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Casillo, Charles. Marilyn Monroe: the Private Life of a Public Icon. St. Martin's Press, 2018.

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On page one of the book it says "Perhaps her darkness began the very moment she was conceived, back in the days when illegitimacy was viewed as being born damaged and undesirable."
Marilyn was born to a disturbing enigmatic mother and she never even knew her father.

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She was put into a foster home with Ida and Wayne Bolender as an infant because her mothers mental state caused her to be an unsuitable mother. She stayed in a foster home where she was beaten, but well dressed and kept fed. This foster experience caused her to feel lonely and unloved because whenever she would try to call her foster parents "Mama" or "Daddy" she would get yelled at.

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After her mother felt that she could handle taking care on Norma Jean (Marilyn), she found that her small apartment was not enough for the both of them so she placed Norma Jean in the Atkinson home temporarily until she could afford a bigger place. The Atkinson's were whole new people to Norma Jean, they were more happy and carefree, they taught her how to juggle, dance and thrown knives, compared to her other home where they found those activities "sinful" They taught her ideas of what was sinful and what was fun, what was good and what was bad, and who was nice, and who was evil, they brought out a whole new side of Norma Jean.

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She was sexually abused as a child                                        4

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She was sexually abused as a child                                        4

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On page 25 the book said "For the rest of her life Marilyn would battle with low self esteem . All throughout adulthood she was unable to sustain relationships, which she says is due to her rough and bumpy past with men."
This was a big change in her life because it caused her emotional age to grow too soon and it gave her a worse idea of men.

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When she was placed in an orphanage                               5

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On page 28 of the book it says "When grace dropped her off, she came to sudden realization of where she was taking her, as grace drove away she screamed 'i'm not an orphan'. Being placed in this situation caused her to feel alone and neglected because not even her mothers best friend wanted her." I believe that this was an important event in her life because it may have lead her to think for the rest of her life that she did not matter to anyone.

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She began to develop her figure                                       6

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She began to develop her figure                                       6

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On page 31 the book says
"She developed hips and breasts and an amazing physical presence: for the first time she felt visible." I think this was a big change in her life because it caused her to realize the power that she and other women can have and it caused her to come out of her shell and show herself to the world, starting her lifelong career.

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She was discovered by an army photographer              8

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She was discovered by an army photographer              8

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Page 38 text says "...-while she was working, an army photographer named David Conover came to take publicity pictures of the attractive young women working in the American factories......On an assembly line Conover came across Norma Jeane. He asked her to pose and snapped. He was stunned. ......The camera loved Norma Jeane." After this she was given a modeling agent and she was introduced to the modeling business.

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She was married off              7           

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She was married off              7           

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When her Aunt was moving off to west Virginia with her husband and two kids, she felt that it was too much of a change to bring Norma Jeane with them, so she married him off to literally the boy next door, his name was Jim Dougherty. She never really felt like she loved Jim but she said that there were some days that it felt like they were married.

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She caught the attention of a couple named John and Lucile Carroll. They were part of the movie making industry and thought that she would be great on screen. The Carroll's wanted to show Marilyn that she had more to offer than her beauty and figure, so they took her in as their own and trained her to be an actress.

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She met the man who created 20th century fox when she was invited to one of his poker parties. He noticed her as different than any other scarlet that he had seen before. He liked her innocence and elegance and he found her to be perfectly suited for the film industry.

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Transitioning into stardom                                10

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Transitioning into stardom                                10

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Page 40 of the book says "Her biggest enemy was loneliness."
After Marilyn divorced her husband and left her life behind, she came to realize that she had become very lonely, transitioning from job to job every week. She wanted to understand that loneliness was not her only emotion but she couldn't ever find a way to fill her emptiness.

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She started acting, got a divorce, reconnected with family, and changed her name. According to the text, on page 39 she said "I wanted to stat my new life as Marilyn Monroe"

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To fill her loneliness she began flaunting her beauty for everyone to see, she "wanted everyone to love her." Some said she was wrong for seeking attention in such a way but she was finally starting to feel less lonely because wherever she went, someone would stop and talk to her

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She started acting lessons                 14

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She started acting lessons                 14

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Page 64 of The text says ¨She was coached by Natasha Lytess who was
Columbia´s head drama coach¨ Natasha taught Marilyn how she could be beautiful and a great actor, she would have her practicing constantly and pressuring her to fix each and every one of her mistakes. Marilyn found her quite harsh but she felt that it was worth it for the fame.

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Reaching out to her father            15

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Reaching out to her father            15

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She reached out to her father because she was feeling vulnerable and alone after her 60 year old boyfriend died. He never accepted her call until one day he did and he turned her down and told her to never call him again.

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She began a different type of modeling    16

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She began a different type of modeling    16

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She began showcasing her whole body, with nothing covering. On page 72 of the book, it says ¨All around the world, men had her poster up on their walls, and she quickly became one of the most popular blondes around.¨ With this attention, she wanted to showcase herself more, that is when she left acting, and started nude photography

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She starred in a film called ¨Gentleman Prefer Blondes.¨ This film quickly became popular causing even more people to notice Marilyn, and she was not going to give that up. Page 80 of the book says ¨She was now a star. She had dreamed of it. She had worked hard for it. Now she intended to keep it. She just kept starring in ore films.¨

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It was extraordinarily difficult for Marilyn to go from being a nobody, that no one ever cared about, to being the talk of everyone it seemed. Thats when he life started getting more difficult for her, when she realized how hard it was to live up to everyone's expectations.

