LIFE Remembering Marilyn

From a hard childhood lived largely in foster homes, she ascended to the highest of Hollywood heights- a screen icon beyond compare. And then she died young under mysterious circumstances, tragically cementing her legend. The life story of Norma Jeane Baker, the girl who would become Marilyn Monroe, is as thrilling, glamorous and dramatic as anything seen on the big screen, and the camera was there to capture every chapter.

With intimate, rarely seen photographs of a pretty little child growing up in California during the 1930s right through to the classic imagery of the movie star in the 1950s and '60s made by LIFE's legendary team of photographers, this book is a warm portrait of a woman who was majestic and vulnerable in equal measure. These pages prove beyond any doubt: There has never been another like Marilyn, and there never will be.



 ISBN-13 : 9781603200790
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment, Inc
Publication date : 10/13/2009
Series : LIFE Great Photographers Series
Author : Life Magazine Editors

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Norma Jeane Baker (a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe) lived only 36 years (1926-62), all but the last dozen far away from public fame. During that brief time, she became the very embodiment of female sexiness and naïve erotic allure, qualities made only more poignant by her personal tragedy and early death. LIFE Remembering Marilyn restores the legacy of the doomed American sex goddess in images that still arrest our attention.