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Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ / MARR-ə-lin mən-ROH; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution.
Berniece Inez Gladys Baker was born on July 30, 1919 in Venice, California. Her parents, Gladys Pearl Monroe and Jasper Newton "Jap" Baker, were married in 1917, 10 days before Monroe's 15th birthday. Following their divorce in 1921, Jasper kidnapped Miracle and her brother, Robert Jasper “Kermit” Baker, and raised them in his native state ...
Signature. Mamie Van Doren (/ ˈmeɪmi væn ˈdɔːrən /; born Joan Lucille Olander; [1] February 6, 1931) [1] is an American actress, singer, model, and sex symbol who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. A blonde bombshell, [2][3] she is one of the "Three M's" [4][5] along with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, who were friends [a ...
Aug. 5 will mark 60 years since the death of Marilyn Monroe. A photographic look at her legacy. Photos: Marilyn Monroe's star still shines bright, 60 years after her death
Now, Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold, a newly revised and redesigned edition of the photographer’s 1987 book Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation, spotlights more than 100 of her pictures of the actress.
Since Marilyn Monroe’s death, there has been no shortage of biographies, documentaries, docu-series, coffee table books, oral histories, podcasts and art created in her memory — all, in their ...
On the evening of August 4, 1962, American actress Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn the following morning, on August 5. Monroe had been one of the most popular Hollywood stars during the 1950s and early ...
It's been 60 years since Marilyn Monroe was discovered on Aug. 5, 1962, in her bed in her Brentwood home, her hand draped lifelessly over the phone. The shocking death of one of Hollywood's ...