Labels:text | human face | smile | clothing | person | woman OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Monroe, Marilyn Marilyn Monroe She was "like a radiating force lighting up a vast surrounding plain of darkness," wrote playwright Arthur Miller on meeting Marilyn Monroe. But there seemed to be two Marilyns: one with peroxide blonde hair, teasing humor, and breathless sexuality; the other a voracious reader who studied method acting under Lee Strasberg. After a childhood of neglect, Monroe first gained attention through modeling, then through walk-on film parts after producer Darryl F. Zanuck hired her in 1946. Her career took off with "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), and she rapidly became, in the words of Time magazine, "the only blonde in the world," starring in hits such as "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), and "Some Like It Hot" (1959). By 1962 her career was in decline, and after Marilyn Monroe, frequent absences she was fired from the film U.S. film star, 1926-62 "Something's Got to Give." A month later she was found dead supposedly from an overdose of sleeping pills. At the time of her death it was rumored she was having an affair with Robert F. Kennedy, having already had an affair with President John F. Kennedy. CHRONOLOGY
