Life of iconic Hollywood sex symbol Marilyn Monroe on what would have been her 100th birthday
One of the world's most enduring entertainers, sex symbols and ambassadors of the California blonde would have turned 100 years old today.
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Marilyn Monroe at the 23rd Academy Awards on March 29, 1951. (The Academy / Facebook)
Portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe on patio of her home in 1953. (Alfred Eisenstaedt / Time Life Staff)
Actress Marilyn Monroe smiles in a car after arriving at Idlewild Airport in New York. (AP Photo)
Actress Marilyn Monroe poses for a portrait laying on the grass in 1954 in Palm Springs, Calif., in 1954. (Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Movie poster and publicity still from the 1954 from 20th Century Fox movie 'River of No Return' starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe.
Actress Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, for his upcoming 45th birthday.
Marilyn Monroe in this undated photo.
Actress Marilyn Monroe, right, in a glamorous evening gown, with Joe DiMaggio, arrives at a theater on June 2, 1955. (AP)
Marilyn Monroe is shown on set in the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." (Courtesy Running Press)
In this photo provided by Profiles in History, July 9, 2013, is a 1955 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene. (AP Photo/Milton H. Greene)
Marilyn Monroe talks with Frank Sinatra while an unidentified man looks on at the Cal Neva Lodge in in Crystal Bay, Nevada, in 1959. (Reno Gazette Journal, Don Dondero)
Marilyn Monroe is shown in the first photo taken of her in the famous white dress from the 'The Seven Year Itch.' (AP / Courtesy Running Press)
Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York subway grate while filming "The Seven Year Itch" New York, Sept. 9, 1954. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)
Actor Marilyn Monroe with Don and Alan Shiel on the set of the film 'River of No Return.' (Don Shiel)
Actress Marilyn Monroe on the set of her last movie, "Something's Got To Give," in Los Angeles, April, 1962. (AP Photo)
British actor Sir Laurence Olivier and actress Marilyn Monroe appear on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl," in London on Aug. 14, 1956. (AP Photo)
Joe DiMaggio, baseball's famed Yankee Clipper and his bride-to-be, screen actress Marilyn Monroe, put their heads together as they wait patiently in Judge Charles Perry's chambers for their marriage ceremony in San Francisco, in this Jan. 14, 1953. (AP Photo/File)
Marilyn Monroe on January 7, 1955. (AP PHOTO)
Newlyweds Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe arrive at San Francisco's International Airport, Jan. 29, 1954, with plenty of baggage prior to their departure for Tokyo for an extension of their honeymoon. (AP Photo)
Marilyn Monroe leans against her fiance, playwright Arthur Miller, as he kisses her at her New York apartment house June 22, 1956. (AP Photo)
Newlyweds Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller are shown after their civil wedding ceremony in White Plains, N.Y., on June 29, 1956.
Screen actress Marilyn Monroe kisses Joe DiMaggio as they waited in the judge's chambers for the marriage ceremony which united them November 14, 1954, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/File)
Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch," in New York, Sept. 15, 1954. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)
Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe and her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, arrive from New York at London airport, England, July 14, 1956. (AP Photo)
Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, play a scene in "The Misfits" in this undated file photo. It turned out to be the last movie for both in 1961. (AP Photo)
In this undated file photo, under the 1920's costumes and makeup of this pair of animated females are two of Hollywood's best known he-men, Jack Lemmon, left, and Tony Curtis. (AP Photo)
Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas, center, and other media wait outside the Beverly Hills house of Marilyn Monroe, after reports that the movie star's marriage to baseball star Joe DiMaggio was breaking up, Oct. 6, 1954. (AP Photo)
Actress Marilyn Monroe, left, and playwright Arthur Miller embrace on the lawn of Miller's home in Roxbury, Conn., several hours before they were married in White Plains, New York, June 29, 1956. (AP Photo)
Marilyn Monroe and Jean Pierre Piquet, left, manager of Continental Hilton Hotel, are seen lifting their champagne glasses at a reception offered to the visiting star, in Mexico City, February, 26, 1962. (AP Photo)
A worker sets up a giant 65th Cannes Film Festival official poster showing Marilyn Monroe on the Cannes Festival Palace, Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
