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"The week before she took an overd*se of sleeping pills and died, a magazine printed an interview with Marilyn Monroe in which she said: " That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate being a thing." But because symbols are so much easier to manipulate (and to comprehend) than individuals, the world insisted that she remain one. She struggled against this fate and the record of that struggle, sometimes comic, more frequently touching, filled pages of the public prints and many moments in the conversations of ordinary people who, in more limited ways, must fight the same fight for identity. In the end, it became necessary for Marilyn Monroe to break off the unequal combat. She died the way the movie stars of fiction so frequently do, and on the morning that it happened one could find shock and sorrow but no real surprise. The symbol died with symbolic rightness. Her death had about it an air of inevitability, perhaps even of tragedy! -The Stars Magazine, 1962.

Marilyn Monroe at Mocambo Club in Los Angeles on October 25, 1951.

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Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum on the set of River of No Return.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Nickolas Muray, 1952.

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Marilyn Monroe giving an interview outside her husband Arthur Miller lawyers home in Washington on May 23, 1957.

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"My career— it's not the end, and I know it. That's the one big thing I've learned in the last year. I don't think I'm different when I say that I want things that concern only me and my happiness. In the movie business, your career comes first. But I want to start with my life first and then pick and choose what else I want." — Marilyn Monroe to Parade Magazine (1952)

Marilyn Monroe photographed at the Henrietta Awards at the Del Mar Club in Santa Monica, January 26th, 1952. Marilyn received a Henrietta Award for 'Best Young Box Office Personality. Her first film award.

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Marilyn Monroe getting ready for the premiere of "How to Marry a Millionaire" November 1953.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by John Vachon in 1953.

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Marilyn Monroe at a U.S. Navy dance in New York City in 1955.

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Marilyn Monroe receiving the "Best Actress" award from Photoplay Magazine Awards for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and
"How To Marry A Millionaire" in 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe sharing cake with soldiers at a luncheon held in her honor on February 18, 1954.

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