Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an embl
Monroe in 1953
Monroe as an infant, c. 1927
Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44. They married when she was sixteen and divorced in 1946, when she was twenty.
A photo of Monroe taken by David Conover in 1944 at the Radioplane Company
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the B
Marilyn Monroe
…drama The Misfits (1961). Monroe's troubled private life received much attention. Her marriages to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and to playwright Arthur Miller were highly publicized; both ended in divorce. On August 4, 1962, Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose at her Los Angeles home. Her death…
Miller in 1966
While newsmen take notes, Chairman Martin Dies Jr. of the House Un-American Activities Committee reads and proofs his letter replying to Pres. Roosevelt's attack on the committee, October 26, 1938
Miller and Marilyn Monroe tie the knot in Westchester County, New York, June 1956
Miller at the 1986 PEN Congress