Help!! i need to know why marilyn monroe was important?

Question

well I'm doing a project on marilyn monroe and i need to know why she was important and some facts about her. and if you could think of a cereal name that would have to do with her but not using her name.

Answer 1

Marilyn Monroe was importent because she was a fabulous singer and a great actress. Even thought the charcters she portrayed in her time were usually some ditzy blondes. But in real life she was nothing like those charachters.  

Answer 2

Honey bunches of oats!

Just cause i like them and i dunno i thought she was a ****.

Well, it makes sense in my head (:

Answer 3

There's this great place out there, it's got everything you'd ever want to know. Apparently many young teenagers have never been to or heard of it.... it's called a library.

Does anyone actually do their OWN homework anymore?

P.S.... wikipedia.com  

Answer 4

Marilyn helped pave the way for the sexual revolution by selling s*x in a form that was daring yet within public acceptance, and is partly the reason so many women have the right and freedom to profit from their beauty and sexuality today. A key event to be mentioned is that MM was the first Playboy centrefold (though she didn't pose for the magazine).

Marilyn was also the firs Hollywood star to quit her studio on the grounds of artistic freedom (more specifically, her lack of serious screen roles), and leave to New York to study and the Actor's Studio, and more importantly, become the first female actress to set up her own production company. This was a landmark event in the crumbling of the rigid studio system and saw the rights of many more actors being recognized in the future.

Answer 5

Who said she was? Why don't you do your project on why she wasn't?

It makes more sense.

Answer 6

bri choose the last one 4 ppl thumbs downed.

OK WTF PEOPLE SHE NEEDS FACTS AND HAS 2 DAYS TO WORK ON THE PROJECT. NICE ANSWERS WOULD APPRECIATED. Cmon its called "homework help" for a reason

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Answer 7

If you want to talk about how she's significant to today's society, you might want to explore how the ideals of body image have changed. Back in her day, she was considered the ultimate model of female beauty and s*x appeal. Today, she'd be considered "too fat" to work in Hollywood.  

Answer 8

She was important to the entertainment industry. She redefined the term of a stunning actress, model, and singer. She was in a great movie called, "Some Like it Hot." It was an old movie of course. Look her up on wikipedia. It'll give you lots of info.

She could be Frosted Flakes

Answer 9

Golden Honey Buns cereal ..and  she  has importance as a cultural icon..the quintessential victim?  The sensitive golden girl fallen prey to those who would use and abuse her and eventually destroy her?  s*x kitten who could skim along the thin  line between titillation and pornography? The cunning girl who could hold herself in reserve and play the system?  Why she is held up as a model has always been a mystery to me frankly.   Good luck on your paper.  Hopefully your generation will come up with different models of female reality!  

Answer 10

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; baptised Norma Jeane Baker June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was an American actress, singer and film producer. She won a Golden Globe Award, and in 1999 was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Norma Jeane Baker began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early roles were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received, and as her career progressed she became known as a s*x symbol. She was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955), and became one of Hollywood's most popular performers.

The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona limited her career prospects, and she broadened her range. Her marriage to baseball player Joe Di Maggio failed. While married to playwright Arthur Miller, she studied at the Actor's Studio and formed Marilyn Monroe Productions. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics, and for her performance in Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot (1959), she won a Golden Globe.

The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems and a reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an overdose of barbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibility of an accidental overdose has not been ruled out, while conspiracy theorists argue that she was murdered.

Her reputation and status have grown since her death, and today Marilyn Monroe is considered to be an iconic performer and one of the most significant cultural figures of her time. She is frequently imitated and referenced in popular culture.

Modelling and early film work

While Dougherty was in the Merchant Marine during World War II, Monroe moved in with her mother-in-law, and found employment in the Radioplane Munitions Factory. She sprayed airplane parts with fire retardant and inspected parachutes. During this time, Army photographer David Conover snapped a photograph of her for a YANK magazine article. He encouraged her to apply to The Blue Book modeling agency. She signed with the agency and began researching the work of Jean Harlow and Lana Turner. She enrolled in drama and singing classes and had her hair cut, straightened and lightened to golden blonde. Norma Jeane Dougherty became one of Blue Book's most successful models, appearing on dozens of magazine covers. In 1946, she came to the attention of Ben Lyon, a 20th Century Fox executive, who arranged a screen test for her. Lyon was impressed and commented, "It's Jean Harlow all over again". She was offered a standard six-month contract with a starting salary of $125 per week.

It was agreed that she would change her name. Lyon told her that she reminded him of the actress Marilyn Miller and she took her grandmother's name of Monroe as her surname. She appeared in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Dangerous Years (both 1947), but when her contract was not renewed, she returned to modeling. She attempted to find opportunties for film work, and while unemployed she posed for nude photographs.

In 1948 Monroe signed a six month contract with Columbia Pictures, and was introduced to the studio's head drama coach, Natasha Lytess, who became her acting coach for several years. She starred in the low-budget musical, Ladies of the Chorus, but the film was not a success, and her contract was not renewed. She appeared in a small role in the Marx Brothers film Love Happy (1949) and impressed the producers, who sent her to New York to feature in the film's promotional campaign.

Love Happy brought Monroe to the attention of the agent, Johnny Hyde, who agreed to represent her. He arranged for her to audition for John Huston, who cast her in the drama The Asphalt Jungle, as the young mistress of an aging criminal. Her performance brought strong reviews, and was seen by the writer and director, Herman Mankiewicz. He accepted Hyde's suggestion of Monroe for a small comedic role in All About Eve, as Miss Caswell, an aspiring actress, described by another character as a student of "The Copacabana School of Dramatic Art". Mankiewicz later commented that he had seen an innocence in her that he found appealing, and that this had confirmed his belief in her suitability for the role. Following Monroe's success in these roles, Hyde negotiated a seven year contract for her with 20th Century Fox, shortly before his death in December, 1950.

Monroe enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles studying literature and art appreciation, and appeared in several minor films playing opposite such long established performers as Mickey Rooney, Constance Bennett, June Allyson, d**k Powell and Claudette Colbert.In Ma