En coulisse de la soirée d'Anniversaire de Kennedy
L'histoire des coulisses du "Joyeux anniversaire, Monsieur le Président" de Marilyn Monroe
L'agent des services secrets Larry Newman a affirmé que Bobby Kennedy et Marilyn se disputaient dans les coulisses avant la représentation.
En 1962, lorsqu'elle chante "Happy Birthday Mr. President", Marilyn Monroe est à un tournant de sa carrière et de sa vie personnelle. Elle était l'une des plus grandes actrices de son temps, mais son film précédent, The Misfits, a été une déception. Elle sortait également d'un divorce avec Arthur Miller et elle est restée un moment dans un hôpital psychiatrique de Manhattan, en raison de son état mental fragile.
Mais à la fin du printemps, les choses s'améliorent. Monroe a acheté une nouvelle maison dans le quartier calme de Brentwood à Los Angeles, et on lui avait offert un rôle principal dans Something's Got to Give (mais elle a ensuite été licenciée), un remake de la comédie loufoque de 1940 My Favorite Wife. De plus, elle avait hâte de se produire lors d'une importante collecte de fonds démocrate en l'honneur du président John F. Kennedy au Madison Square Garden de New York le 19 mai.
Monroe et Kennedy étaient impliqués dans une relation secrète et de nombreuses personnes ont affirmé qu'ils avaient passé plusieurs nuits ensemble.
Trois jours avant l'événement, Marilyn a été vue en train de répéter à New York, extrêmement anxieuse. Le soir de l'événement, on a cousu sur elle une tenue spéciale pour l'occasion - une robe couleur chair conçue par Jean Louis incrustée de plus de 2 500 strass et conçue pour épouser ses courbes.
Peter Lawford l'a présentée, "M. Président… la regrettée Marilyn Monroe" – une référence ludique aux fréquents retards de Marilyn ("late" en anglais voulant autant dire "en retard" que "regretté" pour désigner une personne chère décédée). Puis Lawford a retiré son étole et le public a eu le souffle coupé. Marilyn scintillait de 2 500 strass sur une robe couleur chair qui la faisait apparaître nue. (Elle ne portait pas de lingerie.)
Marilyn effleura le microphone avec un doigt, et soudain l'ingénue timide se transforma en chaton sexuel confiant. Marilyn a toujours été un désordre de paradoxes.
Cette nuit-là, John Kennedy était particulièrement inquiet. L'agent des services secrets Larry Newman a affirmé que Bobby Kennedy et Marilyn se disputaient dans les coulisses avant la représentation.
Plus tard dans la soirée, les Kennedy et Marilyn assistèrent à une after-party pour les donateurs démocrates. L'ambassadeur des États-Unis aux Nations Unies, Adlai Stevenson, s'est plaint qu'il était difficile de parler à Marilyn puisque Bobby était comme "un papillon de nuit autour de la flamme". D'autres ont fait remarquer qu'il était difficile de dire quel frère Kennedy Marilyn préférait.
Les services secrets ont confisqué tous les négatifs des photos montrant Marilyn avec les Kennedy cette nuit-là, sauf celle-ci (voir photo ci-dessous).
Nous ne connaîtrons jamais la véritable nature de la relation de Marilyn avec les Kennedy, mais la plupart des historiens pensent que Marilyn couchait avec Bobby à l'époque.
Mais quelque chose s'est sûrement passé cette nuit-là. Le lendemain, les chroniqueurs comme Dorothy Kilgallen ont qualifié la performance de Marilyn de "faire l'amour avec le président sous les yeux directs de quarante millions d'Américains". D'autres ont affirmé que la performance sexy de Marilyn visait à rendre son ex-mari, Arthur Miller, jaloux. (Il était dans le public.) Malheureusement, John F. Kennedy n'était pas homme à garder des femmes gênantes, et le scandale avait rendu Marilyn très gênante. Il a rompu les liens avec elle peu de temps après cette nuit.
The Story Behind Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’
May, 03, 2022 | - online iconic
Secret Service agent Larry Newman claimed that Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn argued backstage before the performance.
During 1962, when she sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President”, Marilyn Monroe was at a turning point of her career and personal life.
She was one of the greatest actresses of her time, but her previous movie, The Misfits, was a disappointment. She was also coming off a divorce to Arthur Miller and she stayed for a while at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital, due to her fragile mental state.
But by the end of the spring, things getting better. Monroe bought a new home in the quiet Brentwood section of Los Angeles, and she had been offered a leading role in Something’s Got to Give (but she was later fired), a remake of the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife. Furthermore, she was looking forward to performing at a major Democratic fundraiser to honor President John F. Kennedy at ew York City’s Madison Square Garden on May 19.
Monroe and Kennedy were involved in a secret relationship, and many people claimed that the two spent several nights together.
Three days before the event, Marilyn was seen rehearsing in New York, extremely anxious. On the night of the event, she was sewn into a special outfit for the occasion – a Jean Louis-designed, flesh-colored gown embedded with more than 2,500 rhinestones and tailored to hug her curves.
Peter Lawford introduced her, “Mr. President…the late Marilyn Monroe” — a playful reference to Marilyn’s frequent tardiness. Then Lawford removed her stole, and the audience gasped. Marilyn was shimmering with 2,500 rhinestones over a flesh-colored gown that made her appear naked. (She did not wear lingerie.)
Marilyn flicked the microphone with one finger, and suddenly the shy ingenue morphed into the confident sex kitten. Marilyn was always a mess of paradoxes.
That night, John Kennedy was particularly worried. Secret Service agent Larry Newman claimed that Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn argued backstage before the performance.
Later that evening, the Kennedys and Marilyn attended an after-party for Democratic donors. United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, complained that it was hard to speak to Marilyn since Bobby was like “a moth around the flame.” Others commented that it was difficult to tell which Kennedy brother Marilyn preferred.
The Secret Service confiscated all the negatives of photos showing Marilyn with the Kennedys that night, except this one.
We will never know the true nature of Marilyn’s relationship to the Kennedys, but most historians believe Marilyn was sleeping with Bobby at the time.
But something surely happened that night. The next day, columnists Dorothy Kilgallen referred to Marilyn’s performance as “making love to the president in the direct view of forty million Americans.” Others claimed that Marilyn’s sexy performance intended to make her ex-husband, Arthur Miller, jealous. (He was in the audience.)
Unfortunately, John F. Kennedy was not a man to keep inconvenient women around, and the scandal had made Marilyn very inconvenient. He broke ties with her shortly after that night.
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Vanity Fair - Norman Rosten, poète et dernier confident de Marilyn Monroe
Norman Rosten, poète et dernier confident de Marilyn Monroe
08/04/2022 | par Pierrick Geais - en ligne sur vanityfair.fr
Qui savait que Marilyn Monroe était poétesse à ses heures perdues ? Norman Rosten a longtemps été le seul lecteur des petits textes écrits par l'actrice. Il était aussi son confident, son ami et celui qui l'a vue se faner petit à petit. Dans Marilyn, ombre et lumière, réédité en français par les éditions Seghers, il raconte les sept années qu'il a passées au côté de l'icône du XXème siècle.
Ce jour de 1955, il pleuvait sur Brooklyn. Surpris par l’averse alors qu’il se promenait, le photographe Sam Shaw appelle son ami, le poète Norman Rosten, pour savoir s’il peut venir s’abriter chez lui. L’occasion de discuter, de prendre un café, dit-il. Il précise qu’il n’est pas seul, mais avec une jeune fille, que Rosten imagine être l’un de ses modèles. Elle arrive trempée comme une soupe, enveloppée dans un manteau en poils de chameau, les cheveux mouillés, coupés courts, et sans maquillage. Elle est méconnaissable. Sam Shaw marmonne son prénom : Rosten et son épouse, Hedda, comprennent « Marion »… La jeune fille est jolie, mais un peu timide. Ou peut-être rêveuse. Plutôt que de faire la conversation, elle se plonge dans un livre posé sur la table du salon. Songs for Patricia, écrit par Norman Rosten justement. Hedda lui pose tout de même quelques questions.
« - Je ne suis pas de New York, je suis ici depuis un mois environ, explique l’inconnue. J’étudie à l’Actors Studio.
- C’est merveilleux. Vous avez déjà dû jouer au théâtre. Dans quelles pièces ?
- Non, je n’ai jamais joué sur une scène. Mais j’ai fait quelques films.
- Oh ! Quel est votre nom de cinéma ? »
L’inconnue s’arrête un instant et murmure : « Marilyn Monroe… » Stupeur ! Comment avaient-ils pu ne pas reconnaître la plus grande star du moment ? Sept ans de réflexion venait de sortir sur les écrans, et était un énorme succès.
Quelques jours après cette rencontre, Norman Rosten reçoit une lettre signée « Marilyn M. » : « Cher Norman, cela semble un peu drôle d’écrire le mot “Norman” puisque je m’appelle aussi Norma, et on dirait presque que j’écris mon propre nom… » Elle lui raconte qu’elle a passé son dimanche à lire Songs of Patricia, et qu’elle a adoré. D’ailleurs, elle aussi écrit parfois des poèmes, surtout quand elle est déprimée. Elle lui en enverra quelques-uns pour qu’il lui donne son avis. « Penses-tu que c’est de la poésie ? », l’interroge-t-elle fébrilement. Elle est douée mais ne le sait pas. Ses mots sont doux, parfois un peu naïfs, mais superbes.
Marilyn ne quitte plus Norman et son épouse, la chaleureuse Hedda, à laquelle elle ouvre son cœur comme à personne d’autre. Dîners à Manhattan, week-ends à la campagne, ils partent même en vacances ensemble. L’écrivain est toujours impressionné par la frénésie qui entoure continuellement l’actrice. Le moindre de ses déplacements provoque d’incontrôlables cohues. Un jour d’été, sur une plage pourtant secrète de Long Island, elle est poursuivie par un essaim de fans, qui veulent la toucher et l’embrasser, jusque dans l’eau, et manque de se noyer. Heureusement, Rosten l’aide à nager jusqu’à un canot. « Ce fut la seule fois où j’eus la chance de lui sauver la vie », écrit-il.
Il n’arrivera pas à la secourir des autres dangers, trop intimes, trop profonds. En 1962, Marilyn Monroe n’a que trente-six ans mais n’a pas plus de force qu’une vieille dame. Norman la voit sombrer dans une mélancolie que rien ne peut soigner. La veille de sa mort, elle lui téléphone, joyeuse et agitée. Elle parle de sa nouvelle interview dans Life, de son prochain tournage, d’un gala auquel elle doit assister et d’une comédie musicale qu’elle voudrait voir… Mais elle n’évoque pas l’essentiel. « Elle parlait sans s’arrêter. Il y avait un message codé derrière ces phrases, et je n’arrivais pas à le déchiffrer. Le message, c’était : à l’aide ! Et elle continuait à bavarder », racontera-t-il plus tard.
Le souvenir de Marilyn ne quittera jamais Norman Rosten. Il écrira le livret de l’opéra Marilyn d’Ezra Laderman, et aussi une biographie, parue pour la première fois sous le titre Marilyn : an untold story en 1973, aujourd’hui réédité en France aux éditions Seghers. Un témoignage précieux, délicat, juste et tendre, qui donne à voir la star hollywoodienne sous un jour inédit. Aussi, on peut y lire des fragments de poèmes composés par Marilyn Monroe. Comme celui-ci : « Plus ténue qu’un fil de toile d’araignée/Plus pure qu’aucun/Mais elle s’est attachée elle-même/Et a tenu bon dans le vent des tempêtes./Et a été roussie par des feux bondissants et brûlants./Vie - en des moments étranges je suis tes deux directions/Tant bien que mal je reste suspendue, attirée vers le vide/Alors que tes deux directions m’attirent. »
Marilyn, ombre et lumière, de Norman Rosten, traduit par François Guérif, éditions Seghers, en librairies dès aujourd’hui
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Marilyn Through The Lens - 03/2017 - Julien's III
Photographies
George Barris
Lot 43: MARILYN MONROE, HOLLYWOOD HILLS, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 593.75 
Lot 44: MARILYN MONROE, HOLLYWOOD HILLS, GEORGE BARRIS
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Winning bid: $ 500
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Lot 51: MARILYN MONROE, HOLLYWOOD HILLS, GEORGE BARRIS
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Lot 52: MARILYN MONROE, HOLLYWOOD HILLS, GEORGE BARRIS
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Winning bid: $ 1,125 
Lot 54: MARILYN MONROE, HOLLYWOOD HILLS, GEORGE BARRIS
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Winning bid: $ 2,000 
Lot 57: MARILYN MONROE, HOLLYWOOD HILLS, GEORGE BARRIS
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Lot 72: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 562.50 
Lot 73: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 593.75 
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Lot 77: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 1,875 
Lot 78: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 5,312.50
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Winning bid: $ 2,000 
Lot 80: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 1,500
Lot 81: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 937.50 
Lot 82: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 593.75 
Lot 83: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 531.25 
Lot 84: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 593.75 
Lot 85: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 500 
Lot 86: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 750 
Lot 87: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 1,375 
Lot 88: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
Winning bid: $ 1,187.50 
Lot 89: MARILYN MONROE, THE LAST SHOOT, GEORGE BARRIS
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Warren Beatty & Marilyn Monroe
Warren Beatty took a 'soulful' walk with Marilyn Monroe the night before she died
October, 7, 2016
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It could have been Warren Beatty's affair to remember.
The Hollywood legend was one of the last people to see Marilyn Monroe alive, he recalled in a new interview with Vanity Fair.
Beatty and Monroe met Aug. 4, 1962, at Peter Lawford's house in Santa Monica, California.
Lawford, also an actor, invited Beatty over for a night of tacos and poker, and Monroe, a longtime friend of Lawford, was there.
“I hadn’t seen anything that beautiful,” he said in the interview.
The blonde buxom asked a then 25-year-old Beatty if he wanted to walk along the beach.
“It was more soulful than romantic," the 79-year-old recounted of their telling stroll.
(L. J. Willinger/Getty Images)
Later, he played the piano for her and Marilyn was "wearing something so clingy that he could tell she wasn't wearing underwear."
Beatty also noticed that she was "already tipsy from the champagne" even "before the sun had set."
The next day, Beatty got a phone call from Harold Mirisch, brother of Hollywood producer Walter Marisch, who told him Marilyn had died from an overdose at age 36.
Six Decades In, Warren Beatty Is Still Seducing Hollywood
October, 6, 2016
en ligne sur vanityfair.com
Warren & Natalie Wood, 1962, Academy Awards
[...]
He also briefly encountered Marilyn Monroe. Peter Lawford had invited him out to his house in Malibu for a night of tacos and poker, and Monroe was there. “I hadn’t seen anything that beautiful,” Beatty recalls. She invited him to take a walk along the beach, which he did. “It was more soulful than romantic.” Back in the house, he played the piano. (He’s a good pianist, by the way, enamored of jazz greats such as Erroll Garner.) Marilyn sat on the edge of the piano in something so clingy that Beatty could tell she wasn’t wearing underwear.
“How old are you ?” she asked.
“Twenty-five,” he answered. “And how old are you ?” he asked cheekily.
“Three. Six,” she said, as if not wanting to bring the two numbers together. By then, the tacos had arrived, and no one really played poker that night. Warren noticed that Marilyn was already a bit tipsy from champagne, even before the sun had set.
The next day, the producer Walter Mirisch’s brother Harold called. “Did you hear ?” he asked. “Marilyn Monroe is dead.” Warren was one of the last people to see Marilyn alive—a story that Beatty tells only reluctantly. He really is one of Hollywood’s most discreet people, in a town and an industry marinated in its own gossip.
Gilet Mexicain
Hand-Knitted Cardigan
'The Mexican Jacket'
Cardigan tricoté main
"Le gilet mexicain"
C'est un gilet long de laine couleur blanc crémeux, avec une bande de motifs géométriques de couleur noir et marron foncé au centre du buste, au col et sur les manches. Il se ferme à la taille avec une large ceinture.
Il s'agit d'un gilet de la garde robe personnelle de Marilyn Monroe. Elle l'a acheté durant son séjour au Mexique en février 1962; c'est en faisant du shopping à Toluna avec Eunice Murray, sa gouvernante qui l'accompagne, pour trouver des idées d'ameublement pour sa maison de Brentwood qu'elle vient d'acheter, qu'elle tombe sur ce gilet. Eunice Murray racontera plus tard (en 1975) l'anecdote: Marilyn aurait remarqué une pile de gilets 'faits mains' dans une petite boutique et aurait dit: "Je pourrai porter ça les fraîches matinées quand je dois quitter tôt la maison". Elle achète donc le gilet pour la modique somme de 130 pesos (à peine 6 €).
Marilyn est vue avec le gilet le 1er juin 1962, le jour de ses 36 ans: après une journée de tournage et une petite fête d'anniversaire improvisée sur le plateau de "Something's Got to Give", elle quitte le plateau de la Fox en compagnie de l'acteur Wally Cox, vêtue d'un pantalon blanc de coupe droite, de la toque de fourrure qu'elle porte dans le film et du gros gilet. Elle se rend à une soirée de bienfaisance (un match de base-ball dont les bénéfices sont reversés au profit de la dystrophie musculaire).
Elle choisit le gilet dans sa garde robe pour la séance photos qu'elle tient avec le photographe George Barris (fin juin et début juillet 1962). Lors de la séance photos du 13 juillet 1962 qui se tient sur une plage de Santa Monica où elle pose en maillot de bain et serviette verte, elle enfile le gilet vers la fin de la journée.
Les fans de Marilyn portent une certaine fascination pour le gilet. Il faut dire que c'est un gilet qui peut être porté aussi bien par les femmes que par les hommes. Et il traverse les époques, restant ainsi intemporel et classique, avec une touche d'originalité par ses motifs à connotation mexicaine. De par son prix (à l'origine) abordable, il s'en est beaucoup exporté et a rencontré un grand succès, se vendant en grand nombre. Des firmes mexicaines en ont alors produit de multiples versions. Dans les années 1970s, il est devenu très populaire, approprié par la jeune génération qui le portait sur des Tee-Shirts et jeans. Ce type de gros gilet est resté un basique des gardes-robes jusqu'au début des années 1980s, pour revenir à la mode au milieu des années 2000s.
Le gilet de Marilyn est vendu aux enchères organisées par Christie's en 1999 à New York: acheté 130 pesos par Marilyn, estimé entre 30 000 et 50 000 $ aux enchères, il est finalement vendu pour la somme de 167 500 $ et est aujourd'hui la propriété de la société Ripley's Believe It Or Not, qui regroupe toutes sortes d'objets étranges, et tient plusieurs musées à travers le monde (Hollywood, Londres, Australie ...).
> Gilet présenté par Christie's lors des enchères de 1999
> Le gilet sur une statue de cire Marilyn d'un musée 'Ripley's Believe It or Not': 
Inspirations
> 1963 - L'actrice italienne Claudia Cardinale 
> Vers 1967 - Le groupe de rock américain
The Big Brother and the Holding Company (avec Janis Joplin): 
> Début 1970s -
Brigitte Bardot et son compagnon Laurent Vergez 
> Année 1969 - tournage de "Madly"
L'acteur Alain Delon et sa compagne Mireille Darc 
> 1975-1979 - La série américaine Starsky et Hutch
Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) et David Soul (Hutch)
Starsky va populariser le gilet dans les années 1970s 
> 1970s - Magazine de couture Sirdar 
> 1980s - La mannequin "Marilyn Looklike" Linda Kerridge 
> 1980s - L'acteur Jon-Erik Hexum 
> 1980s - L'actrice et mannequin Margaux Hemingway 
> 1994 - Le guitariste Richey James Edwards (Manic Street Preachers)
> 1998 - Jeff Bridges dans le film "The Big Lebowski" 
> 2004 -L'adaptation au cinéma de Starsky et Hutch
Ben Stiller (Starsky) et Owen Wilson (Hutch) 
> 2013 - La chanteuse française Jenifer 
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Marilyn Monroe Auction - 11/2016 - docs papiers 1
Documents papiers - Vie Privée
Papers documents - Private Life
Lot 1: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POSTCARD
A Beverly Hills Hotel postcard in Marilyn Monroe's handwriting, sent to Ralph Roberts in May 1961. Monroe wrote, "Dear Raffe, See I did write! I have a surprise for you and I'm not pregnant either. XOXO Love, M." Accompanied by a copy of a letter from Roberts.
3½ by 5½ inches
PROVENANCE: Partial Lot 334, “Film and Television Memorabilia,” Christie's East, New York, Sale number 7821, December 18, 1995
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 17: MARILYN MONROE ARTHUR MILLER SIGNED MOCK-UP TITLE PAGE
A mock-up title page from Arthur Miller's collected plays, The Viking Press, New York, 1957, with printed dedication reading "For Marilyn" and signed by Arthur Miller.
8 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE: Lot 358, “Film and Entertainment,” Christie's, South Kensington, Sale number 6343, December 17, 1993
Estimate: $250 - $350 
Lot 33: MARILYN MONROE LEE STRASBERG EULOGY, FUNERAL GUEST LIST, AND REMBERENCE CARD
Five typescript pages bound by a staple relating to the funeral service of Marilyn Monroe. The first page is titled "Service for Marilyn Monroe Wednesday, August 8, 1962, 1PM." The second and third pages detail Lee Strasberg's eulogy for Monroe. The fourth page is a list titled “Those invited to Attend.” The last page has a paragraph with a statement to Monroe's uninvited friends explaining the desire to keep the service private, credited to Berniece Miracle, Inez Melson and Joe DiMaggio. Together with an In Memory of Marilyn Monroe remembrance card from her funeral service at Westwood Memorial Park, dated "August 8th, 1962," and containing the 23rd Psalm and service details.
Largest, 11 by 8 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE Lot 69, “Popular Culture: Film and Entertainment,” Christie's, London, South Kensington, Sale Number 5579, November 25, 2010
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 78: MARILYN MONROE LETTER TO BOBBY MILLER MENTIONING ROBERT KENNEDY
A typed, unsigned file copy of a four-page letter on two leaves, letter dated "Noon February 2" (1961), addressed to Arthur Miller's son, "Dear Bobbybones." She writes in response to Bobby's letter, "That pool table you told me about in that Danish hotel sounds great. Did I ever tell you that I can really play pool. I learned when I was about sixteen and it is something that you never forget." She also comments, "I am going to get that book you recommended; is it "Lord of the Flies" or "The Fleas"? I would love to read something really terrifying."
Most poignantly, Monroe tells Bobby about her new home, "Bobby, I have the best news: I have just completely bought my new house. ...It is an authentic little Mexican house, but it's got a gigantic swimming pool, and it looks just like Mexico. You would just love it. I have two guest rooms plus a large playroom, plus lots of patios, and a big Mexican wall goes all around the place with big high Mexican gates (that's to keep intruders out, in case anybody gets intrusive.) ...Anyway, I would love - for whichever vacation it can be arranged - if you and Janie wanted to - at least for part of vacation, even if it is just for a few days, or a week - you are welcome to stay as long as you wanted to. I will take care of your plane tickets and meet you at the airport. ..."
Monroe is also excited to share other news, "Oh, Bobby, guess what: I had dinner last night with the Attorney-General of the United States, Robert Kennedy, and I asked him what his department was going to do about Civil Rights and some other issues. He's very intelligent, and besides all that, he's got a terrific sense of humor. I think you would like him. Anyway, I had to go to this dinner last night as he was the guest of honor and when they asked him who he wanted to meet, he wanted to meet me. So, I went to the dinner and I sat next to him, and he isn't a bad dancer either." She continues telling Bobby about her conversation and pressing Kennedy to find out what he planned to do about civil rights and that he answered her questions and told her he would send her a letter with all of his plans. He asked her if she had been attending "some kind of meetings" she writes to Bobby, "I laughed and said 'no, but these are the kind of questions that the youth of America want answers to and want things done about.' Not that I'm so youthful, but I feel youthful. But he's an old 36 himself which astounded me because I'm 35. It was a pleasant evening, all in all."
She begins to close, "I haven't heard from her [Janie] since Christmas. I guess we are all a little sloppy about writing. However, I think we all know what we mean to each other, don't we. At least I know I love you kids and I want to be your friend and stay in touch. ...I love you and miss you, and, give my love to Janie."
