Marilyn Monroe was thirty-six when she died. She was born on June 1, 1926, and died of a sleeping pill overdose on August 5, 1962.
The most recent tie in Oscar voting for major awards was in the category of Best Actress in 1968. The award went to Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.
Metro Pictures Corporation (founded 1915), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (1918) merged to form MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. The three companies merged in 1924 under the control of Loew’s, Inc., the theater exhibition company.
The Body, a novella was the inspiration for the movie Stand by Me.
Yes, the Japanese made a Frankenstein movie called Frankenstein Conquers the World (1966).
The story of three sailors in On the Town (1949) on a twenty-four-hour leave in New York City was based on the ballet Fancy Free by Jerome Robbins. The movie starred Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin.