A Visual History: Marilyn Monroe's Tragic Passing

Jun 30, 2013 · on august 5, 1962, monroe was found dead in her apartment by her maid and psychiatrist. She was found lying face down in her bed, with no clothes, and a phone in one. Chapter two analyses how, using a combined repertoire of modern and established motifs of suicide, mental illness and doomed stardom, journalists marshalled sympathy around monroe's death to cast her as a victim of tragedy. On the evening of august 4, 1962, this iconic american actress was found dead at the young age of 36 in her brentwood, los angeles home. The official cause was a barbiturate overdose, but.