Marilyn Monroe would be turning 100 years old on June 1 of this year. Talk about Hollywood royalty, and a bright star was passed far too young. Her legacy lives on, of course, and in honor of the ...

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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." The passion ...

Poor Marilyn Monroe. A strange life, a strange death and a strange posthumous existence, thanks to the thumb-suckers of journalism and academia. She has to date been the subject of "thousands of ...

Next month, it will be 100 years since the birth of Marilyn Monroe, an occasion marked by a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, a season of films at the BFI and the publication of a ...