Eight interesting facts about the timeless style icon Marilyn Monroe

June 1 marks the 90th birthday of the late Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe.A report in The New York Times said that the number of suicides in New York a week after her death on August 5, 1962, hit a record high of 12 in one day.

One suicide victim left a note saying, “If the most wonderful, beautiful thing in the world has nothing to live for, then neither must I”.

Here are some interesting facts about the timeless style icon:
Monroe was Truman Capote’s original choice for the part of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the role that became a signature part for Audrey Hepburn instead.

She was a student of literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Monroe’s iconic white dress from Seven Year’s Itch was sold for $5.6 million at an auction in California.

When Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, Variety magazine ran the infamous headline “Egghead Weds Hourglass”. Miller’s play After the Fall is a thinly veiled portrayal of his marriage to Monroe.

Monroe was Playboy magazine’s first Sweetheart of the Month in 1953, for which she was paid $50.

She was never nominated for an Academy Award, but was crowned Castroville’s first Artichoke Queen in 1948, and was Stars and Stripes magazine’s Miss Cheesecake of 1950.

The Facebook page on Marilyn Monroe has 13 million “likes”; the Twitter account has over 3,00,000 followers.

Source: foxnews.com, telegraph.co.uk, thoughtcatalogue.com