Originally written as The Billionaire and intended for Gregory Peck, the role cycled through multiple uninterested leading men before Fox hired French star Montand, making his first American film and ...

Marilyn Monroe historian Scott Fortner is one of many who are slamming Netflix’s controversial Marilyn Monroe film. The NC-17 flick, an adaption of Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel, is a fictionalized ...

In 1953, the dazzling, showstopping and glamorous musical spectacle Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was released in theaters. It followed showgirls Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell ...

However, was Monroe's natural hair color really blonde? Well, it turns out that — much like her name — Monroe's appearance, ...

Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since April 2022. Her work previously appeared in Newsweek. The long-awaited film adaption of Blonde by Joyce Carol ...

Norma Jeane Baker was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. She was the unwanted child of an absent father, Stanley Gifford, and her mother, Gladys Baker. A search for lasting love permeated her life, ...

Planned Parenthood hit out against the Ana de Armas film "Blonde," claiming it contributes to "anti-abortion propaganda" for the way it portrays a talking fetus. In an interview with The Hollywood ...

When it comes to Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s, two actresses shined brighter than the rest. We are, of course, talking about Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. But who were those women anyway and ...

According to Turner Classic Movies and Monroe biographer Sarah Churchwell, Let’s Make Love was a project Monroe reluctantly agreed to make because 20th Century Fox insisted she fulfill her revised ...