Blonde girls have a stereotype. In the past, a blonde hair is considered attractive. Yes, blondes they are generally beautiful but along with this, they are tagged as dumb and unintelligent. It is said that they are all just beauty with no brains. Thus numerous dumb blonde jokes have spread in books, magazines, and in the internet. There are also a lot of movies about blondes with little intelligence. Who can best illustrate this stereotype? The answer is Marilyn Monroe. If you ask some people to name a famous blonde, there is a huge chance that you would get "Marilyn Monroe" as an answer.
Marilyn Monroe was a Hollywood actress who was famous for her dumb blonde roles. Marilyn was not a blonde at first. She changed its color as her career grew successfully. Her real name was Norma Jean Mortenson. Her story was one that can be placed in the genre of "rags to riches". Young Marilyn had a less colorful childhood than an average child. She never knew who her father was. Her mother suffered mental problems and was institutionalized. She grew up without the guide of her real parents. Most of her childhood was spent on orphanages although she once was taken care of by the Goddard's. She only got out of the orphanage when she married Jimmy Dougherty. The war came and her husband had to go away. She was then discovered and became a model.
In 1946 she signed her first movie. However with all her attention focused on this, her relationship with her husband began to fail. They divorced the same year. Soon in her life, Marilyn would experience numerous failed relationships. She was even linked to President Kennedy and his brother, Robert. During her first film, she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe and then made her hair blonde. Her participation in the musical entitled, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" made her an instant hit. In this movie, she played as a dumb blonde who dominates in beauty but not in intelligence. This time, the term "dumb blonde" became prominent. She also starred other movies where she played a blonde stereotype. After these hits, her name climbed higher in the steps of fame.
Soon, she became tired of playing the dumb blonde. So she tried other roles as well. She became sick making her miss her appointments. Her last films were failures. These might have caused her to be depressed. The problems in her career and the relationships that were not meant to last showed how miserable Marilyn Monroe could have been
On August 52, 1962, she was found dead in her house. Her death is still a mystery until today. Some say she was killed. Some say it was suicide. The bottle of sleeping pills found beside her suggests that she could have died of drug overdose.
There are a lot of blondes in the film industry. The famous Marilyn Monroe was one of them. However one cannot set aside that a great woman set the symbol of blondes and that was the famous Marilyn Monroe.
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