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There is a request, submitted by Wcamp9, for an audio version of this article to be created. For further information, see WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.

The rationale behind the request is: "As one of the most well-known people to ever live as well as being very big in pop-culture, Monroe deserves a spoken article".

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Having Marilyn Monroe's religion in the article's Infobox has been discussed on this talk page before in sections at:
- Archive 5 (August - December 2014)
- Archive 6 (July 2016)
- In March 2016, there was an request for comment at the policy section of the village pump which came to the conclusion that religion does not belong in biographical Infoboxes:
- see here (March - April 2016)

Marilyn Monroe is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on June 1, 2016.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 23, 2015	Peer review	Reviewed
October 16, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
November 26, 2015	Peer review	Reviewed
December 26, 2015	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 15, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Marilyn Monroe* was featured on the cover and on the centerfold of the first issue of* Playboy?
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 14, 2005, January 14, 2006, August 5, 2007, August 5, 2010, August 5, 2012, August 5, 2015, August 5, 2018, August 5, 2020, and August 5, 2022.
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