Marilyn Monroe’s Year-Long 100th Birthday Celebration Gets a Colorful Kick-Off

Marilyn Monroe’s Year-Long 100th Birthday Celebration Gets a Colorful Kick-Off

The 99th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth passed on June 1 with scant press attention, but don’t expect the screen icon’s centennial to go similarly unnoticed. The year-long festivities leading up to her 100th birthday begin this month with the debut of Pantone’s Marilyn Monroe Collection Palette, an assortment of shades designed to capture different aspects of her identity, with names such as Star White and High Risk Red. Authentic Brand…

June 25: Marilyn Monroe Takes Connecticut By Storm

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-25-TodayinCTHist-23.mp3   Today in 1956, the small, rural, western Connecticut town of Roxbury was swarmed by reporters who had learned that the internationally famous starlet Marilyn Monroe was there visiting her fiancée, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller. The couple had been dating for months, and they had announced their plans to marry the week before. Miller, famous f…