Marilyn Monroe Interactive Timeline



Welcome to the Marilyn Monroe Interactive Timeline. The purpose of this timeline is to create the most complete and detailed timeline documenting all known events throughout Marilyn's life. We encourage you to post events, details and photos of all verified information and dates.

Timeline

June 1, 1926
Monroe was born in the Los Angeles County Hospital, the third child born to Gladys Pearl Baker (1902–1984). Monroe's birth certificate names the father as Edward Mortenso... View

December 6, 1926
Christened on December 6th 1926 at the Hawthorne Foursquare Church View

June 13, 1926
Gladys placed Norma Jeane in foster care to Albert and Ida Bolender. View

August 26, 1960
Flies to LA. because of nervous breakdown during shooting of the Misfits View

August 23, 1927
Norma Jeane's grandmother, Della, dies at Norwalk State Hospital, aged 51. View

October 1, 1933
**Edit Date** Anyone knows the exact date? Gladys hears that her grandfather, Tifford Hogan, has committed suicide. View

January 1, 1934
**Edit Date** Anyone knows the exact date? Norma Jeane's mother Gladys is admitted to a rest home in Santa Monica, having suffered a mental breakdown. January ??, 1934 View

January 1, 1935
**Edit Date** Anyone knows the exact date? Gladys is committed to a Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, LA County, with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Janua... View

September 13, 1935
Norma Jeane enters an orphanage in Los Angeles as orphan number 3463 View

February 26, 1936
Papers are legally filed to allow Grace McKee to become Norma Jeane's legal guardian. Source: Images of Marilyn book. View

June 26, 1937
Norma Jeane leaves to orphanage to live with Grace McKee and her husband. Source: Images of Marilyn book. View

November 1, 1938
*EDIT* --If anyone knows the exact date, let me know so I can edit it. Goes to live with "aunt" Ana Lower November ??, 1938. View

June 19, 1942
Married her neighbor, Mr. James Dougherty. www,marilynmonroe.com View

April 18, 1944
Arranged by her mother in law Norma Jeane takes her very first job at the radio plane corporation and is assigned the task of spraying varnish on plane feselages at 70 cent an... View

August 26, 1944
Photographer David Conover takes pictures of Norma Jeane as part of the Army's assignment to boost morale for the boys overseas. View

August 2, 1945
At her 11:00 am appointment, with photos in hand and photographer Potter Hueth's recommendation, Norma Jeane signs with Emmeline Snively's Blue Book Modeling Agency located... View

March 6, 1946
March 6 & 10, 1946 Joseph Jasgur takes a few photos of Norma Jeane in the alleyway behind his studio. Seen in his book The Birth of Marilyn. View

March 11, 1946
Illustrator Earl Moran paid Norma Jeane ten dollars an hour to pose in various costumes, as well as topless, at his Sunset Strip studio in sessions from 1946 to 1949. View

April 26, 1946
Appears on her First National magazine cover, "Family Ciircle". source-www.marilynmonroe.com View

June 26, 1946
Photographed by David Connover for Yank magazine. View

July 16, 1946
Marilyn has her first interview with Ben Lyon of 20th Century Fox studios. Source: Images of Marilyn book. View

July 19, 1946
First Screen Test for 20th Century Fox. View

July 29, 1946
First mention in a Hollywood gossip column. View

August 2, 1946
Applied to Blue Book Modeling Agency. View

August 26, 1946
First studio contract with Fox, changed her name to Marilyn Monroe. View

September 13, 1946
Divorce granted from James Dougherty. View

January 1, 1947
**Edit Date** Anyone knows the exact date? Fox renews Marilyn's contract for another six months. January ??, 1947 View

October 12, 1947
Marilyn appears in the play 'Glamour Preferred' with the Bliss-Hayden Miniature Theatre Company. 12/10/47 - 02/11/47. The theatre is now called The Beverly Hills Playhouse. View

July 20, 1947
In just a swimsuit and heels, Marilyn poses for photos at Fox's Annual Golf Tournament and Dance held at the Brentwood Country Club. View

