta Collins Roberta Collins (November 17, 1944 – August 16, 2008) was a film and television actress who was known for her attractive physique, blonde, curly hair, and Marilyn Monroe appearance. She starred in many exploitation films, including the prostitute Clara in Tobe Hooper's ""Eaten Alive"", and as Matilda the Hun in the science-fiction film ""Death Race 2000"". Jack Hill, who directed her in ""The Big Doll House"", said of her, ""I think she could have had a great career, but she couldn't get her personal life together ... she would be fantastic one day, do everything right, and then"
"her death. She passed away in Cologne, Germany on April 12, 2006. Christiane Maybach Christiane Maybach (1932–2006) was a German film and television actress. She became known as ""Berlin's Marilyn Monroe"" due to work in films from the 1950s to the 1970s. She continued to act in television roles until shortly before her death in 2006. Maybach was born in Berlin, Germany on March 14, 1932, was educated at the acting school of the Schillertheater beginning in 1956, and worked on the stage before becoming a film actress during the 1950s, a career she continued to pursue until the 1970s."
"Schwab's Pharmacy Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was a popular hangout for movie actors and movie industry dealmakers from the 1930s through the 1950s. Opened in 1932 by the Schwab brothers, Schwab's Pharmacy in Hollywood became the most famous and longest operating outlet of their small retail chain. Like many drug stores in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, Schwab's sold medicines and had a counter serving ice cream dishes and light meals. Schwab's closed in October 1983. Five years later, on October 6, 1988, the building was demolished to"
"the front stoop translate to ""I have completed my journey."" It is unknown whether Monroe herself or a successive owner installed the tiles. 12305 Fifth Helena Drive's most famous owner was American actress and model Marilyn Monroe. In February 1962, Monroe purchased the property for $77,500. She reportedly paid for half of the home in cash and took out a mortgage for the second half. Monroe was found dead in her bedroom six months after purchasing the property. In 2017 the house was put for sale for $6.9 million and eventually sold for $7.25 million. 12305 Fifth Helena Drive 12305"
"Marilyn Manson Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known by his stage name, Marilyn Manson, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, visual artist, author, and former music journalist. He is known for his controversial stage personality and image as the lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson, which he co-founded with guitarist Daisy Berkowitz and of which he remains the only constant member. Like other members of the band, his stage name was formed by combining and juxtaposing the names of two American pop cultural icons of the 1960s: actress Marilyn Monroe and criminal Charles Manson. Manson"
"Marilyn Maxwell Marvel Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972) was an American actress and entertainer. A sex symbol of the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared in several films and radio programs, and entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours with Bob Hope. Maxwell was a native of Clarinda, Iowa. During the 1930s, she worked as an usher in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the Rialto Theater located at 2616 South Calhoun Street. She started her professional entertaining career as a radio singer while still a teenager, before signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in"
"they worked together, when Marilyn was in her 20s. Other Lytess students included Mamie Van Doren, Virginia Leith, and Ann Savage (who reputedly got her stage name after a particularly ""savage"" argument with Lytess). Lytess died of cancer four days before her 52nd birthday in Zurich, Switzerland. She was portrayed by Lindsay Crouse in ""Norma Jean & Marilyn"", and by Embeth Davidtz in ""The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe"". Natasha Lytess Natasha Lytess (born 16 May 1911, Berlin, Germany – died 12 May 1963, Zurich, Switzerland) was an actress, writer and drama coach. Born Natalia Postmann and also known as"
"during the 1950s. Marilyn Nash died on October 6, 2011, at the age of 84. She was survived by four sons and six grandchildren. Her memorial service was held at the St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church in Chico, California. Marilyn Nash Marilyn Nash (October 26, 1926 – October 6, 2011) was an American actress and casting director. She was best known for starring in the 1947 Charlie Chaplin film ""Monsieur Verdoux"". Nash was born in Flint, Michigan, and attended the University of Arizona with the intention of pursuing medicine as her chosen career. However, her professional career path changed"