8 1/2 by 11 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Lee Strasberg
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000 
Lot 79: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTER FROM JEAN KENNEDY SMITH
A single sheet of stationery listing an address in Palm Beach, Florida, with autograph notation in blue ink on recto and version reading in full, "Dear Marilyn - Mother asked me to write and thank you for your sweet note to Daddy - He really enjoyed it and you were very cute to send it. / Understand that you and Bobby are the new item! We all think you should come with him when he comes back east! Again thanks for the note. / Love, Jean Smith." Jean Smith is one of nine children to Rose and Joseph Kennedy and sister to John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and four other siblings.
7 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Lee Strasberg
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 90: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTER FROM ANA LOWER
A single-page letter written by Ana Lower to Monroe on recto and verso, dated October 10, 1944. Lower, "Aunt Ana," as Monroe called her, was actually Grace Goddard's aunt but was a mother figure for Monroe and by all accounts one of the most important figures in her life until Lower's death in 1948. This early letter reads in part, "My precious Girl, You are outward bound on a happy journey. May each moment of its joyous expectations be filled to the brim./ New places, faces and experiences await you. You will meet them all with your usual sweetness and loving courtesy./ When you see your sister you will truly both receive a blessing." The letter was written by Lower as a send-off to Monroe as she left Los Angeles, headed to Detroit to meet her half-sister, Berniece Miracle, for the first time face-to-face in 1944.
7 1/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 91: MARILYN MONROE STAMP COLLECTION BOOK
A three-hole stamp collection book with vinyl covers from Grimes-Stassforth Stationery Company in Los Angeles, consisting of 30 pages, 10 of which have stamps glued to them. Interestingly, many of the stamps in the book are used, accompanied by new and unused identical stamps. Stamps in the book range in years from 1935 to 1936, suggesting that Marilyn Monroe collected the stamps when she was between 9 and 10 years old. The final stamp entry in the booklet contains a handwritten annotation, “#1319 AP8,” presumably in Monroe’s hand.
11 1/4 by 9 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 93: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTER FROM ANA LOWER
A four-page letter on two leaves, written by Ana Lower to Monroe, dated "Monday 6:45 pm Oct 23, 1944." This early letter was written to Monroe while she was on her trip to Detroit to meet her half-sister for the first time in person. The letter reads in part, "How nice for you to have found such a lovely sister and family. I hope they will be out here too later on./ Love arranged this trip for you dear, and Love will bring Jimmie home at the right time. Now stop this nonesense [sic] about car sickness. God does not cease to be because you board a train, nor do you cease to be his perfect child because you take a car ride or a ship ride. You just forget to put your armour [sic] on."
6 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 97: MARILYN MONROE GRACE GODDARD NOTES ON BEHAVIOR OF MARILYN MONROE'S MOTHER
An undated single page of stationery from B & H Waterproofing Mfg. Co. letterhead containing notes in pencil, in Grace Goddard's hand. A parenthetical note at the bottom of the first page reads "(I wrote these things down as Gladys said them while she was staying with me) Grace Goddard." The notes were then presumably sent to Monroe as they were among her belongings at the time of her death. The list, numbered from 1 to 15, is essentially a portrait of someone suffering mental illness, including paranoid delusions: "2. She thinks she was sent to State Hospital because years ago she voted on a Socialist ballot at Hawthorne and was being punished for doing so."; "6. She is being punished because years ago she took a drink of liquor (during prohibition) and should have been sent to jail."; "7. Sleeps with her head at the foot of bed so as not to look at Marilyn's picture - they disturb her."; "10. After listening to a political speech, said she was needed in Russia to help them."; "11. Wishes she never had had a sexual experience so she could be more Christ like."; "15. Misplaces or losing her glasses, watch, gloves, or other possessions and either accuses someone of stealing them, or are to blame for her losing them." She also expresses sudden aversion to meat and fish, fear of Catholics, belief that she was a nurse working for the government while at "Agnew" mental hospital, and belief that nobody should listen to the radio because the people are drunk when they go on the air, among many other observances. This is a fascinating firsthand account of Monroe's mother directly from someone witnessing and documenting her behavior.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 98: MARILYN MONROE CARD FROM HER MOTHER
A small greeting card featuring a charming representation of a lady wearing a feather hat and veil, constructed using a button. The autograph note in pencil reads in full, "Dear One; I am very grateful for all the kindness you've shown me and as a Loving Christian Scientist (my pencil broke) I hope our God will let me return some goodness to you with out doing myself any harm. For I know good is reflected in goodness, the same as Love is reflected in Love./ As a Christian Scientist I remain very truly your Mother." The undated note is in an unpostmarked envelope addressed to "Miss Norma Jeane Dougherty 6707 Odessa Ave., Van Nuy's Cal." with return address for her mother listed as "From - G. P. Eley 2713 Honolulu Ave. Verdugo City, Cal."
5 by 4 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 103: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTER ABOUT SECRETLY CARING FOR HER MOTHER
A four-page autograph letter with postscript continuing onto the verso of first page, in pencil, in the hand of Grace Goddard, Monroe's one-time legal guardian. The letter dated August 25, 1953, reads in part, "I have been having a wild time over that bill for G - I phoned the secretary as you said ... I could tell by her answers that you had not confided in her about G - She said she didn’t have $600 left to pay that amount and wouldn’t anyway without specific instructions from you. I had to let the whole matter drop as I didn’t want to say anything. I just hoped and prayed you would get home. Sunday morning Miss O’Brien phoned and I was too sick to talk to her … I phoned her today ... and she said if they didn’t receive $600 within the next week they would be forced to turn G - over to the county, which would mean I would have to appear again and this time we couldn’t keep it from becoming public. Another $300 is due by or before the 11th of Sept. I’m so sorry you didn’t send me a check before you left and Doc could have handled it as we did before. The only reason I asked you to have some one else handle that account was because I expected to be in Texas for several months and Doc might be out of town. Now that I don’t need that operation and expect to be here I think it is best not to confide in any more people than you have to. I wish you would send me a check for $600 quick like and I’ll tend to it immediately. Such a burden for a delicate little girl like you to hear. If we had anywhere near that amount in the bank Doc would have sent the check anyway..."
The letter is accompanied by the original transmittal envelope and a pink carbon receipt for a $600 money transfer through the Canadian Pacific Railway Company addressed to Mrs. E.S. Goddard anddated August 27, 1953, with facsimile signature of Marilyn Monroe and a note in her hand saying "sorry difficulty hope you feel better." The form states Monroe's "Place" as the Banff Springs Hotel, where she and Joe DiMaggio stayed while she was filming River of No Return (20th Century Fox 1953) in Canada. The letter clearly shows that even Monroe's secretary was not told about Monroe's mother Gladys being re-admitted to a psychiatric care facility at this time and demonstrates that Monroe was able to keep it a secret with the help of close contacts like the Goddards. Grace Goddard passed away on September 28, 1953, just over a month after this letter was written.
8 by 5 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 105: MARILYN MONROE ROCKHAVEN SANITARIUM RECEIPTS FOR THE CARE OF MARILYN MONROE'S MOTHER
A grouping of 42 receipts, ranging in date from October 1962 through April 1966, addressed to Inez C. Melson, for the care of Monroe’s mother, Gladys P. Eley, while she was staying at Rockhaven Sanitarium in Verdugo City, California. Included with the Rockhaven Sanitarium receipts are other invoices for products and services provided to Eley, including prescription medications, toothbrushes and toothpaste, repairs to her dentures, cash advances, and package deliveries sent to Gainsborough, Florida, for Eley's other daughter, Berniece Miracle. The April 27, 1966, invoice indicates that Eley’s account at Rockhaven was $7,355.90 in arrears.
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 
Lot 159: MARILYN MONROE TYPED 1943 NOTES
Six pages of typed thoughts and feelings from a very young Norma Jeane Dougherty expressing her thoughts on her marriage to James Dougherty as she confronts her fear that her husband has been unfaithful with his former girlfriend, Doris Ingram. She writes the letter after a night apart from Dougherty and examines her feelings with great depth of understanding and maturity, "[I]n the beginning I would/ never have stayed with him but for his love of classical/ music his intellect which made a pretense at being more/ then [sic] it was." She continues, "I was greatly/ attracted to him as one of the few young men I had no sexual repulsion for." She comments that despite steady modeling, "... to an outsider it might/ not be conceivable that I had taken my small insecurities/ and built them up into a nervous tension which although it/ had outlets was always present." After discovering that Dougherty "had spent the evening & most of the morning hours with the other woman ..." she says she "... now would/ like a chance at a third act - the unsuspecting male and/ the vengful [sic] female, but now I'm only fooling my-/ self if I do get my last act I will portray the heroine/ who bravely suffers tucking it all away to use as barage [sic]/ some now unknown man." Pages have been stored folded together and are brittle with some separation along crease lines of first page.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 5-11. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
10 1/4 by 7 1/4
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000 
Lot 160: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of unlined paper with handwritten poem in pencil reading "Life -/ I am both of your directions/ Somehow remaining hanging downward/ the most/ but strong as a cobweb in the/ wind-I exist more with the cold glistening frost./ But my beaded rays have the colors I've/ seen in a painting-ah life they/ have cheated you."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 16-17. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 161: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A single page of lined paper from a Steno notebook with writing, in pencil, and with a fatalistic tone, reading in full, "Oh damn I wish that I were/ dead-absolutely nonexistent-/ gone away from here-from/ everywhere but how would I/ There is always bridges-the Brooklyn/ bridge/ But I love that bridge (everything is beautiful from there/ and the air is so clean) walking it seems/ peaceful even with all those/ cars going crazy underneath. So/ it would have to be some other bridge/ an ugly one and with no view-except/ I like in particular all bridges-there's some-/ thing about them and besides I've / never seen an ugly bridge."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 18-19. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 162: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of lined paper, folded at center. The page contains a verse in pencil reading "Stones on the walk/ every color there is/ I stare down at you/ like a horizon-/ the space-air is between us beckoning/ and I am many stories up/ my feet frightened/ as I grasp towards you."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 20-21. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
12 3/8 by 8 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 163: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of lined paper with unevenly torn top edge and minor paper loss along bottom edge. The recto of page contains a poem written in pencil reading "Only parts of us will ever/ touch parts of others-/ one's own truth is just/ that really-one's own truth./ We can only share the/ part that is within another's knowing acceptable/ so one/ is for most part alone./ As it is meant to be in/ evidently in nature-at best perhaps it could make/ our understanding seek/ another's loneliness out."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 22-23. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 164: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A single piece of lined notebook paper with notation in pencil showing Monroe's frustration with what must have been a relentless demand for her time and attention, reading in full, "I can't really stand Human/ Beings sometimes-I know/ they all have their problems/ as I have mine-but I'm really/ too tired for it. Trying to understand,/ making allowances, seeing certain things/ that just weary me."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 24-25. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
12 3/8 by 8 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 165: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
An envelope with rhyming poem written by Monroe in pencil on back making light of the fact that hospital gowns do not cover her "derriere." The envelope also contains a list of composers and musicians: "Beethoven/ Last 6-quartets/ Ravel-the Waltz/ Bartok-quartets of his."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 26-27. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
4 1/8 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 166: MARILYN MONROE NOTE ON BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL STATIONERY
A single page of hotel stationery note paper, folded down the center of the page. There are multiple marginal notes, but the main body of text reads like a poem and appears to be a mantra-like acting relaxation exercise reading in part, "Keep the balloon, and/ Dare not to worry/ Dare to/ let go - so loose/ They you pick up/ Stretch into your tone" and "Let go of my/ eyes -/ so relaxed/ only let/ my thought/ come through/ them without/ doing any/ thing to/ them."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 28-29. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
5 1/2 by 4 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 169: MARILYN MONROE EARLY CAREER PERSONAL JOURNAL
A black "Record" book with 150 numbered and lined pages, dating to the late 1940s to early 1950s, with approximately 12 pages containing entries in Monroe's hand, including notes about Monroe’s 1948 trip to Salinas and Castroville in northern California and also a line referencing her 1951 film Love Nest. Monroe wrote on the first pages of the book, “Alone!!!!! I am alone – I am always alone no matter what.” The writings include class notes as well as deeply personal writings of her deepest insecurities, reading in part, "Fear of giving me the lines new, maybe won't be able to learn them, maybe I'll make mistakes, people will either think I'm no good, or laugh or belittle me or think I can't act."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 32-47. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 3/4 by 5 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 170: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL JOURNAL
A black "Record" book with 150 numbered and lined pages, the first page dated "Feb 18, 1953" with approximately 14 pages containing entries in Monroe's hand. The notes are very personal with Monroe ruminating about her life and experiences in her past that continue to affect her life, including these notes about the childhood influence of Ida Bolender that lingers into her adult life, reading in part, "Ida - I have still been obeying her - it's not only harmful for me to do so but unrealality [sic] because in my work - I don't want to obey her any longer."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 50-65. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000 
Lot 171: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN PROSE
A single sheet of hotel stationery from the Waldorf Astoria, New York, where Monroe stayed between April and September 1955, with multiple verses in pencil and ink on front and back of page. The primary verse on recto was written as Monroe observed Manhattan from her suite at the hotel, reading in part, "Sooooo many lights in the darkness/ making skeletons of buildings/ and life in the streets." A poem about trees that appears to begin in the upper left margin of recto and continues onto the lower right of verso reads in full, "Sad, sweet trees-/ I wish for you-rest/ but you must be wakeful/ You must suffer-/ to loose [sic] your dark golden/ when your covering of/ even dead leaves leave you/ strong and naked/ you must be-/ alive-when looking dead/ straight though bend/ with wind/ And bear the pain & the joy/ of newness on your limbs."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 70-73. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 172: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN DREAM NARRATIVE
Two sheets of hotel stationery from the Waldorf Astoria, New York, where Monroe stayed between April and September 1955. The pages contain notes in pencil recounting a dream in which Lee Strasberg acts as surgeon and her analyst, Dr. Hohenberg, administers anesthesia, but they are disappointed when they "cut her open" to find nothing there. She concludes, "Strasberg's dreams & hopes for theater are fallen./ Dr. H's dreams and hopes for a permant phicatrcic [sic] cure/ is given up-Arthur is disappointed-let down +." Another note in the margin mentions a dream about a "horrible repulsive man" in an elevator that she wants to discuss with Dr. Hohenberg.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 74-77. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 175: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO NORMAN ROSTEN
A single sheet of hotel stationery from the Waldorf Astoria, New York, where Monroe stayed between April and September 1955. The page contains a letter written in multiple passes, first in pencil with added thoughts in ink, addressed to the Rostens' Brooklyn address. The cryptic letter contains a multitude of inside references and is quite difficult to follow but also sends her regards to Norman Rosten's wife Hedda, their daughter Patty and their pets Bam-Moo and Candy. Monroe also muses about the "Mr. Johnson Club," a reference to Rosten's play Mister Johnson.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 84-85. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 177: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of stationery from Parkside House, the English manor where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed in Surrey while she filmed The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956. The page contains a poem in pencil on front of sheet, likely written about Miller while staying at Parkside, reading in part, "my love sleeps beside me-/ in the faint light-I see his manly jaw/ give way-and the mouth of his/ boyhood returns." The back of the sheet contains two mournful verses reading, "the pain of his longing when he looks/ at another=/ like an unfulfillment of the day/ he was born" as well as the line "And I in merciless pain/ and with his pain of Longing-/ when he looks at and loves another/ like an unfulfillment of the day/ he was born-/ we must endure/ I more sadly because I can feel no joy."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 106-109. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 
Lot 178: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of stationery from Parkside House, the English manor where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed in Surrey while she filmed The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956. The page contains a poem in pencil on front of sheet with multiple strikethroughs and edits, reading in part, "oh silence/ you stillness hurt my head -and / piece ears/ jars my head with the stillness/ of sounds unbearable -durable/ on the screen of pitch blackness."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 110-111. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 179: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of stationery from Parkside House, the English manor where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed in Surrey while she filmed The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956. The page contains a poem in red and blue ink on front of sheet reading "To have your heart is/ the only completely happy proud thing (that ever belonged/ to me) I've ever possessed so" with alternate language suggestion in blue ink reading "thing that ever completely happen to me."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 112-113. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 180: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A single sheet of stationery from Parkside House, the English manor where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed in Surrey while she filmed The Prince and The Showgirl in London in 1956. The note reads “I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.” Monroe had just entered her third marriage and was on location with her new husband, Arthur Miller.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 114-115. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 181: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of stationery from Parkside House, the English manor where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed in Surrey while she filmed The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956. The page contains a poem in pencil on front of sheet with multiple strikethroughs and edits, reading in part, "It is not to be for granted/ the old woman hides-/ from her glass-the one she polishes so it won't be dusty-/ daring sometimes/ to see her toothless gasp and if she perhaps very gently smiles/ she remembers-/ her pain."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 116-117. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 182: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN POEM
A single sheet of stationery from Parkside House, the English manor where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed in Surrey while she filmed The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956. The page contains a mournful poem in pencil on front of sheet with multiple strikethroughs and edits, reading in full, "where his eyes rest with pleasure-I/ want to still be-but time has changed/ the hold of that glance./ Alas how will I cope when I am/ even less youthful-/ I seek joy but it is clothed/ with pain-/ take heart as in my youth/ sleep and rest my heavy head/ on his breast for still my love/ sleeps beside me."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 118-119. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $12,000 - $15,000 
Lot 184: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN "ROXBURY NOTES"
Three sheets of lined notebook paper torn from a spiral-bound book, each containing thoughts in pencil on recto. The notes portray a tired Monroe who has endured more than she could bear. Monroe was living in Roxbury, Connecticut, with husband Arthur Miller and was clearly disenchanted with domestic life in the country. She writes, "I've tried to imagine spring all winter-it's/ here and I still feel hopeless. I think I hate it here because there is no love here/ anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here." She poetically writes of the mature trees on the property and then turns to self-deprecation, examining her appearance: "I see myself in the mirror now, brow furrowed-/ If I lean close I'll see-what I don't want to know-tension, sadness, disappointment, my eyes dulled, cheeks flushed with capillaries that look/ like rivers on a map -hair lying like snakes. The mouth makes me the saddes [sic]."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 125-131. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
12 1/4 by 7 1/2 inches
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 
Lot 185: MARILYN MONROE 1958 NOTEBOOK
A red Livewire wide-ruled spiral-bound notebook, most likely dating to 1958. The notebook contains five meaningful pages of writing in both pen and pencil, all of which were published in the book Fragments . One additional page not shown in the book contains pencil notations of calorie counts for foods like "Wheat germ 1/2 c" and 1 cup of orange juice, eggs and skim milk. Two of the pages written in ink reference lines from Some Like It Hot while other pages reveal deeply personal thoughts and poems, including this page that reads in part, "Help Help/ Help/ I feel life coming closer/ when all I want/ is to die."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 134-145. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
11 1/8 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $12,000 - $15,000 
Lot 186: MARILYN MONROE NOTES OF FRUSTRATION
Two pages of lined note paper torn from a notebook containing agonizing notes written by Monroe on the set of a film, likely in the privacy of her dressing room, dated simply "Aug 27." The two small pages reveal the tortured nature of Monroe's process and the enormous amount of pressure she felt, reading in part, "I almost threw up my whole lunch. I'm tired. I'm searching for a way to play this part I am depressed with my whole life since I first remember - How can I be such a gay young hopeful girl ... my concentration wavers most of the time ... I must try to work and work on my concentration."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 150-151. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 by 4 3/4 inches
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 
Lot 187: MARILYN MONROE 1955 GUCCI ADDRESS BOOK
A personalized brown leather, six-ring Gucci address book with custom stamped "M.M." on the front cover, belonging to Monroe circa 1955, with handwritten entries, many in Monroe’s hand. Contacts include Marlon Brando, "Mother Miller," Lee Strasberg, Maurine Stapleton, and Harold Clurman, among others. The book includes various handwritten entries and notes throughout. Of particular note is Monroe's handwritten list of very personal things she must make an effort to do, including "as often as possible to observe Strassberg's [sic.] other private classes"; "never miss my actors studio sessions"; "must make strong effort to work on current problems and phobias that out of my past has arisen," among other entries.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 152-153. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 1/2 by 6 inches
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000 
Lot 190: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
An undated note on a single sheet of unlined paper, entirely in Monroe’s hand, reading “For life/ It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed./ For work/ The truth can only be recalled, never invented."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 158-159. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 by 5 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 191: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTES
Two sheets of lined notebook paper with drafts of a birthday message, likely the same message referenced by Norman Rosten in his book Marilyn Among Friends . In the book, Rosten explains that Monroe often gave herself nicknames, and "One day, she signed a note with Noodle, Sam, Max, Clump, Sugar Finny, Pussy, and so on." Both pages contain a nearly verbatim list of names reading "Happy birthday and love (we all love you)/ Noodle/ Sam/ Max/ Clump/ Sugar Finny/ Pussy/ and all the rest of us-" The draft note also reads in part "[F]orgive me for being sentimental/ I'm so glad you were born/ and that I'm living at the/ same time as you."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 160-163. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 202: MARILYN MONROE DEEPLY PERSONAL LETTER TO PAULA STRASBERG
A single page of lined yellow notebook paper, folded multiple times and addressed on the exterior of the folded page "To Paula/ Personal MM." The letter reads "Paula Dear,/ You asked me yesterday why-/ I felt somehow (I'm only conceiving of it this morning) that if I didn't have the control or the will to make myself do anything simple & do it right I would never be able to act or do anything - I know it sounds crazy - maybe it was even superstitious - I don't know - I don't know anything./ Something has happened I think to make me lose my confidence. I don't know what it is. All I know is I want to work./ Oh Paula I wish I knew why I am so anguished. I think maybe I'm crazy like all the other members of my family were, when I was sick I was sure I was. I'm so glad you are with me here!"
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Photocopy of this original letter on Page 190-191. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
12 1/4 by 8 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 261: MARILYN MONROE NOTES IN STENO BOOK
A spiral-bound stenographer notebook by Chase Press Stationers & Printers, who supplied Monroe with her custom stationery, containing four pages with notes in Monroe's hand. The first page reads "Tonight/ be there at 7:15 - Strassbergs [sic]" then "Later - Norman & Hedda - drums?" and "Tomorrow be ready at 12:30 (for lunch) John Houston [sic]/ 4:00 Norman's play reading." The second page has a list of phone calls to make. The other two pages contain single words: "Ruby" and "My."
9 1/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 266: ARTHUR MILLER HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO MARILYN MONROE
A single piece of lined paper torn from a spiral-bound notebook, heavily stained, containing a note in Miller's hand for Monroe. The note reads "I am sitting here, Dearheart, and my heart is bursting with love. I try to figure when is the best date for a wedding, who should be there, where it should be. I want us to marry on my 41st birthday - October 17, 1956." The note was written early in their relationship before Monroe knew she would be in London for the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl, and before Miller knew he would be in London for the premiere of A View from the Bridge in October 1956. Despite Miller's wish to be married on his birthday, he would marry Monroe June 29, 1956, very soon after his Reno divorce from his first wife was finalized. Miller announced his intentions to marry Monroe during his testimony before The House Un-American Activities Committee, June 21, 1956, and they perhaps moved the date forward in an effort to help Miller obtain his passport to accompany his new wife to London.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 314: MARILYN MONROE LETTER TO ROBERT MILLER AS HUGO THE DOG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
An unsigned file copy of a letter written by Monroe to "Bobby" Miller dated August 22, 1957. Monroe writes the letter entirely in the voice of Hugo, their pet Basset Hound. The letter opens, "It sure is lonesome around here! But first of all I will tell you I made a mistake and I am sorry, but I chewed up one of your baseballs. I didn't mean to. I thought it was a tennis ball and that it wouldn't make any difference but Daddy and Marilyn said that they would get you another one." It continues "Oh, I did something else that I should tell you about. I jumped up very high and knocked down the badminton set. Then I proceeded to chew up the net but I didn't wreck the rackets or the birds. I am sorry I did this Bob, but what is a dog going to do?" The letter is accompanied by three small black and white snapshots of Bobby with Hugo the dog.
Photos, 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 316: MARILYN MONROE LETTER TO JANE MILLER AS HUGO THE DOG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
An unsigned file copy of a letter written by Monroe to "Janie" Miller dated August 22, 1957. Monroe writes the letter entirely in the voice of Hugo, their pet Basset Hound. The letter opens, "How is my Mommie? Boy, was I glad to get your letter written only to me! Of course Daddy and Marilyn have been telling me things from your other letters and Bob's too, about what you have been doing at Camp and how much you are enjoying it and I don't want you to feel badly, but I have to tell you that I have missed you something awful." The letter continues with a confession: "I have been sleeping on your bed. It's because it is your bed. So far I don't think Daddy or Marilyn knows about it but every night after they close their door and they go to sleep I wait a little while and then I tiptoe upstairs and I sleep right on your bed. I think they are getting suspicious though because I heard Berniece (that's the new maid and you will like her) say, ‘I found the strangest footprints up on this bedspread.’ Of course, between you and me, they were mine." This charming letter is accompanied by two small black and white snapshots of Jane and Robert Miller with Hugo the dog.