August 25, 1947
Fox contract not renewed, Marilyn is dropped by Fox. View

October 22, 1948
October 22, 1948 Ladies of the Chorus released. View

December 31, 1948
Johnny Hyde was an influential, powerhouse Hollywood talent agent of the 1940s. He became famous for his involvement with Marilyn Monroe at the start of her acting career.... View

February 1, 1948
*EDIT* --If anyone knows the exact date, let me know so I can edit it. February ??, 1948 Marilyn befriends mogul Joseph M. Schneck. View

March 9, 1948
Contract with Columbia Pictures. View

September 8, 1948
Dropped by Columbia. View

January 1, 1949
**Edit Date** Anyone knows the exact date? First week of January 1949: Johnny Hyde buys Marilyn's contract & devotes his entire professional time to furthering Marilyn's ca... View

October 1, 1949
*EDIT* -- Anyone knows the exact date? MGM signs Marilyn for role of Angela Phinlay in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. She is listed only in the end. October ??, 1949 View

April 28, 1949
Low on funds, Marilyn recalls photographer Tom Kelley's business card and soon finds herself in a bathing suit, holding beach ball aloft for a Pabst Beer poster to be titled... View

May 27, 1949
Marilyn poses nude for Tom Kelley the session brought 2 famous nudes A New Wrinkle and Golden Dreams . The second was bought by Hugh Hefner from Baumgarth Co. and became the... View

May 27, 1949
Marilyn poses her nude body across a curtain of wrinkled red velvet. Famous calendar. View

July 24, 1949
First interview with Earl Wilson. View

August 5, 1949
Marilyn makes costume and hair test for "A Ticket to Tomahawk". View

December 2, 1950
inauguration of a Mexican Airlines's plane,with harry lipton. View

December 10, 1950
Signs a new contract with Fox. View

December 18, 1950
Johnny Hyde dies. View

April 1, 1950
*EDIT* -- Anyone knows the exact date? Lands small but perfectly-formed part in All About Eve. April ??, 1950 View

October 10, 1951
Release of Love Nest. View

October 23, 1951
Marilyn appears on the cover of Look magazine for the first time. View

March 29, 1951
Dressed in a dark violet chiffon gown and white fox stole, Marilyn attends the Academy Awards, where she presents the Oscar for Best Sound Recording to All About Eve at the... View

April 18, 1951
Shooting starts on "Love Nest". View

May 11, 1951
Latest six-month contract and Fox converted to seven year deal. View

August 4, 1951
Marilyn is Miss Cheesecake for "Stars and Stripes". View

September 1, 1951
Marilyn begins study with acting teacher Michael Chekhov. She later cites his book 'To The Actor' as a personal favourite. View

September 8, 1951
First full length feature in Collier's magazine. View

October 4, 1952
Allegedly married Robert Slatzer. View

October 16, 1952
Release of O' Henry's Full House. View

October 26, 1952
Marilyn is heard on ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's radio show. View

March 13, 1952
Nude calendar story broken to the public. View

March 17, 1952
Charity Kiwanis Club for Children, Marilyn saw Joe DiMaggio playing for the first time on March 17th 1952,during the game of the Hollywood Stars versus the first division... View

April 7, 1952
Marilyn appears on LIFE magazine cover for the first time View

April 28, 1952
Miss Marilyn monroe's appendix is removed at the Cedars of lebanon hospital View

June 1, 1952
On her 26th birthday Marilyn learns that she has won the role of Lorelei Lee in the screen adaptation of the musical 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'. View

June 26, 1952
Marilyn and her attorney went on June 26, 1952 testifying in her own defense in Los Angeles Court, when there were accusations that pictures of her were being sold in a ... View

July 18, 1952
Country Date USA 18 July 1952 (New York City, New York) USA 30 July 1952 (Los Angeles, California) USA August 1... View

August 3, 1952
Marilyn Monroe, appears at band leader Ray Anthony's Studio City home for a publicity party, she was also at the duplex of friends Dorothy Dandridge and Phil Stern, in... View

August 21, 1952
Marilyn records the radio drama Statements in Full with Wendell Niles at KNBC Station WWJ's Hollywood Star Theater to be used for her August 31 radio debut broadcast. View

