\n Graffiti artist Scott King, also known as Aroma 3, has been brightening up Harwich and Manningtree with his colourful murals.\n<\/p>\n
\n Over the weekend he was hard at work, creating a mural of a famous Hollywood actress, who would have been a centenarian on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\n To celebrate, Mr King decided to paint a mural of Marilyn Monroe, in the town.\n<\/p>\n
\n Scott said: “It would have been Marylin Monroe’s 100th birthday on June 1 and I wanted to celebrate it.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I thought a new mural would look good because the other Marylin I had painted five years ago was looking a little tired.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It is said that John Alden, a barrel-maker who was the first person to step ashore in America from the Mayflower, which was registered in Harwich, was an ancestor of Monroe.\n<\/p>\n
\n Genealogists and historians have confirmed that Monroe – who was born in 1926 and died in 1962 – is one of the descendants of John Alden, along with Dick Van Dyke and Orson Welles.\n<\/p>\n
\n Celebrated for her charismatic screen presence, Monroe starred in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Some Like It Hot (1959) before her tragic death.\n<\/p>\n
\n She died from an overdose of sleeping pills at her Los Angeles home, at the age of 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graffiti artist Scott King, also known as Aroma 3, has been brightening up Harwich and Manningtree with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}