The last house where Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) lived, and the only house she ever owned in her own name, was nearly demolished. The house is located at 12305 Fifth Helena Street, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The current owner of the house has filed a petition with local authorities to demolish the structure. Immediately, the public reacted angrily. In response to the public reaction, Los Angeles authorities announced that they would intervene in how this house is handled.
The house where Marilyn Monroe lived her last days (Photo: Daily Mail).
First, the decision to demolish the house was revoked. Then, a specific plan to put the house on the list of preserved buildings will be implemented.
In this house, Marilyn Monroe spent the last moments of her life, when she passed away at the age of 36 from a drug overdose. Los Angeles City Council representative - Ms. Traci Park - said they have received hundreds of calls from residents asking to keep this house.
"It is unfortunate that the city's building authority decided to demolish the house before we could intervene. However, the first step has been taken to ensure that the house is not demolished," Park said.
The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously voted to prohibit any further intervention on the property. The council will also assess the potential value of the property for preservation purposes.
The home is owned by an investment fund. The sale of the property took place earlier this year, when the Glory of the Snow Trust purchased the home from Glory of the Snow LLC for $8.35 million.
It is unclear what the Glory of the Snow Trust's plans are now that it has purchased the property and is considering demolishing it.
Actress Marilyn Monroe during her lifetime (Photo: Daily Mail).
Marilyn Monroe bought this 270 square meter house in the early 1960s for $75,000, after her third marriage ended. Monroe passed away in this house in August 1962. During her lifetime, Monroe named her house Cursum Perficio , a Latin phrase meaning "my journey ends here."
The public's interest in the house shows its importance in local cultural life, said Traci Park, a representative of the authorities.
"For people around the world , Marilyn Monroe is more than just a movie star. The story of her life and career, and her difficult journey of growing up, has touched the hearts of many people. The affection for the late actress is clear. This house needs to be preserved as a meaningful destination in Hollywood," Ms. Park said.
The sad childhood of "sex symbol" star Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe's childhood was full of turmoil, she was constantly moved between foster families at different stages. Marilyn did not have the care of her biological parents.
Little Norma Jeane Baker (real name Marilyn Monroe) was born on June 1, 1926. Throughout Norma Jeane's childhood, her single mother did not have the financial ability and mental stability to raise her child alone.
So the authorities arranged for a kind family to raise Norma Jeane. The Bolenders were Marilyn's first foster family, and the family that treated her best. Marilyn carefully kept childhood photos of Marilyn Monroe when she lived at the Bolenders.
Norma Jeane's mother - Gladys Pearl Baker (1902-1984) - was also taken in by the Bolender family, so that Norma Jeane and her mother could live together.
Marilyn as a child with her biological mother (Photo: Daily Mail).
Because Gladys Pearl was not mentally strong and did not have enough financial resources to raise a child alone, the authorities arranged for her to live with the Bolender family in Hawthorne, California, immediately after giving birth.
The Bolenders had always expressed their desire to formally adopt Norma Jeane. But when she turned 7, Gladys Pearl felt that she was emotionally stable and had accumulated enough money to move out and raise her child alone.
But just a few months after leaving the Bolender home, Gladys Pearl suffered a mental breakdown, developed paranoia, schizophrenia, and was hospitalized. From then on, Gladys Pearl never recovered, and lived in a mental hospital, rarely contacting her daughter.
From here, little Norma Jeane began to move to different families and had to change schools. During these uncertain years, there were sad memories that happened to Norma Jeane. At one point, Norma Jeane was even sent to live in an orphanage.
Many biographers believe that Marilyn Monroe's troubled childhood led to an unstable life. In the end, she died at a very young age, when her future career was still bright and promising.
Marilyn Monroe's 3 Sad Marriages
After turning 16, Norma Jeane decided to marry a neighbor boy who was 5 years older than her named James Dougherty. She hoped to settle down after a childhood and adulthood journey of constantly changing places. At the age of 16, she became a wife and a housewife in the family.
Sharing about this marriage, Marilyn Monroe once said: "The marriage did not make me sad but it did not make me happy either. My husband and I did not talk to each other. Not because of disagreements, but because we had nothing to say to each other." When her husband joined the army and was often away from home, Norma Jeane started working as a factory worker.
The photos made Marilyn decide to divorce and quit her job to pursue a modeling career (Photo: Daily Mail).
One day, a photographer came to take pictures of the female workers, and Norma Jeane was one of the people chosen to participate in the photo shoot. This event had a strong impact on her. The feeling of appearing in front of the camera made her so excited that she quit her job and started working as a photo model.
She moved out of her husband's house and devoted herself to pursuing a career as a photo model. After four years of marriage, Marilyn Monroe officially filed for divorce to pursue a new career, because her husband did not support her in pursuing a modeling career.
Norma Jeane's management company arranged for her to get a film contract to further her career. From then on, she chose the stage name Marilyn Monroe.
The name Marilyn was taken from the name of the star actress in the theater field - Marilyn Miller, and Monroe was the maiden name of the star's biological mother.
Talking about her relationship with cinema, Marilyn Monroe once shared sadly: "When I was 5 years old, I knew I wanted to become an actress. I didn't like the world around me because it was too harsh, I liked to transform into this person or that person. When I learned that transformation was the profession of acting, I knew right away that I wanted to be an actress."
