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‘My Week With Marilyn’: Marilyn Monroe’s famous photos, famous loves Always the subject of fascination, a new film takes another look at one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and tragic stars.
Actor Eddie Redmayne, left, as Colin Clark, and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in a scene from director Simon Curtis's new film "My Week With Marilyn." Williams portrays the star while Monroe was shooting “The Prince and the Showgirl” in England.
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Michelle Williams in “My Week With Marilyn.” Williams had to gain weight for the role, and she worked with a choreographer to perfect Monroe’s distinctive walk.
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A Marilyn Monroe still from a video titled “Say Goodbye to the President.” Monroe has long been considered one of America’s most enigmatic stars.
Monroe, whose real name was Norma Jean Baker, had a troubled childhood.
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Monroe’s career took off in the 1950s, with a small part in ”The Asphalt Jungle.”
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Monroe is pictured at the beach with her dog, Ruffles, in 1947.
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Marilyn Monroe poses in a bathing suit in 1947 at age 21 at the start of her career. She found success as a model before turning to acting, as she dreamt of becoming a star like Lana Turner.
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Before she got famous, Monroe held a variety of jobs, from making five cents a week in an Orphanage, to a stock contract at a studio. She was named Miss Cheesecake of the Year in 1951 by Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper.
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Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant in “Monkey Business,” in 1952.
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“How to Marry a Millionaire” starred, from left, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe.
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Joe DiMaggio, Baseball's famed “Yankee Clipper” and Monroe exchange their wedding kiss in Judge Charles Perry's chambers after their Jan. 14, 1954, marriage ceremony in San Francisco. The marriage lasted only nine months.
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Monroe put her arms around Pfc. John Fenesy, left, of Caldwell, N.J., and Cpl. Dick Armstrong, right, of Williston Park, N.Y., at the 3rd division airstrip during her four-day tour of Korea on Feb. 19, 1954.
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Monroe sings to an audience of GIs during the first show of her four-day tour of Korea in February 1954. She wore a low-cut purple cocktail dress about which she had told reporters, “It's the only one I brought over that is suitable for the show."
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Monroe played a saloon entertainer in this scene from the 1954 film "River of No Return."
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The most memorable images of Monroe is the subway grate scene from "The Seven Year Itch." Monroe’s infamy was cemented with this photo of her white dress billowing around her thighs.
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Oct. 27, 1954
Monroe waits in the courtroom of the Superior Court building in Santa Monica, Calif. Monroe was preparing to testify in her divorce from Joe DiMaggio.
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Donald O'Connor, left, and Marilyn Monroe dance to an Irving Berlin tune in "There's No Business Like Show Business" in 1954.
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Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch," a Billy Wilder movie about marital temptation.
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Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller embrace on the lawn of Miller's home in Roxbury, Conn., on June 29, 1956, several hours before they were married in White Plains, N.Y. Monroe converted to Judaism to wed Miller.
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July 13, 1956
Playwright Arthur Miller and Monroe are protected from the rain as a TWA attendant holds up an umbrella on their way to board a plane at Idlewild Airport, now JFK Airport, in New York. The couple was going to London, where Monroe was scheduled to work on ”The Prince and the Showgirl,” which became the subject for the 2011 film “My Week With Marilyn.”
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Monroe takes direction from Sir Laurence Olivier. In "The Prince and the Showgirl," Monroe plays the part of an American show girl starring in a London musical in 1911.
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Marilyn Monroe leaves New York on July 7, 1958, by air for Hollywood to start work on "Some Like it Hot" her first film in two years.
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This 1959 file photo from the movie "Some Like it Hot" shows actor Jack Lemmon, right, with co-stars Monroe, center, and Tony Curtis, left.
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June 26, 1959
Monroe, accompanied by her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, leaves the hospital by car following surgery three days earlier.
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Oct. 16, 1960
Actress Marilyn Monroe rolls eats pasta in a restaurant in San Francisco during a dinner with actor Montgomery Clift. Monroe divorced Arthur Miller in 1961.
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Clark Gable and Monroe play a scene in the 1961 film "The Misfits," written by her ex-husband, Arthur Miller. It turned out to be the last movie for both.
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March 29, 1961
Monroe and her ex-husband, New York Yankees baseball player Joe DiMaggio, walk the shores of a beach near Sarasota, Fla.
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April 30, 1962
Director George Cukor plants a kiss on Monroe's cheek as she reports on the set in Hollywood to begin work in the film "Something's Got to Give." Monroe’s health began to falter, delaying the movie and setting off public speculation about her erratic behavior.
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Monroe sings “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York, in her last major public appearance before her death by overdose on Aug. 5, 1962.
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