A community celebration in honor of Marilyn Monroe's 99th birthday and a 26-foot-tall Monroe statue dedication was planned for Sunday in downtown Palm Springs. "Forever Marilyn Community ...

Marilyn Monroe's part as Emmerich's sexy "niece ... could hardly be so vital without some fragments of truth In its background," wrote Helen Bower of the Detroit Free Press.

Andrew Dominik spent more than a decade making a movie about Marilyn Monroe. So you’d think he ... the director let it rip about the background work he did in adapting Joyce Carol Oates ...

Oates says she had no particular interest in Marilyn Monroe when she came across a ... from a very lower economic background, who rises and becomes enormously successful. And famous, and then ...

But first, some background on her life and career. According to Smithsonian Magazine, Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her real given name was Norma Jean Mortensen.

(CNN) — The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to preserve Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood home, where the star lived and died, as a Historic-Cultural Monument, saving it from ...