Marilyn Monroe. Famous actress, model, sex symbol, and very famous for her love affairs with many celebrities in the 50’s and 60’s. Sadly, her life was taken away from her at the young age of thirty-six. She was found dead at her house in Los Angeles, California, naked, her hand on the telephone, and an empty bottle of sleeping pills by her bed. Coroner ruled it a drug overdose. But was it an accident? Or did someone have it out for her? Let’s go back in time and examine the case of Marylin Monroe’s death and really figure out if this was a suicide or a homicide.
Character Analysis
Marilyn Monroe’s life along with her personality was very messy. In February 1961, after confessing to a doctor that she had considered suicide, Monroe found herself following her mother's path when she was committed to the Payne Whitney Clinic in New York (Ott 1). She was surely available for scenarios of fatal unhappiness: her third marriage had recently ended; she had no children; she was facing increased problems of drug-dependency; she had been dropped by the president and his brother Bobby; she had lately been sexually humiliated by the Rat Pack and associates at the Cal-Neva lodge in Nevada; she had been fired from a film by her studio for persistent lateness and unreliability; she was conferring with Communists and was such a political radical that the FBI thought her dangerous—or, more or less, she was the patron saint of all glowing and talented women who are abused, exploited, and mocked by cruel men, and she’d had enough (Thomson 1). Marilyn Monroe’s life was a mess from childhood, and it affected her life and may have been the cause of her suicide.
Monroe was a very insecure woman. Marilyn Monroe stated, “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” Even though she was proud of herself and her fame, she was still insecure deep down.
Conspiracy Descriptions (Main Idea and Details with Survey Results)
The first conspiracy theory is that Marilyn Monroe committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates. After some of her famous movie such as All about Eve, Niagara, and later Gentlemen prefer blondes, and she became the glamorous figure we know today (Pettinger 1). But what most people didn’t know was Marilyn Monroe was an insecure woman. Don Murray stated, “She was a very experienced film actress, but she could forget so many of the mechanical techniques. She would constantly miss her marks so she would be out of focus or out of the light or in a shadow. I think it was a lack of confidence. For somebody who the camera loved, she was still terrified of going before the camera and broke out in a rash all over her body.” She suffered bad depression and felt useless at times. Her anxieties caused her to experience alcohol abuse, her friend, James Bacon recalled a night of her swallowing multiple pills and with champagne and straight vodka, and when he asked her to slow it down, Monroe said, “It hasn’t killed me yet.” and she continued to pop pills. In 1961, Monroe got very worried about following in her mother’s footsteps, and told her psychiatrist that she had considered suicide, and admitted herself into Payne Whitney Clinic in New York (Ott 1). Sadly, just two years later, she was found dead in her bed at 3am by her psychiatrist (Hertel and Neff 1).
The second conspiracy theory is that Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the hand of 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy and/or his brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. It was very strange to some of her friends that she had committed suicide. Her friend James Bacon said he saw her a few days before her death and said she had plans to go to Mexico. She never seemed a bit sad (Dimuro 1). Suspicions had risen when the coroners did her autopsy. Her death was ruled an “Overdose” but there was no sign of any capsules in her stomach, and they found an unexplained bruise on her lower body. (Dimuro 1) But who could've killed her? Who could've staged a suicide? Who wanted her dead? How about none other than the infamous Kennedy brothers, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy? After Monroe sang to him on his birthday, people suspected an affair, even though it was never on record that anything happened between these individuals. Monroe carried around a red diary that she had written in secrets about all the famous people she had affairs with, and Mr. President slipped a lot of classified secrets when they were together. She threatened Bobby Kennedy to spill that President Kennedy was going to set up a mission to kill Cuban President, Fidel Castro (Was Marylin Monroe killed over this JFK Secret 1). It is possible that the Kennedy’s could have hired anyone to kill her or provided drugs that could have caused her to overdose. (English 1). Ever since her death, the red diary hasn’t been seen.
Both conspiracies have a lot of support to back them up. But the ugly truth is still a mystery. Was it an accident? Or was she murdered in cold blood? A survey of about 40 people held at College of the Mainland revealed 50% of people believed she was murdered by the Kennedy brothers, and 50% of people she committed suicide.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Marilyn Monroe was an iconic sex symbol that left a strong legacy. All she wanted was to be was great. After weeks of reading articles and doing research, it's still a mystery on how the young super star died.
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