Black Hmong woman Song… , 2. Guilaume Pool02 , 5. Vintage Pearls , 7. Untitled , Looking forward , Bert Visscher , Hard Life , Tymon , My Eyes on the Prize? Monika : , Niels , Dick Leutscher , Vernon Reid , Bonz Malone. These excellent portraits are winners of monthly portrait contests in of group The Flickr Portrait Gallery.
By , Marilyn Monroe was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the Noir Niagara , which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire , which established her star image as a "dumb blonde".
Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early for refusing a film project, but returned to star in one of the biggest box office successes of her career, The Seven Year Itch Marilyn was abandoned by her mother and she spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage.
Just after her 16th birthday, she married year-old aircraft plant worker James 'Jim' Dougherty. In , Dougherty enlisted in the Merchant Marine. He was initially stationed on Catalina Island, where she lived with him until he was shipped out to the Pacific in April ; he would remain there for most of the next two years.
While working in a factory as part of the war effort in , Marilyn met photographer David Conover and began a successful modeling career. She began to occasionally use the name Jean Norman when working, and had her curly brunette hair straightened and dyed blond to make her more employable. As her figure was deemed more suitable for pin-up than fashion modeling, she was employed mostly for advertisements and men's magazines.