"Charles Mingus. However, her greatest fame—and notoriety—came from her work as a muse and collaborator with more prominent artists. On one occasion, she turned up at Andy Warhol's studio and put a bullet through a stack of his silk-screen paintings of Marilyn Monroe, after which she was banned from the studio. These four paintings, thereafter, were called ""The Shot Marilyns"". Podber revelled in her bad-girl reputation. In an interview in 2006, she said: I've been bad all my life. Playing dirty tricks on people is my specialty. In the art world, she served mostly as a muse and a co-conspirator"
"Ralph Greenson Ralph R. Greenson (born Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon, September 20, 1911 – November 24, 1979) was a prominent American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Greenson is famous for being Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist, and was the basis for Leo Rosten's 1963 novel, ""Captain Newman, M.D."". The book was later made into a movie starring Gregory Peck as Greenson's character. There has been much conjecture, by investigating officers, press and the public, about Greenson's involvement in a possible cover-up concerning the circumstances of Monroe's death. Greenson was well known for his early work on returning WWII soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress. He"
"the evening of August 5, 1962. Murray awoke at 3:00a.m. on August 6 and sensed that something was wrong. Although she saw light from under Monroe's bedroom door, she was unable to get a response and found the door locked. Murray then called Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who arrived at the house shortly after and broke into the bedroom through a window, finding Monroe dead in her bed. She was pronounced dead by her physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, who arrived at the house at around 3:50a.m. At 4:25a.m., they notified the Los Angeles Police Department. Monroe had died between"
"death threats while dating former baseball great Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnews Developmental Center, a mental hospital in San Jose, California. Apparently the patient could not bear to see DiMaggio with anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962. In 1966, she played Blaze in the ""Batman"" episodes, ""True or False-Face"" and ""Holy Rat Race"". Myrna Fahey Myrna Fahey (March 12, 1933 – May 6, 1973) was an American actress best known for her role as Maria Crespo in ""Walt Disney's Zorro"" and as Madeline Usher in the"
"Christiane Maybach Christiane Maybach (1932–2006) was a German film and television actress. She became known as ""Berlin's Marilyn Monroe"" due to work in films from the 1950s to the 1970s. She continued to act in television roles until shortly before her death in 2006. Maybach was born in Berlin, Germany on March 14, 1932, was educated at the acting school of the Schillertheater beginning in 1956, and worked on the stage before becoming a film actress during the 1950s, a career she continued to pursue until the 1970s. She then continued her acting career on television, performing until shortly before"
"Mamie Van Doren Mamie Van Doren (born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol who is known for being one of the first actresses to recreate the look of Marilyn Monroe. Van Doren is perhaps best remembered for the rock 'n' roll, juvenile delinquency exploitation movie ""Untamed Youth"" (1957), and other films of this calibre. Van Doren was born in Rowena, South Dakota, the daughter of Warner Carl Olander (March 30, 1908 - June 4, 1992) and Lucille Harriet Bennett (January 21, 1912 - August 27, 1995). She is of three-quarters Swedish"
"the ""Born Villain"" song ""Hey, Cruel World..."". The name Marilyn Manson is formed by a juxtaposition of two opposing American pop cultural icons: Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. Monroe, an actress, was one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and continues to be a major icon over 50 years after, while Manson, a cult leader, was responsible for the murder of actress Sharon Tate, as well as several others; and served a life sentence on murder and conspiracy charges until his death in 2017. Manson has mentioned on at least two occasions that he trademarked the name."
