Video: Giant Marilyn Monroe statue unveiled in Chicago
A 26foot(8meter)tall sculpture of Monroe in her famous pose from the film The Seven Year Itch has been unveiled on Chicago s Magnificent Mile. In the movie, a draft catches Monroe s dress as she stands over a subway grate to cool off. The film scene and photographs taken from it left much more to the imagination than artist Seward Johnson s sculpture. Chicago has a history of public art displays, including a herd of fibreglass cows that lined Michigan Avenue some years back. The plaza where Monroe will be stationed until next spring was the home a few years ago to another Johnson sculpture: the equally iconic, though far less glamorous, grimfaced farmer and his spinster daughter from Grant Wood s American RT on Twitter: RT on Facebook:
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