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Actress Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world's biggest and most enduring sex symbols. Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, , at only 36 years old.

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Monroe was born on June 1, , in Los Angeles. Growing up, Monroe spent much of her time in foster care and in an orphanage. In , a family friend and her husband, Grace and Doc Goddard, took care of Monroe for a few years. The couple was deeply religious and followed fundamentalist doctrines; among other prohibited activities, Monroe was not allowed to go to the movies.

But when Doc's job was transferred to the East Coast, the couple could not afford to bring Monroe with them. At seven years old, Monroe returned to a life in foster homes, where she endured sexual assault on several occasions; she later said that she had been raped when she was 11 years old.

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She dropped out of high school by age Monroe had a way out through marriage, and she wed her boyfriend and merchant marine Jimmy Dougherty in , at the age of Monroe never knew her father. She once thought Clark Gable to be her father — a story repeated often enough for a version of it to gain some currency. However, there's no evidence that Gable ever met or knew Monroe's mother, Gladys, who developed psychiatric problems and was eventually placed in a mental institution.

As an adult, Monroe would maintain that one of her earliest memories was of her mother trying to smother her in her crib with a pillow. Monroe had a half-sister, to whom she was not close; they met only a half-dozen times. Monroe dreamt of becoming an actress like Jean Harlow and Lana Turner.