'From Norma Jean to Icon' is told by a photographer who knew the Hollywood royalty best.

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 ...

A fuller picture of Marilyn Monroe is coming into focus. Her last major interview shows a woman pushing back against the ...

We’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t know that Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson (later baptized Norma Jean Baker), or about the famous men she ...

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, ...