Palm Springs Unveils Massive Marilyn Monroe Statue

This particular Marilyn Monroe is 26 feet tall and weighs 34,000 pounds. Tonight, beginning at 6 p.m., the statue will be officially unveiled in Palm Springs during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the corner of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive.

About a thousand people are expected to attend tonight’s ceremony, which is roughly the same amount of bystanders who looked on the night Monroe shot the famous subway grate scene from The Seven Year Itch outside the Trans-Lux Theatre on Lexington Avenue in New York.

Among those in attendance for the shoot was celebrity photographer Bill Kobrin, now 90 and retired in the desert.

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