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Page 94 of the book says ¨ Marilyn Monroe was unlike and movie star Hollywood had ever dealt with-and if 20th century fox wanted her in their movies, they were going to have to give a little.¨ SHe went through a period of time where everyone wanted her in their movies, they wanted their movies to be watched, so what better than to use the person that everyone was talking about. But Marilyn did not enjoy this, she found it stressful to balance her life between all of these companies begging her to be in their movies.

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“Marilyn Monroe.” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/.

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“United States History.” Douglas MacArthur, www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3712.html.

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George Barris's last photo of Marilyn Monroe, taken on Santa Monica beach on July 13, 1962. Credit Credit www.georgebarrisphotos.com; photo licensed by IHL/InHollywoodland

George Barris, who took the last professional photographs of Marilyn Monroe, just weeks before her death in 1962, died on Friday at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 94.

The death was confirmed by his daughter Caroline Barris.

When Mr. Barris shot those last pictures, on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 13, Monroe had reason to be troubled. She had been fired the month before from the film "Something's Got to Give," reportedly because of her chronic lateness and absenteeism.

At 36, she was only a year past her divorce from her third husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. She wanted to write a book, she said, and Mr. Barris would be her collaborator.

"Mr. Barris was obviously a sympathetic coadjutant," Diana Trilling observed in The New York Times in her 1986 review of "Marilyn," written by Gloria Steinem, with photographs by Mr. Barris. "Through June and July, Marilyn talked and posed - and drank Champagne. Mr. Barris took many soft, gentle pictures of her, in bathing suit, towels, beach robe, sweater. But this project, too, was not completed."

Monroe and Mr. Barris had been friends for almost a decade, having met in New York in 1954 on the set of " The Seven Year Itch," in which she starred with Tom Ewell. The story he always told was that he was discreetly photographing her derrière while she was leaning out a window. When she caught him, she cheerfully said, "I'll take a dozen of those."

Monroe telephoned him two days before her death, he told The Los Angeles Daily News in 2012.

"She called me on Friday, and I was in New York, and she wanted to know if I could come to see her that weekend and that it was urgent," he recalled. But he had plans to see his family that weekend, so he begged off and promised to visit her on Monday instead. Her body was found by her housekeeper early Sunday morning.

Mr. Barris told numerous interviewers over the years that he did not believe that Monroe's death was a suicide. Caroline Barris said on Monday that he never shared whatever he knew about the death, not even with his family. "A lot of things he kept secret," she added.

George Barris was born on June 14, 1922, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was the youngest of nine children of Joseph and Eva Barris, immigrants from Romania, who lived on Delancey Street but soon moved to the Bronx. According to Mr. Barris's website, George was 6 when his brother Willie gave him a box camera; his fascination with photography was born.

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George Barris at a memorial service in 2012, on the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death. Credit Krista Kennell/Reuters

Mr. Barris served in the Army during World War II, working as a photographer. One of his last assignments was to cover Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's homecoming victory parade in New York in June 1945.

In civilian life, he worked for Parade, the weekly magazine that appeared in hundreds of Sunday newspapers, and other publications. He was the photographer for a book about a young nun and convent life. While working in Florida, he took on a young assistant, Steve McQueen (whose driving frightened him, he told his family years later), but soon encouraged him to go back to New York to pursue his acting career.

If Mr. Barris was not photographing Hollywood's biggest stars - among them Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren - he might be shooting an album cover or posing models as cigarette-smoking gangsters and molls for Real Detective magazine. He worked in Rome on the set of "Cleopatra," the 1963 epic starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and declared it "a big, big mess." (The accountants at 20th Century Fox and the tabloid press agreed.)

But it was for his work with Monroe that Mr. Barris was best known, and he never shied away from the association.

In addition to Ms. Steinem's book, he published his photographs of Monroe in a 1995 book, " Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Photographs." In 2012, the 50th anniversary of her death, he gave multiple interviews, and his photos were the centerpiece of " An Intimate Look at the Legend," an exhibition of Monroe memorabilia at the Hollywood Museum. Eight of his prints from the last shoot were sold at auction in 2015.

Mr. Barris left the United States after Monroe's death, partly to escape the controversy and any suspicion that he knew more than he was telling, and lived in Paris for two decades.

In addition to his daughter Caroline, his survivors include his wife, Carla, whom he met there, and another daughter, Stephanie Barris.

Even in his old age, Mr. Barris was being asked about Monroe. "She projected such joy when the camera was on," he told The Chicago Sun-Times in 2004. "And all these years later, the world still can't forget her face."

There she is, in Mr. Barris's very last shot of the day in Santa Monica - it was a Friday the 13th - sitting in the sand, bundled up in an oatmeal-colored Mexican sweater, her blond hair tousled, her hands clasped, and her lips pursed, as if in a kiss. He always told people that she had just said, "This one's for you, George."

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: George Barris, 94, Dies; Took Last Marilyn Monroe Shot. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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George Barris, Photographer Who Captured the Last Images of Marilyn Monroe, Dies at 94

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George Barris, who took the last professional photographs of Marilyn Monroe, just weeks before her death in 1962, died on Friday at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 94. The death was confirmed by his daughter Caroline Barris.

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“Marilyn's Impact on Society.” Marilyn Monroe, erinkmarilynmonroe.weebly.com/marilyns-impact-on-society.html.

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Marilyn Monroe had a large impact on how Hollywood is looked at today. Before, females were usually given roles based on their looks. But when Marilyn started her acting career, she didn't...