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Moving Picture: Palatine woman impersonates Marilyn

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Winkelmann has a ball acting as Marilyn Monroe and flirting with the older gentlemen in her audience, like Douglas Dean of Prospect Heights. Sheri performed at the Claremont Rehabilitation and Living Center in Buffalo Grove during their Happy Hours Friday party.

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Sheri struts her Marilyn moves at a birthday party for Jaime Merlo in Winfield, getting smiles and giving red lipstick kisses on the faces and heads of the gentlemen as part of the show.

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Sheri teases one of her many Marilyn wigs that complement her designer dresses, some of which cost up to $1,000. Here, she prepares herself, sometimes taking as long as one and a half hours to make the transformation complete.

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Sheri Winkelmann dons her Marilyn Monroe outfit to entertain at the birthday party of Jaime Merlo in Winfield. "(She's) very professional, a class act," Merlo said.

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Sheri Winkelmann of Palatine routinely performs as Marilyn Monroe and other famonus female celebrities at birthday parties and other events. Her love of performing was shaped in her theater days in New York City, and she perfects the craft as she stays in character all night as Marilyn, Madonna, or Connie Francis. “People love Marilyn, It brings back such good memories, a good time, a more innocent time,” Winkelmann says.