Still best-known as the tragic blonde screen siren who mixed in the highest
circles of American society and made a profound and lasting impact on modern
culture and fashion, Marilyn Monroe was also a singer of some renown. She's
fondly recalled sexily singing "Happy Birthday Mr President" to John F Kennedy
in 1962, but her distinctively sultry vocal style had already made a big impact
in several of her films, dating from three songs in the 1948 movie Ladies Of The
Chorus. One of her most famous movies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953 featured
her singing four songs, most famously...