Switzerland. Zürich. Car showroom. A giant plastic pin-up dummy, wearing a mini skirt and a sexy top, stands in a yard of a sale shop for secondhand american cars. A smiling Marylyn Monroe and a fake cactus. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. © 1999 Didier Ruef