Photos, 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 318: MARILYN MONROE LETTER TO HER STEPCHILDREN FROM THE CAT
An unsigned file copy of a letter composed by Monroe in the voice of the family cat Sugar Finney, clumsily typed with misspellings reading in part, "I'm having fun driving old Rocky and that old grumpy maid of yours nuts. …Thers never a dull moment in this shack. ... Love, Sugar Feeny."
7 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 319: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH OF HUGO WITH INVOICES
A group of four invoices from the Southdown Kennel in Roxbury, Connecticut addressed to Mr. Arthur Miller at 444 East 57th Street for boarding and care of Hugo the Basset Hound. Together with a small black and white snapshot of the dog.
Photo, 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 320: MARILYN MONROE LETTERS TO BOBBY MILLER AT SUMMER CAMP
Two single-page typed, unsigned file copies of letters dated July 16, 1958, and August 9, 1957, relating a number of amusing stories. The 1958 letter is typed on the back of a piece of stationery from the Hotel Bel-Air. In the first letter, Monroe tells Bobby Miller about Hugo the dog's escapades, taking things from the neighbors, and asks him to help her figure out what his sister Janie would like for her birthday. The 1958 letter tells him, "I haven't seen Jack Lemmon yet because he is still working on another picture. He has a very funny part in this picture. Also, he plays a friend of mine. I started to take ukulele lessons because I'm supposed to know how in the picture. I've got an idea: Maybe we can learn something together--you on the guitar and me on the ukulele--you know, charge people admission to hear us."
Monroe also tells him about her brief ownership of a Cocker Spaniel: "About two days ago someone gave me a Cocker Spaniel puppy 10 months old, completely house-broken. So I was going to call your Dad and ask him if it was okay to keep him--then I found out quite by accident that he bites--he didn't bite me but he bit a woman on the throat the day before, so I said 'thanks a lot but no thanks.' His name was 'Walter' and he was a golden-haired spaniel and just beautiful but he seemed just too 'schizo' --short for schizophrenic --you remember you explained what that meant."
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 321: MARILYN MONROE LETTERS TO JANE MILLER
Two single-page typed, unsigned file copies of letters dated July 16, 1958, and August 9, 1957, relating a number of amusing stories. The 1958 letter is typed on the back of a piece of stationery from the Hotel Bel-Air and is addressed, "Dear Janie-bean." The letter, written as Monroe is preparing for Some Like It Hot , reads in part, "... [T]hanks for helping me into my white skirt. I almost didn't make it --but now that I'm busier I'll start losing weight -- you know where./ Along with ukulele lessons I have to take I'm learning three songs from the 1920 period. ... I don't know how my costumes in the picture will be yet. I'll let you know."
The second letter is written to Janie at summer camp and recounts a number of amusing stories about Hugo the Bassett Hound reading in part, "He got kicked by that donkey. Remember him? His nose swelled up with a big lump on top and it really wrecked his profile. I put an ice pack on it and it took several days for it to go down but the last time I saw him it was pretty well healed. Bernice is taking care of him and the house while I am at the hospital./ We are going home tomorrow and then I will write you by hand./ Listen, I had better stop now because I want to get off a note to Bobby today. Don't worry about me in the hospital. I am feeling much better now and I have the funniest Scotch nurse."
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 322: MARILYN MONROE FORD THUNDERBIRD DOCUMENTS
A Declaration of Ownership of Motor Vehicle card listing Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., address 444 East 57th Street, New York City, as the owner of a 1956 black Ford Thunderbird, engine #P6FH151382. The vehicle was purchased from Westport Motor Co. Inc. of Westport, Connecticut, on December 20, 1955. Together with a blank "Seller's Report of Sale of Unregistered Motor Vehicle" card and a letter dated January 7, 1960, regarding renewal of insurance for the vehicle with secretarial note regarding deadlines and the amount of payment.
Cards, 3 1/2 by 6 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 323: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTER RELATED TO HER 1956 FORD THUNDERBIRD
A letter from the City of New York Department of Finance, dated October 1, 1959, to Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., indicating the following: "[I]t appears that the 3% New York City Sales or Compensating Use Tax was due and payable on 6/20/57. If the tax due on this transaction has been paid by you, please submit evidence thereof. If it has not been paid, kindly remit the tax plus interest of 14%, with the enclosed form on or before 10/8/59.” Monroe, husband Arthur Miller, and business partner and friend Milton Greene were photographed riding in this Thunderbird on July 2, 1956, driving from New York City to Roxbury, Connecticut.
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 324: MARILYN MONROE DRIVER'S MANUAL
An official Driver's Manual booklet from the State of Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles with interior date of August 1955, although it may have been issued anytime after this date until an updated manual was released. Together with a blank postcard addressed to the department meant to be filled out by applicant to request an appointment for a Connecticut driver test.
Booklet, 6 by 4 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 325: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED DRIVER'S LICENSE
A State of Connecticut Motor Vehicles Operator's License dated October 24, 1957, and expiring June 30, 1958, listing "MM Miller of Tophet Road, Roxbury Connecticut, operator number 181034533. The license also lists Monroe's height as five feet and five inches with a date of birth of June 1, 1926, and is signed in blue pen "Marilyn Monroe Miller."
3 1/4 by 2 1/2 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 326: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED DRIVER'S LICENSE
A State of Connecticut Motor Vehicles Operator's License dated July 8, 1958, and expiring June 30, 1960, listing "MM Miller of Tophet Road, Roxbury Connecticut, operator number 181034533. The license also lists Monroe's height as five feet and five inches with a date of birth of June 1, 1926, and is signed in blue pen "Marilyn Monroe Miller."
3 1/4 by 2 1/2 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 373: MARILYN MONROE TO-DO LIST
A small piece of lined notebook paper with notes in Monroe's hand, reading in part, "Call - Lee on Monday/ about private class" and "Monday - Luchon [sic.] interview 12:00 / Sleeping prince/ Elsa Maxwell" as well as a phone number for Dr. Kris. Lee is clearly a reference to acting coach Lee Strasberg.
3 1/2 by 5 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 380: MARILYN MONROE GLADSTONE HOTEL STATEMENT
A statement in the name of Mr. and Mrs. A Miller, dated January 13, 1958, from Gladstone Hotel on East 52nd Street at Park Avenue with charges for a room January 13-17, 1958, as well as restaurant charges. Notations on the bill read "[F]or meeting held at suite with De Laurentis and MCA officials from time to time."
9 by 6 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 411: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL JOURNAL
A black "Record" book with 150 numbered and lined pages, the first page dated "Feb 18, 1953" with approximately 14 pages containing entries in Monroe's hand. The notes are very personal with Monroe ruminating about her life and experiences in her past that continue to affect her life, including these notes about the childhood influence of Ida Bolender that lingers into her adult life, reading in part, "Ida - I have still been obeying her - it's not only harmful for me to do so but unrealality [sic] because in my work - I don't want to obey her any longer."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments : Poems , Intimate Notes , Letters . Pages 50-65. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000 
Lot 431: MARILYN MONROE INSCRIBED RECORD FROM TRUMAN CAPOTE
A copy of the LP Truman Capote Reading his A Christmas Memory from Breakfast at Tiffany's. "The United Artists album (1959), is inscribed in black ink on the cover in fine print "for Marilyn, with love from Truman, 1959."
12 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 433: LEE STRASBERG ADDRESS BOOK
A cream leather six-ring binder of alphabetically indexed lined notebook pages containing hundreds of names, addresses and telephone numbers written in multiple hands. The book contains strikethroughs and check marks throughout, as the information was likely being transferred and updated into a new book by a secretary. The book dates to circa 1960 and contains the names of celebrities such as Shelley Winters, Marlon Brando, Eli Wallach, and Maureen Stapleton, among others. Of note is a page listing multiple numbers for “MM” as well as Marilyn Monroe’s New York City address. The book also has more administrative contacts.
9 1/8 by 8 1/4 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 478: MARILYN MONROE NOTEBOOKS
A small six-ring binder containing blank lined notebook pages in black covers by Vernon. Together with an Italian daily planner with a quantity of blank pages intact. Both books were used by Monroe, and some of the pages included in the book Fragments were removed from these notebooks.
Largest, 7 by 4 3/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 484: DON FELD DRAWING FOR MARILYN MONROE
A piece of heavy brown card stock with ink and acrylic picture of a girl holding flowers with greeting reading "The World's Happiest Birthday to you from Don Feld." Together with a small note that reads "M-/ I hope this finds you well and happy - My thoughts are with you now - love, Feld."
Largest, 8 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 497: MARILYN MONROE AKC FORMS FOR MAF
A single-page typed letter on Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. letterhead from Pearl Moskowitz to Monroe with original postmarked transmittal envelope addressed to Monroe at The Beverly Hills Hotel. The letter accompanied forms for Monroe's dog Maf to be registered under Monroe's name with the American Kennel Club signed on verso with a secretarial signature. Together with a postcard to have the dog licensed with the ASPCA in New York City. The AKC forms list Maf's breeder as Maria S. Gurdin of Van Nuys, California a whelping date of Jan. 16, 1961; and the Sire and Dam of the dog.
Largest, 10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 499: MARILYN MONROE INVOICE FOR BOARDING MAF
A single-page invoice from the Southdown Kennel in Roxbury, Connecticut, dated December 18, 1961, for "Miss M. Munroe" [sic] for boarding and housebreaking of Maf, Monroe's poodle. The charges include boarding between August 3 and December 14, 1961, at a rate of $75 per month for a total of $330, as well as brushings, shampoos, wormings, and transportation to airport for a total of $43 in additional charges.
7 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 507: MARILYN MONROE HOTEL NOTEPADS
Three notepads, one with a note in Monroe's hand from the Continental Hilton in Mexico with a phone number for Wally Cox and the Bel Air Sands. Together with a blank notepad from The Beverly Hills Hotel and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Largest, 5 1/2 by 4 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 534: MARILYN MONROE CORRESPONDENCE WITH GERMAN DIPLOMAT
A single-page typed, unsigned file copy of a letter dated February 12, 1962, addressed to Mr. Volkmar von Fuehlsdorff in response to a gift card that accompanied Champagne. The note card reads "Dear Miss Monroe: It was such a pleasure to have you at the party the other day - since you liked the German Champagne, May I send you this with my kind personal regards/ Sincerely V. von F." Monroe's response reads "Dear Mr. von Fuehlsdorff: Thank you for your champagne. It arrived, I drank it, and I was gayer./ Thanks again./ My best,/ Marilyn Monroe."
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 535: MARILYN MONROE LETTER FROM MAY REIS
An autograph two-page letter on stationery from the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, dated April 22, 1961. The letter is accompanied by the original transmittal envelope postmarked April 22, 1961. The letter, written in red ink by Monroe's one- time secretary and assistant, May Reis, is a light travel note updating Monroe on her travels and stop in Dublin before heading to Paris.
8 by 5 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 538: EXTRAORDINARILY AMUSING LETTER FROM ERNIE KOVACS TO MARILYN MONROE
A single sheet of paper with blind embossed address at bottom of page containing typed, signed letter from Ernie Kovacs, undated in original transmittal envelope postmarked May 29, 1961. The envelope is addressed to Monroe at her Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow. The letter, addressed to "Marilyneleh," invites Monroe to a get together at his home on June 15, giving the dress code as "... slacks or if you want to be chic, just spray yourself with aluminum paint or something." He continues, "I'll try to find someone more mature than Carl Sandburg for you. ... if Frank is in town, will be asking him. ... don't be a miserable shit and say you can't come. ... Look as ugly as possible cause the neighbors talk if attractive women come into my study." He signs the letter in black pen "Ernie" and adds a note at the bottom: "If you don't have any aluminum paint, you could back into a mud pack and come as an adobe hut. ... we'll make it a costume party. … Kovacs." The letter is a perfect portrait of the iconic, quick-thinking, zany comedian who died tragically in an auto accident in January 1962.
8 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 573: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL NOTES
Three pieces of paper torn from a telephone message pad with deeply personal musing in Monroe's hand in pencil reading in part, "In a way I feel better when I feel terrible because at leaast I'm feeling something" and "[D]epression - it starts to depress me when I feel that I have exposed my truest feelings to people - I am afraid that they see through me - my faults and the fact that I am really a phoney who needs and wants admiration and love (I do not want to be like this - to depend on this need - its almost" the thought continues onto another page "a form of being an ego maniack [sic] - I don't really like my self [sic]. ..." One of the pages has "Oct. 15" written, but no year is indicated.
5 1/4 by 4 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 574: MARILYN MONROE 1962 ADDRESS BOOK
A red cardboard covered six-ring address book, front and back covers detached but present, belonging to Monroe circa 1962, with typed entries, including photographer Richard Avedon, Actors Studio, Henry Weinstein-the producer of Monroe’s final film Something’s Got To Give), Rupert Allan (Monroe’s publicist), Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, and Frank Sinatra, among many others. The book includes numerous entries and notes in Monroe’s hand throughout.
6 1/2 by 6 inches
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000 
Lot 600: MARILYN MONROE TYPED LETTER TO LEE AND PAULA STRASBERG
A typed file copy letter dated June 1, 1962, beneath "5th Helena" addressed "Dear Lee and Paula:" and reading in part, "The most important thing in my life is my work, my work with you. The Actors Studio is my home. … I wonder if you realize what the work has meant to me. ... The studio is for the theatre and for life. Marlon and I are having talks and we hope to persuade you to come to California for awhile to do work with us. Thank you Lee for being my friend and my teacher. Thank you Paula, for being with me and really truly directing the good and right moments on film. ... When I think of home it is New York and the Actors Studio. That is where I can exist in the human race. Love, Marilyn."
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 602: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL
A formal written appraisal of the contents of Monroe's home at 12305 Fifth Helena in Brentwood, California, prepared for Monroe's executor by John J. Donahue & Associates of Los Angeles. The 14-page typed report includes 12 pages of itemized listings in a room-by-room format assigning value to Monroe's personal property in the home totaling $3,176. The report gives a listing of the contents of the Living Room, Hall, Front Bedroom, Middle Bedroom, Study, Dining Room, Sun Room, Kitchen, Playroom, Exterior and Garage, and Clothing in addition to miscellaneous items.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 603: MARILYN MONROE DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE 1963 PURCHASE OF HER BRENTWOOD HOME
A group of documents related to the 1963 purchase of Monroe’s Brentwood, California, home, located at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive. Included are the original “Bid for Purchase of Real and Personal Property as a Unit” signed by Gilbert M. Nunez and Betty J. Nunez, dated March 14, 1963, specifying a sale price of $87,500.00 and a deposit of $8,750.00, the original deposit receipt, and a typed memo to Mrs. Inez Melson, Monroe’s business manager, from Lavon Fitzgerald, who represented the Nunez family in the transaction, with a business card for Fitzgerald stapled to the memo.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 604: MARILYN MONROE 1963 NOTICE OF PROPERTY SALE FOR BRENTWOOD HOME
A group of documents related to the 1963 sale of Monroe’s Brentwood, California, home, located at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, including a letter to Inez Melson, Monroe’s business manager, stating that the petition for confirmation of the sale of Monroe’s home was set for 9:15 a.m. on May 7, 1963, together with the actual court documents and the actual notice of sale of real and personal property as a unit at private sale, likely used to publicize the sale in newspapers. The legal documents specified that Monroe’s Hotpoint freezer-refrigerator, built-in dinette set, and all tacked-down carpeting and drapes presently on premises would be included in the transaction.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 789: MARILYN MONROE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
A diploma issued to Norma Jean Baker from Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 1941. The future Marilyn Monroe turned 15 in June 1941. The following June, Monroe married her first husband, Jim Dougherty.
6 by 8 inches
PROVENANCE Lot 324, "Books Auction," Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale number 94, October 21, 1973
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000 
Documents papiers - Mode & Beauté
Papers documents - Mode & Beauty
Lot 149 : MARILYN MONROE HAT RECEIPTS
Two invoices from Rex Inc. of Beverly Hills, the first dated January 5, 1960, lists a Black Velour Cloche and a White Velour Cloche each priced at $55. The second invoice is dated January 20, 1960, and lists a White Feather Toque priced at $85. Both invoices indicate that Miss Dorothy Blass purchased the hats in person and charged them to "Mrs. A. Miller" of The Beverly Hills Hotel.
7 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $150 - $250 
Lot 154: MARILYN MONROE DIET PLAN
A two-page, typed plan titled "Calorie Restricted Diet/ 1000 Calories/ 100 Grams Protein" prepared for Monroe by Dr. Leon Krohn. The pages are undated, but some of the approved foods and meal plans are in line with the notations found in Monroe's hand in the back of Lot 185, one of Monroe's notebooks from 1958. The diet put forth presents sound health advice even by today's standards, recommending the restriction of sugar, fats and carbohydrates to whole wheat and "one small white potato boiled baked or riced" as a substitution for one slice of bread.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 219: MARILYN MONROE FUR STORAGE AND SERVICE RECEIPT AND AGREEMENT
A storage and service receipt and agreement from Maximilian Fur Company, Inc., addressed to Mrs. A. Miller, 444 East 57th Street, New York City, Apt. 13E, dated July 3, 1958, listing a ranch mink coat, a white ermine coat, and a black fox stole trimmed with silk, together with a typed note to Mrs. A. Miller on Maximilian letterhead recommending a clean and glaze for the ranch mink coat and a glaze for the black fox stole. Original business reply envelope from Maximilian Fur Company included. The ranch mink coat referenced is very likely the coat Joe DiMaggio gave to Monroe.
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 220: MARILYN MONROE FUR APPRAISAL
An appraisal document dated February 4, 1954, signed by Al Teitelbaum of Teitelbaum Furs for "Marilyn Monroe DiMaggio" listing a black mist mink coat valued at $10,000. This is the well-known mink coat gifted to Monroe by DiMaggio.
7 1/4 by 7 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 225: MARILYN MONROE FUR STORAGE RECEIPTS
Four pages of storage receipts from Maximilian Furs of New York City dated July 19, 1960, itemizing 17 items in storage, together with two corresponding "Temporary fur storage record" tickets and a letter detailing work to be done to repair two of the furs on the storage receipts.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 226: MARILYN MONROE TEITELBAUM FUR DOCUMENTS
A carbon copy of an invoice from Teitelbaum Furs for an oyster white beaver coat of Canadian origin, dated November 22, 1958, sold for $1,375 with facsimile customer signature of Arthur Miller. Together with an invitation to fashion show and letter from Al Teitelbaum to Mrs. Arthur Miller dated January 5, 1959.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 271: MARILYN MONROE ARTHUR MILLER SAKS FIFTH AVENUE RECEIPTS
A group of five receipts from Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, addressed to Arthur Miller, together with a corresponding Saks Fifth Avenue invoice. All receipts are dated March 23, 1960, and specify Miller purchased trousers and an overcoat among other items. The invoice is dated April 17, 1960.
Estimate: $150 - $250 
Lot 297: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED CHECK
A blank counter check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in black ink, dated August 14, 1954, paid to Jax in the amount of $800. Monroe has listed her address as "508 N. Palm Dr." and her phone number as "CR62211."
3 3/8 by 8 1/4 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 298: MARILYN MONROE JAX STORE RECEIPT
A four-page itemized carbon copy receipt for $1,858.30 worth of clothing from Jax boutique with facsimile signature of Monroe. The receipt is dated simply "8-5" with no year given. Monroe's address is listed as "444 E. 57th St. NYC," but there are instructions on the last page to mail the items to "Mrs. Arthur Miller" at her Roxbury, Connecticut, residence.
6 by 4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 305: MARILYN MONROE EVENING GLOVE ORDER
A group of documents dated February 19, 1958, regarding the purchase of evening gloves from the John E. Fuchs Corporation in New York City. The documents include a typed signed letter from Kay Fuchs addressed to Mrs. Miller reading in part, "Kenneth Lane of Delman's asked us to send you the enclosed gloves. ... Enclosed find also a sample pair with our compliments of white satin glove." Together with a packing slip for the order listing a pair of 20-button white kid gloves for $165 and a pair of 10-button white kid gloves for $105, an invoice for the gloves, and a statement of account.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 328: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED CHECK WITH CORRESPONDING INVOICE
A check signed by Monroe in blue ink, dated February 14, 1958, Valentine's Day, paid to the Profile Symmetry Salon in New York City in the amount of $58.50. The check is drawn on Monroe's Colonial Trust Company account. Together with the original invoice from the salon sent to Monroe at her 444 East 57th Street residence in New York City dated February 3rd for "9 Treatments (Jan. 7th - Jan. 30th, inc.)" in the amount of $58.50.
Invoice, 7 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500 
Lot 332: MARILYN MONROE STATEMENT AND INVOICES FROM ERNO LASZLO
A statement, dated July 8, 1958, addressed to Monroe's secretary "Miss Mary [sic] Reis" presenting the total amount due for goods and services provided between June 1and July, 1958, $1,211.22. Together with 18 corresponding invoices detailing the products and services provided between these dates. The statement has a secretarial notation indicating that these charges were paid with check number 206 on July 31, 1958.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 334: MARILYN MONROE SKINCARE REGIME
Five sets of instructions, eight pages, from the Erno Laszlo Institute written out for Marilyn Monroe Miller, dated June 5, 6, 11, and 12, 1958, and July 3, 1958, outlining her constantly changing skincare regime in great detail. The instructions not only divide skincare into "Morning," "Evening 'if' dressing," and "Evening before retiring," but also there are instructions on what not to eat: "Not one piece of any kind of nuts, olives, chocolate, clams and oysters." There are also separate instructions for California and "Instructions for Makeup While Making Films."
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 337: MARILYN MONROE CHANEL No. 5 PERFUME RECEIPT
A receipt from I. Magnin & Co. of Beverly Hills for a bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume totaling $73.15 including tax and delivery through "Red Arrow Spec. Delivery" service. The perfume was billed to Marilyn Monroe Miller and signed for by "(D. Blass)" to be sent to Agnes Flannigan [sic], likely a Christmas present as the receipt is dated December 24, 1959. Flanagan was one of Monroe's hairdressers for many years, including for Bus Stop in 1956 and The Misfits in 1961, among many other occasions.
6 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 338: MARILYN MONROE BEVERLY HILTON SALON RECEIPT
A single piece of stationery from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills with handwritten receipt for five hair treatments signed by "Miss Porter - Beauty Salon/ Beverly Hilton Salon."
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 339: MARILYN MONROE INVOICE FOR SPECIAL EVENT MAKEUP
A single page of stationery from Marie Irvine of Long Island dated September 29, 1959, addressed to Marilyn Monroe at 444 East 57th Street for "Special make-up for photography" on September 22 and 27, 1958, for a total of $100. Monroe attended the premiere of An Evening with Ives Montand at the Henry Miller's Theatre in New York with Montgomery Clift on September 22, and she attended an American Friends of the Hebrew University award ceremony with her husband on September 27.
7 by 6 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 340: MARILYN MONROE ELIZABETH ARDEN RECEIPT
A receipt dated July 1958 from the Arden Salon for eight pairs of black false lashes signed for by "Irvine," likely makeup artist Marie Irvine, for a total of $20.60.
8 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 374: DESIGN SKETCH FOR MARILYN MONROE GOWN
An unsigned pencil on paper sketch of a form-fitting mermaid gown. The sketch perfectly matches the silhouette and seam construction of the gown worn by Marilyn Monroe to the June 13, 1957, premier of The Prince and the Showgirl at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The gown was made for Monroe by John Moore, who presented Monroe with options for the color of the dress including burgundy and Kelly Green, but Monroe chose beige silk satin.
14 by 11 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 375: DESIGN SKETCH FOR MARILYN MONROE GOWN
An unsigned pencil on paper sketch of a form-fitting mermaid gown. The sketch perfectly matches the silhouette of the gown worn by Monroe to the June 13, 1957, premier of The Prince and the Showgirl at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This sketch, most likely by designer John Moore, however introduces a much more elaborate set of swirled seam lines around the body. This is likely a variation presented to Monroe, who opted for the more simple and streamlined design that she wore to the premiere.