"early career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, with a popular retelling having the meeting occur at Schwab's Pharmacy. Shortly after Turner's rise to fame, the owner of the malt shop in which the discovery took place erected a metal plaque on the seat which Turner had occupied when she met Wilkerson, and soon the shop became inundated with young women hoping to experience the same chance occurrence. Wilkerson's son, journalist William Wilkerson III, wrote on the lasting cultural impact of Turner's discovery in 1995: Scholar Kim Fields similarly wrote about the lasting cultural relevance of Turner and her"
"Bruno Bernard Bruno Bernard (February 2, 1912 – June 3, 1987) also known as Bernard of Hollywood, was an American photographer best known for pin-up and glamour photography of Marilyn Monroe and others. Bernard was born into poverty on February 2, 1912, in Berlin, Germany. He was put in an orphanage by parents who could not afford to support him. In 1923, his parents gave him a Rolleiflex camera, which led to a lifelong interest in photography. He attended Kiel University, where, in 1934, he earned a doctorate in criminal psychology. He became the general secretary of a Jewish youth"
"Marilyn Chambers Marilyn Chambers (April 22, 1952 – April 12, 2009) was an American pornographic film actress, exotic dancer, model, actress, and vice-presidential candidate. She was known for her 1972 hardcore film debut ""Behind the Green Door"" and her 1980 pornographic film ""Insatiable"". She ranked at No. 6 on the list of Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time by AVN, and ranked as one of Playboy's Top 100 Sex Stars of the Century in 1999. Although she was primarily known for her adult film work, she made a successful transition to mainstream projects and has been called ""porn's most"
"funeral or memorial service. Harry Brand Harry Brand (October 20, 1895 – February 22, 1989) was an American press agent. Described as ""the mastermind who made Shirley Temple the most famous child star in history, Betty Grable a GI Joe pinup girl and Marilyn Monroe a sex goddess,"" Brand was the head of publicity at 20th Century Fox from 1935 until 1962. Known as the ""Herald of Hyperbole"" for his exuberant press releases, Brand was an accomplished fixer. Married to Sybil Brand, a prominent philanthropist and political fundraiser, and the brother of a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, he utilized"
"and name have been licensed for hundreds of products, and she has been featured in advertising for multinational corporations and brands such as Max Factor, Chanel, Mercedes-Benz, and Absolut Vodka. Monroe's enduring popularity is linked to her conflicted public image. On the one hand, she remains a sex symbol, beauty icon and one of the most famous stars of classical Hollywood cinema. On the other, she is also remembered for her troubled private life, unstable childhood, struggle for professional respect, as well as her death and the conspiracy theories that surrounded it. She has been written about by scholars and"
"revealed until Super Bowl XX in January 1986; he was shown to be wearing white socks, black ""flood pants"", and thick-rimmed glasses. If a customer spotted Herb at a Burger King, he or she would win $5,000. Everyone in the restaurant when Herb was discovered was also entered into a draw for the promotion's grand prize of $1 million. The draw was won by Christopher Kelly of Louisville, Kentucky, who was present when Herb was spotted at the Burger King in the city's Oxmoor Center mall. In addition to encouraging people to search for Herb, Burger King added an ""I'm"
"Annie Malone Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone (August 9, 1877 – May 10, 1957) was an African-American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. She was the first African American Female millionaire. In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women. Annie Minerva Turnbo was born in southern Illinois, the daughter of enslaved Africans Robert and Isabella (Cook) Turnbo. When her father went off to fight for the Union with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry in the Civil War, Isabella took the couple's children and escaped from"
"according to the news. Mollie Monroe was despised by most of Prescott's high society women, for what they viewed as ""manly manners"" and, as a popular publication of the time said, ""morals that are dissolute"". In 1877, she was found wandering across the streets of Peeples Valley by a policeman named Ed Bowers. Brought to trial, she was found to be insane on May 9 and sent to a sanitarium in Stockton, California. Along the way to Stockton, she and Bowers were attacked by thieves. Other than Bowers losing a watch and some 450 dollars, the lawman and Monroe came"
"slated to be named ""Fragments"", but was later changed to ""Love, Marilyn."" 50 years after her death, two boxes of Marilyn Monroe's writings—diaries, poems and letters—were discovered in the home of Lee Strasberg, her acting coach. The film features dramatic readings of Marilyn Monroe's writings by actors, film critics, journalists and authors; and archival footage of Hollywood insiders who knew her or worked with her in various films or acting school. ""Entertainment Weekly"", in its ""The Must List: The Top 10 Things We Love This Week"" section"", picked ""Love, Marilyn"" as one of its selections the week of June 28,"
"film was the drama ""The Misfits"" (1961). Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. She struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Her second and third marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, respectively, were highly publicised and both ended in divorce. On August 5, 1962, she died at age 36 from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Although Monroe's death was ruled a probable suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June"
"Saturday, August 4, at her home in Brentwood. She was accompanied at various times by publicist Patricia Newcomb, housekeeper Eunice Murray, photographer Lawrence Schiller and psychiatrist Ralph Greenson. At Greenson's request, Murray stayed overnight to keep Monroe company. At approximately 3 a.m. on Sunday, August 5, she noticed that Monroe had locked herself in her bedroom and was unresponsive. Murray alerted Greenson, who arrived soon after and broke into the room, finding Monroe dead. Her death was officially ruled a probable suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner's office, based on precedents of her overdosing and being prone to mood"