Marilyn Monroe Timeline

• 6/1/26 - Birth Date
  
• 9/13/35 - Entered orphanage
  
• 6/26/37 - Left orphanage
  
• 6/19/42 - Married James E. Dougherty
  
• 6/26/45 - Photographed by David Conover for Yank magazine
  
• 8/2/45 - Filled out an application for the Blue Book Modeling
• Agency (as Norma Jeane Dougherty)
  
• 7/17/46 - First interview at Fox with Ben Lyon
  
• 7/19/46 - First screen test, for Fox
  
• 7/29/46 - First time mentioned in a Hollywood gossip column
  
• 8/24/46 - First studio contract, with Fox
  
• 9/13/46 - Divorce granted from James E. Dougherty
  
• 8/25/47 - Dropped by Fox
  
• 3/9/48 - Contract with Columbia Studios
  
• 9/8/48 - Dropped by Columbia Studios
  
• 5/27/49 - Posed for nude calendar
  
• 7/24/49 - First interview with Earl Wilson
  
• 8/15/49 - Started A Ticket to Tomahawk
  
• 1/5/50 - Started Fireball
  
• 12/10/50 - Gets a new Fox contract
  
• 12/18/50 - Johnny Hyde dies
  
• 3/29/51 - Presenter at the Academy Awards ceremony
  
• 4/18/51 - Started Love Nest
  
• 9/8/51 - First full length national magazine feature (Colliers)
  
• 3/13/52 - Nude calendar story broken to public
  
• 4/7/52 - First LIFE cover
  
• 6/1/52 - Found out she had the part of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen
• Prefer Blondes
  
• 9/2/52 - Grand marshal at the Miss America pageant
  
• 10/4/52 - Supposedly married Robert Slatzer
  
• 6/26/53 - Placed footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater
  
• 9/13/53 - First TV appearance on "The Jack Benny Show"
  
• 10/53 - Met Milton Greene at a party given by Gene Kelly and signed a recording contract with RCA
  
• 11/4/53 - Premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire
  
• 12/15/53 - Girl in Pink Tights scheduled to begin shooting; MM didn't show up
  
• 1/4/54 - Suspended by Fox
  
• 1/14/54 - Married Joseph Paul DiMaggio
  
• 2/16/54 - Went to entertain troops in Korea
  
• 9/15/54 - Shot famous skirt blowing scene from The Seven YearItch
  
• 10/5/54 - Officially left Joe DiMaggio
  
• 10/27/54 - Divorce granted from Joe DiMaggio
  
• 11/5/54 - "Wrong Door Raid" took place
  
• 11/6/54 - Hollywood's royalty honored MM at Romanoff's party
  
• 12/31/54 - Formed Marilyn Monroe Productions with Milton Greene
  
• 1/15/55 - Fox suspended MM again
  
• 3/31/55 - Rode atop a pink elephant at Madison Square Garden for arthritis benefit
  
• 4/8/55 - Appeared on Edward R. Murrow's "Person to Person"
  
• 6/1/55 - Premiere of The Seven Year Itch
  
• 11/1/55 - Granted final divorce decree from Joe DiMaggio
  
• 12/31/55 - The big new Fox contract
  
• 1/4/56 - Announced that MM and Fox had reached a signed agreement over contractual disputes
  
• 2/56 - Performed a scene from Anna Christie at the Actors Studio in New York
  
• 2/9/56 - Press conference with Olivier to announce their joint project, The Prince and the Showgirl
  
• 2/25/56 - Returned to Hollywood after her exile in New York
  
• 5/3/56 - Started Bus Stop
  
• 3/22/56 - Darryl Zannuck left Fox
  
• 6/3/56 - MM returned to New York after finishing Bus Stop
  
• 6/29/56 - Married Arthur Miller in a civil ceremony
  
• 7/1/56 - Married Arthur Miller in a Jewish ceremony
  
• 7/14/56 - Landed in London and held a press conference with Olivier to announce their joint project, The Prince and the Showgirl
  
• 10/29/56 - Met Queen Elizabeth at the royal command film performance
  
• 11/20/56 - Left England
  
• 12/18/56 - Radio show from the Waldorf-Astoria
  
• 6/13/57 - Premiere of The Prince and the Showgirl
  
• 8/1/57 - Miscarriage
  
• 8/4/58 - Started Some Like it Hot
  
• 11/6/58 - Finished Some Like it Hot
  
• 12/17/58 - Another miscarriage
  
• 3/29/59 - Premiere of Some Like it Hot
  
• 3/8/60 - Received Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress in a Comedy" for her performance in Some Like it Hot
  
• 7/18/60 - Started The Misfits
  
• 8/26/60 - Flew to LA because of nervous breakdown while shooting The Misfits
  
• 9/5/60 - Returned to the production of The Misfits
  
• 11/4/60 - Finished The Misfits
  
• 11/11/60 - Announced to the press that her marriage to Miller was over
  
• 11/16/60 - Clark Gable died
  
• 1/20/61 - Divorce granted from Arthur Miller
  
• 1/31/61 - Premiere of The Misfits
  
• 2/7/61 - Entered Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York
  
• 2/11/61 - Left Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and entered Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
  
• 3/5/61 - Released from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
  
• 11/19/61 - Went to Peter Lawford's beach house to be with President Kennedy
  
• 2/62 - Moved into Brentwood home
  
• 2/1/62 - Dinner in honor of Robert F. Kennedy
  
• 3/62 - Golden Globe Awards: MM presented with the "World's Film Favorite" award
  
• 4/23/62 - Started Something's Got to Give
  
• 5/19/62 - Sang "Happy Birthday" and "Thanks for the Memory" to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden
  
• 5/28/62 - Nude pool sequence shot for Something's Got to Give
  
• 6/1/62 - Last day at Fox and last public appearance
  
• 6/8/62 - Fired by Fox
  
• 6/23/62 - Bert Stern shot the sequence called "The Last Sitting"
  
• 6/28/62 - Met with Fox heads regarding Something's Got to Give
  
• 7/6/62 - Did Allan Grant shoot for LIFE
  
• 7/12/62 - Met with Fox heads at studio
  
• 7/20/62 - MM allegedly entered Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for an abortion
  
• 7/30/62 - Paula Strasberg returned to New York
  
• 8/3/62 - Appeared on the cover of LIFE for the last time before her death
  
• 8/4/62 - MM's last day
  
• 8/5/62 - Death; Autopsy performed
  
• 8/8/92 - MM's funeral
  
• 8/18/62 - Announcement that MM died from a drug overdose by the Suicide Investigation Team
  
• 8/28/62- MM's death certificate signed
  

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