MARILYN MONROE - IMPORTADO

Forget everything you think you know about this person, Elia Kazan cautioned, in his autobiography. The icon we cherish under the name was in truth the inspired creation of a smart, voluptuous, star struck and self-motivated fantasist named Norma Jean Mortenson. A pure product of Hollywood, she abides across time as brightly as two other self-inventors, Charlie Chaplin and Cary Grant. Few things make an afterlife blaze more mythically than a sexual reputation?ask Cleopatra. Norma Jean paid a huge price to become Marilyn, yet here she is?still setting the bar high for all other would-be goddesses.