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 ...

Six decades after her tragically early death, Marilyn Monroe remains America’s undefeated bombshell — and one of our most enduring enigmas. Was the celebrated starlet fragile and love-starved — or ...

The 99 th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth passed on June 1 with scant press attention, but don’t expect the screen icon’s centennial to go similarly unnoticed. The year-long festivities leading ...

A judge denied a neighbor’s petition to raze the Spanish-style hacienda, which the City Council had declared a cultural landmark. By Adeel Hassan The Los Angeles home where Marilyn Monroe spent the ...

As a gust of wind from a New York City subway grate sent Marilyn Monroe’s white dress fluttering past her legs, cameras captured what would become the “shot seen ’round the world.” The 1955 comedy ...