14 by 11 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 379: MARILYN MONROE ROYAL COMMAND PERFORMANCE GLOVE DOCUMENTS
A typed letter, dated July 14, 1957, signed by Kenneth C. Rouse of London and reading in part, "I am enclosing herewith a statement … for your information, regarding the making of a pair of gloves in gold lame for Miss Marilyn Monroe, to match her dress for the Royal Command show late last year." The letter elucidates the color and fabric of this dress captured almost exclusively on black and white film. Together with three account statements and four additional administrative letters regarding settlement of the account.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 383: MARILYN MONROE BERGDORF GOODMAN RECEIPT
A receipt from Bergdorf Goodman dated June 28, 1960, addressed to Mrs. Arthur Miller, 444 E. 57th Street, New York. Items purchased were signed for by May Reis, Monroe’s secretary.
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 384: MARILYN MONROE FASHION INVOICE
Two invoice pages from Polly's at 480 Park Avenue in New York City listing a "Black wool dinner dress" for $290 and a "Natural baby lama [sic] wool coat" for $350. The salesperson has written extensive notes for "Mrs. Arthur Miller" reading in part, "This Christian Dior coat ought to be very good for you both here and in California" and "the shirred bottom can be cut off at a later period and you can have a regular hem put in and have a charming free flowing dress."
6 3/4 by 8 3/4 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 385: MARILYN MONROE COMMUNICATIONS FROM CHRISTIAN DIOR
A series of messages from Simone Noir of Christian Dior in Paris to "Mrs. Miller," the first a letter dated March 7, 1958, reading in part, "I am very pleased to know that you will come to Paris in a few days. I certainly hope that we will have the pleasure of your visit at Christian Dior's, in spite of the heavy schedule. ... Naturally, we can show you models at your hotel. ..." The second is a telegram dated March 8, 1958, from Simone Noir saying that they are sending sketches and wish Monroe a pleasant stay in Paris. The third is a price list of the latest Dior designs, and the last is a telegram dated April 2, 1959, stating that they are happy Monroe is coming to Festival Cannes and they could make dresses for her arrival.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 386: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED CHECK
A check written entirely in Marilyn Monroe's hand, in black ink, dated July 14, 1952, and paid to Saks & Company, in the amount of $257.51. The check is drawn on Monroe's Bank of America account. Monroe lists her address as "Bel Air Hotel."
3 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 387: CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING LOST MARILYN MONROE GARMENTS
A letter from fashion designer John Moore to May Reis dated February 3, 1960, saying he will find out what happened to two "beige and black broadcloth shirtwaist sheaths" that were according to Moore "made by two of my best girls here in my workroom. … " Moore promised to trace the shipment to find the outcome of where they went. Subsequent documents, including claim to insurance company, reveal that the garments were in fact destroyed when TWA flight 595, a cargo flight, crashed after takeoff from Chicago Midway Airport on November 24, 1959, killing three people on board and eight people on the ground. The documents valued the lost garments at $750.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 389: MARILYN MONROE FERRAGAMO RECEIPT
A handwritten receipt from the Ferragamo Shoe Salon at 424 Park Avenue in New York City dated July 3, 1958. The receipt lists Marilyn Monroe Miller at 444 East 57th Street with note that the shoes were sold "c/o Miss Reis," Monroe's secretary. Additional note at top of the page reads "Address where to send red shoes." The receipt lists six pairs of shoes, including the Felitia in white, black, beige, and red calf leather, as well as shoe trees, polish, and a pair of hose.
6 by 4 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500
Lot 392: MARILYN MONROE FERRAGAMO STATEMENT
A handwritten balance statement on a page torn from a Beverly Hills Ferragamo Shoe Salon invoice pad dated April 1, 1960. The statement is in the name of Mrs. Arthur Miller at The Beverly Hills Hotel and has secretarial notation that the balance was paid on April 29, 1960.
6 by 4 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 394: MARILYN MONROE FERRAGAMO CLIPPING AND LETTER
A clipping from a 1959 issue of the New York Herald Tribune featuring an article titled, "Shoes by Ferragamo Designed for Comfort." Monroe, already a fan of the shoes, is not mentioned specifically in the article, although it does note that Ferragamo makes shoes for "innumerable top movie stars." Together with a letter from J. Hoffner of the Park Avenue Ferragamo Shoe Salon in New York City addressed "Dear Miss Monroe," dated September 3, 1958. The letter reads in part, "Since I know you like our spike heel opera pump very much; and since we have a great many more pair here than in our Beverly Hills store, I am writing to tell you the colors and materials I have in your size at the present time."
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 401: MARILYN MONROE ALIATA STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT
A typed statement dated December 1, 1959, listing outstanding charges for purchases made on October 24 and November 25, 1959, including a pair of purple suede shoes, silver kid shoes, and a pair of beige calf shoes totaling $151.74. The statement has a secretarial notation indicating that the charges were paid with check number 209 on December 8, 1959.
5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 402: MARILYN MONROE ALIATA SHOE RECEIPT
A typed receipt, undated, listing a pair of "Multicolor Shoes" sold to Miss Marilyn Monroe at the Bel Air Hotel for a total of $51.50. Secretarial notation on the invoice indicates that the charges were paid with check number 306 on September 5, 1958.
5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 403: MARILYN MONROE ALIATA SHOE RECEIPT
A handwritten receipt from Aliata Inc. imported shoes in 43 East 57th Street New York dated January 22, 1959, sold to Mrs. Marilyn Monroe of 444 East 57th Street in New York. The receipt lists 10 pairs of designer shoes by the Italian maker, including beige calf shoes, red suede, black suede, ivory - multicolor among others for a total of $392.43 including tax. Additional note at bottom of receipt lists "Bag - Helena Arpels" for an additional $64.59.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 409: MARILYN MONROE DELMAN DOCUMENTS
A typed letter, signed and dated June 23, 1959, from Rube Adler of Delman Inc. an exclusive New York boutique that carried Christian Dior shoes. The letter apologizes for charging Monroe for a pair of black calf pumps that were sent at the request of Kenneth Lane. Together with corresponding credit memo to correct the error, a credit invoice dated June 18, 1958, for a pair of shoes listed as "Debonair" for $18.75, and a statement dated March 25, 1958, for outstanding balance of $106.
Largest, 10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 443: MARILYN MONROE DANCE SHOES RECEIPT
A receipt dated November 16, 1959, from Capezio shoes in Los Angeles listing four pairs of "#32 Black Medium" at a cost of $5 per pair, sold to "20 Century Fox" with additional notations and secretarial Marilyn Monroe signature. The receipt is for the shoes worn by Monroe as she began dance rehearsals for her film Let's Make Love that began filming in January 1960.
5 1/2 by 8 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 455: MARILYN MONROE HANDBAG RECEIPT
A store receipt from I. Magnin & Co. of Beverly Hills. The receipt is dated June 24, 1956, and is in the name of Mrs. Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe of 444 East 57th Street and signed by assistant Hazel Washington. The receipt lists two items bags on sale for $30 and $46.
6 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 464: MARILYN MONROE JEWELRY INVOICE
An invoice dated February 19, 1958, from Talmack, New York sold to Mrs. Arthur Miller. The invoice lists one pair of rhinestone earrings, $14.00.
8 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 472: MARILYN MONROE JEWELRY INVOICE
An invoice dated June 15, 1960, from Porflex Co. of Beverly Hills listing Monroe's housekeeper, Hazel Washington. The invoice is for a pair of 14k white gold earrings with diamonds, 14k bracelet, and 14k charm totaling $406.98.
6 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 481: MARILYN MONROE I. MAGNIN & CO. STATEMENTS
One complete and one partial original statement from I. Magnin & Company addressed to Mrs. Arthur Miller, 444 E. 57th Street, New York City. The partial statement indicates a payment of $28.97 was paid on May 2, 1960. The complete statement documents receipt of the May 2 payment, and indicates a total balance still due of $10.40.
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 482: MARILYN MONROE CEIL CHAPMAN INVOICE
A two-page invoice, in triplicate, listing 11 items purchased from Ceil Chapman February 10, 1958, totaling $817.75 plus $3.00 for messenger charges.
8 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 485: MARILYN MONROE CUSTOM BRA RELATED DOCUMENTS
A handwritten note dated September 23, 1960, from Augusta Bouvier of Hollywood, California, addressed "Dear Miss Monroe:" and reading "I completed these bras on my own time, it took me four days to alter them, so I am giving you a special price of seventy five dollars." Together with an unsigned file copy of a letter dated October 31, 1957, to Fifth Avenue Fashions, reading in part, "Will you kindly send me three bras the same make as I got from you before - I believe it was Carnival - size 38-C."
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 495: MARILYN MONROE FERRAGAMO RECEIPTS
A handwritten note and invoice on the back of a page and partial page torn from a Ferragamo Shoe Salon invoice pad, undated. The note reads "Dear Miss Reis, I have all 5 pairs and am sending them to you Air Mail. Enclosed is your bill. Thank you./ Sincerely yours, J. Hoffner/ P.S. We have shoe trees priced at $2.00 a pair such as I sold Miss Monroe previously. Would she like to have some?" The note is accompanied by an informally written invoice listing five pairs of Felitia shoes in beige and black calf, size 7 1/2 B, for a total of $199.75, and a more formal invoice for the same shoes dated February 3, 1960, with additional postage and packaging charges added for a new total of $203.50 billed to Monroe at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Largest, 6 by 4 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 556: MARILYN MONROE PERFUME RECEIPT
An invoice from Floris of Jermyn Street in London dated December 14, 1959, listing Marilyn Monroe Miller of The Beverly Hills Hotel as the purchaser of six bottles of rose geranium toilet water for a total of $28.25.
8 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 960: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED RECEIPT
A Marilyn Monroe signed Elizabeth Arden receipt. Monroe has signed the receipt in blue ballpoint ink over the salon’s handwritten itemization of services.
8 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 964: MARILYN MONROE SAKS FIFTH AVENUE RECEIPT
A handwritten Saks Fifth Avenue receipt for Marilyn Monroe for six articles of clothing totaling $215.23. The receipt is dated "3-20."
6 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 989: MARILYN MONROE SAKS FIFTH AVENUE RECEIPTS
Two handwritten Saks Fifth Avenue receipts charged to Marilyn Monroe: the first is for two lashes totaling $8.32, signed by makeup artist and hairstylist George Masters; the second is for four pieces of clothing totaling $159.12 with a carbon copy of the receipt. Together with a payment stub from February 15, 1962, showing a balance due of $1,140.88.
Largest, 7 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Marilyn Monroe Auction - 11/2016 - docs papiers 2
Documents papiers - MM Prod.
Papers documents - MM Prod.
Lot 312: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED CHECK TO THE IRS
A check signed by Monroe in blue ink, with bank stamp dated November 16, 1959, paid to the "District Director of Internal Revenue" in the amount of $10,947.60. The check is drawn on her Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc. account with Colonial Trust Company. Calculating for inflation, this amount would be in excess of $90,000 in 2016.
3 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 416: MARILYN MONROE 1958 SIGNED CHECK WITH CORRESPONDING INVOICES
A Marilyn Monroe Productions canceled bank check dated August 22, 1958, in the amount of $42.88, written to Dave Bernstein, signed by Monroe, together with a statement from Dave Bernstein Catering and 10 receipts for food Monroe ordered ranging in date from August 19 through September 4, 1958. Monroe started filming Some Like It Hot on August 4, 1958. This lot is significant in that Monroe and then husband Arthur Miller discovered she was pregnant in October. These receipts possibly detail Monroe’s diet at the onset of what would be her final pregnancy. Sadly, she miscarried on December 16.
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 474: MARILYN MONROE 1960 SIGNED CHECK WITH CORRESPONDING INVOICES
A Marilyn Monroe Productions canceled bank check dated May 14, 1960, in the amount of $6.20, written to Century Messenger Service, signed by Monroe, together with two carbon copy invoices and an original month-end statement from Century Messenger Service. Both invoices are addressed to Marilyn Monroe Productions, 444 E. 57th Street, #13E, one of which is signed by May Reis, Monroe’s secretary.
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 537: MARILYN MONROE FAN MAIL EXPENSES
An expense report for Marilyn Monroe Productions prepared by Hedda Rosten, with itemized listing of fan mail expenses for June 1962 totaling $66.46. The expenses show that they were reimbursed July 26, 1962.
9 by 6 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 897: MARILYN MONROE PRODUCTIONS CHECKS AND RECEIPTS
Two checks from Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. to A.J. Bauer & Co Apothecaries for $8.15 and $17.25, both signed by Milton Greene and dated June 22, 1955, and June 20, 1955; and two related receipts from A.J. Bauer & Co Apothecaries showing the breakdown and balance due.
Checks, 3 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 898: MARILYN MONROE PRODUCTIONS BANK STATEMENT
A Colonial Trust Company bank statement for Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. for January 1957, showing a series of withdrawals throughout the month with a balance of $47,768.62 on January 1 and $27,671.40 on January 31. There are handwritten calculations are in pencil on verso in an unknown hand. Together with a credit receipt from the same bank dated February 1, 1957, that states that $54.64 was credited back to the account.
10 by 7 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 899: MARILYN MONROE PRODUCTIONS INVOICE
An invoice from Luria's Wine & Spirits in New York City billed to Marilyn Monroe Productions and sent to "Mr and Mrs Paula Lee Strasberg [sic]." The invoice is for 12 bottles of Piper-Heidsieck champagnes totaling $73.08. Together with a statement from Luria's showing $3.55 credit for Marilyn Monroe Productions. Dates unknown.
Larger, 9 by 5 3/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 974: MARILYN MONROE BANK STATEMENT, MARCH 1961
A Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. bank statement from Bankers Trust Company of New York showing credits and debits for the month of March 1961.
11 by 9 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 975: ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO MARILYN MONROE
An envelope addressed to Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. The envelope is postmarked January 5, 1961, and is from Magnum Photos Inc. Two “Fragile Handle with Care” stickers are affixed to the envelope. Many of Monroe’s most famous photographs were taken by Magnum photographers, including Eve Arnold, Philippe Halsman, and Inge Morath. This item came from the estate of May Reis, Monroe’s assistant and private secretary from 1958 to 1961.
12 by 15 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE Partial Lot 120, "Julien's Autumn Sale," Julien's, Las Vegas, October 29, 2005
Estimate: $50 - $100 
Documents papiers - Carrière
Papers documents - Career
Lot 70: MARILYN MONROE PROGRAM FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S 1962 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
A program from the fundraising gala titled "Happy Birthday Mr. President" that took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 19, 1962. The event featured Marilyn Monroe's now legendary performance of the song "Happy Birthday" to the president in her form-fitting Jean Louis gown. The program lists the other performers that night and is being sold together with Frieda Hull's ticket from the performance. The ticket cost $10, is numbered 827, and is listed as General Admission and additionally stamped "Standing Room" with right side of ticket torn off.
Program, 10 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Frieda Hull
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 74: MARILYN MONROE CORRESPONDENCE WITH LESTER MARKEL
A series of letters including five unsigned file copies of Marilyn Monroe's letters to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lester Markel of the New York Times together with five typed, signed letters from Markel on New York Times letterhead. The two had a friendship and an interesting series of communications dated between August 6, 1959, and June 30, 1960, including the now famous letter in which Monroe demonstrates her humor and comprehensive understanding of the politics of their time. On the subject of Fidel Castro, Monroe writes, "Now, Lester, on Castro. You see, Lester, I was brought up to believe in democracy, and when the Cubans finally threw out Battista [sic] with so much bloodshed, the United States doesn't stand behind them and give them help or support even to develop democracy." She also discusses possible presidential candidates and offers slogans for their campaigns in the post script: "Nix on Nixon" and "Back to Boston by Xmas - Kennedy." Two of the five pages of Monroe's file copies contain three drafts of the same letter that is left unfinished.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Lee Strasberg
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 75: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED TILE FROM PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S 1962 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
A pair of celebrity signed ceramic tile displays with inscriptions to event producer Clive David. Each framed display consists of 16 tiles. The top six decorative tiles of each frame combine to read “1962.” The remaining 10 tiles of each display are covered with signatures and inscriptions to David, including an inscription from Marilyn Monroe. Monroe’s inscription reads “To Clive Love & Kisses Marilyn Monroe” and was obtained by David at the Madison Square Garden birthday celebration of John F. Kennedy held on May 19, 1962. Other performers who signed the tiles at this event include Maria Callas, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Henry Fonda, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Ann Howes and Dick Adler. Other celebrity signatures include Gloria Swanson; Paulette Goddard; Ray Bolger; Tab Hunter; Hedda Hopper; Una Merkel; Audrey Meadows; Earl Wilson; Ginger Rogers; Olivia de Havilland; Anita Loos; Lucille Ball; Carol Bruce; and Tallulah Bankhead; among others.
Each, 39 by 14 1/2 inches, framed
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000 
Lot 83: MARILYN MONROE JOHN F. KENNEDY 1962 BIRTHDAY GALA TICKET
A ticket to the May 19, 1962 Birthday Party Gala held for President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden. The ticket is marked for section 112, with a suggested contribution of $25.
3 3/4 by 8 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 96: MARILYN MONROE DOUBLE SIGNED 1947 DOCUMENT
A single-page mimeographed letter dated June 11, 1947. The letter was drafted by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation for Monroe to sign and reads in part, "Whereas, I did heretofore enter into a personal services contract with you, dated August 24, 1946, and, whereas at that time I was a minor, and whereas I did, on June 1, 1947, become twenty-one (21) years of age, please be advised that I do hereby ratify and confirm all of the terms." The letter is then signed by Monroe in blue ink, both "Marilyn Monroe" and "Norma Jeane Dougherty." Together with a plain associated envelope.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 
Lot 132: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED 1949 CONTRACT
A standard contract dated March 2, 1949, with the William Morris Agency Inc. for a period of six years with 10% terms. The contract is signed on verso in green ink "Marilyn Monroe." Accompanied by original letter from the agency that accompanied the contract dated March 10, 1949, addressed to Monroe at 1215 Lodi Place in Hollywood, California, reading "Dear Marilyn:/ Enclosed please find executed copies of your authorization with our office. Best regards" and signed Norman Brokaw.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 156: MARILYN MONROE NOTES WRITTEN ON BACK OF 1952 MENUS
Two menus dated March 26, 1952, featuring notes on verso in blue ink in Monroe's hand that appear to have been taken during a meeting with someone advising her about her career. The menus are dated just 10 days after Monroe's nude modeling shots were made public by the media. Monroe had recently appeared in a number of films in small parts and had received positive mentions from critics. Monroe had just started dating Joe DiMaggio, and she was to appear on the cover of LIFE magazine the following month. This was clearly an important and pivotal period in her career, and it appears as though she was meeting with someone in the industry who gave her counsel. One of the warnings appears to come from Johnny Arnez; Monroe put's his warning in quotations: "you'll have to protect yourself or your throat will be cut/ watch out for Jerry Webb." It continues, "you'll prepare the test & Webb shoots it and if something is wrong it will [be] your fault." A great deal of the notes reference Webb and things he has said behind her back. Berniece Miracle mentions seeing Webb, the test director, in the Fox commissary in the late 1940s when she snuck onto the lot with Monroe to spend the day with her half-sister. The notes also contain thoughts from Monroe reading in part, "I need a great deal of work - and will always/ its the right kind of work/ -the more I will be able to stand on my feet." and "think with your body/ let go physically to ick up emotionally" and "you want me to be a star/ and I can be one of your greatest stars/ when I'm doing the right/ work and know I'm doing." Just over two months after these notes were written, Monroe learned that she had gotten the part of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
10 1/2 by 5 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 173: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN ACTORS STUDIO CLASS NOTES
A single sheet of hotel stationery from the Waldorf Astoria, New York, where Monroe stayed between April and September 1955, with the opening salutation and start of a letter "Dear Art" that has been scratched out. The page is covered on recto and verso with notes, recounting the goings-on in one of Monroe's acting classes with Lee Strasberg. The notes begin with Monroe quoting something said by Strasberg: "I want you all to know that this exercise went on for/ 1/2 hour and her concentration did not/ give way or slip once-and Marilyn there/ will be very few times ever on the/ stage where it will be/ necessary to keep/ such a concentration/ for one half hour/ straight." Monroe then asks herself, "Why did it/ mean so much to me." On the back she continues to ruminate about class, writing, "Strasberg/ it makes me (him he said) feel badly (and sadly) for you that you do/ things out of fear/ You must start to do things out of strength-/ (my question: where do I get the strength)-he said-by not looking for strength/ but only looking & seeking tecnical [sic] ways and means." This presents a fascinating demonstration of how seriously Monroe took her formal acting training in New York.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 78-81. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 
Lot 174: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN SONG LIST
A single sheet of hotel stationery from the Waldorf Astoria, New York, where Monroe stayed between April and September 1955. The verso of page contains a long list of song titles in pencil with some numeric references to a song standard book. It is presumed these were possibly songs that Monroe wanted to perform.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 82-83. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 192: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A single sheet of unlined paper with serrated left edge and faint coffee mug stain. The page contains pencil notations, including the numbers "262" and "263," which are believed to be references to a collection of song standards, [see Lot 256] and would correspond to "While We're Young" and "Wonderful Guy." The body of the text reads "Dec 11/ See in older journal-/ always admired men who had many women./ It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman/ the idea of monogamy is hollow."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 164-165. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 by 4 7/8 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 193: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A single page torn from a lined spiral-bound notebook, stained in red ink. Presumably torn from the same notebook as the similarly stained pages also included in this sale that also date to 1956. The page contains dialogue from Monroe's film, Bus Stop as she portrays Cherie, who asks Elma for help: "Pardon me I'm sorry to wake you/ But I wonder if you could help/ me/ I'm being abducted/ you know-kidnapped-by-him/ I thought maybe as soon as/ we got some place I'd ask the/ driver to stop and let me off/ But we been driving for hours/ and we still don't seem to be/ nowhere at all-not only that/ but I'm freezing to death-I/ ain't got much on under/ my coat."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 166-167. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 194: MARILYN MONROE NOTEBOOK PAGES
Two pages torn from a lined spiral-bound notebook, both stained in red ink. The first page was published in the book Fragments and contains references to "The Sleeping Prince," an early production title for Monroe's film The Prince and the Showgirl, dating these writings to 1956. The notes show Monroe becoming her own task master, reminding herself "don’t stop myself," "learn - lines logically," "I can't do more than/ one thing at a time/ make map tonight," and "take my time to think." She instructs herself to make a list of tasks and work on exercises, which perhaps explains the cryptic writings on the second page that did not appear in Fragments, reading in full, "From Ridding partly/ T Nautiousness [sic]/ Place/ personalization (A)/ weariness/ (J)/ (Ar).""
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 168-169. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 195: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A single lined page torn from a Steno notebook with ragged spiral tab top edge. The note in pencil appears to be Monroe jotting down notes regarding the reasons Elia Kazan did not want to cast her In the title role of his 1956 film Baby Doll, written by Tennessee Williams. One of the notes reads "He said that I've become so deified as a sex symbol that public never except [sic] me as a virgin and as a nineteen/twenty year old."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 170-171. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 196: MARILYN MONROE 1960 NOTE FROM THE SET OF THE MISFITS
A single-page letter written in pencil outlining Monroe's thoughts regarding how the film should be shot to convey the presence of Clark Gable's character in the film The Misfits Gay Langland. The note reads in part, "I feel the camera has got/ to look through Gay's/ eyes whenever he is in a/ scene and even when he is/ not there still has to be a sense of/ him/ He is the center and the/ rest move around him."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 172-173. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 by 5 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 200: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO LEE STRASBERG
A single page of lined paper from a Steno notebook with doodles of faces in pencil below a quick note about punctuality references Monroe's role as the routinely tardy Miss Lois Laurel in her 1952 film Monkey Business. Below this note is a note in Lee Strasberg's hand reading "Don't be nervous Marilyn/ you are doing swell &/ you look wonderful."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 186-187. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 201: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO LEE STRASBERG
An undated handwritten note by Monroe to mentor Lee Strasberg, on a single sheet of lined notebook paper torn from a spiral-bound Steno book, reading “Dear Lee/ One of the most personally helpful things I’ve heard so far in my life was what you said in class Friday afternoon – it was helpful in that I feel as though I’m a little bit freer – also more – I can’t think of any I mean by that more relaxed 2 and 2 don’t necessarily make 4.”
