This week on "Sunday Morning" (May 31)
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Hosted by Jane Pauley.
COVER STORY: Marilyn Monroe at 100
She was, and remains, one of cinema's most brilliant stars. Norma Jeane Baker, known to the world as Marilyn Monroe, died in 1962 at age 36, but she left a legacy of classic films, fashion, and a carefully-crafted celebrity image. To mark the centenary of her birth, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is launching an exhibition, "Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon." Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with those studying the sex symbol's life and career, and those who are preserving her film persona.
READ AN EXCERPT: "Marilyn: The Lost Photographs, The Last Interview"
For more info:
- "Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon," at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles (May 31, 2026-Feb. 28, 2027)
- "Marilyn: The Lost Photographs, the Last Interview" by Richard Meryman and photographer Allan Grant (Weldon Owen), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- marilynslostphotos.com
- Official Instagram page of Marilyn Monroe (Authentic Brands)
- The Marilyn Monroe Collection
ALMANAC: May 31
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
U.S.: Unveiling the history beneath the Lincoln Memorial
For more than a century, one of Washington's best-kept secrets lay beneath the Lincoln Memorial: the Undercroft, a soaring 50,000-square-foot foundation built to keep the landmark from sinking into D.C.'s swampy ground. Beginning in June, the public will be able to visit the space, now with a museum tracing the memorial's history, from its construction to its role as a powerful stage for the civil rights movement. Correspondent Faith Salie goes underground.
For more info:
- Lincoln Undercroft tour info (Recreation.gov)
- Lincoln Memorial (National Park Service)
- Philanthropist David Rubenstein
- Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum
- Howard University professor emerita Greene Medford
SPORTS: Pickleball superstar Anna Leigh Waters
Professional pickleball is America's fastest-growing sport, and its biggest star is Anna Leigh Waters. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti talks with the 19-year-old, whom many call the greatest pickleball player of all time.
For more info:
- Anna Leigh Waters (Major League Pickleball)
- Anna Leigh Waters on Instagram
- Pickleball Tour (Professional Pickleball Association)
PASSAGE: In memoriam
"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.
U.S.: ICE detentions
Jim Axelrod reports.
HARTMAN: TBD
SUNDAY PROFILE: Jill Biden on life in, and after, the White House
The former first lady sits down with correspondent Rita Braver.
PREVIEW: Jill Biden says Joe Biden wasn't in cognitive decline as he ran for reelection
PREVIEW: Jill Biden says she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during his 2024 debate
PREVIEW: Jill Biden says Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis was "just shocking"
For more info:
- "View from the East Wing: A Memoir" by Jill Biden (Gallery Books), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available June 2 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
THESE UNITED STATES: The Harlem Renaissance
With the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans fled violence and discrimination in the Jim Crow South for a new life up North, New York City's Harlem neighborhood became a haven for writers, artists, musicians and political leaders. The resulting "Harlem Renaissance" in the 1920s challenged racist stereotypes, and changed the way America, and the world, saw African American culture. Nancy Giles reports.
WORLD: Checking out The Human Library
At a very special library in Copenhagen, Denmark, the "books" being checked out are actual human beings. The Human Library, founded 26 years ago, offers 30-minute conversations with living books on a wealth of subjects, and is now available in 80 countries (including the United States) and online. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook talked with the library's co-founder Ronni Abergel, and checked out three unique books on the topics of schizophrenia, refugees, and Greenland.
For more info:
NATURE: Cactus blooms in Arizona
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
MARATHON: "CBS Sunday Morning" stories about cars (YouTube Video)
From stick-shifts to self-driving cars, "CBS Sunday Morning" goes down the road of all things automotive.
- Celebrating the automotive world
- Selling cars for a song
- The road toward more driverless cars
- Restoring classic cars in the classroom
- Cars and art at the MoMA
- Cars to make you swoon
- Nature transforms junkyard cars into art
- From 1956, a future vision of driverless cars
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