Hey, why not own a very personal piece of Marilyn Monroe?
An eclectic assortment of more than 1,200 of the Hollywood icon’s personal items – including shoes, purses, clothing, makeup, handwritten notes and jewellery – will be auctioned off in Los Angeles in November.
Coveted items include Monroe’s dress from “Some Like It Hot,” the shoes she wore to marry playwright Arthur Miller, a tube of her “non-smear” Revlon lipstick, the costume earrings that she wore to the premiere of “The Seven Year Itch,” her chequebook, and the negligee she wore in the movie “Niagara.”
There’s even a receipt for a bottle of champagne.
Image: Associated Press
The items also include deeply personal handwritten notes and letters.
“Last night I was awake all night again,” she wrote to her therapist in March 1961, as reported by the Associated Press. “Sometimes I wonder what the night time is for. It almost doesn’t exist for me – it all seems like one long, long horrible day.”
She describes her time in a mental institution, comparing it to being sent to a prison, “for a crime I hadn’t committed.”
“Oh, well, men are climbing to the moon but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart,” she writes.
Image: Associated Press
Among the hundreds of personal items include some that have never been seen by the public before.
This includes a very telling letter from a member of the Kennedy family that confirms a speculated relationship between Monroe and Robert Kennedy.
Scandalously, Kennedy was married with two kids at the time.
Written in the early 1960s, a letter from Jean Kennedy Smith, sister of politicians President John F. Kennedy and Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, reads: “Understand that you and Bobby are the new item! We all think you should come with him when he comes back East!”
Photo: Associated Press
Most of the items come from the estate of famed acting coach Lee Strasberg, who became a father figure to Monroe.
The cash generated will go to his widow, Anna. Lee Strasberg’s son, David, his mother, and brother found many of Monroe’s belongings in suitcases and closets about six years ago during a house clean-out.
Other items come from the collection of David Gainsborough-Roberts, a major collector of Monroe’s costumes.
The items were in Beijing yesterday for a private viewing by Chinese collectors.
Monroe – who famously passed away at the age of 36 from an overdose of barbiturates – would have turned 90 this year.
The auction takes place from November 17-19 in Los Angeles – so start saving now.
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