August 26, 1952
Marilyn leaves Los Angeles to do a promo tour for "Monkey Business" on the East Coast. View

December 15, 1953
Marilyn fails to turn up for the first day of shooting on "The Girl in the Pink Tights". View

March 9, 1953
Joan Crawford's prudish sensibilities offended as Marilyn picks up her Photoplay magazine award. View

April 7, 1953
Marilyn and Betty Grable appear at a birthday party in honor of columnist Walter Winchell at Ciro's Nightclub. View

June 26, 1953
Marilyn and Jane Russel place their hand footprints in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater. View

September 13, 1953
Filmed before a live audience at the Shrine Auditorium, Marilyn guest stars on The Jack Benny Show in a skit entitled The Honolulu Trip. View

January 14, 1954
By the end of 1953 Marilyn would be the biggest draw at the box-office. She was now romantically involved with baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and in January 1954 they would ... View

January 14, 1954
On January 14, 1954, Marilyn married baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco's City Hall. They had been a couple for two years, after Joe asked his agent to arrange... View

October 5, 1954
Officially separates from Joe. View

October 6, 1954
On October 6, Jerry Giesler made a press announcement and stated "...as her attorney, I am speaking for her and can only say that the conflict of careers has brought about... View

October 27, 1954
October 27, 1954, Marilyn and Joe divorced. They attributed the split to a "conflict of careers," and remained close friends. Won an interlocutory decree from Joe DiMaggio... View

November 5, 1954
Joe and Frank Sinatra go on "Wrong Door Raid". View

November 6, 1954
Marilyn attends a party at Romanoff's to celebrate the completion of filming on Itch. A select group of eighty A-List stars turn out for the evening, dining on Chateaubriand... View

November 6, 1954
Charles Feldmans party on Marilyn's honor at Romanoff.. ... View

February 5, 1959
On the fifth of February, 1959, Carson McCullers gave a luncheon. She seldom entertained any more, her health was so precarious, but Isak Dinesen was in town - New York, that... View

December 4, 1954
Palm Spring Racquet Club, marilyn went there with milton greene to meetup with owner charlie farrell. View

December 31, 1954
Marilyn and Milton Greene form Marilyn Monroe Productions. View

February 2, 1954
Honeymoon couple mobbed by fans in Tokyo. View

February 7, 1954
Marilyn Monroe, appearing with the USO, entertained U.S. soldiers in Korea after a performance at the 3rd U.S. Infantry Division area during the Korean War February 17, 1954. View

February 16, 1954
Marilyn starts ten-venue tour of the troops in Korea. View

May 29, 1954
On May 29, Marilyn began filming "There's No Business Like Show Business". Throughout the summer she was ill with bronchitis and anemia. For the first time, Marilyn began... View

August 27, 1954
August 27th 1954 Marilyn sings Heat Wave for "there's no business like showbusiness". View

September 14, 1954
On September 14, 1954, Monroe filmed the skirt-blowing scene for The Seven Year Itch in front of New York's Trans-Lux Theater. Bill Kobrin, then Fox's east coast correspondent... View

January 11, 1955
Sammy Davis Jr's party at the Ciro's View

October 5, 1955
Marilyn attends opening night of Diary of Anne Frank at Cort Theater, Broadway, starring Susan Strasberg as Anne. View

October 31, 1955
Final divorce decree is granted dissolving the marriage of Marilyn & Joe. Lawyers for Twentieth Century-Fox, Marilyn Monroe Productions agree on a contract. View

November 17, 1955
Thanksgiving March of Muscular Dystrophy Drive View

December 31, 1955
Formed her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, with Milton H. Greene (December 31 1955). View

April 8, 1955
Marilyn appears with Milton H Greene and his wife Amy on the Ed Murrow show 'Person to Person'. She is interviewed about the formation of her new company 'Marilyn Monroe... View

June 1, 1955
The Seven Year Itch (1955) is a delightful, sophisticated and witty farce, using to the fullest extent the mordant humor of director Billy Wilder on the subject of sex. The ... View

