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About this time, she also contracted her first two names, reinstated her father's last name and became Marlene Dietrich. After the privations of WWI, Marlene traded her desire for backroom practicing for the decadence of the '20's. In 1926 she cut her first record, and in 1927 got her first starring role in Ship of Lost Men. \u003cbr\u003e In the fall of 1929, she was \"discovered\" by Josef von Sternberg and contracted to star in The Blue Angel. Although this film was made in Germany, Dietrich moved to the U.S. to fulfill a 6-movie contract with Paramount. Von Sternberg directed all but one of these. Dietrich credited von Sternberg with creating her. \u003cbr\u003e Von Sternberg claimed that he portrayed Dietrich just as she was. Clearly von Sternberg taught her most of what she learned about the process of making a movie and specifically her image. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Her major claim to fame in this period is her work with the USO. Although much has been made of her hobnobbing with the U.S. brass, there is no doubt that she made a major contribution to the morale of the troops. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the French \u0026amp; German campaign she often rode with Patton at the front. \u003cbr\u003e Her vehement denouncement of the Nazi regime and her participation in Radio broadcasts aimed at Germany got the desired result - she got under the skin of the Nazis. For her work, the U.S., French and (eventually) Israeli governments awarded her medals. \u003cbr\u003e In 1950, Dietrich made one of her great movies. Stage Fright by Alfred Hitchcock is not a superficial movie; perhaps that is why it was one of his less well-received outings initially. \u003cbr\u003e However, it's reputation has grown over the years and rightly so. 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She endured a childhood of poverty, misery, sexual abuse at the age of eight, and years in foster homes and orphanages after her mother suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized. Escape from this cycle came at the age of sixteen with an arranged marriage to a 21 year old aircraft plant worker. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile working at the Radio Plane Company factory in Burbank, she had her picture taken by a visiting Army photographer. Norma Jean then began modeling bathing suits and, after bleaching her hair blonde, began posing for pinups and glamour photos. Howard Hughes saw some of her photographs and expressed an interest in giving her a screen test for RKO, but Ben Lyon of 20th Century-Fox beat Hughes to the punch, signing Norma Jean Baker to a contract and changing her name to Marilyn Monroe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarilyn achieved celebrity with starring roles in three 1953 features—\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-9 c2-a c2-ah c2-s c2-o c2-18 c2-ai c2-3 x-d-ux\"\u003eNiagra, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-9 c2-a c2-ah c2-s c2-o c2-18 c2-ai c2-3 x-d-ux\"\u003e How To Marry A Millionaire.\u003c\/em\u003e She also posed in a series of nude calendar photos, taken in 1948, which appeared in the December 1953 debut issue of Playboy magazine. By the end of the year, Monroe had been voted the top star of 1953 by American film distributors. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn all her film roles, from \u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-9 c2-a c2-ah c2-s c2-o c2-18 c2-ai c2-3 x-d-ux\"\u003eNiagara \u003c\/em\u003eto\u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-9 c2-a c2-ah c2-s c2-o c2-18 c2-ai c2-3 x-d-ux\"\u003e The Misfits\u003c\/em\u003e, Monroe portrayed an object of desire and exhibition. Her basic character grew out of the dumb blonde stereotype. Frequently her characters were nameless, further accentuating her status as an object. But to the dumb blonde stereotype, Monroe added a sense of innocence, naturalism and overt sexuality. Time magazine's sanguine response to Monroe's Playboy centerfold summed up her appeal: \"Marilyn believes in doing what comes naturally.\" Along with this kindly, innocent sexuality went vulnerability. Monroe's characters were often humiliated at the expense of a voyeuristic pleasure, whether being lassoed like a cow in \u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-9 c2-a c2-ah c2-s c2-o c2-18 c2-ai c2-3 x-d-ux\"\u003eBus Stop\u003c\/em\u003e or exposing herself unknowingly in \u003cem class=\"x-el x-el-span c2-9 c2-a c2-ah c2-s c2-o c2-18 c2-ai c2-3 x-d-ux\"\u003eSome Like It Hot\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarilyn's personal problems included failed marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller. Increasing reliance on drugs to combat depression, along with her personal demons, and precarious involvement with people in high places, eventually overwhelmed her. On August 5, 1962, she was found dead of an overdose of sleeping pills. Monroe's story was a tragedy in which the public, the media, and the Hollywood power brokers all share blame. 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