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 188-189. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
9 by 6 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 203: MARILYN MONROE LETTER TO LEE STRASBERG
A two-page typed letter, signed, to mentor Lee Strasberg, dated December 19, 1961, with original transmittal envelope addressed to Strasberg's Central Park West address, postmarked Beverly Hills Calif. December 21, 1961. The letter, addressed "Dear Lee," asks Strasberg’s wife Paula and children Susan and Johnny to consider relocating to California to be part of a new production company Monroe was developing in partnership with fellow Actors Studio alumnus Marlon Brando. The letter is signed in blue ink in Monroe's hand simply "Marilyn."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 196-197. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 
Lot 211: MARILYN MONROE NOTE FROM ROBERT MITCHUM
A typed, signed letter from Darryl F. Zanuck dated December 10, 1953, addressed "Dear Bob:" for Robert Mitchum. The letter thanks Mitchum for his cooperation in connection with shooting retakes for the film River of No Return and in turn apologizes: "I am also very sorry about the delay with Marilyn. We could not possibly anticipate such action." Mitchum has written in quite large letters in blue ink "Dig!!!" above the note, and on verso he has written "Marilyn/ Your girl is my/ girl and my girl is/ you - Ever Bob." The note documents Mitchum's loyalty to Monroe, having first met her when she was married to Jim Dougherty, revealing Zanuck's speaking ill of her.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 249: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTER FROM REPORTER
A typed letter signed by St . Petersburg Times photographer George Sweers dated March 23, 1961. The letter thanks Monroe for allowing him to ask a few questions and take a few pictures the previous day and goes on to reminisce about spending time with her when she entertained the troops in Korea. He writes, "This, as you probably remember, was the shot we had made on the Eastern Front after the last show." He included two copies of the photograph, requesting that Monroe sign one and send it back to him. Together with both copies of the photos that accompanied the letter.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 250: MARILYN MONROE CARD FROM ELLA FITZGERALD
A vintage Hallmark Christmas card, undated, wishing a "Merry Christmas To Someone Nice," signed in blue ink "Ella Fitzgerald." While it is often reported that Monroe helped to get Fitzgerald a booking at the Mocambo club in Hollywood, due in large part to Fitzgerald's own recollections, documentary evidence supports the fact that Monroe actually attended Fitzgerald's performances at The Tiffany Club in 1954.
7 by 6 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 251: MARILYN MONROE SECRETARIAL MEMO REGARDING ELLA FITZGERALD
A typed memo dated February 15, 1955, on the letterhead of business manager Inez Melson, titled "Memo of conversation with Jo Brooks." Brooks was the husband of Julies Fox, who handled publicity for Ella Fitzgerald, and the memo says that, "A few months back, Miss Monroe visited the Tiffany Club on West 8th Street where Ella Fitzgerald was playing. Miss Fitzgerald talked of a possible future date at the Mocambo and Miss Monroe said when this happened, she would like to give a party for Miss Fitzgerald./ Miss Fitzgerald will open at the Mocambo on March 15 and Miss Brooks wanted to know if Miss Monroe was serious about giving a party." This memo further explains the sequence of events and the fact that Monroe did not in fact play a part in getting Fitzgerald booked at the Mocambo as she stated to the press at one time.
6 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 252: MARILYN MONROE NOTE TO LEE STRASBERG
A small note in pencil in Monroe's hand on the back of a piece of paper taken from a visitor's log. The note appears to be a draft written to accompany a book Monroe was giving to Lee Strasberg as a gift, reading in part, "For Lee/ I wanted to give you something for your library - you are giving me a way in which to work and the hope to be human -/ Love Marilyn." Multiple additions and strikethroughs with changing of wording.
6 by 3 1/4 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000 
Lot 253: MARILYN MONROE GIFT NOTE TO PAULA STRASBERG
A small piece of plain white paper folded into a card reading "Dear Paula,/ I'm glad you were born because you are needed./ Your warmth is both astonishing and welcomed./ Love & Happy Birthday/ Marilyn."
6 by 4 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000 
Lot 254: MARILYN MONROE ACTORS STUDIO NOTES
Two sheets of paper from a small spiral-bound planner dated April 3 and 4 as well as a sheet dated April 7 and 8. The pages contain notes in pencil in Monroe's hand reading, for April 3, "Remember - the actors concentration is the only thing between him and suiside [sic]/ try not to come to the scene too late - (exploration - sensory process Home work - after on stage - carry it on (on stage)"; April 4, "Everybody want to be happy (to be good actors) to make money (in my case) and look how miserable we make one another"; April 7, "Nothing can get through tension - what ever you might want to do/ the effort is the only thing the human being (the actor) has between himself and God knows what!"; and April 8, "Just do tecnical [sic] exercises as fully as I can."
3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 255: MARILYN MONROE NOTEBOOK WITH NOTES FROM ACTING CLASS
A black board notebook with red spine containing lined notebook paper with notes in Monroe's hand. A very large letter "M" is drawn inside the front and back covers. There are multiple notes written in another hand on the first page of the book, but the next page contains notes in Monroe's hand in pencil with ideas for a "Street Car Scene" reading in part, "begin with ? (1st grade happening Mexican boy accuses me of hurting him - having to stay after school it was nite [sic] outside - have place - concern because of Stan K. accusations plus - getting dress for Mitch trying to look nice especially since what Stan K. has said." The note also suggests she hum "Whispering while you hover near me," which is a song standard found in her notebook of standards in the following lot, only the lyric is "Whispering while you cuddle near me." The front and back of the last page of the book contain notes from acting class, including "during exercise - lee said let the body hang"; "2 exercises at one time/ cold & Touch/ one might not be enough for what's needed"; and "sense of oneself/ first thing a child (human being) is aware of (making a circle) touching ones foot knowing himself is separate from the rest of the world," among others.
8 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 256: MARILYN MONROE SONGBOOK
A three-ring binder, in black laminated board, both front and back covers detached but present. The binder contains more than 369 indexed pages of song standards with front table of contents page dividing them into broad categories: "Standard Foxtrots and Show Tunes," "Latin American Tunes" and "Foreign Songs." One page has a pencil notation beneath the song "You Do Something To Me" by Cole Porter; the writing is quite small and difficult to identify the hand. It is from this book that certain three-digit numbers mentioned in some of Monroe's notebooks were thought to have originated, like the numbers 262 and 263 in Lot 192.
11 1/4 by 10 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 258: MARILYN MONROE LETTER FROM EDWARD R. MURROW
A single-page typed, signed letter dated November 7, 1955, on Edward R. Murrow's personal stationery addressed to Marilyn Monroe in care of Mr. Green in Weston, Connecticut. The letter was sent in advance of Monroe receiving a complimentary copy of Columbia Records album compilation excerpts from some of Sir Winston Churchill's speeches. The letter is signed "As ever yours, Ed/ Hope you like it!" Together with original transmittal envelope with CBS Radio stamp, postmarked November 7, 1955.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 260: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN LINES FROM A SCENE
Two lined notebook pages with block letter “MMM” printed to left margin. The pages contain most of the dialogue from Act I, Scene 4, delivered by the character Lorna in Clifford Odets’ 1937 play Golden Boy. The second page contains the same lines written out twice and traced over multiple times, likely part of Monroe’s process of trying to memorize the lines for a scene performed in one of her Actors Studio classes.
12 3/8 by 8 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 263: MARILYN MONROE BUS STOP SIDES AND NOTES
A group of 16 pages containing some of Monroe's lines from the film Bus Stop. Five of these pages have the lead in to Monroe's lines added in red ink in another hand, likely Paula Strasberg. Together with a single half page entirely filled with notes in Monroe's hand in pencil and red ink. The notes read in part, "Waking up - scene/ Headache/ tiredness - headache / go to sleep/ I don't want to be here" and "first scene with Vera/ I tell it as a/ told as a fairy tale/ Once upon a time."
5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 264: MARILYN MONROE ANNOTATED BUS STOP SCRIPT SIDES
A small bound group of 31 mimeographed half pages containing Monroe's dialogue for the film Bus Stop. Ten of the pages contain notes in Monroe's hand in pencil. Additional notes in the hand of Paula Strasberg and an administrative hand. A note in Monroe's hand on the first page next to lines about her character Cherie wanting to be respected and tired of being "pawed at and pinched at" reads "Fight with manager/ A.M. H. Cohn middle of dinner party" clearly references incidents Monroe wished to draw upon from her life in the scene. Another note in Monroe's hand written beneath the line "Oh - it's you!" reads "(Good God it's you)."
5 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 265: MARILYN MONROE ANNOTATED BUS STOP SCRIPT SIDES
A group of seven half sheets of paper, held together with a straight pin, containing some of Monroe's lines from the film Bus Stop. Six of the seven pages contain notes in Monroe's hand. This is the first film Monroe made after beginning to study at the Actors Studio in New York City with Lee Strasberg, and the notations in these script sides demonstrate her method. Some of the notes are sense memories, like the following notation written after the line "I can't look": "Effective memory (use Lester - hurt on lawn)," most likely referencing Monroe's childhood playmate Lester Bolender, who was in the same foster home with Monroe. Another note adds "(almost to myself)" before a line to inform her delivery or "Scarfe [sic] around my arms) Embarrassed."
5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 300: MARILYN MONROE LIST OF APPROVED DIRECTORS
A single piece of hotel stationery paper from The Towers of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City containing a list of directors' names titled "OK List" in another hand with pencil notations in Monroe's hand throughout. Monroe's comments are simple, in some cases listing other works by the director, like "(Bus Stop)" next to Josh Logan's name and "(Musical)" next to "Vincent Minnelli." Jean Renoir is crossed out with a bubble reading "subject to material." A note at the bottom of the page reads "submit other names/ open for suggestions other than these."
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 301: MARILYN MONROE SAG CARD AND RECEIPT
A Screen Actors Guild membership card for the period beginning May 1, 1959, and ending November 1, 1959. "Marilyn Monroe" is typed onto front of card as well as her membership number. Together with Monroe's carbon copy receipt for payment of $80 on May 11, 1959, listing her home address as 444 East 57th Street, New York City.
Card, 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 302: MARILYN MONROE AFTRA CARD AND RECEIPT
An American Federation of Television and Radio Artists membership card for the period ending November 1, 1958, with typed "Marilyn Monroe" on front, unsigned on back. Together with the receipt dated May 23, 1958, for payment of the dues for period ending November 1, 1958, in the amount of $38, which included overdue payment and penalty. Monroe's address is listed as 444 East 57th St. New York on the receipt for payment.
Card, 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500 
Lot 308: MARILYN MONROE NOTES ON ACTING
A single sheet of lined yellow paper with notes in blue ink, in Monroe's hand, reading in part, "keeping all of the changes of pantomime & grimaces etc inside, then it forces the eyes - it all comes through the eyes" and "Constantly practicing that letting go/ in which you don't do in life which isn't necessary or something/ feeling how it feels and practicing that/ your spirit speaks."
12 1/2 by 8 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 313: MARILYN MONROE MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY CARD AND CORRESPONDENCE
A series of letters, the first on Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) letterhead signed by then president George Stevens, dated October 28, 1958, inviting Monroe to become a member of the Academy. The second letter is an unsigned file copy of Monroe's response dated January 12, 1959, reading in part, "I have been indisposed and away and did not see your letter until now." She asks for further details regarding the by-laws. The next letter on AMPAS letterhead is signed by then executive director Margaret Herrick, dated January 19, 1959, accompanied a copy of the Academy by-laws. The last letter, on AMPAS letterhead, signed by Stevens, dated March 5, 1959, welcomes Monroe to the Academy and is accompanied by Monroe's Academy membership card for the year 1959 on the original card, still in the holder in which it was sent.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 368: LAURENCE OLIVIER LETTER TO MARILYN MONROE
A seven-page autograph letter on four leaves of paper in the hand of Sir Laurence Olivier on blue stationery with Olivier's Lowndes Cottage address and original envelope addressed "For Miss Marilyn Monroe from L.O." in Olivier's hand. There are numbered notations throughout the letter in red wax pencil, underlining words that were difficult to make out. The letter is together with a three-page typed transcription of the letter with corresponding numbered blanks for each of the difficult words, which have been filled in by hand. The letter is dated simply June 9, and it accompanied the latest version of the script for The Prince and the Showgirl. Olivier discusses Monroe's dialogue and that he has "written some extra dialogue and a direction or two." He reports on where they are in the script writing process and that they have cut the script down from "well over 3 hours" to 2 1/2, to 2 hours 10 minutes. He continues about the scenes that were and were not cut, including "The Duke of Strelitz is, I think essential, as otherwise they will be saying 'what's the matter with them - why the heck can't they get married' particularly in view of Grace Kelly and all that, and our only answer to that question must be 'Yes but Look at the poor Windsors' do you see?"
On an amusing note, Olivier mentions, "By the way Lady Maidenhead has degenerated to Lady Swingdale because I am assured the Hayes Office will not believe there is also a place in England of that name." He closes "I just called up Vivien at the theatre ... and she said to be sure to give you her love. So here it is and mine too. Longing to welcome you here. Ever, Larry."
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,200 
Lot 369: ARTHUR MILLER LETTER TO MARILYN MONROE
A single piece of lined yellow paper, torn in half, with an autograph letter in Miller's hand addressed "Dear Poke." The letter outlines Miller's thoughts about the script for The Prince and the Showgirl as well as his feelings about Monroe taking on the project, reading in part, "Some of your dialogue is stiff. Also some expressions are too British. If you want me to, I can go through the script and make the changes - - in New York./ I think the part - on one reading, is really the Best one ... especially with you playing it. You are the one who makes everything change, you are the driving force ... The basic problem is to define for yourself the degree of the girl's naivete. (It could become too cute, or simply too designing.) It seems to me, at least, that they have not balanced things in Olivier's favor. ... It ought to be fun to do after Bus Stop. From your - (and my) - viewpoint, it will help in a small but important way to establish your ability to play characters of intelligence and cultivation. ... Your loving Papa - (who has to rush now to make the plane - see you soon! - free!) - Art." The back of the page has the name Sydney Guilaroff, famed MGM hairdresser, and his phone number written large in red wax pencil.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 370: LAURENCE OLIVIER LETTER TO MARILYN MONROE
A single-page autograph letter on personal stationery, undated, from Laurence Olivier to Monroe reading in part, "Dear Marilyn/ It was so sweet of you to send the enchanting wires. … I am extremely excited at our prospects - You were so angelic in New York. Thank you for all your sweetness/ I think with great joy of our future meeting./ Ever, Larry."
6 7/8 by 5 1/8 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 371: LAURENCE OLIVIER FLORAL ARRANGEMENT CARD TO MARILYN MONROE
A simple plain white card with autograph message to Monroe in the hand of Sir Laurence Olivier reading "Marilyn, It has been so lovely meeting you, knowing you and now knowing that such exciting things and such fun are ahead. Love and Thank You, Larry."
2 1/4 by 3 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 378: MARILYN MONROE ROYAL FILM PERFORMANCE LETTERS
A group of documents regarding Monroe's attendance to the Royal Film Performance at the Empire Theatre held October 29, 1956. This is where Monroe was formally presented to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. The first document, two pages, is dated October 2, 1956, and contains general information about the proceedings and rehearsals for the evening with time schedules. The second document is addressed to Monroe at Parkside House in Surrey, England, and advises Monroe that she is to be included in the presentation to Her Majesty, The Queen. This single-page letter has a small slip of paper stapled to the upper left reading "Dress/ Full Evening Dress/ No decorations/ No gloves for Gentlemen/ White gloves for Ladies." Together with Monroe's presentation card.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot 381: MINUTES FROM A MEETING WITH MARILYN MONROE
Two small unlined pages from a six-ring binder, with typed notes from a meeting held April 3, 1958, at 2:30 pm at Monroe's 444 East 57th Street apartment. The notes list attendees as Lew Wasserman, Mort Viner, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Among the topics discussed were how to handle Monroe's stalling of Billy Wilder regarding accepting the assignment for Some Like It Hot, one note reading "MCA on the Coast has told Wilder that there are 'legal technicalities holding up her decision' so as not to offend Wilder. Actually, she is waiting for Sinatra to enter the picture. She still doesn't like Curtis but Wasserman doesn't know anybody else."
6 by 3 1/2 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 412: MARILYN MONROE ANNOTATED SOME LIKE IT HOT SCRIPT SIDES
Two half sheets of paper with green and black typed text containing some of Monroe's lines from the film with notations in Monroe's hand. One notation above the line mentioning the most wonderful dream reads "100 Cary Grants." Above the line of dialogue reading "He was the first nice guy I ever met in my life and the only one who ever gave me anything," Monroe has written simply "Jake."
5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500 
Lot 413: MARILYN MONROE SOME LIKE IT HOT SCRIPT PAGES
A red paperbound folio containing seven typed pages for Monroe's scene with Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot on the yacht. The pages are clean with the exception of two pencil lines drawn next to two of Monroe's lines.
9 by 11 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 414: MARILYN MONROE SOME LIKE IT HOT PRODUCTION PAPERS
A group of production documents including a call sheet for the film Some like It Hot dated November 7, 1958, with additional "Last Day" written in red pencil indicating that it was the last day of shooting. Together with a two-page yellow staff sheet for the film and a three-page cast sheet listing contact information for the entire cast, including Marilyn Monroe's secretary May Reis.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 415: MARILYN MONROE SOME LIKE IT HOT MEAL RECEIPTS
A large group of 32 meal receipts from the MGM Studios cafe dated between September 5 November 10, 1958, with itemized listings of the food and beverages Monroe ordered while filming Some Like It Hot at the studio. Some receipts have delivery notations "to Stage 3" and "to dressing room." On one receipt dated September 25, 1958, the order includes two hamburger steaks, "1 well done/ 1 rare/ 2 cottage and fruit salads/ 1 ice coffee/ 1 milk/ well done lunch send on stage 3/ rare lunch send to dressing room." Some of the receipts indicate that meals were for others, including "Lunch for Miss Reis - Lunch for Maid." All but one receipt is dated, and frequently ordered items include ice cream, double sirloin, ham and cheese, pot of coffee, lox and cream cheese, donuts, pie a la mode, meatloaf, pastrami, Danish, and many other items.
Largest, 7 3/4 by 4 1/4 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 417: MARILYN MONROE SOME LIKE IT HOT PRESS RELEASES
A group of three press releases, five pages total, from United Artists Corp. dated March 24, April 6, and June 16, 1959, announcing record box office numbers as well as an extended run in theaters. Together with a five-page cast list and synopsis with cover page sent out for press purposes.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 418: MARILYN MONROE RESPONSE TO TONY CURTIS QUOTATION
A small piece of paper with note in pencil in Monroe's hand reading "There is only one way he could comment on my sexuality, and I'm afraid he has never had the opportunity!" This comment has been reported to be in response to the now famous glib remark made by Tony Curtis in a screening room during production of Some Like It Hot , where he famously said that kissing Monroe was "like kissing Hitler." Curtis said this in a private setting to crew and other people present during production, including Paula Strasberg. Despite the fact that he denied the comment when it got back to Monroe, later in his life he did reportedly admit to saying it.
5 by 8 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 426: MARILYN MONROE TRADE ADS
Two pages torn from the March 9, 1960, issues of The Hollywood Reporter and Variety featuring an appreciative "Love and Kisses/ Marilyn Monroe" message from Monroe in appreciation of winning the Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Golden Globe award.
12 1/4 by 9 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 432: MARILYN MONROE AFTRA CARD AND RECEIPTS
An American Federation of Television and Radio Artists membership card for the period ending November 1, 1959, still attached to the larger receipt for payment card. The card is unsigned, and Monroe's address is listed as 444 East 57th St. New York. The receipt portion of the card is for a payment in the amount of $23 dated June 15, 1959. Together with a receipt dated December 1, 1958, for payment of dues in the amount of $16.
Largest, 4 by 9 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 435: MARILYN MONROE RECEIPT FOR CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPH
A shop receipt from Peter A. July & Son photographers of fine arts in New York City in the amount of $165.44. The receipt is dated January 19, 1960, and is written in the name of Mrs. Marilyn Monroe of The Beverly Hills Hotel for 24 matte copies of "Beaton Photos" plus United Parcel Air Service delivery. It has been widely reported that Cecil Beaton's portrait of Monroe was her favorite portrait of herself and that she kept copies on hand to sign for people.
8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 436: MARILYN MONROE INVOICE FROM CECIL BEATON
A "Copy Invoice" in the amount of 37.16 British pounds dated August 2, 1957, on a single sheet of Cecil Beaton's stationery. The receipt is written in the name of Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. and is billing work that occurred in November 1956 listed as, "Photographs supplied for Miss Marilyn Monroe:- 12 prints No. 109 8" X 10" mounted." It has been widely reported that Beaton's portrait of Monroe was her favorite portrait of herself and that she kept copies on hand to give to people.
8 by 6 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 437: MARILYN MONROE LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Two letters and two telegrams from photographers with whom Monroe had famous collaborations: a single-page autograph letter on personalized stationery dated October 28, 1959, from Philippe Halsman commenting on the famous LIFE magazine cover, saying "It could have been printed better, you could have been better centered - but nevertheless it is the most charming and unusual cover LIFE has had in years. Everybody loves it."; a two-page typed, signed letter from Cecil Beaton dated May 9, 1956 regarding a shoot and other catching up; a telegram from Richard Avedon dated July 9, 1958, regarding the photos from one of their recent shoots needing to be re-shot; and a telegram from Avedon dated simply July 10 regarding working on a television show.
Largest, 10 by 8 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 439: MARILYN MONROE CORRESPONDENCE WITH PORTRAIT ARTIST
Two typed and signed letters from artist Jon Whitcomb to Monroe regarding his original painting of Monroe used for the March of 1959, cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, the first dated June 22, 1959, reading in part, " Cosmopolitan has returned the painting of your cover which was on the March issue. I haven't forgotten that I promised it to you; so if you still want it, how do I make delivery?" The second dated October 6, 1959, proposes a plan to drop off the painting at Monroe's building. Together with a typed, unsigned file copy of a response from Monroe dated September 24, 1959, reading in part, "Please forgive the long delay in answering, but I have been up to my derriere in preparations for two movies for the near future; public-relations, home-relations -- please understand./ I would love to have the picture from you and I repeat 'at last to be a Whitcomb girl!"
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 440: MARILYN MONROE ACTING EXERCISE AND NOTES
A single sheet of lined yellow paper with dialogue written out in pencil in Monroe's hand: "Where did he go? He told you I know he did/ If you'd only have given me a little longer - He was in love with me - we'd have been married you didn't want me to have him from the beginning/ you wouldn't let me wear those pretty things/ Even when I told you about the doll - you/ sent those people around/ He died! But he said/ he came back - Tell/ Me - tell me -." The front and back of the page is then covered with small performance notes, including "The thought focus on partner not on word then let go of word"; "don't do with words & voice"; "Let go everything elastic keep the pick up lay on the horse"; and "to be as relaxed let go of mouth speech thought," among many others.
12 1/2 by 8 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 441: MARILYN MONROE BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S SCRIPT AND REPORT
A clean copy of the screenplay for Breakfast at Tiffany's written by George Axelrod and dated July 9, 1959. Monroe was considering the part, and she sought the opinions of her professional team including the Strasbergs, her husband, and management team. The script is accompanied by a single-page, typed "report" dated September 23, 1959, which also has the name "Parone" typed to the left of the date. Literary luminary Edward Parone was at the time running Monroe's production company and most likely is the one who wrote this single-page, scathing review of the script, leading with the simple sentence, "I think not." It goes on to criticize the screenplay, determining, "I can see Marilyn playing a part like Holly and even giving this present one all the elan it badly needs, but I don't feel she should play it: it lacks insight and warmth and reality and importance." It has been long reported that Monroe declined the part upon the advice of Lee Strasberg, but this document provides further evidence that other people in her inner circle advised her not to take the role. Together with a four-page shooting schedule for November 4, 1960, for the film.
Largest, 14 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 442: MARILYN MONROE ACTORS STUDIO NOTEBOOK
A small six-ring binder containing lined notebook pages in a black and red vinyl case by National. The small notebook contains 10 pages of notes in Monroe's hand, in pencil, on eight leaves of paper. The notes were taken during a class with Lee Strasberg and record bits and pieces of things that "Lee said," as is repeated on many pages, which include "For yourself not for us - or one doesn't use own sensitivity/ girl crying continuously Lee said - There should be a certain pleasure in This, in acting - we don't stop these things - she stoped [sic] crying only at those times"; "problems-all the more to be solved got to keep swimming/ criticism can be taken - to incite the will not self criticism"; "the actor has to do what the character has to do - let the author worry about his words"; "Life of - reality of champagne (you don't open every bottle the same) actor in scene took for granted (girl is going to be good (New). Boy - said lines no effort - like crossing street - Lee said he wants - Behavior - When someone is trying to make someone (love etc.) how does one go about it/ Lee said - girl simplicity good honesty, to begin (New) with - but..." The last notes are taken on two sides of one leaf of paper and read "My heart Belongs To Daddy Number/ Remember always left -" and "While tearing off/ caddy-move head a little/ Daddy R. shoulder up/ call dog in closer"; clearly, these notes are for Monroe's musical number in Let's Make Love (20th Century Fox, 1960). The notes correlate with the lyrics of the song, and indeed Monroe does move her head a little during the first verse that mentions the caddy, and she does raise her right shoulder up the first time she says "Daddy" in the chorus.
