Marilyn Monroe was Hollywood’s archetypal dumb blonde. She was also one smart cookie.That’s the twist in Lois Banner’s richly researched biography “Marilyn: the Passion and the Paradox” (Bloomsbury, ...

Although she'd become the most desirable woman on the planet, no one wanted Norma Jeane Mortenson when she was little. Born the morning of June 1, 1926, in the charity ward of Los Angeles General ...

Marilyn Monroe received a diamond eternity band as an engagement and wedding ring from Joe DiMaggio. Here’s what to know about her ring.

Because Marilyn Monroe has been so enamored, so analyzed since her death in 1962, at the young age of 36, there have been countless projects about her life, many of them dramatizations that require an ...

Is Netflix's Blonde based on a true story? What was Marilyn Monroe's childhood like? In the movie: In the early scenes of Blonde, we see a young Monroe – or Norma, as she was known then – struggling ...

Blonde tells the story of Norma Jeane Baker, from her childhood with an absent father and unstable mother, through her rise to stardom as Marilyn Monroe and her eventual suicide at the age of 36.

No student of biography – and certainly no devotee of Marilyn Monroe biographies – should be without “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe” (Metropolitan Books, 384 pages, $26). Nevertheless, caveat ...

Marilyn Monroe is ready for her closeup, again. Some incredible images of Monroe that were snapped by WPIX veteran Marvin Scott as a teenager in 1955 are going up for sale. The award-winning Channel ...