Based on the best-selling novel by Joyce Carol Oates this provocative mini-series delivers a seductive portrait of Marilyn Monroe the captivating star who became America's most enduring sex symbol.From the traumas of her abusive childhood and her stormy marriages to Joe Dimaggio and Arthur Miller to her insatiable need for security and love BLONDE charts Monroe's meteoric rise and fall.Destined to become a legendary cultural icon also doomed by Hollywood exploitation fear of failure dependence on drugs and flawed choices of lovers and mates.