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 emblem of the era’s sexual revolution. Arguably, she is still considered a sex symbol today. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2023) by the time of her death of a drug overdose in 1962. Long after she died, she remains a pop cultur