Few people realize that the budding starlet who became film goddess Marilyn Monroe actually had roots in the San Fernando Valley. She went to school in Van Nuys, had an apartment in Toluca Lake and went to the movies in Studio City.
Photos now on display in a Beverly Hills gallery mark the 85th anniversary of the actress' birth. The exhibit includes photos from a North Hollywood photo shoot and images of Monroe when she was Norma Jeane Baker.
