Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson (PROSE: Stop, Thief! ^[+]Loading...["Stop, Thief! (short story)"])) was an American actress and celebrity in the mid 20th century.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Norma Jeane Mortenson was born circa 1926 (PROSE: Stop, Thief! ^[+]Loading...["Stop, Thief! (short story)"]) to Martin Edward Mortensen and Gladys Pearl Monroe. (GRAPHIC: The Doctor's Family Tree ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Family Tree (illustration)"]) She would later adopt the stage name "Marilyn Monroe". (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"2011","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}, Stop, Thief! ^[+]Loading...["Stop, Thief! (short story)"]) She worked as an actor. (PROSE: Digging up the Past ^[+]Loading...["Digging up the Past (short story)"], Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"2011","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})

In 1952, she met the Eleventh Doctor at a party (TV: A Christmas Carol ^[+]Loading...["A Christmas Carol (TV story)"]) at Frank Sinatra's house, (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow ^[+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"]) and he "accidentally" accepted a marriage proposal from her. He tried to avoid it, but ended up leaving the party with her to get married, apparently making her the Doctor's spouse. Marilyn got the Doctor's phone number and later attempted to call him, though he denied the legitimacy of the chapel. (TV: A Christmas Carol ^[+]Loading...["A Christmas Carol (TV story)"]) Despite this, River Song later mentioned her among the other spouses of the Doctor. (TV: The Husbands of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"]) At some point, the Doctor had dinner with Marilyn. (PROSE: Normality ^[+]Loading...["Normality (short story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor claimed to have spent Christmas 1952 at Frank Sinatra's hunting lodge with Monroe, Albert Einstein, and Father Christmas or "Jeff", producing a photograph as proof. (TV: A Christmas Carol ^[+]Loading...["A Christmas Carol (TV story)"], PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"2011","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) On another occasion, the Doctor had apparently spent time with Marilyn and River Song. As he returned to the TARDIS, he bid farewell to River and asked her to tell Marilyn "she'll have to use the biplane" as she was "too late". (TV: Good Night ^[+]Loading...["Good Night (TV story)"])

In Hollywood in 1960, after waking up from taking barbiturates, she noticed Auteur at the end of her bed. He who advised her to stop making her film Let's Make Love, which he said did not exist. She ignored his pleas and went to the studio, beginning filming despite believing the film could be a "career-killer". However, she found that the film's title had become Pasta in Paris, a commercial for the "noodle product" Chicken Auteur Soup, directed by the Noodle Man. She witnessed a stagehand consume the contents of a can of the bone "soup", causing him to lose all of his teeth and his carotid artery to burst, and the Noodle Man eating another stagehand whole. She promptly stormed off the set as a result. (PROSE: Auteur License ^[+]Loading...["Auteur License (short story)"])

After Monroe was resurrected in the City of the Saved, she married Henry VIII. (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War ^[+]Loading...["A Hundred Words from a Civil War (short story)"])

Other references[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Dittero Shandy asked what humans had achieved, Fitz Kreiner suggested Marilyn Monroe. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows ^[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"])

The Eleventh Doctor once showed Clara Oswald a picture of his dinner with Marilyn on the TARDIS scanner. (PROSE: Normality ^[+]Loading...["Normality (short story)"])

The DJ of the Tranquil Repose has a poster of her on the wall made by artist Andy Warhol. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Style magazines referred to Patsy Monette as "England's Monroe" because of her beauty. (PROSE: Bad Therapy ^[+]Loading...["Bad Therapy (novel)"])

When Space Pilot 692 7896 was going to die in a solo spacecraft after a total systems failure, she thought of Marilyn Monroe. Dying that way was not the glorious exit that she had expected, but she had an in-flight recorder on board of the spacecraft. She thought that she would be immortalised on camera like Monroe, James Dean and River Phoenix. (HOMEVID: Scout Ship ^[+]Loading...["Scout Ship (home video)"])

Navigator Lucien Ryne believed that Marilyn Monroe was a 20th century political figure who'd been assassinated with her husband, an Earth president. Based on images in holobooks, he thought she was the most beautiful woman that had ever lived, so he programmed BABE to look like her. (PROSE: Deadfall ^[+]Loading...["Deadfall (novel)"])

Renée Thalia bore a resemblance to Marilyn Monroe, particularly when she pouted. (PROSE: Where Angels Fear ^[+]Loading...["Where Angels Fear (novel)"])

Marilyn Monroe was one of several synthespians that Bernice Summerfield had to choose from for a docudrama about her life. (PROSE: Digging up the Past ^[+]Loading...["Digging up the Past (short story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charlotte Howard portrayed Monroe in A Christmas Carol ^[+]Loading...["A Christmas Carol (TV story)"], though was uncredited.^[1]

In TV: Death in Heaven ^[+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"], Missy sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to the Twelfth Doctor the same way Marilyn Monroe famously sang it to US President John F. Kennedy.

The illustration The Doctor's Family Tree ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Family Tree (illustration)"] misspells Marilyn Monroe's birth name as Norma Jean Mortensen.

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