How Did Marilyn Monroe Impact Society

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Marilyn Monroe was famous for many things. She was a very strong independent hard working women. She didn’t let anyone let her down or make her decisions for her. Well her dream shortly ended without any warnings, Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962. She’s still known world wide to this day. Marilyn Monroe is a influential advocate of making things more socially acceptable through her actions including singing,acting and modeling.
Marilyn Monroe impacted social movement, anyone that’s self conscious about their voice through singing. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” She’s stating that you should be over the top and be ridiculous than being some boring person and doing nothing with life.
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The dress itself, with all the jewels and rhinestones, costed about $12,000 in 1962. In 1999, it was sold for $1.3m it is now up for auction selling higher than 4.8 million. She was 10 days early for his birthday but decided to sing to him early. She missed her que to come on stage to sing but eventually made it on. She sang in many films and movies the song titles were (kiss, one silver dollar, I'm Gonna File My Claim, Down in the Meadow.) She was known as a singer. The fall of 1962, 20th Fox Records released an album of recordings from her films this included the films of There's No Business Like Show Business, River of No Return, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Charts all lasted longer than 2 months. The album was then reissued in 1972 in a TV offer under the title Remember Marilyn. Legends the company released an album with Marilyn witch included films and tv commercials.(Thomson,

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