She starred in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, had to stoop when she danced with Fred Astaire, then became world-famous – and a gay icon – in the original Batman series. But her life behind the scen…
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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait review – the radiant, uncontainable star she always wanted to be ⊕⊕
National Portrait Gallery, London
The actor’s life in pictures, from mousey-haired teen to American icon to her shocking death at 36, beams with the charm that defined a century. But why aren’t we sho…
5 days ago
Marilyn Monroe auction features star's make-up and gowns on 100th birthday ○
The auction has already brought in thousands in bids and includes intimate items from her life.
6 days ago
The Misfits review – Marilyn Monroe is fascinatingly sad in John Huston’s desolate western ⊕
The bleak Arthur Miller-written 1961 American pastoral is rereleased to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Monroe, who plays a naive divorcee who meets three new suitors in her most serious a…
7 days ago
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s final film showed her capacity for playing painfully knotty characters ⊕
Written for Monroe by then husband Arthur Miller, the role of Roslyn is contradictory and complex. It signalled a potential new phase in her career
What else can you call it but star quality? It was t…
8 days ago
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis - Was this brutal condition the reason why Marilyn Monroe was addicted to drugs? ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Marilyn Monroe would have been 100 years old yesterday. Instead, she's eternal, blowing kisses and beaming at us from the height of a fame that never wanes.
Marilyn Monroe lookalikes flock to Palm Springs for star’s 100th birthday – in pictures ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Fans of the Hollywood icon set a new world record as 1,034 people descended on the California desert town to celebrate what would have been her 100th birthday. It was the largest ever gathering of pe…
Marilyn Monroe turns 100! Never-seen-before personal letters and photos of the movie icon go on display ⊕
On display are hundreds of original objects, including posters, portraits, photographs, production documents, letters, and rarely seen personal materials - many seen for the first time.
‘What if I come out with nothing on?’ Marilyn Monroe and the defiance of her final photoshoot ⊖
For the star’s 100th anniversary, Lawrence Schiller relives the nude photoshoot that showed, far from being a ‘messy’ blond bombshell, Monroe was a shrewd controller of her image
A few days after doin…
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Did Marilyn Monroe's doctor cover up his role in her death? He denied prescribing the actress one of the drugs that killed her... a signed prescription suggests otherwise ⊖⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Monroe, famed for her roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and In How to Marry a Millionaire, died in 1962 at the age of 36 from a barbiturate overdose inside her Los Angeles home.