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Mattel debuts a Marilyn Monroe Barbie Signature Doll to celebrate the icon’s 100th birthday, inspired by her pink satin gown and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Priced at $81, the doll releases Aug. 18 in collaboration with The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC, continuing a line of Monroe-inspired Barbie dolls that honors her legacy as a fashion and film icon.
Dakota Johnson, 36, is set to play Marilyn Monroe in Flesh Impact, a Venice Film Festival short that imagines Monroe living past age 36. First-look photos show Johnson with a blonde bob, a departure from her brunette look, while Ellen Burstyn portrays a mature Monroe. The project, written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, honors Monroe’s 100th birthday and features two Monroes—Johnson as the younger version and Burstyn as the older one.
Dakota Johnson stars as Marilyn Monroe in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 17‑minute short Flesh Impact, a nontraditional reimagining of the Hollywood icon that goes beyond public image and debuts at the Venice Film Festival, with Ellen Burstyn portraying an older version; Gyllenhaal initially worried Johnson didn’t resemble Monroe, but aims to explore identity and legacy for Monroe’s centennial.
Dakota Johnson undergoes a dramatic makeover to portray Marilyn Monroe in the Genesis-backed short film Flesh Impact, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and featuring Ellen Burstyn. Johnson plays one of two versions of Monroe in a project described as a love letter to the icon, with the World Premiere set for the 2026 Venice International Film Festival where Burstyn will receive the Golden Lion. The look includes a curly blonde bob, rosy makeup, and Monroe’s signature beauty mark, marking a bold onscreen transformation for the actor.
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.