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Awards won by Marilyn

The Asphalt Jungle, 1950

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953

Some Like It Hot, 1959

Please see the Filmography page for more film details.

Marilyn’s star in the sidewalk is right in front of McDonald’s, at 6774 Hollywood Boulevard. The star was placed here on February 9, 1960.

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Marilyn’s Agents

• The Blue Book Model Agency
  Emmeline Snively
  
  
• National Concert Artists Corporation
  Helen Ainsworth
  Harry Lipton
  
  
• The William Morris Agency
  Johnny Hyde
  
  
• Famous Artists Agency
  Charles Feldman
  Hugh French
  Jack Gordeen
  
  
• MCA
  George Chasin

Marilyn’s Beauty Secrets

• Her first husband, Jim Dougherty, recalls that she used to rinse her face fifteen times after every wash.
• At times she would smear Vaseline, cold cream, or hormone cream over her face.
• When not wearing makeup, she would apply lanolin or olive oil to her face as a protecting agent.
• She would sometimes take ice baths, prepared by her masseur, Ralph Roberts, into which she would add Chanel No. 5.
• She told photographer Bert Stern in 1962 that she always used Nivea Skin Moisturizing Lotion.

Marilyn’s Cosmetic Surgery

Marilyn’s Residences

Here is a list of homes where Marilyn lived and the years that she lived there. Please also see the Places to Visit in LA page if you are looking to tour Marilyn Monroe sites.

The Los Angeles Orphans Home where Marilyn lived as a girl still exists today and is known as Hollygrove.

Picture of bungalows 20A and 21A at the Beverly Hills hotel. Marilyn lived in 21A (right side of doorway) with Arthur Miller during the filming of “Let’s Make Love.” Her co-star, Yves Montand, and his wife, Simone Signoret, lived in 20A (left side of doorway.)

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Marilyn’s Natal Horoscope Chart

Marilyn’s Cars

The following is a chronological list of the cars that Marilyn Monroe owned, as well as the cars that she frequently drove or was driven in.
1. The Bolenders’ Model-I Ford-Hawthorne, circa 1926-32
2. Jim Dougherty’s blue 1940 coupe
3, Jim Dougherty’s 1935 Ford sports car-which Norma Jeane retained when the couple divorced
4. A 1948 Ford convertible-which MM purchased when she began to make money and which was soon repossessed
5. A 1950 Pontiac convertible
6. A black Cadillac convertible (license #2166185)-probably the Cadillac that MM received for appearing on “The Jack Benny Show,” circa 1953-54
7 Joe DiMaggio’s black Cadillac (license “Joe D”)-the car that the DiMaggios hopped into immediately following their 1954 wedding ceremony
8. A black Thunderbird sports car-the car MM drove when she moved to New York in 1956. It may have been purchased for her by Milton H. Greene.
9. Arthur Miller’s Jaguar-New York, circa 1957
10. A white Cadillac-the car MM drove (and was driven in) during the 1960 location shooting of The Misfits. It was probably rented.
11. A chauffeur-driven black limousine-Upon her return to Los Angeles in 1961, MM did not purchase another car. For certain occasions, she was driven about in this limo. Mrs. Eunice Murray’s modest green Dodge-For everyday, noneventful occasions, MM For certain occasions, she was driven about in this limo.
12. Mrs. Eunice Murray’s green Dodge – For everyday, noneventful occasions, MM was driven about Los Angeles by Mrs. Murray, circa 1961-62

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Marilyn’s Pets

“1 like animals. If you talk to a dog or a cat it doesn’t tell you to shut up.”
(For more MM quotes or quotes from others about MM, see the Quotes page).
Marilyn Monroe loved animals. During her lifetime, she had the following pets:
1. Tippy: Jippy was a black-and-white dog given to Norma Jeane by her foster father, Albert Wayne Bolender. Every day, Tippy accompanied Norma Jeane to school. He even used to wait ~or her to play with him at recess. Circa 1932, Tippy was shot dead by a neighbor who claimed that Tippy had been rolling around in his garden.

2. A Spaniel: When Norma Jeane lived with the Goddard family, she and her ‘~sister,” Beebe shared a pet spaniel, circa 1940.

3. Muggsie: Jim Dougherty bought his wife a pet collie named Muggsie. However, after she began her modeling career, Norma Jeane had less time for her dog. Subsequently, Muggsie died of a ‘broken heart.”

4. A Chihuahua: At the time she was signed by Columbia Pictures in 1948, Marilyn Monroe owned a pet Chihuahua.

5, Mitsou: Mitsou was a white Persian cat that Marilyn Monroe owned in New York in the mid 1950s.

6. Hugo: A basset hound who lived with MM and Arthur Miller at their East 57th Street apartment in New York. Once, Norman Rosten and Marilyn spoon-fed straight scotch to Hugo to cheer him up. When Marilyn and Arthur split up, Arthur retained possession of Hugo.

7. Butch was a parakeet owned by the Millers. Butch also resided at the East 57th Street apartment.

8. Ebony: A riding horse that the Millers purchased from Frank and Nan Taylor for their Connecticut farm. MM rode Ebony only a few times.

9. Maf: Maf was a little white French poodle who was given to MM in New York by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra had purchased the dog from Natalie Wood’s mother. As has been widely reported, Marilyn named the dog “Maf” because of Frank Sinatra’s alleged mafia connections. lnterestingly, to spite Arthur Miller, Marilyn used to let Maf sleep on an expensive white beaver coat that Miller had presented her. When Marilyn returned to live in Hollywood, she had Maf flown back to be with her. Following her death, Maf was inherited by Frank Sinatra’s secretary, Gloria Lovell.

To see pictures of Marilyn with her pets and other animals visit Absolute Marilyn Monroe Guide by clicking here and then on Animals in her site’s menu.

Marilyn’s Salaries

Marilyn’s salary was probably the worst in Hollywood history. Here are the numbers, you do the math.
First contract with Fox, 1945, $75 per week
Fox contract renewal, 1947, $150 per week
Columbia contract, 1948, $125 per week
Tom Kelley / Nude calendar, 1949, $50
Promoting “Love Happy,” 1949, $100 per week
For “The Asphalt Jungle, ” 1950, $350 per week. $1050 total
Second Fox contract, 1951, $500 per week with semiannual increase up to $1500
For “Clash by Night,” 1952, $500 per week
For “We’re Not Married, ” 1952, $750 per week
For “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” 1953, $1250 per week
For “River of No Return, There’s No Business Like Show Business, and The Seven Year Itch,” 1954 – 1955, $1500 per week
Nex Fox contract, 1956, $100,000 fee plus $500 per week expenses
For “Some Like It Hot,” 1959, $100,000 fee plus 10% of the profits
For “The Misfits,” 1961, $300,000 fee plus 10% of the profits
For “Something’s Got To Give,” 1962, $100,000 fee if she had finished it

Abortions

Did Marilyn have abortions?
According to Norman Mailer, in his book, “Marilyn,” he says that Milton Greene told him that Marilyn had some abortions. Mailer claims she had at least 12 abortions by the time she was 29!
Also, Amy Greene and Henry Rosenfeld both said that Marilyn had told them that she had abortions.
There is no proof of it through medical records and stuff like that though, because abortions were illegal and so no records would have been kept.
However, to have that many “back-alley” abortions would have surely messed Marilyn up gynecologically, but her autopsy report doesn’t report any abnormalities of this nature.

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