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“I like people. The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.” –– Marilyn Monroe Marilyn was almost always happy to sign autographs, pose for photographs, or do a twirl for an 8mm movie camera. Wherever she went, the fans were there. Within hours of her arrival at a hotel, the press got wind of the […]

To speak of Marilyn Monroe is to speak of an actress, an icon and even an industry. The fascination with the most famous “blonde” in Hollywood history moves money around its many facets. Although of all of them, one of the most unknown is related to her passion for cars. Marilyn Monroe Norma Jeane, early […]

The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. The supporting cast features Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach and Kevin McCarthy. It marked the last completed film of both Gable and Monroe. For Gable, the film was posthumously released, while […]

While we see tons of pictures on the iconic blonde every day, these 28 photos give a rare insight into her real life… Marilyn Monroe 1927: This photo shows Marilyn (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) at one year old. Marilyn Monroe 1931: At five years old, she had the bright blonde hair that she would later […]

There is more than one version of why and/or how Marilyn posed in a burlap potato sack. The story is that Marilyn was once chastised by a female newspaper columnist for wearing a low-cut red dress to a party at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Marilyn Monroe According to Marilyn, the columnist called her cheap and […]

On Jan. 14, 1954, Marilyn Monroe and retired baseball player Joe DiMaggio were married in San Francisco. By Oct. 4, 1954, the marriage was over. Even for Hollywood, where unhappy endings for the real love stories come with almost unseemly haste, this ending seemed abrupt. It was only last January that the press was mobbing […]

Born 1911 as Natalia Postmann in Berlin, German actress, writer and drama coach Natasha Lytess moved to the United States and settled down in Los Angeles. She had hoped for a great stage career, but her accent and her unfeminine appearance limited the roles she could play. Marilyn Monroe Lytess is known best for her […]

A meeting of two matriarchs, you have to wonder what the two were actually thinking of each other. Two of the most widely recognized women of their times who couldn’t be more different. They met in London for the Royal Film Premier to watch The Battle of River Plate. Monroe was not in the film, but […]

The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir heist film directed by John Huston. Based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, it tells the story of a jewel robbery in a Midwestern city. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen, and features James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, […]

Marilyn Monroe posed for Fourth of July, wearing a bikini with some oversized fireworks and a sign that reads “Beware of Danger, July 4th”. These photographs were taken by Bert Reisfeld in 1953.‬ Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Little-known facts about Marilyn Monroe will […]