1 / 33 photos Marilyn Monroe Photo Gallery

Norma Jeane Baker around the age of 3, with her mother, Gladys, who would place the young child in foster care and then eventually reclaim her, only to be forced herself to be institutionalized at the State Hospital in Norwalk, Los Angeles County. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Posing in her early twenties. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Marilyn's natural hair color is brown, but she is known to most as a blonde. She first dyed her hair blonde in 1946, around the time she changed her name from Norma Jeane.

Marilyn believed that the right side of her face was her "best side."

Marilyn was roommates with actress Shelley Winters. In fact, it was Shelley who gave her the open mouth smile, which Shelley said Monroe perfected.

Monroe with her first husband, Merchant Marine James Dougherty in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, circa 1943. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Marilyn's first modeling job only paid five dollars.

Marilyn washed her face 15 times a day, due to a fear of blemishes.

Marilyn in a make-up chair with a clean and glistening face in 1948. (Photo by John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images)

Perhaps not as sanitary is the puppy-love face cleanse. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

In 1951 Joe DiMaggio saw a picture of Monroe with two Chicago White Sox players, but did not ask the man who arranged the stunt to set up a date until 1952.

Marilyn appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953.

On January 14, 1954, Marilyn married DiMaggio at San Francisco's City Hall. Nine months later on October 27, 1954, Marilyn and Joe divorced. They attributed the split to a 'conflict of careers,' and remained close friends.

Marilyn performing for American servicemen in Korea in February of 1954. She and DiMaggio had just arrived in Japan for their honeymoon when she was asked to perform for the troops, which she did, much to the dismay of her new groom. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The same year DiMaggio and Monroe apparently had a fight over a publicity stunt while filming this scene from The Seven Year Itch, a sequence which helped immortalize Marilyn Monroe. (Photo by George S. Zimbel/Getty Images)

A not so discreet Humphrey Bogart admires Monroe's, um, glove, at the premiere of the film How to Marry a Millionaire. Bogart's wife, and Monroe's co-star in the film, Lauren Bacall, doesn't notice/seem to mind. (Photo by Darlene Hammond/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Monroe gets on top of a pink elephant at Madison Square Garden in 1955 as part of a circus charity event. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Waiting for the uptown local at Grand Central Station in New York City, 1955. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

She married Arthur Miller twice: the 1st time in a civil ceremony, then in a Jewish (to which she had converted) ceremony 2 days later.

Two great American cultural icons arrive in London, 1956. (Photo by Terry Fincher & Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)

Marilyn's favorite perfume was Channel No. 5 and her favorite store was Bloomingdale's. She also adored the restaurant Romanoff's in Hollywood.

In the film Some Like It Hot, Marilyn required 47 takes to get 'It's me, Sugar' correct, instead saying either 'Sugar, it's me' or 'It's Sugar, me. After take 30, director Billy Wilder had the line written on a blackboard.

Also from Some Like It Hot, Monroe would only need one take to be the most alluring ukulele player ever. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

It's no longer Miller Time. Monroe swarmed by reporters and photographers outside her apartment in New York City shortly after she announced her divorce from Arthur Miller. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In pole position while filming a scene from the 1960 film Let's Make Love. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Having her hair adjusted during location filming for John Huston's The Misfits in the Nevada Desert, 1960. (Photo by Frank Driggs Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The Misfits was both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable's last completed film.

A reported affair with John F. Kennedy began in late 1961. At the President's gala birthday celebration in Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, Marilyn sang her now famous Happy Birthday tribute to JFK. The Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy was also reported to have had an affair with Marilyn shortly before her death three months later.

Perhaps the best rendition of Happy Birthday to You ever? (Photo by Yale Joel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Marilyn Monroe’s signature, handprints, and high-heeled footprints remain outside of Graumann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

The circumstances surrounding Monroe's apparent drug overdose at age 36 at her Brentwood home has long prompted rumors that she was murdered, although the death was listed a suicide.

It was rumored that Marilyn was going to remarry Joe DiMaggio on August 8th, 1962, three days after she died.

In the 1960s, pop artist Andy Warhol created several 'mass-produced' images from photographs of celebrities. After Marilyn Monroe's tragic death in August 1962, Warhol used a publicity shot by Gene Korman for the 1953 film Niagara, for his famous iconic series of Marilyn.