Marilyn Monroe would have been 85 today

marilyn.jpg Amazing. Here she is in 1959, at an L.A. dinner for Nikita Khrushchev during the Russian leader's official visit to the U.S. She died three years later, at the age of 36.

© Burt Glinn / Magnum Photos


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Mark Lacter
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.
 
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