On the day Monroe's death was announced, a crowd gathered near her handprints outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

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Monroe's casket leaves the Westwood Memorial Park Chapel after the actress' funeral.

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Mourners visit Monroe's grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery on June 1, 1963, on what would have been her 37th birthday.

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Monroe returns to Los Angeles from a vacation in Mexico just a few months before her death.

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Monroe in 1952.

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Monroe leaves the witness stand in 1952 after testifying in a case against two men accused of distributing nude photos of her.

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Monroe in 1954 after a court hearing in her divorce from Joe DiMaggio.

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Monroe with attorney Jerry Geisler. The original caption noted the actress appeared on the verge of collapse. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "I can't say anything, I'm sorry." At the time, she was going through divorce proceedings with baseball player Joe DiMaggio.

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Monroe in 1956.

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