In 1957, Monroe starred in The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, who also directed and produced the film. She often didn't show up for filming and her unpredictable behavior on set created a tense relationship with her co-stars, the crew and Olivier. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office hit in Britain, but not as popular in the United States. The bad production was the backdrop for the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams as Monroe. In 1959, Monroe returned to familiar territory with the wildly popular comedy Some Like It Hot, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. She played Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, a singer who hopes to marry a millionaire in the film, in which Lemmon and Curtis pretend to be women.
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Increasingly worse in the last months of her life, she would avoid everyone by staying in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home. After midnight on August 5, 1962, her maid, Eunice Murray, noticed Monroe’s bedroom light was still on. When Murray tried to open the door it was locked and Monroe was unresponsive to her calls so she called Monroe’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who got in her room by breaking a window. When he got in her room, he found Monroe dead lying nude on her bed; face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were spread around her room. “After a small investigation, an autopsy found a very small amount of sedatives in her system which made Los Angeles police assume that her death was caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the death is probable suicide at age 36” (McNeil, 2012). In recent years, there have been many conspiracy theories about her death, which most said that she was murdered by John and/or Robert Kennedy. Facts say they had her killed because they feared she would tell people about their love affairs and other government secrets that she knew. On August 4, 1962, Robert Kennedy was in fact in Los Angeles the day she died. Two decades after the fact, Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, announced for the first time that he had visited Monroe on the night of her death and argued with her, but these and other statements made by Murray are questionable. Four decades after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains a major cultural icon. The unknown details of her final performance only add to her
Increasingly worse in the last months of her life, she would avoid everyone by staying in her Brentwood, Los Angeles, home. After midnight on August 5, 1962, her maid, Eunice Murray, noticed Monroe’s bedroom light was still on. When Murray tried to open the door it was locked and Monroe was unresponsive to her calls so she called Monroe’s psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who got in her room by breaking a window. When he got in her room, he found Monroe dead lying nude on her bed; face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were spread around her room. “After a small investigation, an autopsy found a very small amount of sedatives in her system which made Los Angeles police assume that her death was caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the death is probable suicide at age 36” (McNeil, 2012). In recent years, there have been many conspiracy theories about her death, which most said that she was murdered by John and/or Robert Kennedy. Facts say they had her killed because they feared she would tell people about their love affairs and other government secrets that she knew. On August 4, 1962, Robert Kennedy was in fact in Los Angeles the day she died. Two decades after the fact, Monroe’s housekeeper, Eunice Murray, announced for the first time that he had visited Monroe on the night of her death and argued with her, but these and other statements made by Murray are questionable. Four decades after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains a major cultural icon. The unknown details of her final performance only add to her