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Kim Kardashian arrived in Los Angeles with shoulder-length platinum-blond hair styled in soft curls, channeling Marilyn Monroe as she headed to a Beverly Hills cosmetic-dermatology appointment. She wore a trench coat, Gucci heels and a Dodgers cap, continuing a blond phase she’s revived since 2022, including a Met Gala homage she later said she regrets and discussed again in a May vlog.
A new National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, surveys 100 years of the star’s image through iconic photographs by photographers such as André de Dienes, Eve Arnold, Milton H. Greene, Cecil Beaton, Pauline Boty, Allan Grant, and Andy Warhol, tracing Norma Jeane’s rise from a factory worker to a global icon and the private struggles behind the public persona, with Monroe’s remark that it was the people who made her a star; the show runs in London until 6 September.
Variety explores how Marilyn Monroe’s image and artistry continue to shape today’s stars, profiling celebrities from Kim Basinger to Sydney Sweeney who channel her glamour, persona, and complex legacy to define fame across generations.
Marilyn Monroe’s final completed film, The Misfits, uses stark desert imagery and a trio of aging stars to reveal her unexpected dramatic depth in Roslyn—a wounded, complex woman tailor-made for her by Arthur Miller—while director John Huston frames the story as a meditation on mortality, foreshadowing the tragedy that would cut short Monroe's era.
A new book, The Marilyn Monroe Century, uses photographer Bruno Bernard’s diary to trace Norma Jeane’s evolution into Marilyn Monroe—from 1945 Sunset Boulevard shoots to her Hollywood ascent. Authors Josh Miller and Mark Fortin argue Monroe actively shaped her persona and navigated powerful figures and studios, rather than being a passive victim, and they discuss the tensions behind exploitation in the era. The piece also highlights Bernard’s archive and three favorite images, in the context of the Academy Museum exhibition Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon.
More than 1,000 fans dressed as Marilyn Monroe gathered in Palm Springs to celebrate what would have been her 100th birthday, setting a world record for the largest Monroe lookalike gathering near the town’s Monroe statue and local venues.
More than 1,000 Marilyn Monroe fans (1,037) gathered beneath her statue in Palm Springs to dress as the icon for her 100th birthday, setting a Guinness World Record and underscoring the city’s deep connection to her Hollywood legacy.
On Marilyn Monroe’s centennial, the piece argues she endures not just as Hollywood glamour but as a vivid, vulnerable artist whose work and life show how fame, vulnerability, and craft intersect. It surveys depictions from My Week With Marilyn to Blonde, praising her openness, timing, and method training with Lee Strasberg, while noting how Elton John’s Candle in the Wind and her iconic images shaped her myth. Monroe’s legacy, the article concludes, remains unmatched: a luminous, fallible humanity that continues to define stardom.
A historian explains that Marilyn Monroe used savvy media tactics to control a 1952 nude-photo scandal by collaborating with journalist Aline Mosby to publish that she was the “Girl on the Calendar,” describing the photos as old and taken when she was broke—an honesty that humanized her and boosted her public image, followed by ongoing publicity efforts to counter detractors.
A portrait of Marilyn Monroe’s legacy through The Misfits as a flawed but luminous late-career performance, paired with industry notes on Obsession’s box-office surge and longer theatrical windows, the rise of liminal horror via the Backrooms, and actor George MacKay discussing Rose of Nevada and Mark Jenkin’s distinctive Super 16 filmmaking.
The article recounts how Marilyn Monroe faced a career-threatening nude photo scandal and examines the crisis-management steps that helped her weather the fallout and solidify her enduring Hollywood legacy.
On the 100th anniversary of her birth, Marilyn Monroe’s June 1962 Santa Monica beach portraits by George Barris — among her last lifetime photos — reveal a carefree, playful side that contrasts with the later tragedy; the pictures are featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, and show how Monroe shaped her image with photographers, edited some prints herself, and left a lasting influence on pop culture.
Marilyn Monroe was an avid reader whose personal library grew to more than 400 books, accompanying her through dozens of moves and influencing her self-improvement efforts. The collection featured works from Joyce, Camus, Proust, Freud, and many others, reflecting her literary ambitions and sharp opinions. After her death in 1962, the books were stored, passed through estate heirs, and finally sold by Christie’s in 1999; the full list of titles reveals a lifelong engagement with classic literature, poetry, philosophy, drama, and biographies.
Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood home, saved from demolition by a 2024 designation as a cultural-historical monument, has sparked a legal battle after the current owners sued for compensation, arguing the designation infringes private-property rights and devalues their investment; a federal judge dismissed the takings claim but allowed an amended complaint, while state-court challenges continue as preservationists warn the house risks neglect with no clear acquisition path.
Classic Hollywood icon Mamie Van Doren, now 95, teased her memoir You Thought I Was Dead: My Life of Celebrities, Sex, and Champagne in a TikTok teaser, sharing that the book delves beyond scandal to cover her farm upbringing, WWII-era struggles, Universal years, and cheeky anecdotes with stars like Rock Hudson—part of Hollywood’s famed 'Three M’s' alongside Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.