In the history of movies
...r home and then she was molested by Goddard. From there she went to live with a relative named Olive Brunings. Just after her 12th birthday she was assaulted by on of Olive’s sons and she went to live with another relative. Marilyn finally met Jim Dougherty when she was 16. In an attempt to escape the sorrows of her home life, they married on June 19th 1942. He was called to military service and she went to live with her mother-in-law. When he returned, they divorced. While working in an airplane factory she was finally discovered. A photographer documenting women’s role in the war effort spoke to her and encouraged her to apply for a modeling position with the Blue Book Agency. By 1946 she had appeared on 33 magazine covers. Her first contract was give to her by 20th Century Fox. She signed the contract as Marilyn Monroe. This was when she first began using the name. She got a role in Scudda-Hoo with only a few words. Another small part she played was in Dangerous Years. Fox was not pleased with her so they did not renew her contract. She then signed to Columbia in 1948 where she was tutored by drama coach Natasha Lytess. She starred in Ladies of the Choros before they soon dropped her too. She also had a couple of other small roles in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve. After this in 1950 she got a seven-year contract with Fox. She started to star in films such as Don’t Bother to Knock and Monkey Business. Marilyn got a co-staring role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and then The Seven Year Itch. She soon met and began having an affair with Joe DiMaggio in 1952. They were married on January 14th, 1954. Problems in their marriage led to a divorce in 1954. It wasn’t too long after the divorce that she had another relationship with Arthur Miller after moving to New York in 1955. They were married June 29th, 1956. Their honeymoon was in England which where she coincidently started work on Marilyn Monroe Productions which her and Milton Green launched together. When she returned back to Hollywood she began filming Bus Stop. This is when some of the problems began. At this time she had started to take large doses of sleeping pills. She was slowly leading to the problem that would later change her life. After Bus Stop she started work on Some Like It Hot. After this became the biggest hit of 1959, her fans were let down a little by her performance in The Misfits. Her emotional problems still were an issue. After her divorce from Arthur in 1961 her therapist had her committed to the New York Hospital for several days. She was able to smuggle a letter out of the hospital to Joe DiMaggio who came from Florida the next day evening to have her released. She stayed with him until April 1961 when she returned to Los Angeles to start work on the movie Somethings Got to Give. In May of 1961, she went to Madison Square Garden and sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President to President Kennedy. Then she returned to Los Angeles where she almost over dosed on drugs. To the rescue again was Joe DiMaggio. They had planned to remarry on August 8th 1962 but on the evening of August 4th Marilyn died. There was no suicide note and she was found naked lying in her bed. There were eight bottles of pills in her bedroom. They were Librium capsules (5 milligrams), Librium capsules (10 milligrams), Sulfathaldine tablets, Nembutal capsules, Chloral hydrate capsules, Nodular capsules, Peach colored tablets named MDS without a label, and Phenergan. In her time Marilyn finished 30 films and left one unfinished. Her name in today’s society symbolizes beauty and a certain style. She is an inspiration to all who want to overcome personal obstacles and the goal of achieving greatness. She was a woman with problems that thought she could solve them the wrong way. In other words Marilyn Monroe had a glamorous and exciting existence, but Norma Jean had a lonely, tragic life. There was one actor in history that has probably been imitated for his film characters more than any other actor. He was Humphrey Bogart, the man with the tight-lipped, and his dangling cigarette. His charisma and confidence made him irresistible attractive. Bogart was born in New York City on January 23, 1899. His parents were Maud Humprey and DeForest Bogart. Since his father was a surgeon they had hopes of him going into the medical field. He was sent to schools such as Trinity School and Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts where he was preparing for medical school. They had hopes in him going to the Yale University. He was expelled from Phillips Academy because of failing grades and a supposed incidence with a faculty member. