Marilyn Monroe

Did you know?

• She legally changed her name from Norma Jeane Baker to Marilyn Monroe in March 1956
• She found it difficult to learn lines, and took 60 takes to deliver the line “It’s me, Sugar”, in “Some Like It Hot"
• The dress she wore while singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" at John F. Kennedy's 1962 birthday bash sold for $1,267,500 in 1999, making it the most expensive item of clothing ever sold at the time. The white dress she wore during "The Seven Year Itch" fetched 5.6 million at a 2011 auction