Complete the sentences with the appropriate verbs in past simple (1)

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past1ex.jpg1. In 1946 Marilyn Monroe to a film studio and she to be in a film. They her a contract and after that she over 30 films. She a big star in Hollywood, but she happy. She a lot of drugs because she often depressed and she not sleep. She from drugs at 36.
2. In 1927 Billie Holiday and her mother to New York. She singing in night Clubs in Harlem. She only 18 years old when she her first record. She more than 200 songs and very famous. She not get much money from her records and as a night club singer all her life. In1954 she on a tour to Europe, where she ten concerts in Germany.
3. After the First World War Ernest Hemingway to the USA. He married for the first time in 1921. He a journalist and a writer. He six novels and a lot of short stories. He four times and a lot in Europe and Africa. He in Paris and other European cities.
4. Andy Warhol art and a job as a graphic designer in New York. He famous as a pop artist in the 1960s. He ordinary objects and portraits of film stars and musicians. In 1968 a woman him, but not kill him.