More than 1,000 fans participated in the "Monroe Cosplay" to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth..
fans dressed as Marilyn Monroe [AFP = Yonhap News] More than 1,000 fans participated in the "Monroe Cosplay" to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hollywood actor Marilyn Monroe, who represents the 20th century.According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 1st (local time), 1,037 fans dressed in Monroe gathered in Palm Springs, California, USA, and were listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the largest number of people dressed in Monroe."The outfit provided by the organizers to the fans was a white dress and a blonde wig, which Monroe presented at "7 Years Out" in 1955.Fans gathered in Palm Springs for the Guinness World Records challenge were from a variety of backgrounds, including tourists, gay people, transgender people, adolescents, and the elderly.Born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, Monroe, whose real name is Norma Jean Mortensen, enjoyed worldwide popularity in the mid-1950s, starring as the heroine in "The Gentleman likes blonde" and "I like it hot."Monroe died of a drug overdose in 1962 when she was 36, but remained a symbol of 20th-century popular culture.Palm Springs was a vacation spot Monroe enjoyed during her lifetime, and a large 8-meter-high statue of Monroe was erected in front of a local art museum.Monroe is the world itself to me, said Monroe, who attended the Mississippi event. "It's been a great help in enduring difficult times."
