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, ...

Like many celebrities who died young, how Marilyn Monroe died remains a mystery, with several conspiracy theories surrounding ...

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 ...

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’s marriage to Joe DiMaggio, the Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, is virtually a footnote in her biography. But the relationship has been brought to wide attention again, and for ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was writing my biography of Marilyn Monroe, several editors deemed her a shopworn subject. This was in the 1980s. They, of course, misunderstood Monroe’s perennial place in the American ...

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 ...

Running time: 166 minutes. Rated NC-17 (some sexual content). Out Sept. 16 in New York. On Netflix Sept. 28. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ controversial 2000 fiction book about the actress who died in ...

The Broadway version of “Smash” does in a swift and an engaging 90 minutes what it took the NBC TV series two seasons of episodes to accomplish. The only problem for the stage musical, which opened ...