Marilyn Monroe said that some of her foster families often gave her money to go to the cinema, just so she wouldn't be at home and bother them. She was willing to sit outside the cinema all day, where, in front of the big screen, there was a little girl sitting alone watching a movie. That's how Marilyn Monroe began to love cinema.
Marilyn Monroe with her second husband - baseball player Joe DiMaggio (Photo: Daily Mail).
In her second marriage, Marilyn Monroe married baseball player Joe DiMaggio, one of the most famous sports stars of the time.
The couple married in 1954 but divorced just a year later. Joe always felt uncomfortable with Marilyn's fame. The sports star did not want his wife to appear in the media with a sexy style that would be dubbed a "sex symbol".
On Marilyn Monroe's first date with Joe DiMaggio, she was quite hesitant because she didn't think she was interested in a baseball player. Marilyn arrived two hours late. But Joe's patience in waiting made a big impression on Marilyn.
The two began dating, but from the start Joe showed a dislike for Marilyn's work. Joe was always tormented by jealousy at the attention that many men paid to Marilyn Monroe.
On New Year's Eve 1953, Joe proposed to Marilyn, and the actress accepted. They married in January 1954, in a very simple ceremony.
When they got married, Marilyn made a strange request to her husband. If she died before Joe, she wanted him to put fresh flowers on her grave every week. Joe promised to do so. Eight years later, Joe kept his promise.
The famous moment in Marilyn Monroe's life that caused her... marriage to break up (Photo: Daily Mail).
After their marriage, Joe was still insecure about his wife's job and tried to convince Marilyn to leave her career. Their relationship broke down when Joe became violent towards Marilyn after he witnessed a gust of wind on the set of The Seven Year Itch causing her skirt to fly up.
About 5,000 people were present to see Marilyn filmed on the streets of New York, they witnessed the wind blowing the skirt of the beauty up high. Joe's jealousy arose. Afterwards, a big argument broke out between Joe and Marilyn, he acted violently towards her.
In October 1954, nine months after marrying Joe, Marilyn filed for divorce. Joe failed to appear in court when the proceedings began, so Marilyn filed for a unilateral divorce.
Marilyn Monroe with her third husband - screenwriter Arthur Miller (Photo: Daily Mail).
A year later, Marilyn married screenwriter Arthur Miller. In her third marriage, Marilyn voluntarily reduced her acting intensity. She began to stay home more to cook, take care of the house, and give her husband more attention and care.
The couple held a small, simple wedding ceremony. Marilyn's wedding ring was engraved with the words "now is forever." Marilyn wrote three words on one of her wedding photos: "hope, hope, hope."
But the marriage soon ran into problems as Marilyn suffered a miscarriage and had difficulty conceiving. Marilyn was devastated after reading a diary entry from Miller detailing his disappointment in the marriage.
In his diary, Miller wrote all his thoughts about his wife and used vulgar words. About this, Marilyn once said: "He thought I was an angel but then he knew he was wrong. He married a woman who had many of the same flaws as his ex-wife." Finally, Marilyn's third marriage ended in 1961.
Marilyn Monroe became a "sex symbol" after the nude photo leak incident
In 1949, at the age of 22, Marilyn Monroe accepted an invitation to pose nude for photographer Tom Kelley. While taking these photos, photographer Tom Kelley's wife was also present to help Marilyn feel calmer.
At the end of the photo shoot, the beauty received a rather "cheap" salary of only 50 USD, the model's name was listed as Mona Monroe.
Later, Marilyn Monroe explained that she only accepted the nude photo shoot because she was so desperate at a time when she was not receiving any job offers and was broke.
The series of photos that made Marilyn Monroe a "sex symbol" of popular culture (Photo: Playboy).
In 1952, when Marilyn Monroe had become famous in Hollywood, the nude photos were suddenly discovered and mentioned again. The management company advised Monroe to "deny" this, to preserve her image, because it was not uncommon for people to have similar features.
However, the actress decided to tell the truth and explained in an interview that when she took those nude photos, she was very poor and had no stable job. At that time, she was forced to accept all job offers, just to have money to maintain her life, as long as it was not illegal.
Faced with Marilyn Monroe's sincerity and honesty, the public did not turn their backs on her, even though social norms at that time were still very strict and did not easily accept famous stars taking nude photos.
Soon after, Marilyn Monroe became even more popular and famous. In December 1953, the first issue of Playboy magazine sold more than 50,000 copies. The cover of the magazine featured a picture of Marilyn Monroe. This issue also reprinted a series of nude photos of the beauty. This time, the photos were published under the model's real name.
Since then, the title "sex symbol" has been associated with Marilyn Monroe. Later, her roles were always built in a sexy, hot direction.
This incident also made Marilyn Monroe struggle throughout her career to be taken seriously. During her lifetime, Marilyn Monroe was disappointed with her one-dimensional roles, because she was always cast as a sexy, silly girl.
Marilyn Monroe became a "sex symbol" after the nude photo leak incident (Photo: Daily Mail).
Although Marilyn Monroe never graduated from high school, throughout her career she placed great importance on self-improvement through self-education. She often studied literature, drama, poetry, politics, history, philosophy, psychology, etc. Not only that, Marilyn also left behind many great quotes that are still loved by the public today.
Despite being a legend in Hollywood, Marilyn had very little assets, only about 370,000 USD at the time of her death, equivalent to about 3.5 million USD today. The reason is because throughout her career, Marilyn did not care about profitable investments, she also spent a lot on shopping for clothes, jewelry...
According to The Guardian/Daily Mail
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