June 1, 1955
On June 1, 1955, Monroe's birthday, Joe DiMaggio accompanied Monroe to the premiere of The Seven Year Itch in New York City. He later hosted a birthday party for her, but the... View

October 29, 1956
Presented to Queen Elizabeth II at the royal command film performance. View

February 23, 1956
Obtained order from the City Court of the State of New York to legally change her name from Norma Jeane Mortenson to Marilyn Monroe. View

February 28, 1956
Marilyn goes to court because she had a 5$ fine to pay for having driven without a license 2 years earlier. View

June 29, 1956
Marilyn marries Arthur in a civil ceremomy.two days later in a Jewish ceremony with a small group of family and friends. View

May 12, 1957
Marilyn went to Ebbets Field in 1957 demonstrating her “athletic skills” for Israel’s Hapoel soccer team during an exhibition with a team of American all-stars. ... View

June 13, 1957
Marilyn attends the premiere of the Prince and the Showgirl. Source: Images of Marilyn View

July 2, 1957
breaking the ground at time-life building, marilyn assisted in breaking the ground for the time-life building near rockefeller center in nyc she was 2 hours to late but ... View

August 1, 1957
It was more than a year before Monroe began her next film; during her hiatus she lived with Miller in Amagansett, Long Island and suffered a miscarriage on August 1, 1957. View

January 28, 1958
Marilyn attends the March of Dimes fashion show at the Waldorf- Astoria in New York. Source: Images of Marilyn View

October 1, 1958
**Edit Date** Anyone knows exact date? Marilyn is pregnant again & filming Some Like it Hot at the Del Coronado near San Diego, CA. October ??, 1958 View

November 6, 1958
The filming of Some Like It Hot is completed. Source: Images of Marilyn View

August 4, 1958
Marilyn begins filming on Some Like It Hot. Source: Images of Marilyn View

October 14, 1959
Although Marilyn is due to begin rehearsing in New York for The Billionaire - later released as Let's Make Love - she fails to show. View

November 9, 1959
Marilyn officially begins filming Let's Make Love. Source: Images of Marilyn View

March 29, 1959
Marilyn attends the premiere of Some Like It Hot at the Loew's Capitol Theater in New York. Source: Images of Marilyn View

October 1, 1960
**Edit Date** Anyone knows exact date? Marilyn & Arthur Miller agree to divorce, he leaves their Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow at her request. Late October 1960 View

November 4, 1960
Marilyn finishes the filming of The Misfits. Source: Images of Marilyn View

November 11, 1960
Marilyn and Arthur officially seperate. Source: Images of Marilyn View

November 12, 1960
leaving dr.kris's office View

February 9, 1960
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce awards Marilyn a star on the 'Walk of Fame'. Its address is 6774 Hollywood Boulevard. View

March 8, 1960
Marilyn wins a Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Comedy for Some Like It Hot. Source: Images of Marilyn View

August 26, 1960
Flies to LA. because of nervous breakdown during shooting of the Misfits View

September 8, 1960
Let's Make Love is released. Source: Images of Marilyn View

January 20, 1961
Marilyn is granted a divorce from Arthur Miller in Juarez, Mexico. Source: Images of Marilyn View

January 31, 1961
Marilyn attends the premiere of The Misfits at the Capitol Theater. Source: Images of Marilyn View

October 2, 1961
Marilyn meets Robert Kennedy at a dinner party held at Peter Lawford's beach house. View

March 5, 1961
Marilyn leaves the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital. Joe DiMaggio arranged for Marilyn to be transferred to Columbia-Presbyterian from the Payne-Whitney Clinic in New York. S... View

June 28, 1961
Marilyn enters Polyclinic Hospital in New York to have her gall bladder removed. Source: Images of Marilyn View

July 11, 1961
Marilyn leaves Polyclinic Hospital in New York after having her gall bladder removed. Source: Images of Marilyn View

February 21, 1962
Marilyn flies to Mexico from Miami International Airport. She visited Mexico to buy furniture and artifacts for her new home in Brentwood. Source: Images of Marilyn View

