Before the platinum hair, the breathy voice, and the world’s adoration, Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jeane — an ambitious, ...

I first encountered Marilyn Monroe when I was 16 ... to cure me by punishing me each time I stumbled, with blasts on horns, whistles blown in my ear and the removal of privileges like food.

When the Australian-born costume designer Orry-Kelly was locking horns with Marilyn Monroe on the fraught set of Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot, the foolhardy costumier made the mistake of ...