Marilyn Monroe is the paradigm of 20th-century Hollywood movie stardom. She’s the ultimate bombshell. The embodiment of the sex symbol. The blueprint for our contemporary understanding of fame and its perils.

NEW YORK – The flesh-colored, skin-tight beaded gown Marilyn Monroe wore during her breathless rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy is going on the auction block this fall. Julien’s Auctions is offering the sequined stunner at ...

Marilyn Monroe, aka Norma Jeane Mortenson, was born on June 1, 1926 and died on August 4, 1962. In the intervening years she became a sex symbol, a controversy magnet, a yoga pioneer, and one of the