Marilyn Monroe was Hollywood's archetypal dumb blonde. She was also one smart cookie. That's the twist in Lois Banner's richly researched biography "Marilyn: the Passion and the Paradox." The passion ...
When I was writing my biography of Marilyn Monroe, several editors deemed her a shopworn subject. This was in the 1980s. They, of course, misunderstood Monroe’s perennial place in the American ...