Over 300 items which previously belonged to the late
screen icon, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ will be auctioned off at
Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills next month. Photo:
Rantchic
‘Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives’ – which includes letters
written by her ex-husbands, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur
Miller – will be auctioned next month.
Over 300 items which previously belonged to the late
screen icon will be auctioned off at Julien’s Auctions in
Beverly Hills next month, including notes written by her
former husbands.
In one letter, addressed to Mrs. DiMaggio, the baseball star
bared his heartbreak at their split in 1954 after a few
months of marriage.
He wrote: ‘ I love you and want to be with you. There is
nothing I would like better than to restore your confidence
in me.
‘My heart split even wider seeing you cry in front of all
these people.’
Friends including Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Jane Russell
wrote other letters, which form part of the ‘Marilyn
Monroe’s Lost Archives’ sale.
Auction curator, Martin Nolan – who spent nine months
compiling the collection – said: ‘It really gives you the
chills when you read some of the stuff and see the intimacy
and the personal nature of it.’
A type-written letter from playwright Arthur bears a hand-
written post-script which reads: ‘Please, if I’ve ever made
you cry or made you even more sadder, ever for a second,
please forgive me, my perfect girl. I love you.’
And in a note she penned to the ‘Death of a Salesman’
writer, Marilyn said: ‘It’s doubly difficult to understand that
you, the most different, most beautiful human being, chose
me to love.’
Other items in the sale include a framed letter from
designer Cecil Beaton, in which he reassured her she was a
fine actress, and a 19-minute reel made after her 1961
movie ‘The Misfits’ wrapped which shows her happily on
the beach with co-star Gable and other friends.
The curator said: ‘ It’s fantastic to see how loved she was.
Like you thought she was vulnerable and not loved and she
craved love and she needed that reassurance. But she had
it. She had it with Joe DiMaggio. She had it with Arthur
Miller.’
The ‘Some Like It Hot’ star – who died of a drug overdose
aged 36 in 1962 – willed the collection to her mentor,
acting coach Lee Strasberg, who gave it to a trusted friend
to take care of and auction owner Darren Julien thinks the
pieces could fetch over $1 million when they go up for sale
on December 5 and 6.
He said: ‘We anticipate a lot of fans will be here. They’ll fly
in from all over the world.’
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and
singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a
number of commercially successful motion pictures during
the 1950s and early 1960s.
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