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\nMattel is celebrating Marilyn Monroe\u2019s 100th birthday with a new Barbie doll inspired by the iconic pink dress the actress wore in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/em>. The seventh Barbie designed in Monroe\u2019s likeness recreates her glamorous look from the film\u2019s famous \u201cDiamonds Are a Girl\u2019s Best Friend\u201d musical number \u2014 although it\u2019s not the first time Mattel has brought this particular look to Barbie collectors.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1997, the company released a Marilyn Monroe doll wearing a baby pink satin gown as part of its Hollywood Legends Collection. This time around, the Marilyn Monroe Barbie Signature Doll wears a hot pink gown and more bedazzling jewelry. Available on Aug. 18 and developed with input from The Estate of Marilyn Monroe LLC, the Barbie doll is aimed at collectors as much as Monroe fans and kids.\n\n\t\n\n<\/p>\n

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\t\tComplete with an oversized bow at the back of the dress, opera gloves and, of course, sparkling diamonds around her neck, wrists and dripping from her ears.\t<\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n

\n\tThe Marilyn Monroe Barbie Signature Doll comes two months after the late Hollywood icon\u2019s 100th birthday and two weeks after the 64th anniversary of her death. It\u2019s also the second celeb-Barbie doll Mattel has released this month, with the Whitney Houston Barbie launched on Aug. 8.<\/p>

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\n\tMattel\u2019s new product is just one of many ways Monroe\u2019s birthday is being celebrated this summer. In Palm Springs, Calif., over a thousand fans dressed as Monroe in her white halter dress from The Seven Year Itch<\/em> to celebrate her birthday, set a new Guinness World Record and raise money for LGBTQ+ charities.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Los Angeles, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is running \u201cMarilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon\u201d until February 2027 to honor 100 years since her birth. The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> was there over the weekend and got to see the legendary \u201cDiamonds Are a Girl\u2019s Best Friend\u201d pink dress in person.\n\n\t\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVisiting Monroe\u2019s intimate belongings and movie costumes in this exhibit was a solemn experience as visitors read her personal letters and came face to face with furniture the star picked for the home in which she would eventually die. But seeing the original dress from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/em>, in particular, felt like walking into a funeral.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a dedicated room of its own, the 73-year-old gown designed by William Travilla stood in the middle, while viewers quietly queued to see it in all its glory, pay their respects and leave. In this room off the main gallery, guests lowered their voices to whispers, as though they had entered a place of mourning rather than an exhibition. The dress was no longer simply a costume, but a shell of the famous woman who once wore it.<\/p>

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