March 5, 1962
Marilyn wins a Golden Globe award for Female World Film Favorite. View

April 10, 1962
Marilyn attends costume and make-up tests for Something's Got To Give. Source: Images of Marilyn View

April 23, 1962
Marilyn begins filming on Something's Got To Give. Source: Images of Marilyn View

May 18, 1962
she agreed to attend the Democrat gala scheduled for 19 May 1962, at the Madison Square Garden and promised to attend the celebration of John Kennedy's birthday. View

May 19, 1962
she agreed to attend the Democrat gala at the Madison Square Garden for John Kennedy's birthday. View

May 28, 1962
Marilyn is photographed nude during the filming of the Something's Got To Give pool scene. View

May 29, 1962
On May 29, 1962, she attended the birthday celebration of President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, at the suggestion of Kennedy's brother-in-law, actor Peter... View

June 1, 1962
Marilyn's final public appearance at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. View

June 23, 1962
June 23, 1962: Bert Stern begins first of three photo sessions for Vogue "The Last Sitting" View

June 29, 1962
The first day of a three-day photo session with George Barris for Cosmopolitan magazine. View

July 4, 1962
Marilyn begins an interview with Richard Meryman for LIFE magazine. Source: Images of Marilyn View

July 15, 1962
Marilyn was planning to act the part of Jean Harlow in a movie about Jean Harlow life. The producer would have been Sidney Skolsky. On 15 July 1962 they went to Indio, near... View

July 28, 1962
Marilyn spends the weekend at Cal-Neva lodge with Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra. Source: Images of Marilyn book View

August 1, 1962
On August 1, 1962, DiMaggio – alarmed by how Monroe had fallen in with people he considered detrimental to her well-being – quit his job with a PX supplier to ask her to... View

August 3, 1962
Marilyn's final LIFE Magazine interview was conducted in Marilyn's new Brentwood home by Richard Merryman, and the article was accompanied with photos by Allan Grant, also... View

June 22, 1962
Marilyn appears on the cover of Life Magazine for the last time before her death. Source: Images of Marilyn book View

August 5, 1962
The official date of Marilyn's death. Marilyn is found dead in her Brentwood home, her death was ruled as a "probable suicide" due to an overdose of sleeping pills. View

August 8, 1962
Marilyn's Funeral at Westwood Memorial Park in L.A. View

October 1, 1995
Marilyn is voted in UK's Empire Magazine's Sexiest Female Movie Star of "All Time"! View

June 1, 1995
The first Marilyn Monroe stamp released in the United States Postal Service's Legends of Hollywood series, issued June 1, 1995. View

June 1, 1995
A 32 cent commemorative postage stamp featuring Marilyn Monroe is issued in the US Legends of Hollywood series. Designer Michael Deas sought to capture the "unique combination... View

October 1, 1997
Marilyn is listed No. 8 in the UK's Empire Magazine's "Top 1OO Movie Stars of All Time"! View

October 1, 1998
Some where in the Fall, Marilyn is voted Playboy's Magazine's "Sexiest Female Star of the Twentieth Century". View

December 1, 1999
Playboy Magazine names Marilyn as "The No. 1 Sex Star of The Twentieth Century"! View

November 8, 2003
Featured on a 1.11 euro postage stamp issued by French Post Office on November 8, 2003. View

December 1, 2003
The first Playboy magazine cover, featuring her, is pictured on one of six stamps issued in a souvenir sheet, issued by Grenada & the Grenadines on December 1, 2003 to... View

August 15, 2005
James Dougherty, her fist husband, died of complications of leukemia in San Rafael, California, at age 84, on August 15, 2005. View

May 4, 2007
On May 4, 2007, a judge in New York ruled that Monroe's rights of publicity ended at death. Edited September 11th: On May 4, 2007, a federal judge in New York ruled that ... View

January 1, 2009
Still alive in out hearts and mind forever View

December 1, 2009
Some like it pot: 'lost' home movie shows Marilyn Monroe smoking jointUS collector puts copyright of 1950s image found in attic up for sale on eBay Buzz up! Digg it James... View