50 years without Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe, portrait by Andy Warhol

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Her life appeared often in the tabloids, while her alleged relationship with late President Kennedy was the scandal of the time. Half a century after her death, caused by excessive use of barbiturates -although conspiracy theories find Kennedy family behind it- she remains a symbol, that many artists still try to imitate, among which Madonna, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Ashley Judd, and Mira Sorvino.

According to Susan Bernard, the writer of Marilyn: Intimate Exposures, Marilyn Monroe remains unique because she "both satisfied the Puritanism of the 1950s and mocked it [...] She dared to do what most women didn’t dare do at that time - like her skirt billowing up over the subway grate.”