50 things you didn't know about Marilyn Monroe

Updated August 3 2012 - 6:08pm, first published 5:20pm
Fun-loving ... Marilyn Monroe laughing on the set of Some LIke It Hot.
Fun-loving ... Marilyn Monroe laughing on the set of Some LIke It Hot.

1 Marilyn was relatively poorly paid. Jane Russell was paid around 10 times as much as Marilyn when they co-starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Her salary for her final unfinished film, Something's Got to Give, was $US100,000. Compare that with Elizabeth Taylor, who was getting a million dollars for Cleopatra; or even Marilyn's co-star in the film, Dean Martin, who was on $US500,000. Today, her estate makes around $US5 million a year.

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