A portrait of American actor Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortenson as a young child, playing on a beach in a striped bathing suit. Norma Jeane Baker, future film star Marilyn Monroe , as a ...

The actress described learning a breathy voice to build the character, the same way Norma Jean learned a sexy voice to become Marilyn Monroe. Charlotte Sullivan in “The Kennedys” (2011 ...

In the film, she stars as Norma Jean Baker, aka a soon-to-be Marilyn Monroe, as she rises to stardom. Rowe would later reprise the role in 1989's Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn. Little is notable about ...

Marilyn Monroe, who was born on June 1 1926, died of an overdose at the age of 36, and her death has been the subject of ...

Before the platinum hair, the breathy voice, and the world’s adoration, Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jeane — an ambitious, ...

N o matter how bright her Hollywood star, Marilyn Monroe was always Norma Jeane Mortenson under all that makeup. The most enduring icon of the 1950s, the blond bombshell of The Se ...

Who was Marilyn Monroe? On one hand ... But on the other hand, there’s Norma Jean Baker, the girl Marilyn was behind the carefully orchestrated image of a siren fit for a president—and ...

In the film, she stars as Norma Jean Baker, a soon-to-be Marilyn Monroe, as she rises to stardom. Rowe would later reprise the role in 1989's Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn. Little is notable about ...

Never mind that Marilyn Monroe was as much a construction and a mask for Norma Jean as it is for any actress today. But beyond even that physical assessment, there's a more troubling parallel.

SIREN'S HEARTis not the familiar victim narrative about Marilyn Monroe. She is still a living icon in the hearts & minds of millions, but in her own time, Norma Jean was suffocate by the mask of ...