Take a look back at the life and times of Marilyn Monroe through photos.
Thursday, August 4, 2022 marks 60 years since the Hollywood legend’s death at her Los Angeles home.
Marilyn Monroe is pictured here in her childhood days, in 1928. (AP Photo) 
Marilyn Monroe poses in a bathing suit in 1947 at age 21 at the start of her career. (AP Photo) 
Starlet Marilyn Monroe at the beach with her dog Ruffles in 1947. (AP Photo) 
American actress, singer, model and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) 
Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe in a scene from the movie The Seven Year Itch.. (Getty Images) 
1954: Actress Marilyn Monroe kisses baseball player Joe Dimaggio during their short marriage in 1954. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) 
Marilyn Monroe leaves the home she briefly shared with Joe Di Maggio in a car driven by her attorney, Jerry Giesler. Monroe had just announced her intent to divorce Di Maggio on grounds of “mental cruelty”. (Images: Getty) 
Marilyn Monroe Entertaining U.S. Troops. (Images: Getty) 
Newlyweds Marilyn Monroe, right, and Arthur Miller are shown after their civil wedding ceremony in White Plains, N.Y., June 29, 1956. (AP Photo) 
Portrait of American actress Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, 1926 – 1962) as she lies on a bed wrapped in a white sheet, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, November 1961. (Photo by Douglas Kirkland/Corbis via Getty Images) 
This year marks 60 years since the passing of Marilyn Monroe. (Image: Getty) 
11/19/1954- Hollywood, CA: Marilyn meets Ella. Looking fit and well-groomed after her recent hospitalization, actress Marilyn Monroe (right) attends a jazz session at the Tiffany Club in Hollywood. Singer Ella Fitzgerald chats with Marilyn, who was escorted by columnist Sydney Skolsky. (Image: Getty) 
American actress, singer, model and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) 
American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), as Lorelei Lee, performing a song in a scene from ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’, directed by Howard Hawks, 1953. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 
Actress Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, for his upcoming 45th birthday. (Images: Getty) 
In this May 19, 1962 photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, actress Marilyn Monroe wears the iconic gown that she wore while singing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, during a reception in New York City. Standing next to Monroe is Steve Smith, President Kennedy’s brother-in-law. Julien’s Auctions will offer Monroe’s gown at auction in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2016. (Cecil Stoughton/White House Photographs, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum via AP) 
Director George Cukor shares a laugh with Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Something’s Got To Give,” in Hollywood April 30, 1962. (AP Photo) 
FILE – In this February 26, 1962 file photo, Marilyn Monroe and Jean Pierre Piquet, left, manager of Continental Hilton Hotel, are seen lifting their champagne glasses at a reception offered to the visiting star, in Mexico City. In late 2012, the FBI has released a new version of files it kept on Monroe that reveal the names of some of her acquaintances who had drawn concern from government officials and members of her entourage over their suspected ties to communism. (AP Photo, File) 
In this L.A. Police Dept. handout, a police officer points to an assortment of medicine bottles on the table beside the bed, right, in actress Marilyn Monroe’s home in Los Angeles, Calif., where she was found dead. Monroe was 36-years-old. The 1982 District Attorney’s report states that roughly 15 prescription bottles were seen at the scene, but only eight are reflected in the coroner’s report. (AP Photo, File/LAPD) 
10th August 1962: The funeral of American film star Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson or Norma Jean Baker, 1926 – 1962). (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
