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Marilyn Monroe is not only one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, but one of the biggest icons in cinematic history; while some of her films live up to her legendary status, others prove how much of a star she was through their relative mediocrity. Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926, Marilyn Monroe went on to become the most definitive sex symbol in perhaps the entire history of Hollywood. After her death at the tragically young age of 36 in 1962, Monroe became an everlasting icon of pop culture, immortalized in not only her own filmography but also in artwork such as Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych. Artists and filmmakers, to this day, still explore the icon that was Marilyn Monroe, with a recent example being Andrew Dominick's incredibly divisive Blonde, which depicts a fictionalized version of her career with an outstanding...