What sort of dress was Marilyn Monroe buried in it has long been customary to lay out blondes in pink night dresses but you wonder about ms Monroe?

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Marilyn Monroe lay in an open bronze casket lined with champagne colored satin. Partially exposed, she was dressed in her green Pucci dress and a green chiffon scarf. In her hands was a posy of pink teacup roses, a gift from DiMaggio.

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Marilyn Monroe was buried in a luxury coffin which was called the "Cadillac of caskets": a silver finished 15 ga / 48 oz (that is: extra strong and heavy) solid bronze "Masterpiece" casket with a hand tufted champagne colored velvet, satin and silk interior manufactured by the renown Belmont Casket Company of Columbus, Ohio (which also had another plant in Shadyside, Ohio). The casket was equipped with a hermetically sealing (air and water tight) double lid, but not with the also available additional inner glass panel.

Although the Belmont factory closed in 1979, the "Masterpiece" design is still in production. It is manufactured today (2014) under the same name by VerPlank Enterprises of Tennessee, although the original design underwent a few minor changes: while the ornamental beadings of the Monroe "Masterpiece" still exist, the swing bar handles look now slightly different. Interestingly however, VerPlank still offers the "Masterpiece" with a silver finished exterior like that of Marilyn Monroe's Belmont casket. Pictures of the "Silver Twin Seal Masterpiece" are shown in the VerPlank Online casket catalog.