She vigorously played the dumb-blonde stereotype in her movie roles, but there is nothing at all dumb about Marilyn Monroe. Born to a single mother who suffered from severe mental illness, the odds were stacked against the girl originally named Norma Jeane from the very beginning. She became a ward of the state and bounced around from foster home to foster home. The fact that she rose from such impoverished beginnings to become one of the top-billed acts in Hollywood speaks for itself.

Inside you will read about....

• From foster child to movie star
• The scene with the white dress
• Marilyn the Jew
• Diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia
• Marilyn’s first overdose
• The presidential affair
• Locked in the psych ward
• And much more!

Discover the life and legend that is Marilyn Monroe.