Later in 1961, she moved back to Los Angeles after six years in Manhattan she purchased a Spanish hacienda-style house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood. She underwent surgery for her endometriosis and a cholecystectomy, and spent four weeks in hospital care-including a brief stint in a mental ward-for depression. Instead of working, Monroe spent a large part of 1961 preoccupied with health problems and did not work on any new film projects. Her third marriage, to author Arthur Miller, also ended in divorce in January 1961. During the filming of the latter she had had to spend a week detoxing in a hospital. The two films Monroe completed in the 1960s, Let's Make Love (1960) and The Misfits (1961), were both critical and commercial failures. For example, although she was the preferred choice of author Truman Capote to play Holly Golightly in the film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Paramount Pictures declined to cast her due to fear that she would complicate the film's production. īy 1960, this behavior was adversely affecting Monroe's career. She had acquired a reputation for being difficult to work with, and she frequently delayed productions by being late to film sets in addition to having trouble remembering her lines. Monroe in one of her last photo shoots, taken by George Barris for Cosmopolitan in July 1962įor several years heading into the early 1960s, Marilyn Monroe had been dependent on amphetamines, barbiturates and alcohol, and she experienced various mental health problems that included depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and chronic insomnia. Because of the prevalence of these theories in the media, the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney reviewed the case in 1982 but found no evidence to support them and did not disagree with the findings of the original investigation. Kennedy and his brother, Robert, as well as union leader Jimmy Hoffa and mob boss Sam Giancana. Her funeral on August 8, arranged by her former husband Joe DiMaggio, took place at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, then she was interred in a crypt at the Corridor of Memories.ĭespite the coroner's findings, several conspiracy theories suggesting murder or accidental overdose have been proposed since the mid-1960s. No evidence of foul play was found, and accidental overdose was ruled out because of the large amount of barbiturates she had ingested. Her death was officially ruled a probable suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner's office, based on precedents of her overdosing and being prone to mood swings and suicidal ideation. Murray alerted Greenson, who arrived soon after, entered the room by breaking a window, and found Monroe dead.
on Sunday, August 5, she noticed that Monroe had locked herself in her bedroom and appeared unresponsive when she looked into the bedroom through a window. At Greenson's request, Murray stayed overnight to keep Monroe company. She was accompanied at various times by publicist Patricia Newcomb, housekeeper Eunice Murray, photographer Lawrence Schiller and psychiatrist Ralph Greenson. Monroe spent the last day of her life, August 4, at her home in Brentwood. Monroe also began negotiations with Fox on being re-hired for Something's Got to Give and for starring roles in other productions. The studio publicly blamed her for the production's problems, and in the weeks preceding her death she had attempted to repair her public image by giving several interviews to high-profile publications. Monroe had spent 1961 preoccupied with her various health problems, and in April 1962 had begun filming Something's Got to Give for 20th Century Fox, but the studio fired her in early June.
#Death of a starlet movie
Monroe had suffered from mental illness and substance abuse for several years prior to her death, and she had not completed a film since The Misfits, released on Februthe movie was a box-office disappointment. Monroe's films had grossed $200 million by the time of her death. She was one of the most popular Hollywood stars during the 1950s and early 1960s, was considered a major sex symbol at the time, and was a top-billed actress for a decade. Her body was discovered before dawn on Sunday, August 5.
Marilyn Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles, California. New York Daily Mirror front page article, August 6, 1962Īugust 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery,
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