Marilyn’s Roxbury Mortgage Deed – and More – at University Archives

The mortgage deed for Marilyn and Arthur Miller’s country farmhouse at 232 Old Tophet Road in Roxbury, Connecticut – signed by the couple on December 20, 1957 – are going under the hammer on Wednesday, July 16, as part of a Rare Autographs auction at University Archives.

SOLD for $6,000

Among the other Monroe-related items on offer are three revised script pages from Arthur Miller’s screenplay for The Misfits, owned by Marilyn and featuring dialogue between Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. The revisions were made in October 1960, near the end of the gruelling shoot.

SOLD for $180

A Marilyn Monroe Productions cheque for $19.25 with Marilyn’s signature, made to the Affiliated Telephone Answering Service on September 7, 1961.

SOLD for $3,500

And finally: at left, an original program titled ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President‘, containing the schedule of events at the gala for John F. Kennedy, held at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962; and at right, a reproduction photo of the first Playboy cover from December 1953, with a later autograph from the magazine’s founder, Hugh Hefner.

JFK gala program SOLD for $1,500; signed Playboy photo SOLD for $950