Today’s Marilyn Monroe’s birthday; she would have been 85. Celebrate the occasion by clicking through this gallery of rare photos of the star from 1948, when her career was just getting started, at LIFE.com.
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Happy birthday Miss Marilyn! Remember 7 of Monroe’s essential performance
Norma Jeane Mortenson was born 90 years ago today. She died just two months after her 36th birthday, but over three-and-a-half short decades, she became Marilyn Monroe — a sex symbol, fashion icon, and Hollywood legend. In honor of what would have been her 90th birthday, click the link in our bio to remember 7 of Marilyn’s best performances. 🌟💗
Karen? Ivy? Ivy? Karen? …Ellis? This exclusive preview clip from Smash’s season finale doesn’t finally let slip who will play Marilyn Monroe in Bombshell – but it does reveal that, get this,someone gets the part. Revolutionary!
RIP, Jack Cooper, you little rascal.
Sad news: TV great Sid Caesar has died at the age of 91. (Don’t know who Sid Caesar is? You should.)
Did you miss Jack Nicholson’s 75th birthday? Don’t worry – there’s still time to celebrate the three-time Oscar winner by checking out these rare, unpublished photos from LIFE, which show the actor clowning around at his Los Angeles home in 1969.
Debra Messing
If you missed Will & Grace during its run on NBC and somehow find yourself impervious to the lure of late-night repeats on Lifetime, you might have caught Emmy Award-winning Messing last in USA’s Starter Wife. In Smash, her character, Julia, has two main goals in life: bring a new baby into her and hubby Frank’s (Brian d'Arcy James) lives and bring the story of Marilyn Monroe to the stage. WARNING: One of those goals might conflict with the other.
‘Smash’: Who’s Who in the Cast
He left, in May, when the moon was full, and my life admits an absence shaped like a grumpy, maniacal genius. Maurice Sendak was my friend for 35 years, and he remains my muse despite the distance insisted upon by death.
Another reason to pick up EW this week: 12 pages of moving tributes to 2012’s late greats, including Wicked author Gregory Maguire’s celebration of Maurice Sendak.
A new (re)generation
Iconic sci-fi franchise ‘Doctor Who’ is kicking off a new era, as Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor takes control of the TARDIS. Read EW’s latest cover story.