Template:Did you know nominations/Marilyn Monroe


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:27, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Marilyn Monroe

 * ... that in 1950, Marilyn Monroe made a minor appearance as a gangster's moll (pictured) in the critically acclaimed crime film The Asphalt Jungle?


 * Reviewed: Green oropendola
 * Comment: Suggestions for alternative hooks are welcome

Improved to Good Article status by TrueHeartSusie3 (talk). Nominated by Oceanh (talk) at 18:50, 17 October 2015 (UTC).

ALT1: ... that Marilyn Monroe spent most of her Los Angeles childhood in foster homes and an orphanage? ALT2: ... that Marilyn Monroe started her pin-up modeling career while working for the Radioplane Munitions Factory? ALT3: ... that Marilyn Monroe started her film career with Twentieth-Century Fox? ALT4: ... that Johnny Hyde, Marilyn Monroe talent agent and lover, paid for her plastic surgery? ALT5: ... that Marilyn Monroe talent agent and lover, Johnny Hyde, died of a heart attack only days after negotiating her first major contract? ALT6: ... that the public filming of Marilyn Monroe subway grate scene for The Seven Year Itch drew a crowd of almost 2000 people? ALT7: ... that all of Marilyn Monroe films were banned by Egypt after her conversion to Judaism? ALT8: ... that Marilyn Monroe bare-all interview about her early nude modeling only improved her career? ALT9: ... that Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy? &c. — Llywelyn II   13:42, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Wow. Yeah, thank you for bumping this up to GA but that's a pretty bland hook for Norma Jean. :)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg I'll step in since this has gone untouched for a bit. While each of the alts are quite interesting, I'm going with ALT9 since it was a big deal for both her and Playboy. I will assume good faith that the book citation attributed supports the hook, and the biography it cites seems credible. It is eligible since the nomination was made only one day after the article became a GA. Snuggums (talk / edits) 04:54, 11 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Just for the record, I'd like to note that the shitty grammar in ALT9 was added without notification by a subsequent editor. Yoninah seems to have emended it as
 * ... that Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover and on the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy?"
 * which is the version that appeared on the main page. It's still kind of wrong (usually, it's was or featured as the centerfold) but not quite as bad as whoever mangled it above. — Llywelyn II   02:01, 16 November 2015 (UTC)