Her first marriage to a bandleader was brief and unsuccessful.
Howard Hughes signed her to a film contract after seeing a picture of her, on a recruiting poster, dressed in a WAC uniform. A similar picture of her appeared on the cover of Life magazine.
She married a young actor named John Bromfield.
Her second marriage was to actor Orson Welles in 1943. Together they had a daughter, Rebecca Welles.
She studied ballet from the age of four, by 12 she was in the Corps de Ballet of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera.
She was married at the age of 15 and had a child soon after.
When she travelled the world she took her dogs with her.
In the 1950's, she and Aly Khan became romantically involved. The relationship ended because Aga Khan opposed their marriage plans. 
Attorney Jerry Geisler had her acquitted for the charge of lewdness on stage by expressing to the jury the humour in the matter.  It cost her $2000 and reaped $1 million worth of publicity.
At one time, she worked as a stripper.
After expressing an interest in acting at an early age, her very wealthy father founded a corporation called Belle-Tier to promote her.
She was discovered by Lucille Ball.
She was a protégé of billionaire producer Howard Hughes.
Most popularly known as a blonde, she appeared as a redhead in the 1951 film “Two Tickets to Broadway”.
She took a bubble bath in an $80,000 gilded tub while Eleanor Roosevelt and Humphrey Bogart sat ringside.  She made headlines with felony charges of "lewd, lascivious and indecent behavior."
She was married to director Budd Boetticher for only 22 days.
Her first daughter, with Oleg Cassini, was born mentally retarded due to the German measles that she had suffered from during the pregnancy.
This French brunette claimed to be a descendant of one of Louis XV’s paramours.
She and Corinne Calvet both appeared in the 1954 film, "So This is Paris".
By 1964, when her life story was syndicated in newspapers, she had already earned over $3 million.
In 1945, her early modeling days, she would only receive $5/hour for each assignment.
In the last years before her death, while she was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, she was cared for by her daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan.
Both her mother and grandmother died in mental hospitals.
She underwent seven divorces but remained friendly with all of her ex-husbands.
She and another pin-up girl, Joi Lansing, both appeared in the 1954 film "The French Line".
She was a Fulbright Fellow at New York University from 1950 to 1951.
She was married a fifth time to James Hill.
In her later years, after retiring from film, she devoted a lot of time and effort to the conservation of animals.
She lived in an orphanage from the time she was 9 years old until she was 11.
In the musical, Small Town Girl, she danced around 68 musical instruments. Extras, that were huddled under a six foot high stage, held up the instruments. Only their hands were exposed.
Her fourth marriage to Dick Haymes took place in Las Vegas, the day after his divorce from his third wife was final.  Her daughters Rebecca Welles and Princess Yasmin were present.     
In June of 1981 she was declared senile, when in actual fact she was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.
It was reported that her ex-husband Orson Welles neglected their daughter Rebecca.  He didn't even send her Christmas Cards.
She left high school in her senior year to be a singer in a nightclub band.
Her ex-husband, Roger Vadim, directed her in the 1973 movie Don Juan.
She was described by her friends as shy, reserved, and an intensely private person.
She said that it was Bruno Bernard’s skill with a camera that propelled her career as a striptease artist to its pinnacle.  Bruno Bernard took all her publicity photographs.
She attempted suicide in 1958 and was forced to retire in the mid-sixties by a severe nervous breakdown.
She had water fountains in her livingroom. 
She made a comeback in a 1995 movie produced by Steven Spielberg. 
She and  another pin-up girl, Joi Lansing, both appeared in the 1955 movie "Son of Sinbad".
In December 1951, she and Janet Leigh  both appeared in a show, along with Frank Sinatra, at the London Coliseum.  In attendance were the Prince and Princess of England.
She and pin-up girls Ann Miller, Janet Leigh, Joi Lansing, and Mara Corday all appeared in the 1951 film, "Two Tickets to Broadway".
In a television series called My Living Doll, which only lasted one season, she played a beautiful robot.
As a young girl she loved to spend her afternoons at the local movie house. She affectionately called it her "baby-sitter."
Her real name was Margarita Cansino.
She made as much as $7500 a week in the country’s top supper clubs. 
Her favorite perfume was Chanel No. 5.
At the age of 11, she was an amateur dancer with the USO. She made her professional dancing debut at the age of 13.
She played the love interest of Elvis Presley in his film debut, Love Me Tender (1956).
She played the biggest of the Little Women and co-starred with Lassie in The Hills of Home.
She would cut a 1/4 of an inch off one of her high heeled shoes to attain her famous wiggle.
In 1946, a photograph of her impressed actress Norma Shearer so much that she persuaded the MCA talent agency to offer the girl, who had almost no acting experience, a contract.
She had  fur on the walls of one of her 13 bathrooms.
At age 16, she appeared on the cover of French fashion magazine Elle.
She made a guest appearance on an episode of  Married with Children in 1987.
She sees almost no one from show business and lives in a secluded home in the Hollywood Hills.
She played Vampira on a Saturday night TV series.  To keep her horror-loving fans intrigued, she would go abroad in public as Vampira during daylight hours.
Before her motion picture debut, she had her own radio show out of Portland, Oregon.
She was one who pursued business ventures.  She marketed a hot water bottle named after herself.
Billionaire producer Howard Hughes had a romantic interest in her.
For her 22nd birthday she received a monkey as a gift from a friend.
She signed her nude calendar, Mona Monroe.
She came from a Spanish background.
To promote the films Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, The Wayward Bus, and Kiss Them For Me, 20th Century-Fox billed her as the successor of Marilyn Monroe.
Her first husband convinced her that she could improve her looks by dying her hair auburn and reshaping her hairline with electrolysis.
She is Jamie Lee Curtis' mother.  Jamie’s father is Tony Curtis.
She was advised to take the role of Catwoman on the television series Batman by her brother who was a big Batman fan.
She played herself in the 1950 film "I’ll Get By".
She first modeled professionally at the age of 12.
She was first married at the age of 16 and had a child by the age of 17.
She was known as the "Love Goddess of World War II" and had her picture plastered on the side of the first atomic bomb.
She was married a third time to Prince Aly Khan 7 months before Princess Yasmin was born.
Her second marriage was to Tony Curtis with comedian Jerry Lewis as best man.
While on a family skiing trip in 1964, she received a phone call from the President asking her to be the ambassador to Finland. She declined the position as she felt it would disrupt her family life.
There was a fireplace in every room of her home.
Fred Astaire’s favorite dancing partner was her and not Ginger Rogers.
Her striptease act was considered too classy to play in bump and grind houses, but when she did perform in them, the audience was awed into an uncharacteristic quiet.
She was first married at 21 to Edward Judson who was twenty years older than her.
She was 15 when she was first discovered waiting tables by a photographer who asked her to model.
She and Janet Leigh, who were both MGM contractees, performed in a show along with other MGM contractees for the military personnel on a base in Blythe, California.