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy seemed like his main option. There are stories that say that he developed his famous lisp and scar from a situation that happened in the Navy. He had been assigned at one point to transport a naval prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison in New Hampshire. While changing trains in Boston, the handcuffed prisoner asked Bogart for a cigarette and while Bogart was looking for a match the prisoner raised his hands, smashed Bogart across the mouth with his cuffs, cutting his lip. After his discharge, Bogart was able to reach William A. Brady, a theatrical producer who was a friend of the family. Brady hired him as an office boy. After some work he became a stage manager and also did some chores at Brady’s New York studio. He got a small role in a play titled Drifting in 1922 and another role in Swiftly. He did plenty of work throughout the 1920’s. Bogart met a woman by the name of Helen Menken. They were married in 1926 but the relationship lasted less than a year. Bogart did marry again in 1928 to actress Mary Philips. She supported him financially through a lot. IN the 1930’s they were living out west and this is when their marriage fell apart. Then he met Mayo Methot and she was to be his third wife. In August of 1938 they were married. Unfortunately this marriage was as rock as the ones before. They final divorced in May of 1945. Of course, Bogart had already been looking at another woman that had struck his attention. Her name was Lauren Bacall. They were married eleven days after him and Mayo’s divorce. They were together in quite a few movies and this helped keep their relationship stronger than the ones before. They had their first child in 1949 when Stephen Humphrey, their son, was born. Another addition to the family was a daughter born in 1952 which they named Leslie Howard. Work still was only decent in the 1930’s for Bogart. He mostly played a bland of second-lead roles in features for Fox, Universal, Columbia, and other production companies. Things started picking up for him in 1936 through 1940. He appeared in no less than 28 films, mostly gangster parts often the lead role. A screenwriter named John Huston provided the impetus, with the script of High Sierra in 1941. He did a remarkable job and later that year Huston directed Bogart in his tour de force performance as the ruthless private eye Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. He stayed popular by doing such films as Casablanca, The Big Sheep, and Key Largo. After this feature films Bogart would still do plays with Huston for years to come. In 1947 a different type of production had been set up in 1947. He was able to form Santana Pictures Corp., named after his other great love besides Bacall, his boat Santana. He is known as the first film actor to form his own type of productions. Between 1949 and 1951, he was still doing productions for Columbia and he starred in four of their films: Knock On Any Door, Tokyo Joe, Sirocco, and In a Lonely Place. Warner was very upset with him for forming his own productions and his contract was ended in the 50’s with them. A famous film that seemed to get everyone’s attentions was The African Queen in which Bogart co-starred with Katharine Hepburn. He played a drunken boatman and she played a strait-laced missionary. This is one of the best examples of Bogart’s spectacular acting. The film was a huge hit and in 1952 he finally won a Best Actor Oscar. After this film, there were not many more that followed. He did a few films and his last being The Harder They Fall, which was done in 1956. Shortly after it was finished, he went into surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his esophagus. He recovered from this surgery but later suffered from nerve pressure caused by the growth of scar tissue on his throat. He was released from the hospital but never really recovered. On January 14, 1957 he passed away. At his funeral Huston spoke for everyone when he said, “He is quite unreplaceable. There will never be anybody like him. There was another icon that was known as a legend. He worked as a producer, actor, and a director. He was more or less known as John Wayne but his real name would be Marion Michael Morrison otherwise also known as “Duke”. He was born May 26, 1907 in Winterset, Iowa. Him and his family later moved to Glendale. Here he delivered medicine and sold newspapers. As a child and a teenager he was very athletic. He went on to U.S.C. on a football scholarship. While going here he worked for filmmakers as extras, and/or grips. He can be spotted in some 1920’s films like Brown of Harvard and The Drop Kick. His first leading role came from Fox’s western picture, The Big Trail. It was a rugged, frontier drama. It didn’t really succeed. In the early 1930’s Duke did bits and pieces and he finally landed a contract with Warners where he starred in 6 films and bit parts in A-level features. He spent the rest of the 1930’s heading Westerns and grade-b action features. He made more of an effort when he finally got a hold of John Ford to audition for the part of Ringo Kid in the western Stagecoach. This film was the first to make him a star overnight in 1939. Another eye-opening performance came from Howard Hawk’s Red River. He continued to do impressive work in Fork’s 3 Godfather films. In 1949 he got one of his best roles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. He played as a captain who slated to retire just as an Indian war was looming. Wayne convinced the audience that his bones creaked every time he walked. His first Academy Award nomination came from the next film he did Sands of Iwo Jima. He formed his own production company, Batjac. He co produced and starred in Big Jim McLain, Island in the Sky, Hono, The High and the Mighty, Blood Alley, and Legend of the Lost. He spent the upcoming 50’s making clichéd westerns and forgettable action movies, which brought in audiences solely on Wayne’s clout. John Ford once again rescued him with giving him leads in such movies as The Searchers. Howard Hawks picked Wayne up as well in Rio Bravo and though Wayne made many more films, some quite good, many believe Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence to have been Wayne’s final great film. He did finally win the Academy Award in 1969 for True Grit...