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Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York City subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" on Sept. 9, 1954. The former Norma Jean Baker modeled and starred in 28 movies grossing $200 million.

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Marilyn Monroe with her second husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, during their wedding ceremony at San Francisco City hall on April 1, 1954. The marriage last nine months.

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Marilyn Monroe with her husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, in the 1950s.

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Marilyn Monroe with her husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, in the 1950s.

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Marilyn Monroe, and her co-star, French actor and singer Yves Montand, share a glass of champagne in 1960 in Hollywood after the screening of the movie "Let's Make Love" directed by George Cukor.

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American actress Marilyn Monroe poses in 1959 for the photographers at La Guardia Airport before flying to Chicago, for the presentation of her film "Some Like It Hot".

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Marilyn Monroe and her third husband, writer Arthur Miller, at the Comedy Theatre in London in the opening-night audience for Miller's new play, "A view from the Bridge" on Oct. 11, 1956.

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American writer Arthur Miller and actress Marilyn Monroe few days before they were married on June 27, 1956.

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Marilyn Monroe a few weeks before she died on Aug. 5, 1962 at the age of 36.

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Actress Marilyn Monroe with her second husband, American baseball player Joe DiMaggio, leaving the city hall of San Francisco after their marriage on April 1, 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe with her second husband, American baseball player Joe DiMaggio.

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Actress Marilyn Monroe with her second husband, American baseball player Joe DiMaggio, in 1954.

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Actress Marilyn Monroe is pictured mimicking Betty Grable's famous World War II pin-up pose.

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Peter Lawford, right, tends to Marilyn Monroe's fur as she prepares to sing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden gala in New York on May 19, 1962 .

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Actress Marilyn Monroe, right, in a glamorous evening gown, with Joe DiMaggio, arrives at the theater on June 2, 1955.

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Marilyn Monroe, right, with husband Arthur Miller, is shown in the final weeks of filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" in October 1956.

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Marilyn Monroe, right, wearing a burnished gold gown meets Queen Elizabeth II in London in October of 1956. The photograph is included in a 2012 book, "Marilyn in Fashion," published by Running Press.

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Marilyn Monroe is shown wearing a knife-pleated gold gown made from one complete circle of fabric. She wore this dress in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." A half-century later, the '50s bombshell is a new generation's pop-culture phenomenon.

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Joe DiMaggio baseball's famed "Yankee Clipper," and screen actress Marilyn Monroe, smile cheek to cheek as they wait patiently in Judge Charles Perry's chambers for their marriage ceremony in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe plays at the beach with her dog Ruffles on Jan. 1, 1947.

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Actress Marilyn Monroe smiles in a car after arriving tousled from an all-night plane flight in 1956 from Hollywood to New York. She said she planned to rest in New York before going to England to make a new movie with Sir Laurence Olivier. Sidestepping questions as to whether she and playwright Arthur Miller plan to wed, she said: "No comment, we're really good friends." The two were married June 29, 1956.