#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Marilyn Monroe

• Headed the Committee For a Sane Nuclear Policy
• Walked out on her "dumb blonde" contract with 20th Century Fox
• Had a hand in helping Ella Fitzgerald's career promising a whites-only club she would sit in the front row every night if they booked Fitzgerald
• The first actress to receive script and director approval
• The first person to start an independent film production company (Marilyn Monroe Productions, 1956)
• Gave time and money to many charities (the USO, Orphanages, The March of Dimes among many others)
• The third woman in history to start her own production company