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, ...

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 ...

Disclaimer: This article has mentions of violence. Marilyn Monroe’s controversial life, career, and untimely death raised many questions at the time. However, the blonde bombshell continues to remain ...

The movie, which follows a fictional retelling of her life through Joyce Carol Oates' 1999 novel of the same name, focuses heavily on Marilyn’s rise to fame and her relationships with men (both real ...

Biographies are a girl's best friend. Few have done more revelatory and insightful research into Monroe's life as Lois Banner, a historian and leading figure in the field of women's history. With ...

In theaters everywhere Friday and streaming Sept. 28, Netflix cranks out “Blonde,” another saga about Marilyn Monroe. Says photographer James Haspiel, 84, author of books about Marilyn as well as ...

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 ...

The ghost of Marilyn Monroe made her presence felt during the filming of a fictionalised biopic of her life ‘Blonde’, throwing things around when she got angry, the actor who portrayed her, Ana de ...

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 ...

Resurfaced claims show that Marilyn Monroe may have heard wedding bells with this alleged former flame merely 24 hours before her death. In Anthony Summers’s biography entitled GODDESS: The Secret ...

A new biography claims that Jackie Kennedy privately confronted President John F. Kennedy about his rumored affair with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, expressing rare alarm about the actress's ...