Marilyn Monroe is the most popular female cultural icons from the 1950s. Famous for being the dumb blonde in movies, it is said that she reported with an IQ more than Albert Einstein. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed dollar 200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She went by many names. She legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe in March 1956, when she was already a star.A childhood spent with 11 foster parents, and adulthood tagged alongside several men, her life was nothing less than scandalous but a lot more than tragedy.