Marilyn Monroe - in pictures

Norma Jeane Baker as a baby with her mother Gladys Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Norma Jeane (front right) in 1929 with her mother, Gladys, behind her and her mother’s best friend, Grace (back left) Photograph: The Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Norma Jeane (bottom left) on the beach as a toddler with her mother and a group of friends, circa 1929 Photograph: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images

Dinner at the Children's Aid Society Orphanage at about the time Norma Jeane lived there Photograph: Courtesy of Stacy Eubank

Norma Jeane with a friend on Catalina beach Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Norma Jeane with a camera Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Munroe as an assistant for trick golfer Joe Kirkwood Junior Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Munroe in an employee show, Strictly for Kicks, at Fox, in her guise as a street waif starlet Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Munroe judging a beard-growing contest Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Monroe and Jane Russell at Grauman's Chinese theatre, fixing handprints in cement Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

Singing happy birthday to JFK in Madison Square Garden Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Munroe with Marjorie Plecher, her longtime movie wardrobe person and friend, and wife of Whitey Snyder
Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Munroe with Anne Karger Photograph: Courtesy of Terry Wasdyke

Munroe with a broken thumb at the Honolulu airport on the way to Japan Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Marilyn in disguise. She loved to create aliases and live her life like a spy story Photograph: Courtesy of author

Munroe gives a press conference when she seperates from Joe DiMaggio, in front of their Beverly Hills house Photograph: Courtesy of the author

Monroe on the set of Niagara in 1952 Photograph: Corbis