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                                 Marilyn Monroe

A replica of Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe is a famous actress from the first film of the 1950’s. As from a young age she started to perform as a model where it lead her to films after a few years she got a lot of attention of her performance. She became a star not only because of her films but also for her singing. As she almost was 40 years old she died with illness. Back then, she use to have a huge number of photo shoots where some photos remain famous one of them is the holding down her skirt while a fan is under her pulling up her skirt represents the famous scene from “The Seven Year Itch (1955). Some artists in Chicago build a replica of her but much bigger. The statue is a 26-foot tall with a 34,000 pound and they called her “Forever Marilyn”. At first she was assembled in Chicago but is was vandalized several times so they moved her to Palm Spring, California where a lot of fans and citizens wanted to be placed in Palm Spring because it was a huge in her life.

Sources:

Los Angeles Times, L.A NOW, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/26-foot-tall-marilyn-monroe-sculpture-lands-in-palm-springs.html [online], [accessed on the 8^th January, 2013].