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 ...

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 ...

This documentary teases a vague conspiracy surrounding Monroe’s death — but mostly rehashes well-circulated facts and rumors. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Nearly 60 years after Marilyn Monroe‘s shocking death, the story is still capturing public attention. Now, a new Netflix documentary—The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, which began ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jackie Kennedy allegedly once intercepted a phone call from Marilyn Monroe that was intended for her husband, John F. Kennedy. According to a new biography — Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J.

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 ...