Marilyn Monroe would have been 100 on June 1 had she been alive. But at 36, she called it quits, reportedly overdosing on drugs at her Los Angeles home. It was August 5, 1962, and the world woke up shocked. Her lovers, the Kennedy brothers included, were shaken and even scared, for Marilyn was no ordinary woman.

She was all fire and fury, with a pout that got men ignited. For the world, she was a sex symbol, divine and dolled up, an actress who was acclaimed and adulated. But away from the arc lights and glittering glamour, she was condemned, censured and castigated.

A troubled early life

Reclaimed as an intellectual comrade by the Communist Party of Britain,........

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