Actress, model and singer Marilyn Monroe obsessed the world as a celebrity ahead of her time. Her legend was enough to captivate audiences in cinemas and beyond, becoming such an icon that she was even able to perform to a US President.
When she died from a suspected overdose in 1962, she'd been married three times - last of all to legendary playwright Arthur Miller, who famously snubbed her funeral.
Her marriage to Arthur - who himself died in 2005 at the age of 89 - had been the longest of her three. She'd wed James Dougherty, a police officer, in 1942 before they split four years down the line.
Her second spouse was US baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, tying the knot in 1954 but going their separate ways only a year later.
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