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The 37 pages that link to Marilyn Monroe, each with the reason it gives.
Hollywood star systemBroader topic: Her public image shows how a performer could both embody and challenge studio-crafted glamour.
Ella FitzgeraldRelated: Her intervention helped secure Fitzgerald a booking at the Mocambo nightclub in 1955.
Billy WilderRelated: Wilder directed her in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot.
Arthur MillerRelated: Miller married Monroe in 1956 and wrote the screenplay for her final completed film, The Misfits.
Brigitte BardotCompared with: Public comparisons between Monroe and Bardot reveal different national versions of mid-century screen glamour.
Clark GableRelated: She co-starred with Gable in The Misfits, his final film.
Elizabeth TaylorCompared with: Monroe and Taylor became contrasting symbols of Hollywood glamour in the same era.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or ComedyRelated: Her wins for Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch exemplify the category’s association with screen comedy.
Cecil BeatonRelated: Beaton's 1956 portraits captured Monroe in a private, contemplative setting.
Hugh HefnerRelated: Her image on the inaugural issue helped establish Playboy’s early visibility.
PlayboyRelated: Her 1949 nude calendar photograph appeared in Playboy's first issue.
Some Like It HotRelated: She plays the band’s singer, whose romance with Joe complicates his disguise.
Pin-upRelated: Her photographs circulated as pin-ups and helped define Hollywood glamour imagery.
Sex symbolBroader topic: Her screen persona and publicity helped define the modern Hollywood sex symbol.
Willem de KooningBroader topic: It extends the Women series’ charged, unstable treatment of recognizable female subjects.
Film starBroader topic: Her career shows how studio publicity, roles, and private life converged in stardom.
Suicide contagionRelated: Research has examined changes in suicide rates following extensive reporting of her death.
Anita LoosRelated: Monroe’s 1953 portrayal of Lorelei Lee became the most famous film interpretation of Loos’s character.
Joe DiMaggioRelated: Their 1954 marriage connected DiMaggio’s baseball fame to Hollywood celebrity.
Bettie PageRelated: Like Page, Monroe became a lasting image of mid-century sex appeal, though through a different public career.
Jean HarlowRelated: Monroe's public image was often compared with Harlow's blonde screen persona.
Marilyn DiptychRelated: Her publicity portrait supplies the image repeated across both panels.
Thelma RitterRelated: Ritter appeared alongside Monroe in The Mating Season and Bus Stop.
Dita Von TeeseRelated: Von Teese’s carefully styled image draws on the Hollywood glamour Monroe embodied.
Edie SedgwickCompared with: Warhol’s use of Monroe’s image highlights the mass-media celebrity model beside Sedgwick’s underground fame.
Ernest BeauxRelated: Her famous association with Chanel No. 5 helped cement the perfume’s place in popular culture.
Jayne MansfieldRelated: Mansfield's publicity often invited comparisons with Monroe, though their careers and screen personas differed.
Joyce Carol OatesRelated: Monroe’s public image and biography provide the material Oates transforms in Blonde.
Zsa Zsa GaborRelated: Both women turned glamour into a public identity, though Monroe’s screen performances carried a different dramatic weight.
Betty GrableRelated: Monroe shared the screen with Grable in How to Marry a Millionaire.
Bunny YeagerRelated: Yeager photographed Monroe, extending her work beyond her best-known collaboration with Page.
Jane RussellRelated: The two co-starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and were often compared as screen icons.
Adrien BrodyRelated: Brody portrayed Monroe's husband Arthur Miller in the biographical drama Blonde.
Jeane DixonRelated: Dixon’s claimed warnings about Monroe’s death contributed to her reputation for celebrity predictions.
Orry-KellyRelated: Orry-Kelly’s costumes for Some Like It Hot helped define Monroe’s appearance in one of her best-known films.
Raquel WelchCompared with: Monroe’s earlier stardom provides a prominent precedent for Welch’s image-driven fame.
Thomas NoguchiRelated: Noguchi performed her autopsy and classified her death as a probable suicide.