5 1/4 by 4 inches
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 
Lot 445: MARILYN MONROE RECEIPTS FOR 34TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
A receipt from Gill’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream, dated June 1, 1960, for 100 ice cream treats, together with a receipt from Paper Unlimited, Inc. for forks, spoons, napkins, plates and a tablecloth, dated May 24, 1960. Both receipts are addressed to Hazel Washington, Monroe’s studio maid at Twentieth Century Fox. Monroe celebrated her 34th birthday on the set during filming of Let’s Make Love .
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 446: MARILYN MONROE TAXI RECEIPT
A receipt from the Yellow Cab Company dated February 4, 1960, in the amount of $1.50. The cab lists a trip from simply “904” to “20th Century,” presumably 20th Century Fox, where Monroe had already begun filming the 1960 release Let’s Make Love .
Estimate: $150 - $250 
Lot 447: MARILYN MONROE PAYMENT MEMOS
A group of five pages of documents concerning the deduction of money from one of Monroe's payments from Fox Studios for her work on Let's Make Love . The first letter, dated February 16, 1960, from Mort Viner at MCA is addressed to Monroe's secretary, May Reis, explaining that Sydney Guilaroff wanted more money than Fox was willing to pay him for his services in styling Monroe's hair in Let's Make Love and that "Marilyn had asked me to have Fox pay it by deducting it from her checks as she didn't want Sidney [sic] to know. " Accompanied by a two-page letter from Monroe's law firm concerning the deduction, a check stub, and an invoice explaining the payment and deductions.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 451: MARILYN MONROE ACTING NOTES ON ENVELOPE
An unpostmarked envelope addressed to Monroe at 2 Sutton Place South in New York City from the Radio and Television Executives Society Inc. The back of the envelope has a linear thought written in Monroe's hand in pencil reading "I somehow am seeing with my body also and when I am truly listening/ What is the matter with my voice - Maybe just let the voice come out of my body however it does under certain circumstances." The thought continues on the front of the envelope "… and in - what ever the given situation." The remainder of the notes are more frenetic, reading in part, "Strassberg [sic] says we remember with our senses - Not brain or mind (remember with Body" and "Tell Hohenberg about the period during when I stopped secreatly [sic] play acting so fully/ it was the time I got my first job acting at 20." The notes covering the envelope, overlapping and intertwining, were likely taken during an acting class and demonstrate the unbridled energy Monroe felt toward her study of acting.
4 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 483: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTERS FROM DESIGNERS
Two unsolicited letters from designers who wished to work with Monroe. The first, dated February 26, 1958, from Tony Savini, gives his background and qualifications and explains that he has completed a number of original gowns and dresses expressly for Monroe and would like to offer them to her free of charge. The letter is accompanied by an original watercolor and ink on paper design sketch. Together with a letter dated February 4, 1962, from Paul Zastupnevich, a designer who had credits to his name with Fox Studios. He expresses his interest in designing for Monroe and includes a clipping of Rhonda Fleming wearing one of his gowns.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 508: MARILYN MONROE ANNOTATED THE MISFITS SCRIPT SIDES
Two half sheets of paper containing some of Monroe's lines from the film The Misfits with notations in pencil, in Monroe's hand. One of the half pages is dated October 6, 1960, and it has lines from the climax of the film when Rosalyn, played by Monroe, pleads with Gay, played by Clark Gable, not to kill the horses. The notes include "almost in wonder to myself/ you liar all of you liars/ to perce/ Christ/ whisper" in reference to parts of her line reading "You're only living when you can watch something die Kill everything that's all you want why don't you just kill yourselves and be happy (to Gay) you with your God's country freedom." Another notation has the word "shiver" inserted before the line "I pity you all." Another emotional line written in the script as "How much do you want for them I'll pay you I'll give you two hundred dollars Is that enough" has a number of alternatives written in Monroe's hand, including "I'll give you money" or I'll give "you anything anything" or "you want my blood I don't need it anymore take my blood." The pages are accompanied by eight additional full script pages featuring the dialogue that leads up to Rosalyn's pleading with Gay not to kill the horses, beginning with the close shot of the mare stepping into the noose with her forefeet. These notes are a window into Monroe's process in creating one of the most emotionally painful and poignant scenes of her career.
Half sheets, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 511: MARILYN MONROE NOTES ON HER MISFITS CHARACTER
A piece of plain paper with holes punched along left edge with notes in red ink in Paula Strasberg's hand reading "searching and yearning/ standing alone/ mood - I'm free - but freedom leaves emptiness./ Rosylin [sic] - flower opens bees buzz around/ R is quiet - the others buzz around." This provides an insightful look at how Strasberg helped Monroe to build her character in The Misfits.
9 1/2 by 6 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 512: MARILYN MONROE RECEIVED LETTER FROM DOROTHY JEAKINS
A typed letter signed by costume designer Dorothy Jeakins dated May 3, 1960, and addressed, "Dear Marilyn," and reading in part, "Although I really feel I should be replaced--I will continue with your clothes for "The Misfits" because they are under way and nearly ready to fit./ If you like them, I will see them through to completion. If you are disappointed, someone else can then take over./ I am sorry I have displeased you. I feel quite defeated--like a misfit, in fact. But I must, above everything, continue to work (and live) in terms of my own honesty, pride and good taste." The letter is accompanied by an unsigned file copy of a letter from Jeakins to Mr. C.O. Erickson stating, " ... [C]ircumstances make it clear to me that I am unsuitable for this assignment and perhaps should be replaced. ... [U]nder these circumstances, I intend to accept no remuneration for my work and prefer to be omitted from the credits also. ... "
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 517: MARILYN MONROE FAMOUS ARTISTS SCHOOL CORRESPONDENCE
A group of documents regarding Monroe's enrollment in the Famous Artists School of Westport, Connecticut, a distance learning program designed to further students’ fine art skills. The first letter, dated October 24, 1958, from the school's director, acknowledges Monroe's communication with "Jon Whitcomb who tells me you are quite interested in painting. He also tells me that you would like too [sic] take the Famous Artists Painting Course. At Jon's request we are making you a scholarship student but I am at a loss as to where to forward the textbooks since, as I understand it, you will be in Hollywood for sometime before returning to New York City." The next letter is an unsigned file copy of Monroe's response requesting the books be sent to 444 East 57th Street. Also included are a series of follow-up letters, six pages total, welcoming Monroe to the program, explaining the logistics of how the program works with critiques conducted via mail, and a full list of instructors. Also included are a blank Student Information Record and "Rate Yourself Progress Chart" forms with accompanying letters and a postage-paid envelope. The documents clearly demonstrate Monroe's interest in painting and the fact that she sought formal instruction.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 575: MARILYN MONROE AFTRA CARD
An American Federation of Television and Radio Artists membership card for the period ending November 1, 1962, with handwritten "Marilyn Monroe" on front, unsigned on back. Because the membership to AFTRA was renewed bi-annually this is Monroe's last membership card for the organization.
2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 576: MARILYN MONROE'S LAST SAG CARD AND RECEIPT
A Screen Actors Guild membership card for the period beginning May 1, 1962, and ending November 1, 1962. “Marilyn Monroe” is typed onto front of card as well as her membership number. Together with Monroe’s carbon copy receipt for payment of $125 on May 22, 1962, listing her address as "P.O. Box 64721, Los Angeles 64, Calif."
Card, 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 577: MARILYN MONROE NOTATIONS ON TELEGRAM
A Western Union telegram from Nunnally Johnson dated April 16, 1962, a week before production was to begin on Something’s Got To Give. Johnson was one of the screenwriters on that film and sent the telegram care of producer Henry Weinstein, misspelled "Wernstein." The telegram from Johnson reads "In Revised script you are child of nature so you can misbehave as much as you please love - Nunnally." Monroe has quickly written a note in pencil for reply reading "Where is that script - is the child of nature due on the set - Hurry Love & Kisses M.M." "Love and Kisses" is repeated, and additional illegible notations have been crossed out. The lighthearted response foreshadowed what was to come with Monroe frequently not reporting to the set as she was scheduled to appear, leading Fox Studios to fire her from the production.
5 1/2 by 8 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 578: MARILYN MONROE SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE SCRIPT AND PAGES USED ON SET
20th Century Fox, 1962, mimeographed screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, 149 pages, blue cover dated March 29, 1962 reading "Final Confidential For Planning Purposes Only." The script contains two paper-clipped inserts, memos from the production addressed "To All Secretaries," the first dated April 23 and the second dated April 27, 1962, each accompanying blue revised pages 91 and 92 for the script. The script, marked final, also dated March 29, 1962, contains notations in Monroe's hand throughout in pencil and green ink on 18 pages. Some of the notations are from Monroe's work with a Swedish dialect coach.
In addition to these notations, two typed pages of Monroe's dialogue are bound between pages 107 and 108 of the mimeographed script. These two pages contain Monroe's dialogue from one of the few scenes captured on film, with her extensive pencil notations. Raw footage of Monroe performing with Tippy the cocker spaniel and the children in this scene exists, and Monroe's notations are evident in the footage. The top of the page reads "Real Thought/ Mental Relaxation/ substitute children - B & J if necessary/ feeling - place the pain where it is not in the brow." B & J likely refers to Arthur Miller's children Bobby and Jane. Another notation next to one of Monroe's lines of dialogue reads simply "Mona Lisa," which does in fact mirror the expression she uses when delivering this line. Even the exaggerated "Ahhhhh---" that Monroe does at the beginning of each take in the raw footage is written on the page in her hand, reading in full, "Ahhh--Look for the light.”
The notations throughout the script also include notes in an unidentified hand criticizing certain points of the story, including "Too Harsh," "Naggy," "Dull" and many other comments. Overall, the notations in both the script and on the dialogue pages used by Monroe to film the scene with the children and Tippy the dog tell the story of a tedious script writing and editing process. Her dialogue notations are a revealing window into her process in performing some of the last scenes she ever recorded on film.
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 
Lot 580: MARILYN MONROE NOTES ON SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE SCRIPT
A Millers Falls EZERASE pad of typewriter paper with prepunched three-ring binder holes. The cover is detached but present, and the pad contains four pages of notes, two now detached, in Monroe's hand in pencil outlining her issues with the script for the film. The notes and criticisms include "logical drama but doesn't move on the screen/ leads him on than [sic] said not until"; "instead using the talents/ he's stuck/ imagine being married to MM and she comes back and he is stuck/ he'd dying to go Bed with her but can't because"; "more entertaining/ keep it on an edge/ if it isn't that kind of picture it won't go -/ only if script is acceptable." Then come Monroe's suggestions for a scene with check marks next to the ideas: "When Dean first see's Ellen -me- in nurses uniform - (as nurse) he could say - upon arrival - slouching ‘I don't feel so good nurse (weakening in the knees how could she do this to me/ I am telling her/ Beanka kind of stiffening up to hold him & the situation (the nite [sic] before) together he then pulls up but Dean will do this superbly/ He sings little song when drunk & frustrated." She also lists specific passages: "Page 73 (yes? - No? you understand Dean!)/ Page 76 children scene (in comparison to rewrite)." A small note on the last page of notes reads "Funny line writers Herb Gardner / Mel Brook [sic]."
These notes present a very astute Monroe who clearly had serious concerns with the quality of the script, demonstrating that her refusal to appear on set was grounded in these concerns and not simply the actions of a petulant star.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 
Lot 581: MARILYN MONROE WORKING SCRIPT FOR SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE
A 149-page screenplay for Something's Got To Give by Nunnally Johnson dated March 29, 1962, in blue paper wrappers, marked final. There are notations in Monroe's hand in pencil on approximately 42 pages in the script, some simple dialogue corrections and other more in-depth sense memory notes for her to remember when doing the scene to evoke the right emotional frame of mind. A simple note on the back of the last page of the script reads "Joke writers/ Mel Brooks/ Herb Gardner/ Need spice/ raisins/ Need some funny lines." In a notation next to the stage direction for her character's anticipation and excitement about calling home after she has been rescued, she writes of Arthur Miller's children, "Bobby M./ and early Janie/ except their [sic] mine." In the scene where she is kissing her husband again and excuses herself to "get fixed up a little," she writes, "[L]et me get into something more comfortable/ leading him on -" and "[I]n other room throwing out piece of clothing" and below she writes "[L]ike F.S. when ingaged [sic]." Over an entire passage of dialogue she makes a stage direction note to herself that reads "Ellen looking speculative champain [sic] glass/ finger going around rim." In another scene she writes, "Have the Mask - face relaxed" and "shaking head when he leaves room sly smile/ fat on the fire/ he's on the grittle [sic]." She continues with the fat sizzling on the griddle metaphor, later writing next to a line that jabs at Nick, "Nicely/ He frys on grittle [sic]/ butter melting/ then it sputter/ him."
Notes on the last page of the screenplay read "Act only in beginning/ Then tempting him/ then act when nurse/ on balcony at hotel/ speculative looks/ always tempting him/ always saying yes/ but N/ I've only been away 5 min./ her point of view." Together with a small card with call times and scenes to be shot and a small scrap of paper with quickly written note in Monroe's hand wondering why they are jumping to shoot indoors when they could shoot in sequence as well as notes about using Miss vs. Mrs.
11 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 
Lot 820: MARILYN MONROE TWENTIETH CENTURY EMPLOYEE STARTING CARD
A Marilyn Monroe Twentieth Century Fox Employee starting card dated May 11, 1950. The card rate line lists Monroe's weekly salary as $500 a week but notes that she was laid off after working 40 out of 52 weeks. This marked the end of Monroe's work on the film All About Eve (20th Century, 1950) and her return to stock pool for the studio.
4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 823: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED ADVERTISING RELEASE
A Marilyn Monroe signed advertising release with Twentieth Century Fox and The House of Westmore for cosmetic advertising. The contract is dated July 3, 1952. Monroe was featured in a number of Westmore ads in the mid-1950s that also advertised her Twentieth Century Fox films.
13 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 875: MARILYN MONROE MISCELLANEOUS PAPER ARCHIVE ITEMS
A collection of Marilyn Monroe envelopes, messages and notes, including a florist's enclosure card with envelope addressed to Monroe and a message that reads "To make up for the ones you didn't recall receiving at the hospital. Please stay well so we won't go through this again" and signed by Arthur O'Connell - Virgil Blessing." Virgil Blessing is the name of O'Connell's character in the film Bus Stop (20th Century, 1956). Also included are five handwritten notes in an unknown hand that reference Clifton Webb, Lew Wasserman and "Paula"; two hotel phone messages for "Monroe"; four envelopes, two addressed to Monroe; and one blank Colonial Trust Company check.
Sizes vary
PROVENANCE Partial Lots 748, 794 and 968, "Icons & Idols: Hollywood," Julien's, Beverly Hills, December 6, 2014
From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 836: MARILYN MONROE ANNOTATED GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES SCRIPT
A script for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century, 1953) used and annotated by Marilyn Monroe. The incomplete script totals 68 pages and has notations from Monroe on approximately 22 pages. The first page, dated November 26, 1952, reads “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”/ (Revised Final Script……13 Nov. 1952)/ To all Secretaries:/ Please place these/ Additional Pages at the back of your script of the above date./ This Is Important!” Film production began on November 17, 1952. Monroe’s notations include revisions to the text, in pencil, "Oh he wasn't barking that was Swahili," and direction, in blue ink, "sense the feeling with the body." The name of Monroe's character, Lorelei, has been circled in pencil on a number of the pages. The script is contained in a black plastic folder.
9 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE Lot 160, "Film and Entertainment," Christie's New York, Sale number 1681, June 22, 2006
Estimate: $50,000 - $60,000 
Lot 915: MARILYN MONROE LETTER FROM PERSON TO PERSON
A typed, signed letter written to Marilyn Monroe by Jesse Zousmer of the television program Person to Person (CBS, 1953-1961). The letter, dated June 25, 1959, is written on Person to Person stationery. In the letter, Zousmer thanks Monroe for her appearance on the television program and announces his departure from the show. A check mark has been written across the letter in an unknown hand. The letter is accompanied by a page from Variety. The headline of the page reads “Thank You from ‘Person to Person’ ” with a list of the program’s guests from 1953 to 1959.
10 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 918: MARILYN MONROE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT
A 32-page transcript of an interview with Marilyn Monroe by Georges Belmont. Accompanied by nine pages of thoughts about Marilyn Monroe written by Arthur Miller. The information was sent to Jack Hamilton at LOOK magazine by Lois Weber, with cover letter from Weber and an undated memo response from Hamilton returning the information to Weber. Accompanied by two newspaper clippings, one from 1956 and one from after Monroe's death in 1962.
11 by 8 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Lois Weber
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 858: MARILYN MONROE THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS PROP PROGRAM
A prop program from There’s No Business Like Show Business (20th Century, 1954). The front of the blue, white and red program reads “Actors Benefit Fund/ Greatest Stars of Stage & Screen/ Hippodrome/ Sixth Avenue 43rd – 44th” in gold metallic ink. An extra holds the program in a scene backstage just before Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe have a heart to heart in their dressing room. The program contains repeating nonsense ads in black and white.
11 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 970: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED GIFT TO WILFRID HYDE-WHITE
An original artwork given to Wilfrid Hyde-White on the set of Let's Make Love (20th Century, 1960) and signed by the film’s cast and crew including Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Arthur Miller, George Cukor, Tony Randall, Allan “Whitey” Snyder, Marjorie Plecher, Paula Strasberg, David Bretherton, David Burns, and Ray Foster, among many others. The ink on paper artwork was created by the art department for the film and given to Hyde-White as a going-away present. The image shows Hyde-White waiting at a cab stand. A billboard in the background reads “Let’s Make Love/ Cukor Co.” and titled at the top “Happy Show/ From the Kids.” Housed in a frame; not examined outside of frame.
15 by 15 inches, framed
PROVENANCE From the Collection of Alex Hyde-White
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 
Lot 979: MARILYN MONROE LETTER FROM HENRY WEINSTEIN
A typed, signed letter from producer Henry Weinstein on Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation letterhead, addressed to Marilyn Monroe and dated February 5, 1962. The letter discusses preparations before the shooting of Something's Gotta Give, a film that was never finished due to Monroe's illnesses and untimely death.
10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Documents papiers - Autographes / Fans
Papers documents - Autographs / Fans
Lot 212: MARILYN MONROE JACK DEMPSEY LETTER REQUESTING MARILYN MONROE'S AUTOGRAPH
A single-page autograph letter on recto and verso dated October 14, 1954, addressed "Dear Jerry," possibly Joe DiMaggio's Yankee teammate Jerry Coleman. The letter reads in part, "Have been reading a lot about Marilyn, Joe and yourself, here in the east. Best of luck to you and your family, and send Marilyn's autograph along." Signed "Sincerely Jack Dempsey."
8 by 6 inches
Estimate: $150 - $200 
Lot 259: MARILYN MONROE LETTER FROM JOHN STEINBECK
A secretarial typed and signed letter dated April 28, 1955, addressed to Monroe at the Waldorf Towers in New York. The letter is a charming and bashful request for an autograph, reading in part, "In my whole experience I have never known anyone to ask for an autograph for himself. It is always for a child or an ancient aunt, which gets very tiresome as you know better than I. It is therefore, with a certain nausea that I tell you that I have a nephew-in-law ... he has a foot in the door of puberty, but that is only one of his problems. You are the other. ... I know that you are not made of ether, but he doesn't. ... Would you send him, in my care, a picture of yourself, perhaps in pensive, girlish mood, inscribed to him by name and indicating that you are aware of his existence. He is already your slave. This would make him mine. If you will do this, I will send you a guest key to the ladies' entrance of Fort Knox."
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 708: MARILYN MONROE AND ARTHUR MILLER SIGNED MENU
A menu from the Gladstone Hotel where Marilyn Monroe lived briefly during the 1950s. The menu is signed on the cover in pencil "Marilyn Monroe" and "Arthur Miller." The inside back cover of the menu also contains a fashion design sketch of a woman in a form-fitting gown with vermicelli beading, in pencil in an unknown hand.
13 by 10 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Frieda Hull
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 775: SECRETARIAL LETTER ON MARILYN MONROE STATIONERY
A typed letter signed by one of Marilyn Monroe's secretaries dated July 1, 1959, with original transmittal envelope. Both letter and envelope are Monroe's custom stationery. Transmittal envelope is addressed to Miss Edith Pitts of Richmond Hill, New York, and is postmarked July 2, 1959. The letter thanks Pitts and Frieda Hull for their card and good wishes during Monroe's illness.
Letter, 9 by 6 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Frieda Hull
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 816: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED INDEX CARD
A Marilyn Monroe signed and inscribed index card that reads “To Emily/ Best Wishes/ Marilyn Monroe.” The message was written in green ballpoint ink, and a small magazine image of Monroe has been affixed to the index card. Housed in a frame with a black and white image of Monroe.
19 1/2 by 13 inches, framed
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 829: MARILYN MONROE AND OTHERS FAN MAIL ENVELOPES
A group of five envelopes, addressed to Marilyn Monroe, Jane Simmons, Cornel Wilde, Edmond O’Brien, and Jeffrey Hunter. Mailed to each actor, at their respective studio by fans in Africa, Argentina and the Philippines. The legible postmarks date from 1954.
Largest, 5 by 6 inches
Estimate: $200 - $400 
Lot 830: MARILYN MONROE AND OTHERS FAN MAIL ENVELOPES
A group of four envelopes, addressed to Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Donna Reed, and Pat Crowley. Mailed to each actress at her respective studio by fans in Argentina and the Philippines. The legible postmarks date from 1954.
Largest, 3 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $400 
Lot 854: MARILYN MONROE, FRANK SINATRA AND OTHERS SIGNED ALBUM
An autograph album signed by Marilyn Monroe; Frank Sinatra; Bing Crosby; Ray Bolger; Maurice Chevalier; Hedda Hopper; Louella Parsons Herbert Hoover; Harry Truman; and Edward, Duke of Windsor, among others. The bound brown leather album belonged to Henry Tekkel, a maître d’ at the Waldorf Astoria New York. Monroe, who lived at the hotel in the mid-1950s, has inscribed the book “Warmest Regards, Marilyn Monroe.”
5 by 6 1/2 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 864: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED BOOK
A copy of the Bement Centennial souvenir book titled "The Bement Story" and signed on the cover by Marilyn Monroe. Monroe visited Bement, Illinois, in August 1955 to celebrate the city's centennial.
11 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 906: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED METROPOLITAN OPERA PLAYBILL
A Marilyn Monroe signed Metropolitan Opera playbill from the 1958-1959 season. The 44-page playbill is signed on the cover in blue ink and is accompanied by a black and white image of Monroe signing a playbill. This is believed to have been signed on February 10, 1959, when Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller attended a performance of Macbeth.
6 1/2 by 9 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Marilyn Monroe Auction - 11/2016 - docs papiers 3
Documents papiers - Santé
Papers documents - Health
Lot 134: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED CHECK
A check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in blue ink, dated January 18, 1951, and paid to Dr. A. Gottesman, in the amount of $100. The check is drawn on Monroe's Bank of America account. Monroe lists her address as the Beverly Carlton Hotel.
