Happy Birthday Norma Jeane!

On June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson, the baby girl who would go on to be the world's greatest movie star, was born. She would have been 86 today. Happy birthday, angel!

On the set of Bus Stop

With Jane Russell in a promotional still for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Photographed at her home by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1953

Appearing at the Ringling Bros circus in New York on March 30, 1955

Norma Jeane in 1946, at the age of 20

Posing as Jean Harlow in a photo shoot by Richard Avedon

"Princess" sitting shot by Marilyn's very close friend Milton Greene, 1956

Promotional still for River of No Return

With Jack Lemmon on the set of Some Like It Hot

Still from The Seven Year Itch