Dwight met Anna when she performed the role of Dorothy Gale in the Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz.

Her father did not want her to pursue a career in music, but after he died in 1925, her mother encouraged Monroe's ambitions.

[2] She pursued further studies in singing with Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills, in New York City.

[6] She sang the national anthem again at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday ball at the Waldorf Astoria New York in January 1938.

[17] In 1958, she testified before the House Judiciary Committee that was tasked with choosing an official version of the national anthem out of the 171 on record at the Library of Congress.

[22] She also sang the national anthem at the ceremony preceding the start of the demolition of Ebbets Field on February 23, 1960.