The voluptuous blonde sex symbol of the 1950s, she made adroit comedies such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953, How to Marry a Millionaire 1953, The Seven Year Itch 1955, Bus Stop 1956, and Some Like It Hot 1959. Born in Los Angeles to a single mother often confined in mental institutions, she had a wretched childhood and married for the first time at the age of 16. Her second husband was baseball star Joe DiMaggio, and her third was playwright Arthur Miller, who wrote The Misfits 1960 for her, a serious film that became her last. She committed suicide, taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
