The Marilyn Monroe Century: From Norma Jeane to Icon―A Story in Photographs Book Signing

In a separately ticketed event after the signing, Joshua John Miller joins the Academy Museum for a conversation and screening of The Asphalt Jungle at 7:30pm.

About the authors

Joshua John Miller is a novelist, actor, and director. With partner Mark Fortin, he cocreated the hit USA/Netflix series Queen of the South and cowrote and produced Sony’s critically acclaimed The Final Girls. He is producing the forthcoming Trapeze, based on the diary by Anaïs Nin, with Fortin, Angelina Jolie, and Pablo Larraín. While an undergrad at Yale University, he published his first novel, The Mao Game. His writing has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire. Miller is completing his second novel, I’ll Be Your Mirror.

Mark A. Fortin was... born in Montreal, Québec, and graduated from Emerson College (BFA) and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University (MFA). He and his partner, Joshua John Miller, wrote and produced The Final Girls and created Netflix's Queen of the South. They are producing the forthcoming Trapeze, based on the diary by Anaïs Nin, with Miller, Angelina Jolie, and Pablo Larraín. He is also at work on another book, Little Death, about the late writer/director James Bridges.

Bernard of Hollywood was the most sought-after photographer of Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was the first still photographer to be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1984 with an exhibition of 150 of his photographs of such luminaries as Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, and many others.

About the book

The Marilyn Monroe Century is a lavishly produced tribute to Marilyn Monroe on her 100th birthday, documenting her transformation from Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe through never-before-seen photographs and diary entries by Bernard of Hollywood. Published to commemorate Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday (June 1, 2026), this visual biography draws on never-before-seen photographs and personal diaries to reveal a more intimate portrait of the icon.

Featuring rare photographs by Bruno Bernard, also known as Bernard of Hollywood, that have never been publicly released, the book traces the emotional and artistic evolution of Norma Jeane Mortenson into Marilyn Monroe.

More than a collection of photographs, The Marilyn Monroe Century unfolds as a cinematic narrative. Bernard was the only photographer who witnessed and helped shape the full arc of Norma Jeane’s metamorphosis into Marilyn Monroe.

Location

Academy Museum Store, L1

Schedule

Signing | 5:30-6:30pm | Academy Museum Store, L1

Screening* | 7:30pm | The Asphalt Jungle | Ted Mann Theater, LL1

*The screening is a separately ticketed event.