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Another Monroe-worn dress at the same 18 November 2016 auction as the "Happy Birthday" dress sold for $562,000 (buyers premium added to the hammer price) to become the ninth most expensive dress ever sold, but Marilyn still has only five of the top 10, as the "Happy Birthday" dress was already at number five in the list and the now ninth placed cocktail dress worn by Monroe in the movie Some like it Hot displaced another Marilyn dress from tenth place