Remember A DayMarilyn Monroe in debt before her death, Edward Heath accused of ‘murdering’ Mozart, and the Pope unhappy with royal divorce: headlines from 40 years ago
- A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
Marilyn Monroe being in debt months before her death, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath being accused of “murdering” Mozart, and Pope John Paul II showing dissatisfaction towards a royal divorce made the headlines 40 years ago this week.
August 17, 1980
● Marilyn Monroe was US$372,000 (about HK$1,860,000 at the time) in debt when she died in 1962, according to newspaper reports. But they also revealed that, according to documents filed in a state court, a final accounting of her estate further showed that cumulative royalties from her films Some Like It Hot and The Misfits had added US$746,000 to her estate. Monroe was paid US$300,000 to star in The Misfits, which was filmed in 1961.
August 18, 1980
● Pope John Paul II was unhappy that Princess Caroline of Monaco, 23, and her husband, Philippe Junot, 40, might ask the Vatican to annul their marriage. A Vatican official told a British weekly that the Pope could not accept that people of such a high cultural and educational background had failed to understand the solemnity of their actions when they took their marriage vows.