3 by 8 inches
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500 
Lot 176: MARILYN MONROE FREE ASSOCIATION NOTES
Four pages torn from an Italian agenda, dating between 1955 and 1956. It is believed that the pages correspond to Monroe's work with Dr. Hohenberg in which she began practicing self-analysis and working on her repressed memories. The notations in pencil jump from one topic to the next, wandering around the physical pages themselves and even passing from one page to the next and then back again. It is difficult to follow, but the topics include examining her childhood need to lie to her teacher, her physical insecurities, self-conscious thoughts of what others think of her drinking, speculation that "Peter" is capable of violence and possibly gay as well as a touching passage about Arthur Miller: "I am so concerned/ about protecting Arthur/ I love him-and he is the/ only person-human being I have/ ever known that I could love not only/ as a man to which I am attracted to practically/ out of my senses about-but he is the only/ person-as another human being that I trust as/ much as myself-because when I do trust my-/ self (about certain things) I do fully, and I/ do about him also." Another revealing passage reads in part, "… fear to touch my own body/ after Buddy (I started to write Bad instead of Buddy-/ slip in writing?)/ because A.I. punished me/ with fear and whipped me-/ ‘The bad part of my body’ she said-/ must never touch myself/ there or let anyone." It is believed that "A.I." refers to Aunt Ida Martin, a foster mother who punished Monroe as a child, possibly after a sexual abuse incident, with the "Buddy" mentioned here.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 89-101. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
6 1/2 by 4 1/8 inches
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 
Lot 189: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A handwritten note on unlined paper, annotated “for Kris,” dated September 9, most likely used as a reminder for Monroe to discuss the noted issue with her psychoanalyst, Dr. Marianne Kris. The note reads "Remember, somehow, how Mother always tried to get me to 'go out' as though she felt I were too unadventurous. She wanted me even to show a cruelty toward woman [sic]. This in my teens. In return, I showed her that I was faithful to her. Also written on the note is the passage “Jane’s 10th Birthday on 7th same year,” obviously regarding Jane Miller, Arthur Miller’s daughter, who was born on September 7."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 156-157. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 by 5 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 204: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO DR. HOHENBERG
A single sheet of lined paper from a six-ring agenda, with a draft of a letter written, on two sides, to Monroe's psychoanalyst, Dr. Hohenberg, 1956. The letter skips through many topics and references Monroe's difficulties in breaking ties with her former acting coach, Natasha Lytess, and her optimism in beginning to work with Paula Strasberg. She is also buoyant in her mention of Arthur Miller, stating, "Arthur writes me every day-at/ least it gives me air to/ breathe-I can't get used to the fact/ that he loves me and I keep waiting/ for him to stop loving me-though I/ hope he never will-but I keep telling/ myself-who knows?"
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 202-203. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
6 3/4 by 3 3/4 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 205: MARILYN MONROE TYPED LETTER TO DR. RALPH GREENSON
A vintage file copy of a six-page typed letter from Monroe to Dr. Ralph Greenson, the California-based psychiatrist who treated Monroe in the period leading up to her death. This deeply emotional letter, dated March 2, 1961, was written while Monroe was staying at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for three weeks of recuperation following her stay at New York’s Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. The letter is done as a stream of conscious recollection of Payne Whitney.
Passages in the letter include:
“There was no empathy at Payne-Whitney — it had a very bad effect — they asked me after putting me in a 'cell' (I mean cement blocks and all) for very disturbed depressed patients (except I felt I was in some kind of prison for a crime I hadn’t committed. The inhumanity there I found archaic. They asked me why I wasn’t happy there (everything was under lock and key; things like electric lights, dresser drawers, bathrooms, closets, bars concealed on the windows — the doors have windows so patients can be visible all the time, also, the violence and markings still remain on the walls from former patients). I answered: 'Well, I’d have to be nuts if I like it here.'"
“I sat on the bed trying to figure if I was given this situation in an acting improvisation what would I do. So I figured, it’s a squeaky wheel that gets the grease. I admit it was a loud squeak but I got the idea from a movie I made once called Don’t Bother to Knock. I picked up a light-weight chair and slammed it, and it was hard to do because I had never broken anything in my life — against the glass intentionally. It took a lot of banging to get even a small piece of glass – so I went over with the glass concealed in my hand and sat quietly on the bed waiting for them to come in. They did, and I said to them 'If you are going to treat me like a nut I’ll act like a nut.' I admit the next thing is corny but I really did it in the movie except it was with a razor blade. I indicated if they didn’t let me out I would harm myself — the furthest thing from my mind at that moment since you know Dr. Greenson I’m an actress and would never intentionally mark or mar myself. I’m just that vain.”
The letter also takes several sentimental turns with Monroe fondly referencing Joe DiMaggio and Yves Montand. Monroe closed the letter with “I think I had better stop because you have other things to do but thanks for listening for a while. Marilyn M.”
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 207-213. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000 
Lot 206: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN INTERVIEW NOTES
Three unlined oversize pages containing answers to a reporter's interview questions in preparation for a press interview. She writes her numbered responses in blue ink and pencil. Answer number 11 explains her stay at the Payne Whitney clinic, writing, "Payne Whitney gives me a pain/ It was obviously an error of judgment to place me in Payne Whit. and the doctor/ who recommended realized it and tried to rectify it. What my condition warranted/ was the rest and care I got [at] Presbyterian Hospital." Number 19 states, "[M]y sleep depends on my state of satisfaction and that varies with my life-my dreams/ are too intimate to be revealed in public/ My nightmare is the H Bomb."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments : Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 217-223. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
15 3/4 by 11 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 346: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED SCHWAB'S CHEECK
A check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in blue ink, dated April 10, 1952, and paid to Schwab's Pharmacy, in the amount of $10. The check is drawn on Monroe's Bank of America account. Monroe lists her address as the Beverly Carlton Hotel.
2 5/8 by 5 7/8 inches
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500 
Lot 347: MARILYN MONROE HEALTH CARD
A Blue Cross insurance card for Monroe provided through the S.A.G. Welfare Plan. The effective date of the plan is January 1, 1961, for Monroe.
3 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 350: MARILYN MONROE PHARMACY STATEMENT AND INVOICE
A handwritten itemized listing of goods sold to "Mrs. Arthur Miller" by Pollock-Bailey Pharmacists in New York City between October 1-30, 1959, totaling $220.58. Together with a follow-up statement in the same amount dated December 1, 1959. The items purchased include Revlon lotion, ACE bandage, vitamin B1 tablets, styptic pencils, bedpan, Revlon eyeliner, Revlon eye shadow, nasal jelly, and shadow stick, among other items.
11 by 5 3/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 916: MARILYN MONROE PRESCRIPTION RECEIPT
A pink carbon receipt for Mrs. Arthur Miller from the Fairfax Drug Company, dated “10/15/1958” in the amount of $17.68. The receipt lists Marilyn Monroe's address as the Bel Air Hotel.
4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $200 - $400 
Lot 988: MARILYN MONROE PHARMACY RECEIPT
A receipt from Vicente Pharmacy to Marilyn Monroe for RX 19329 totaling $7.75, dated "6-8-62." Receipt number 12542.
7 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 992: MARILYN MONROE RECEIPT AND LETTERS
A Marilyn Monroe receipt from Vicente Pharmacy dated June 18, 1962, in the amount of $9.40 for two prescriptions. Accompanied by a letter addressed to Milton Greene dated October 10, 1955, in an unknown hand, regarding expenses for a Marilyn Monroe dress; and a letter typed on hotel stationery by May Reis regarding a check for Paula Strasberg dated September 23, 1960.
Largest, 10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 993: MARILYN MONROE PHARMACY RECEIPT
A receipt from Vicente Pharmacy for "M. Monroe" from April 16, 1962, for two medications including a sleep aid. The amount totals $4.01.
7 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Documents papiers - Finances, Dépenses diverses
Papers documents - Finances, Various Spendings
Lot 71: MARILYN MONROE FINAL CHECKBOOK 1962
Dated February 2, 1962, this vinyl covered; wire bound checkbook was for Marilyn Monroe’s personal account at Irving Trust Company in New York City, labeled “MM Personal” on the cover. The checkbook covers Monroe’s New York expenses from February 2 through August 31, 1962, check numbers 2102 through 2251, and offers a fascinating look at her expenses during the final year of her life.
Recipients of payments from Monroe’s personal account during her final six months include Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, the Mexican Government Tourist Bureau, Flatiron Window Cleaning Company, Hedda Rosten, New York Telephone Company, J. Ricky - for “face treatments,” Lena Pepitone, Hattie Stephenson, Empire State Drycleaners and Hand Launderers, Century Furniture Repairs, Exec-U-Car Service, Globe-Star Travel Service, Pollock-Bailey Pharmacists, Marie Irvine - make-up for special appearance at Madison Square Garden, Sutton Wines & Liquors, Madison Avenue Florist, New York State Income Tax Bureau, Department of Labor, and State Unemployment Insurance Fund, among others.
The final check from this checkbook written while Monroe was alive was to Hattie Stephenson, Monroe’s East Coast housekeeper, on August 3, 1962. Checkbook activity resumed on August 10, through August 31, 1962, with payments made to Stephenson and Hedda Rosten.
Several Marilyn Monroe signed checks are included, some actually written in Monroe’s own hand, with her signature having been ripped from the check so it could not be cashed. However, in some cases the remnants of Monroe’s signature are still present, as the complete signature was not torn away from the check.
7 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Lee Strasberg
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000 
Lot 72: MARILYN MONROE COMPLETE 1962 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
An extraordinarily detailed record of Monroe's financial transactions via prepared report statements reflecting the activities in Monroe's bank accounts at City National Bank and Irving Trust Company from January 1, 1962, to August 3, 1962, 99 pages total. The monthly statement reports include all "withholds," receipts, and disbursements broken down by type of expense for each account. Of particular interest is the state of Monroe's accounts at the time of her death, including a balance of $1,337.53 in her City National Bank account on August 1, 1962, with an overdraft of $4,208.34 in the same account on August 3, 1962. The Irving Trust Account shows a balance of $1,472.41 on August 1, 1962, and a balance of $111.71 on August 3, 1962.
The January 1962 statement includes a charge for "Household-Miscellaneous/ Jan. 30 Southdown Kennel - N.Y./ "Maf" board - 8/3 to 12/17 $330.00" and income from Some Like It Hot reported as $100,000.00 and from The Misfits as $150,000.00 against which Monroe paid a total of $45,000.00 in federal taxes. The March 1962 statement lists a total of $2,459.43 in beauty expenses, including hairdressing, cosmeticians, skin treatments, hair coloring, manicures and supplies. The May 1962 statement has a separate expense category titled "New York Birthday Salute to the President" with expenses listed as "May 18 New York's Birthday Salute to the President $5,000.00/ May 16 Hazel Washington - come to NY for above - business maid, plane fare, expenses, salary $1,000.00." The same statement lists a $300 deposit with Western Costume Company and the June 1962 statement lists a payment of $1,140.33 to Western Costume Company as "balance on gown." Payments made to Dr. Ralph Greenson during the period of these statements total $8,450. The statements also show a great number of meals coded as "Entertainment" at Chip's Steak House and La Scala.
The statements are accompanied by a file copy of a typed, unsigned letter, dated September 6, 1962, from Monroe's secretary, Cherie Redmond, who prepared the statements, to secretary Inez Melson, who requested the statements. Together with five additional pages prepared by Redmond listing all outstanding checks drawn on both accounts as well as those not honored by the bank as of August 15, 1962. The lot includes another file copy of a typed, unsigned letter from Melson to attorney Aaron R. Frosch dated September 11, 1962, that accompanied the same monthly statements sent by Melson for purposes of preparing Monroe's final tax filings and for probate purposes. This two-page letter discusses measures taken to maintain the security of Monroe's Brentwood, California, property on Helena Drive and is accompanied by a seven-page report prepared by Melson giving greater detail regarding all of the outstanding checks and bills due with explanations of each payment, including what it was for and to whom it was made.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Lee Strasberg
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 99: MARILYN MONROE 1952 SIGNED CHECK TO HER MOTHER
An oversized counter check dated July 25, 1952, completed fully in Monroe’s own hand, written to Mrs. Gladys P. Eley in the amount of $150.00. The check has been endorsed by Monroe’s mother and is signed “Mrs. Gladys P. Eley.” Monroe has given her address at the time this check was written as “Hotel Bel Air, L.A. Calif.” This is an exceptionally rare document containing both Monroe’s signature as well as her mother's. The check also documents the fact that Monroe began to help her mother financially at the earliest stages of her career.
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 104: MARILYN MONROE 1952 SIGNED CHECK TO GRACE GODDARD
An oversized counter check dated April 26, 1952, completed fully in Monroe’s hand, written to Grace Goddard in the amount of $50.00 and signed by Goddard on the reverse with a handwritten address of 6707 Odessa Avenue, Van Nuys, Calif. Goddard was significant in Monroe’s early life and formative years and even became her legal guardian. Monroe lived with the Goddard family off and on over the years, and it was Goddard who arranged her marriage to James Dougherty in 1942 when she was just 16 years old.
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 133: MARILYN MONROE AUTOMOBILE INVOICE
A customer copy of an invoice from Beverly Motor Co. of Beverly Hills dated July 1, 1950. The invoice is for a new 1950 Pontiac Chieftain Deluxe sedan coupe sold to "Miss Marilyn Monroe," address "1301 N. Harper Ave. Los Angeles, 46, Calif." The car had some optional equipment and accessories and totaled $2,729.69 including delivery and tax charges. This is most likely Monroe's first new car.
8 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 157: MARILYN MONROE FINANCIAL LEDGER 1953-1955
A comprehensive financial ledger documenting presumably every Marilyn Monroe financial transaction from January 1953 through March 1955. The hardbound ledger contains handwritten entries, all of which are presumed to have been made by Monroe’s business manager, Inez Melson, covering in great detail Monroe’s cash received and disbursed, assets and liabilities, capital, income, expenses, and general financial transactions for the years in which Monroe completed Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, River of No Return, and There’s No Business Like Show Business. This is an incredible look at Monroe’s finances during the years she was propelled to stardom as she completed some of her most famous films.
7 3/4 by 11 3/4 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000 
Lot 158: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED CHECK TO ANN KARGER
A check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in blue pen, dated May 12, 1952, and paid to Anne Karger, in the amount of $16. The check is drawn on Monroe's Bank of America account, with normal cancellation stamps and also endorsed on verso by Karger. Karger was the mother of Fred Karger, one of Monroe's early vocal coaches and also one of her first loves. Monroe remained quite close to Anne Karger and, according to reports, valued her as a mother figure.
2 5/8 by 5 7/8 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 167: MARILYN MONROE BILL FOR THE BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL
A two-page itemized invoice for Monroe's stay during her 35th birthday, May 30 through June 5, 1961, at Bungalow B1 A/B at The Beverly Hills Hotel, together with envelope addressed to "Miss Monroe." The balance owed as of June 5, 1961, totals $3,734.93 and includes charges for not only the room but television rental, tips, limo drivers and other fees. The invoice does list a charge noted as "limo driver" in the amount of $55 on her birthday.
6 3/4 by 6 1/8 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 168: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED CHECK
A Marilyn Monroe Productions canceled bank check dated May 6, 1960, in the amount of $1,423.20, written to The Beverly Hills Hotel, signed by Marilyn Monroe. The check is additionally annotated "Bungalow 16, (Room 204 W.E. 5/1/60)."
3 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500 
Lot 213: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED CHECK IN GREEN INK
A check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in green ink, dated July 2, 1952, and paid to Vic Massy [sic], in the amount of $50. The check is drawn on Monroe's Bank of America account. Vic Masi was a friend of Joe DiMaggio's. Monroe and DiMaggio were friendly with the Masis during their relationship.
2 5/8 by 5 7/8 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 217: MARILYN MONROE RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENT DOCUMENTS
A typed statement of receipts and disbursements for Monroe for the period January 1, 1955, through March 17, 1955. Monroe’s starting bank balance was $1,800.55, and her ending balance was $3,530.55. The document clarifies deposits, disbursements, and accounts payable. Payees of note include Schwab’s Pharmacy, the IRS, Screen Actors Guild, Saks Fifth Avenue, Rockhaven Sanitarium, Twentieth Century Fox “Old Cafe,” and Rosalee Conover for “Partial payment on settlement of damage at 508 N. Palm Drive, Beverly Hills,” which was the address of the home Marilyn shared with Joe DiMaggio following their January 1954 marriage.
Estimate: $800 - $1,000 
Lot 311: MARILYN MONROE AND ARTHUR MILLER 1959 FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN
A 1959 federal income tax return for Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, including Form 1040, Schedule C, and Form 1116, together with five typed pages documenting income for Monroe and Miller, along with business expenses and deductions, contributions, taxes paid, medical expenses, and other items. These documents show that the combined income for Monroe and Miller for 1959 was $323,453.00, of which $103,362.50 was income from royalties for Miller’s plays, including Death Of A Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge, among others. The Millers were required to write a check to the Internal Revenue Service for $30,338.55, the balance due for taxes on their income. Monroe’s marriage to Miller ended in 1961.
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 327: MARILYN MONROE UNUSED CHECKBOOK
An unused vinyl covered spiral-bound checkbook for Monroe’s personal East Coast account at Irving Trust Company in New York City.
7 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 351: MARILYN MONROE LIQUOR RECEIPTS
Two carbon copy receipts, the first from the Jurgensen's grocery liquor department for a bottle of Cutty Sark dated January 27, 1960, sold to Marilyn Monroe at The Beverly Hills Hotel, the second from Mac's Liquors in Beverly Hills listing caviar as well as three bottles of hard alcohol signed by Monroe's housekeeper, Hazel Washington, dated February 5, 1960. Together with a handwritten invoice for the month of June 1958 from Sutton Wines and Liquors in New York City.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 353: MARILYN MONROE CHAMPAGNE RECEIPT
A carbon copy receipt from the Jurgensen's grocery liquor department, Beverly Hills, listing an order for 12 splits of Piper Heidsieck Champagne, for a total of $26.21. The receipt, dated December 2, 1959, lists a delivery date of "Thurs AM" to Marilyn Monroe at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Bungalow 21.
8 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 358: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED LIQUOR LOCKER CHECK
A check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in blue pen, dated September 29, 1955, and paid to the "Liquor Locker" in the amount of $14.20. The check is drawn on Monroe's Bank of America account, Sunset & Laurel branch, and has normal cancellation stamps. A small notation in the lower left of the check reads simply "Gift," and Monroe has written her address as "508 N. Palm Drive."
2 3/4 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 
Lot 429: MARILYN MONROE COFFEE RECEIPT
A simple restaurant receipt with secretarial writing recording the items as coffee, tea and milk for a total of $2.03 and Monroe's name recorded at the bottom for accounting purposes. The undated receipt is a small record of one moment in Monroe's life.
3 by 2 1/4 inches
Estimate: $80 - $120 
Lot 438: MARILYN MONROE UNUSED CHECKBOOK
A hardcover wire bound checkbook for Monroe’s account at City National Bank in Beverly Hills, California. While there are no handwritten annotations in the checkbook, several checks are missing. One hundred and ninety-seven personalized checks remain in the book, with “Marilyn Monroe” printed twice on each check.
9 1/2 by 14 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 473: MARILYN MONROE CHECKBOOK AUGUST 8,1960 – JANUARY 27, 1961
A cardboard covered wire bound checkbook for Monroe’s account at Irving Trust Company in New York City. The cover is incorrectly labeled as being from the “Colonial Trust Company,” 4/30/58 – 7/31/59. The checkbook covers Monroe’s expenses from August 8, 1960, to January 27, 1961, with check numbers 1253 through 1483, offering a fascinating look at Monroe’s expenses in 1960 and 1961.
Recipients of payments from Monroe’s personal account during this period include The Mapes Hotel in the Nevada hotel (where Monroe and Arthur Miller stayed while filming The Misfits ), Erno Laszlo Institute, Paula Strasberg, Ralph Roberts, I. Magnin + Co., Dorr Optical Co., Beverly Pets, Arthur P. Jacobs Co., Beverly Hills Hotel, West Side Hospital, Ferragamo, Jurgensen’s Grocery, Hollywood Reporter, AvisRent-A-Car System, Bergdorf Goodman, Carey Cadillac Rending Co., Yankee Traders, Variety, Riverside Flower Shop, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Hattie Stephenson, Ralph Greenson, M.D., Modern Auto Rental, T. Anthony - luggage, La Scala Restaurant, Schwab’s Pharmacy, New York Telephone Company, J. Ricky, Screen Actors Guild, Lee Siegel, M.D., Leonard H. Schuyler, M.D., Bloomingdale’s, Flatiron Window Cleaning Co., Jax Beverly Hills, Inc., Martindale’s Bookstore, Plaza Hotel, Louis Finger, M.D., Rexford Kennamer, M.D., Berkley Square Cleaners, Sutton Wines and Liquors, Beverly Hills Music Co., MCA Artists Ltd., Marianne Kris, M.D., Actors Studio Inc. - contribution, Agnes M. Flanagan, Mrs. Michael Chekhov, Rudolph J. Kautsky, Evelyn Moriarty, Allan Snyder, Hazel Washington, Gucci, Patricia Newcomb, Maximilian Fur Company, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Norman Norell Inc., and Western Costume Co., among others.
9 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 475: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED TAX FORM
A Form 1096 tax form from the U.S. Treasury Department Internal Revenue Service dated 1960 and addressed to Marilyn Monroe Productions in New York, signed in black ink "Marilyn Monroe."
3 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000 
Lot 513: MARILYN MONROE CHECKBOOK SEPTEMBER 9, 1960 – FEBRUARY 20, 1961
A cardboard covered black plastic comb bound checkbook for an unspecified Marilyn Monroe account, presumably Irving Trust Company in New York City based on similar payees named in other checkbooks.
Recipients of payments from this Monroe checking account include May Reis, Hedda Rosten, The Mapes Hotel in Nevada (where Marilyn and then husband Arthur Miller stayed while filming The Misfits), New York Telephone Company, La Scala Restaurant, Holiday Hotel, New York State Income Tax Bureau and Department of Labor, California Department of Employment, Beverly Hills Hotel, Ralph Roberts, MCA Artists Ltd., Internal Revenue Service, and Marilyn Monroe Productions. Christmas bonuses for Rosten and Reis are also annotated in this checkbook.
9 1/2 14 1/2 inches
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 
Lot 532: MARILYN MONROE RECORD RECEIPT
A receipt from Raf's Record Bar on South Beverly Drive, dated February 25, 1960. The receipt is in the name of Miss Marilyn Monroe at The Beverly Hills Hotel and is signed by Monroe's assistant, Hazel Washington. The records purchased are noted as Frank Sinatra's "Come Back to Sorrento," "Swing Lovers" and "Swing Affair."
8 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $100 - $150 
Lot 533: MARILYN MONROE RECORD ALBUM MEMO
A pink credit memo from Sam Goody music store at 250 W. 49th St. in New York City. The memo is dated April 9, 1962, and has an accompanying note addressed to Cherie Redmond, one of Monroe's secretaries, stating that Monroe was charged twice when she bought only one copy of the record. The item that she was double charged for is listed as SWBO 1569, which is the Capitol Records catalog number for the double LP set Judy At Carnegie Hall - Judy in Person. This Judy Garland performance took place April 23, 1961, and the album spent 13 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts and won four GRAMMY Awards.
8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 601: MARILYN MONROE CHECKBOOK SEPTEMBER 25, 1961 – FEBRUARY 23, 1962
A vinyl covered wire bound checkbook for Monroe’s personal account at Irving Trust Company in New York City, annotated “MM Personal” on the cover. The checkbook covers Monroe’s New York expenses from September 25, 1961 through February 23, 1962, with check numbers 1802 through 1951, offering a fascinating look at Monroe’s expenses as she entered the final year of her life.
Recipients of payments from her personal account during this period include Taft Garage - RR car storage, Bloomingdale’s, Hammacher Schlemmer, Hattie Stephenson, Arthur P. Jacobs, Lena Pepitone, RCA Services - for 1 year contract, Ralph Roberts, Elizabeth Arden Beverly Hills, Mrs. Jane Zigler - rent-Calif. Apt, Schwab’s Pharmacy, Maximilian Fur Company - fur storage, Anna’s Housewares, I. Magnin + Co., Beverly Hills Call Board - answering serv., A. Fitz + Sons, Berkley Sq. Cleaners, Saks Fifth Avenue Beverly Hills, Ralph Greenson, Harold Tribune Fresh Air Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Jax - Manhattan, Jurgensen’s Grocery, New York Telephone Company, Malone Studio Service, Erno Laszlo Institute, Beverly Hills Flowers, Abercrombie + Fitch, Bedford Prescription Pharmacy, Hyman Engelberg, M.D., Pioneer Hardware, Screen Actors Guild, Philip R. Reuben, M.D., and Edward J. Simons, M.D. among others.
Interestingly, a typed reconciliation of Monroe’s account, stapled to the inside of the checkbook, indicates that she was overdrawn by $991.41 on December 31, 1961. Several Marilyn Monroe signed checks are included with her signature having been ripped from the check so it couldn’t be cashed. However, in one case, the remnants of Monroe’s signature are still present.
