In my third post on the Hollywood Legends event at Julien’s Auctions, I’m looking at more items going under the hammer on Wednesday, December 10, as part of a day-long Classic Hollywood showcase. I’ll update you with total bids soon, and you can read all my posts here.
At left, a print from one of three contact sheet sets by Milton Greene, showing Marilyn wearing a costume for The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956. And at right, from the estate of celebrity makeup artist and Marilyn dollmaker Kim Goodwin, a 1990s print showing Monroe taking a phonecall during production of Some Like It Hot in 1958, when her playwright husband Arthur Miller’s conviction for contempt of congress was reversed.
SOLD for $384 (left) and $256 (right)
A cheque for $1,950, issued by Marilyn Monroe Productions to Benjamin W. Solomon with Marilyn’s signature, on January 5, 1959.
SOLD for $3,200
A single-reel, colour home movie, shot in Nevada amid production of The Misfits in 1960, running for a total 4:26 minutes, with Marilyn appearing for around 1:20 minutes. She is first seen wearing a white sleeveless blouse with jeans, and later dons a long-sleeved blouse and straw hat while on horseback. Other actors are also featured, while the remaining footage shows the teenage girl who shot the film at home with her family in Reno, where her father owned a restaurant visited by director John Huston.
UNSOLD
From separate sets of snapshots by the same consignor, showing Marilyn on location with makeup artist Allan ‘Whitey’ Snyder, and acting coach Paula Strasberg.
SOLD for $576 (above, at top) and $1,600 (above, at bottom)
Press snapshot showing Marilyn in the bleachers with co-star Eli Wallach (who’s holding a parasol) between takes of the film’s rodeo scene.
SOLD for $640
A rare colour slide by Dennis Stock, one of several photographers from the Magnum news agency contracted to cover the Misfits shoot.
SOLD for $384
United Artists print with negative and press snipe, featuring key members of the Misfits team, in an outtake probably shot by Elliott Erwitt. Montgomery Clift jokingly plays the ‘caveman’ with Marilyn as their co-stars look on, with Huston, Miller (who wrote the screenplay), and producer Frank E. Taylor also in the picture.
SOLD for $256
Two rare colour slides by Inge Morath. At left, Marilyn is flanked by secretary May Reis and co-star Thelma Ritter; and at right, shooting an intimate scene with leading man Clark Gable.
SOLD for $448
Moving forward, these two images were captured on May 19, 1962, on the night when Marilyn sang ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ to President John F. Kennedy. The first, a 2000 print showing Marilyn with master of ceremonies Peter Lawford, including a stamp on the verso crediting photographer Victor R. Helou. And the second, a limited edition 2010 print signed by Irv Steinberg, shows Marilyn smiling from inside a car.
SOLD for $256 each
And finally, a set of negatives and thumbnail prints (at left), shot by Bert Stern for Vogue in June 1962…
SOLD for $3,840
… and at right, one of two later prints from a series by Allan Grant, shot at Marilyn’s Los Angeles home on July 7, 1962. This layout was commissioned by LIFE magazine as part of what would be Monroe’s last interview, hitting newsstands on August 3, right before the weekend of her death.
UNSOLD – but another Grant photo in this auction fetched $2,560.
The Marilyn Report 
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