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"Popular opinion and all that goes to promote it is a horribly unsteady conveyance for life," said Sir Lawrence Olivier after the death of Marilyn Monroe. That quote very acutely summarizes the tragedy that was Marilyn Monroe's life, and sadly, her death.

Born Norma Jean Mortensen, Monroe (whose studio later changed her name) was the illegitimate child of a man who ran off and left her mother before Norma Jean was born. During her childhood, Norma Jean suffered through a cycle of tragedy that included sexual abuse and the institutionalization of her mother after a nervous breakdown. She lived with strict foster parents after that, telling media later in life, "They were terribly strict... they didn't mean any harm... it was their religion. They brought me up harshly." Part of that harshness was a pre-arranged marriage to a factory worker at age sixteen, a marriage that wouldn't survive the start of Monroe's stardom and the launch of her husband's merchant marine ca...

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