7 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 
Lot 824: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED CHECK
A Marilyn Monroe handwritten and signed check. The check is written from an account with Bank of America, Laurel/Sunset branch, in the amount of $15.00, dated October 29, 1951, and paid to J.J. Haggarty Stores, Inc. The information is handwritten aside from the establishment's name, which is stamped. The check is endorsed by the store on verso with an additional note that reads “Reg Patron.”
3 1/4 by 8 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 841: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED 1953 CHECK
A Marilyn Monroe handwritten and signed check from a Bank of America Los Angeles account, dated March 21, 1953, in the amount of $50.00 paid to Mr. John R. Tilley. The check is housed in a frame with an image of Monroe taken by Cecil Beaton, said to be her favorite photograph of herself.
14 3/4 by 22 inches, framed
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 900: MARILYN MONROE PRODUCTIONS BANK STATEMENT
A Colonial Trust Company bank statement for Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc. for December 1959 showing the balances throughout the month. The account had $56,503.35 on December 1st and $65,838.55 on December 31.
10 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 904: MARILYN MONROE AND ARTHUR MILLER CHECK
An unwritten check from Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller's joint account at The First National City Bank of New York. The check is numbered 44 on the top right and still has the attached ledger on the left.
2 3/4 by 8 inches
PROVENANCE Partial Lot 142, "Property from the Estate of Marilyn Monroe and Other Collections," Julien's Auctions, Los Angeles, California, June 4, 2005
Estimate: $150 - $300 
Lot 907: MARILYN MONROE RECEIPT FOR STATIONERY
A receipt from A. Webster & Company in London, England, addressed to Mrs. Arthur Miller and dated August 8, 1956. The receipt is for note paper and envelopes totaling £6.76. Together with a receipt for the check dated September 12, 1956, to Mrs. Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe was in London at the time shooting Prince and the Showgirl (Warner Bros., 1957).
6 3/4 by 8 1/4 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
Lot 987: MARILYN MONROE FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS
A group of four documents relating to Marilyn Monroe's finances: a memo from Monroe's attorney Mickey Rudin typed on Gang, Tyre, Rudin & Brown memo stationery dated July 9, 1962, regarding a deposit slip from City National Bank in the amount of $4,000, accompanied by a carbon duplicate of the deposit slip dated July 6, 1962; a carbon copy of a letter written by Monroe's secretary to City National Bank; and a carbon of a deposit slip from City National Bank for a mail deposit made on May 8, 1962, in the amount of $23.47. Also present is a blank City National Bank change of address card.
Largest, 11 by 8 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE Partial Lot 977, "Icons & Idols: Hollywood," Julien's, Beverly Hills, December 5, 2014
Ex-Collection Lois Banner
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 990: MARILYN MONROE DELIVERY RECEIPT
A delivery receipt from Abbey Rents for a lamp delivered to "Miss M. Monroe" on May 17, 1962. The total amount including tax is $71.92.
8 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $400 
Lot 991: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTE
A Marilyn Monroe handwritten note to her secretary. A typed message from her secretary reads “Is this to be held or check issued?” Monroe responded in green ballpoint ink, “I have to check something about it.” The note is signed either “M” or a quick partial “Marilyn.” Housed in a frame with a color image of Monroe.
23 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches, framed
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Documents papiers - Maison
Papers documents - Home
Lot 109: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER RECEIPT
An original Hammacher Schlemmer receipt, addressed to Mrs. Arthur Miller, 444 E. 57 St., NYC, dated July 9, 1959, for the purchase of “Herbs and Spices” and “The Gold Cook Book,” hand signed “Mrs. A Miller.” During this period, Marilyn’s husband, Arthur Miller, was finalizing his screenplay for The Misfits.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 282: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED RECEIPT
A receipt from Bloomingdales for a black leather and Rosewood lounge chair and matching ottoman on March 31 (no year listed) to be delivered to Marilyn Monroe at 444 East 57th Street with notation reading "Please Rush." Receipt is signed in blue ink "Marilyn Miller."
7 by 5 1/2 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 283: MARILYN MONROE JAPANESE SCREEN PAPERWORK
An invoice from Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, for lot 409 from sale number 1861, December 4-5, 1958, for a "6 fold screen" in the amount of $1081.50. The invoice is addressed to Monroe's secretary "Miss Mary [sic] Reis for Mrs. Arthur Miller" at 444 East 57th Street." Together with a letter addressed to May Reis concerning the sale of the screen in October 1959 to Marsden J. Perry for $750. Perry was the son of a prominent Rhode Island collector.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 284: MARILYN MONROE INTERIOR DESIGN DRAWING
A pencil on paper rendering of an elaborately carved headboard, together with accompanying letter from Daniel Lavezzo of Lavezzo Inc. Antiques of New York City dated March 4, 1958. The letter is addressed to Mrs. A. Miller of 444 East 57th Street and describes the proposed custom piece as "... carved wood frame. Finished with sterling silver antiqued, upholstered back." The quote for the job is $1,200.
10 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 285: MARILYN MONROE FABRIC SAMPLES AND PAPERWORK
A large group of documents, including four customs and import forms, one in duplicate, from Eagle Star and American Express Company regarding the import and customs clearance of 70 meters of Italian silk satin. Together with four letters from Filippo Haas & Figli of Italy regarding the purchase of the material, two small fabric samples attached to cards of the fabric purchased, and four file copies of messages from Monroe's secretary regarding payment and purchase of the fabric.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 286: MARILYN MONROE INTERIOR DESIGN DOCUMENTS
A proposal sent to Normal Norell from Thomas DeAngelis Inc. for Mrs. A. Miller's bedroom. The proposal gives estimates to custom upholster a settee, headboard, bedspread, pillows and box spring drop using the fabric ordered by Norell from Italy, samples of which are included in the previous lot. The estimate is accompanied by six invoices from De Angelis, an invoice from Scalamandré Silks, and an invoice with Scalamandré silk fabric sample.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 287: MARILYN MONROE INTERIOR DESIGN DRAWING
A letter from Amelia Wilcox of Earnshaw Inc. that accompanied photographs and sketches of potential pieces of furniture for Monroe's review. The letter, dated September 12, 1961, is addressed to Mr. John Moore, the fashion designer who at one time worked with Norman Norell and Mattie Talmack. Other documents show that Norell was also assisting Monroe with the interior decoration of her New York apartment. The letter is accompanied by an original pencil and gouache on card painting of a coffee table with attached information sheet.
Painting, 5 by 7 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 288: MARILYN MONROE NEW YORK APARTMENT DECORATING DOCUMENTS
A group of three invoices dating from February and March 1958 from Oskar Barshak Interiors, New York, for a variety of improvements made to Monroe's 444 East 57th Street apartment. Together with four account statements listing a total of $7,262.07 in charges for the work.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 289: MARILYN MONROE CARPET CARE DOCUMENTS
A group of five invoices dating from June 6, 1958, to November 14, 1958, from Renofab, Colonial Carpet Corporation and Chambers-Eaton Co. of New York for various carpet cleanings and treatments, including reburling of cigarette burn, steel combing, shearing of stained areas, and application of Karpet Kare with moth proofing. Together with Karpet Kare proposal form for dining room, living room, bedrooms and hallway of the apartment Monroe shared with Arthur Miller at 444 East 57th Street.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 290: MARILYN MONROE NEW YORK APARTMENT PAINTING DOCUMENTS
An unsigned file copy of a letter from Monroe dated November 1961 to the management company of 444 East 57th Street regarding the painting of her apartment, with a response from the management company. Together with three detailed invoices from Roth Painting Co. and Don Adame painting, each with a detailed accounting of painting work performed in the apartment in March 1958 together with two handwritten documents listing additional painting work.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 291: MARILYN MONROE INTERIOR DESIGN DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHS
An original pencil on paper sketch of a steel finish table prepared by Earnshaw Incorporated of Madison Avenue. The drawing is accompanied by four additional photographs of potential coffee table options with attached information cards also sent by Earnshaw.
Largest, 8 by 10 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 292: MARILYN MONROE CUSTOM FRENCH FURNITURE PAPERWORK
A series of documents including eight pages of customs and import forms from foreign freight company Inter-Maritime Forwarding Co. Inc. and customs agent A. & G. Valcke & Co. regarding the import of a custom set of three lacquered nesting tables from French designer Leleu. The forms are accompanied by three letters from Leleu addressed to Mrs. Arthur Miller at 444 East 57th Street regarding the order and expressing his pleasure at knowing one of his pieces will be in her home and offering further design services. The group also includes two invoices for the tables from Leleu, one in triplicate, in the amount of $300, two file copies of communications sent to Leleu regarding the order, and a brochure from Leleu showcasing his work.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 293: MARILYN MONROE INTERIOR DESIGN INVOICES
A large group of documents detailing custom beveled mirror wall panels installed in Monroe’s 444 E. 57th Street apartment in New York City. The documents include two diagrams of wall installations with accompanying job quote dated March 28, 1958; a file copy of a letter dated April 1, 1958, from Monroe's secretary giving approval to begin work on the job quoted at $669.50; an invoice in this amount dated "4/10/58"; an additional invoice in triplicate for a 22 by 72 1/2-inch mirror dated March 18, 1958 in the amount of $49.44; a handwritten invoice in the same amount; and a letter from a competing contractor who quoted $826 for the same mirrored wall panel job.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 515: MARILYN MONROE INVOICE FOR OIL PAINTINGS
An original invoice dated February 24, 1962, from the Galeria Bryna in Mexico listing three paintings purchased by Monroe for her home on Fifth Helena Drive. The paintings are listed as a Nude oil on Masonite by Rogelio Hermosilla Rembrud, "Window" oil on canvas by Olga Mendez, and "Thistles" oil on canvas by Nova Taylor for a total of $850. The invoice is accompanied by an original shipping form from the gallery. All three of these paintings were hanging in Monroe's home at the time of her death.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 516: MARILYN MONROE ART COLLECTION PAPERWORK
A group of documents regarding works of fine art purchased by Monroe. The papers include the original certificate issued by the Musee Rodin in Paris, November 17, 1960, for a bronze work titled "L' Emprise," inventory number 236 A. The certificate is issued to the Edgardo Acosta Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, which staged an exhibition of Rodin's work in March 1962, when Monroe purchased the sculpture. Together with a letter from Edgardo Acosta, a gallery receipt listing the sculpture as well as an oil painting by Poucette titled "Le Taureau," and a handwritten payment receipt dated May 5, 1962, in the amount of $962 for both works.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 518: MARILYN MONROE POTENTIAL HOME LISTING
An original letter from John E. Holland of the Charles F. Noyes Real Estate Company dated October 18, 1961, addressed to Miss Marilyn Monroe, 444 East 57th Street, New York, "Attention: Miss Marjorie Stengel" (Monroe's secretary). The letter reads in part, "[L]ast summer Mr. Ballard of our office, and I showed you the house at the corner of 57th Street and Sutton Place and Mr. Arthur Krim's house on Riverview Terrace. I spoke to Miss Stengel yesterday and told her of a house which we have just gotten listed for sale at 241 East 61st Street. She asked me to send you the particulars on this house as she thought you might be interested in it. I am enclosing our setup. ... The garden duplex apartment is now occupied by the owner and would be available to a purchaser for occupancy. You may possibly have been in this apartment as Miss Kim Novak ... just moved out in September. Before that it was occupied by Prince Aly Khan." The letter is accompanied by the setup sheet listing the details of the property as well as the price of $200,000.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 519: MARILYN MONROE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS FOR 61st STREET MANHATTAN PROPERTY
An original letter from John E. Holland of the Charles F. Noyes Real Estate Company dated November 15, 1961, addressed to Miss Marjorie Stengel, Monroe’s secretary, at Marilyn Monroe Productions, Incorporated, 444 East 57th Street, New York, stating, “I am enclosing herewith Photostats which I had made of the drawings adding a stairway which would include all or half of the third floor with the duplex garden apartments. These sketches may be somewhat confusing, but I could easily explain them if you would like to have me do so,” together with six Photostat copies of original architectural drawings for the redesign of an apartment located at 241 East 61st Street in New York. The drawings go into great detail as to the redesign of the apartment, with space for an art studio and specific notes stating, “This could be another bedroom or boudoir, or health studio with 'massage' table, 'chaise lounge,' private living room…or…with numerous 'closets.'”
Interestingly, these architectural drawings from November 1961 imply that Monroe was considering relocating from the home she shared with husband Arthur Miller on East 57th Street to a three-story apartment on East 61st Street. Monroe and Miller divorced earlier in 1961. Even more interesting is the fact that, as Monroe considered a new apartment in New York City near the end of 1961, she made an offer on January 12, 1962, on a house in Brentwood, California. She moved into 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood in March 1962.
Estimate: $700 - $900 
Documents papiers - Divers
Papers documents - Various
Lot 120: MARILYN MONROE JURGENSEN’S GROCERIES RECEIPT
A receipt from Jurgensen’s Groceries for food delivered to Monroe at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Bungalow 51. Dated March 2, 1960, the receipt was for a container of lard and a package of bacon. Monroe was filming Let’s Make Love at this time.
Estimate: $300 - $500 
Lot 188: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN TO-DO LIST
A single page of lined paper from a Steno notebook with notes in pencil on recto and pen on verso. The notes reference a wide range of people in Marilyn Monroe's life including dress designer Ceil Chapman, Paula and Lee Strasberg, designer John Moore, publicist Arthur Jacobs, business partner Milton Greene, analyst Dr. Hohenberg, and press agent Lois Weber.
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 154-155. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 
Lot 198: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN TO-DO LIST AND MENU
A single page of lined paper from a Steno notebook with extensive notes in pencil on both sides, heavily creased in multiple places. The front contains a long list of things Monroe needed to buy for a household as well as household things to do: "dry clean comforter/ have wash-bathroom rugs/ send out laundry" among other things. The other side has a proposed menu and guest list for a dinner party most likely dating to 1955 or 1956. The dinner menu even included items needed for the bar, including "buy - champagne? at least some kind of wine with dinner, liquor-scotch-gin-vermouth."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 176-179. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
8 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 199: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN STUFFING RECIPE
A single page torn from a notepad from the City Title Insurance Company of San Francisco with a recipe for stuffing, written entirely in Monroe’s hand. The recipe calls for a loaf of French bread with a note above reading "sourdough." The verso of page offers instructions for roasting a chicken or turkey with reminder that poultry cooks "30 min to 1 lbs."
LITERATURE Monroe, Marilyn, and Bernard Comment. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Pages 180-183. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 1-237. Print.
6 1/4 by 4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 269: MARILYN MONROE ARTHUR MILLER HANDWRITTEN BOOK DEDICATION TO MARILYN MONROE
A single piece of lined paper torn from a spiral-bound notebook, heavily stained, containing a notation in Miller's hand reading "This book is being written out of the courage, the widened view of life, the awareness of love and beauty, given to me by my love, my wife-to-be, my Marilyn. I bless her for this gift, and I write it so that she may have from me the only unique thing I know how to make. I bless her, I owe her the discovery of my soul." Although the note is undated, Miller refers to Marilyn Monroe as his wife to be, indicating that it was written prior to their marriage on June 29, 1956. Although this dedication did not appear in any of Miller's books it was possibly intended to be used in A View from the Bridge, which Miller was rewriting as a two-act play during his courtship with Monroe. Because Miller was not officially divorced until June 1956 it is possible that the dedication was not used due to timing.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 
Lot 270: MARILYN MONROE CORRESPONDENCE WITH XENIA CHEKHOV
A single-page typed, unsigned file copy of a letter dated December 19, 1958, to "Mrs. Chekhov" reading "My husband and I were so happy with the pictures you sent us of Mr. Chekhov. We will treasure them forever./ I am not able to shop for Christmas, as you may already know I have lost the baby, so I would like you to use this check as my Christmas greetings with all my most affectionate good wishes./ My husband sends you his warmest regards." The letter is accompanied by Xenia Chekhov's response written on a notecard dated January 10, 1959, reading in part, "[Y]our personal sad news affected me very much and I could not find the courage to write you sooner. All my warmest feelings of sympathy go out to you and Mr. Miller." This is a deeply personal note with an acknowledgement of a miscarriage in Monroe's own words.
Largest, 8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
Lot 272: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN SIGNED CHECK TO BOOKSTORE
A check written entirely in Monroe's hand, in blue ink, dated August 20, 1955, and paid to Martindale Books, in the amount of $2. Monroe has filled out the blank counter check listing her address as "508 N. Palm Dr."
2 5/8 by 5 7/8 inches
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 
Lot 273: MARILYN MONROE BOOKSTORE RECEIPTS
An assortment of receipts from seven different bookstores: including: Doubleday Book Shop, Beekman Place Bookshop, and E. Weyhe Inc., all of New York City, and Wepplo's Book Store, Lee Freeson, Martindale's Book Stores and Hunter's Books, all of Los Angeles. Titles include The Great Gatsby; Van Gogh's Great Period; I , Rachel; An Encyclopedia of Gardening; Hi - Lo's - Love Nest; a book listed simply as "Yves Montand," among others. The receipts are dated 1958 and 1960, and the receipt from Hunter's Books includes a pink carbon copy.
Largest, 10 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 275: MARILYN MONROE ARTHUR MILLER TYPEWRITER RENTAL RECEIPT
A receipt from the Beverly Hills Typewriter Shop dated September 1, 1960, addressed to Mr. Arthur Miller, Room 356, Beverly Hills Hotel, for rental of an Olympia typewriter. Marilyn Monroe was admitted to Westside Hospital in Los Angeles on August 29, needing a break from filming The Misfits in Nevada as she was suffering from exhaustion. Interesting to note that Miller attempted to write in his room at The Beverly Hills Hotel while his wife convalesced in a Los Angeles hospital.
Estimate: $150 - $250 
Lot 309: MARILYN MONROE HANDWRITTEN NOTATION
A single page of typed lines comprising "City Ballad" with "(preferably with music)" written below. The lines are arranged in five stanzas. A note in pencil in Monroe's hand in the upper left corner of the page reads "I must stop staring out of the library window!"
8 1/2 by 11 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 500: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL STATIONERY
A large group of 50 sheets of stationery paper and 250 matching ivory envelopes in original packaging. The envelopes are contained in their original Strathmore box listing the paper as "Strathmore Bond 25% Cotton Fiber Ivory Laid" made by the Old Colony Envelope Company. The box originally contained 500 envelopes and now contains 250 "Marilyn Monroe" blind embossed envelopes. Together with 50 sheets of matching stationery paper still in the original brown paper bag, each sheet with "Marilyn Monroe" blind embossed in the now iconic font. Together with a file copy of a letter dated April 18, 1962, addressed to Hedda (Rosten) from Cherie (Redmond), Monroe's friend and secretary in New York City and Monroe's secretary in Los Angeles, respectively. The letter instructs Hedda to order more stationery for Monroe from the Chase Press at 247 Park Avenue in New York, "... if the information under 'Stationery' in the telephone book is right." Redmond continues, "I would think about 250 sheets and envelopes would suffice for sometime, but usually it costs very little more to get 500 of each... (I just has a call from Pat Newcomb for 50 sheets of each and that doesn't leave much more on hand in case she again asks me for that amount." The box of envelopes included in this lot is half full and indeed was a box of 500, quite possibly the very order mentioned in this letter written less than four months before Monroe's death.
9 by 6 inches
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 
Lot 501: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL STATIONERY
Five sheets of custom ivory stationery with five matching envelopes, each personalized with a simple "Marilyn Monroe" blind stamp.
9 by 6 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500 
Lot 502: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL STATIONERY
A single sheet of custom ivory stationery with a matching envelope, each blind embossed simply "Marilyn Monroe."
9 by 6 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 503: MARILYN MONROE INVOICE FOR STATIONERY
An invoice from Chase Press Inc. printers, engravers and stationers on Park Avenue in New York City dated March 31, 1958. The invoice lists "500 pieces of note size letter heads 6 x 9 engr. Blank" and "500 6 3/4 engr. Envelopes flap," each at a cost of $12.50 for a total of $25.75 with tax. Together with a statement of account as of the same date in the same amount and a past due notice dated April 30, 1958, for the same bill.
Largest, 6 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 504: MARILYN MONROE STATIONERY
A single sheet of custom stationery with personalized embossed name at top reading "Mrs. Arthur Miller" in black. Together with four sheets of Arthur Miller's stationery paper reading "Arthur Miller" at the top of each page.
Smaller, 8 by 6 inches
Estimate: $500 - $700 
Lot 506: MARILYN MONROE NOTEPAD
A blank notepad from Parkside House, Englefield Green, in Surrey, England, with 29 pages and loose paper cover. Parkside House is where Monroe and then husband Arthur Miller stayed while Monroe was filming The Prince and the Showgirl . Some of the notes included in the book Fragments were written on pages from this pad.
7 by 5 1/4 inches
Estimate: $150 - $250 
Lot 845: MARILYN MONROE IDENTIFICATION CARD SIGNED "NORMA JEANE DiMAGGIO"
A Marilyn Monroe signed United States Department of Defense Noncombatant’s Certificate of Identity. The card is signed “Norma Jeane DiMaggio” and countersigned by the issuing officer. It is additionally marked “Void.” Monroe’s fingerprints are stamped on the back of the card, but no other information has been entered. It is well known that Monroe was issued an official Department of Defense identification card dated February 8, 1954, with a card serial number of 129278. This card’s serial number is 129279. The same issuing officer signed this card as well as Monroe's official ID card. Monroe visited Korea to entertain the troops while on her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio in February 1954.
2 1/2 by 3 3/4 inches
Estimate: $15,000 - $30,000 
Lot 848: MARILYN MONROE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERFORMER ID CARD
A Marilyn Monroe signed United States Department of Defense Identification Card used in 1954 while in Korea. The card is issued to Norma Jeane DiMaggio, her position listed as “USO Entertainer,” and the card is dated February 8, 1954, serial number 129278, with a black and white photograph of Monroe in the upper left corner. Monroe signed the card in blue ink “Norma Jeane DiMaggio.” It is additionally signed by the issuing officer. Monroe’s fingerprints have been stamped on the back of the card and her descriptive information typed. In 2008, an almost identical card was sold at auction; however, that card did not list Monroe’s position. Both that card and this have the same serial number. Novelty cards replicating this card have been produced but entirely in black and white.
2 1/2 by 4 inches
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000 
Lot 849: MARILYN MONROE HOTEL RECEIPT
A receipt from the Beverly Hills Hotel for "Dimaggio Mrs JP" for $576.59 accrued between March 15 and March 17, 1954. Marilyn Monroe had married Joe DiMaggio two months earlier, on January 14, 1954.
7 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 
Lot 908: MARILYN MONROE PERSONAL STATIONERY
A sheet of Marilyn Monroe personal stationery with envelope. Both are unused and blind embossed "Marilyn Monroe."
9 by 6 inches
Estimate: $200 - $300 
Lot 994: MARILYN MONROE LIMOUSINE RECEIPT
A carbon copy of a receipt from Carey Cadillac Renting Co. of California to "M. Monroe" on "3/4/62" for $100. The charge was for a 14 1/2 hour use of a limousine. Ticket number 21076.
8 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 995: MARILYN MONROE AIRLINE TICKET RECEIPT
A Rand-Fields ticket service receipt addressed to Marilyn Monroe for a one-way first-class ticket from Los Angeles to New York purchased for "Mrs Lee Strasbourg" [sic] for $205.59, on July 30, 1962. The receipt was issued less than a week before Monroe's death.
6 3/4 by 6 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
Lot 1004: MARILYN MONROE FUNERAL CARD
An original card from the funeral of Marilyn Monroe, held on Wednesday, August 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Mortuary in Los Angeles. The front of the card bears an image of the Bok Singing Tower. The inside reads in part, "In Memory of/ Marilyn Monroe/ Born June 1st, 1926/ Passed Away/ August 5th, 1962,” and includes the details of her funeral service. Facing page is printed with Psalm 23. Accompanied by an information packet about the services for Monroe that includes the eulogy given by Lee Strasberg, a list of invited guests, and a letter to those not invited to the service. Inez Melson gave funeral card and accompanying packet to a friend, and it has remained with that family until this time.
Card, 5 1/2 by 3 1/4 inches
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000 
New York Mirror 08/08/1962
Le journal américain de New-York New York Mirror du mercredi 8 août 1962, titre en Une "Hunt MM's Last Caller".
New York Mirror 07/08/1962
Le journal américain de New-York New York Mirror du mardi 7 août 1962, titre en Une "Marilyn's Last Day Of Life".
