Past simple: was, were .Marilyn Monroe was an American flm star She .. born in 1926. Her real name ... Norma Jean Baker. Her most famous films ... Gentlemen Preferred Blondes (1953) and Some Lke it not (1959). The baseball player Joe DiMaggio and the writer Arthur Miller two of Marilyn's husbands she ... a very popular actress and when she died in 1962, people all over the world ... very sad.