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'''Marilyn Monroe''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] of the [[20th century]]. Her sizzling screen presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]] would make her a perennial [[sex symbol]] and later a [[pop icon]].
==Early life==
Although she would eventually become one of the most celebrated actress in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to say the least.
A [[Los Angeles]] native, she was born '''Norma Jeane Mortensen''' in the charity ward of Los Angeles County Hospital. Her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later had her baptized ''Norma Jeane Baker''. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[Martin Edward Mortensen]], was not her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where Marilyn's mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker, worked as a film-cutter. However in later years, more and more have gone for the theory that Mortensen was in fact her true father.
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