1Miracle Max
A German-born New York physician nicknamed “Miracle Max” and “Dr. Feelgood” administered amphetamines and other medications to Marilyn Monroe and several other high profile clients, including President JFK, Yul Brynner, Mickey Mantle, Elvis Presley, and Nelson Rockefeller.
2. “Something’s Got to Give” is an unfinished film that was shot in 1962. It was Monroe’s last work, but from the beginning, its production was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death on August 4, 1962, the film was abandoned. Had this movie been completed and released, Monroe would have been the first mainstream star shown topless in a Hollywood motion picture release of the sound era.
3. Marilyn Monroe's sister Berniece Baker Miracle is still alive today at the age of 102 (as of December 2021).
4. The FBI kept a file on Marilyn Monroe due to her relationship with Arthur Miller and ongoing associations with communist front organizations and known leftists.
5. Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe met in 1951 and had a brief affair. When she married him at the age of 30, she converted to Judaism to “express her loyalty and get close to both Miller and his parents.” Soon after their marriage, Egypt banned all of her movies.
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6Monroe The Dumb Blonde?
Marilyn Monroe wasn’t the dumb blonde she portrayed herself as. People were surprised when Marilyn married the intellectual playwright Arthur Miller. It turns out, however, that she was well-read, having studied literature at UCLA, and amassing over 400 books, many of them first editions.
7. Marilyn Monroe’s famous quote “can’t handle me at my worst”, in its entirety actually says: “I’m selfish, impatient a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
8. The Christian cult ‘The Family International’ considers the Goddess Aphrodite, the Snowman, Merlin, the Sphinx, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Nixon, and Winston Churchill to be among the “Spirit Helpers” for the spiritual war of good versus evil.
9. The dress Marilyn Monroe wore on the night she sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” was so tight she had to be sewn into it. The dress was so tight-fitting that Monroe had difficulty putting it on and she, therefore, wore nothing under it.
10. Joe DiMaggio was present during the on-location filming in New York City of his wife Marilyn Monroe’s iconic skirt lifted by the wind scene. He was so dismayed by the crowd of 2000 fans present that he filed for divorce shortly after.
11‘The Seven Year Itch’ Photo
In the famous sidewalk grate photograph from ‘The Seven Year Itch’, Marilyn Monroe sported two pairs of underwear, as onlookers would have been able to see through a single pair.
12. Marilyn Monroe got her chin surgery after she overheard someone call her “a chinless wonder” at a party, behind her back.
13. Marilyn Monroe never intentionally posed for the first issue of Playboy. Hefner paid $500 to a Chicago calendar company for the photos which were taken 4 years earlier. Marilyn was paid $50 for the initial shoot and had to buy a copy of the magazine herself to see the photos.
14. Hugh Hefner published nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe without her permission in the first edition of Playboy magazine. He later purchased the crypt beside hers even though they had never met in life. He is now buried next to her.
15. Marilyn Monroe was terrible at learning lines. It took her 60 takes to deliver the line “It’s me, Sugar”, in ‘Some Like it Hot.’
16Clark Gable's Heart Attack
On the last day of filming “The Misfits(1961)”, Clark Gable said regarding Marilyn Monroe, “Christ, I’m glad this picture’s finished. She damn near gave me a heart attack.” On the next day, Gable suffered a severe coronary thrombosis. He died in hospital from a heart attack just 10 days later.
17. Marilyn Monroe married a police officer named James Dougherty on June 19th, 1942, just 18 days after her 16th birthday.
18. Only one picture exists of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together. The Secret Service prohibited pictures of the two from being taken due to fears of the affair. The photo was drying when the Secret Service confiscated every picture Stoughton took of them. He kept it a secret for Jackie Kennedy.
19. Marilyn Monroe rarely bathed, slept in the nude and ate a lot in bed, and shoved what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep.
20. In Jeffrey Meyers’ biography about Marilyn Monroe - “The Genius and the Goddess,” he wrote that in order to get jobs, she would frequently sexually service the studio heads. Due to the severely limited contraceptive options at that time, she got pregnant again and again, which resulted in as many as 12 abortions. He also describes her suffering from clinical depression.
21Monroe’s Missing Diary
The District Attorney reopened Marilyn Monroe’s death investigation when the coroner claimed coercion to profess suicide. Also, the autopsy file, police report, and her diary had vanished, which they believed had damaging information on the Kennedys. A $10,000 reward was offered for her missing diary.
22. Peter Lawford, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy and one of the last people to see Marilyn Monroe alive, introduced her as “the late Marilyn Monroe” before her infamous “Happy Birthday Mr. President” performance in May 1962. It was most probably a play on her being habitually late. She died in August 1962.
23. The Carlyle Hotel became known as “the New York White House” during the administration of President John F. Kennedy, who maintained an apartment on the 34th floor for the last 10 years of his life. Marilyn Monroe reportedly used a warren of tunnels to enter the Carlyle secretly with Kennedy and friends.
24. There is a 15-minute video of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with a man that J. Edgar Hoover was convinced was President John Kennedy. The video was brought by a New York businessman for $1.5 million, who intends to keep it private.
25. Before and after he assumed the presidency, Kennedy reportedly had affairs with a number of women, including Marilyn Monroe, Gunilla von Post, Judith Campbell, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Marlene Dietrich, Mimi Alford, and his wife's press secretary, Pamela Turnure. He was so blatant about it that he once had a drugged-up Marilyn Monroe sing to him to embarrass his wife. He once remarked to the then Prime Minister of the UK Harold Macmillan “I wonder how it is for you, Harold? If I don’t have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.”
