Palm Springs Sets Guinness Record With 1,037 Marilyn Monroes for Her 100th Birthday
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 1
Palm Springs Sets Guinness Record With 1,037 Marilyn Monroes for Her 100th Birthday
9 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 1
1,037 people dressed as Marilyn Monroe gathered beneath her giant downtown Palm Springs statue, setting a Guinness World Record on what would have been the star’s 100th birthday.
The turnout turned the centennial into a mass tribute to Monroe’s enduring appeal and to Palm Springs, where the city says her career began and where she long treated the desert as an escape.
Fans framed the celebration as personal as well as historic, underscoring how Monroe — born Norma Jeane Mortensen — still inspires distinct loyalties a century after her birth.
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