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Jeudi 19 août 1953: Marilyn Monroe invite le photographe John Vachon dans sa chambre d'hôtel. S'étant blessée sur le tournage de River of no return, elle portait un plâtre à son pied gauche. Le photographe la prend en photo en compagnie de Joe DiMaggio. A cette période, la relation entre Joe et Marilyn n'était encore qu'officieuse et Joe refusait de poser en photo avec Marilyn. C'est donc ici les premières photographies officielles du couple.

Le même jour, John Vachon disposa de deux heures pour photographier Marilyn dans sa chambre d'hôtel. Il en résultera une série de portraits.

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lot n°534:  MARILYN MONROE PIN-UP MAGAZINE, 1953
A magazine titled "Marilyn Monroe Pin Ups" published by the Maco Magazine Corporation in 1953. Includes 14 pages of photographs and various, if inaccurate, facts about Monroe.
Estimate: $100 - $200

lot n°535: MARILYN MONROE WARDROBE SHOTS FROM "DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK"
Three original vintage black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe in her wardrobe as Nell in "Don't Bother To Knock" (20th Century Fox, 1952). The Wardrobe boards, dated "12/3/51" show that the costumes were designed by Travilla. 10 by 8 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800
 

lot n°537: MARILYN MONROE MGM SWIMSUIT 
A Marilyn Monroe costume swimsuit from an unknown production. Swimsuit is dark blue with light blue ribbon across bust. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tag reads "M. Monroe 36," additionally stamped MGM under bust lining. This was purchased in the 1970s from the prop resale house Remember When in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 

lot n°538: MARILYN MONROE SURVEILLANCE RECORDS
A twenty-one typed pages dated from October 20 to November 5, 1954, containing detailed reports on the movements of Marilyn Monroe and her friends and suspected love interests. The pages are prepared for "City Detective and Guard Service" on the subject of "Dimaggio****Monroe."
They provide detailed accounts of the movements of Monroe and Hal Schaefer, Monroe's vocal coach for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Fox, 1953). While Schaefer was watched closely, the detectives noted everyone with whom Monroe interacted.
The entry dated October 24, 1954, reads in part, "…7:50 P.M. The Subject [earlier identified as Marilyn Monroe] arrived at 1312 Harper, parked and entered same. There was another auto parked in the drive-way, a 1950 Cadillac Conv. Lic. # 5N69948 Calif., registered to Jane Wyman--360 N. Camden Dr., Bev. Hills. Someone was playing the piano in the house. The husband of Jane Wyman is John Karger (he plays the piano), and it was our oppinnion [sic.] that Karger was in the house."
Joe Dimaggio hired private detectives to track Monroe's movements, as he feared she was being unfaithful. The detectives' observations state that one of the "operators" called DiMaggio and they noted his car in front of the building where the famous "wrong door raid" took place on the night of November 5, 1954.
Folded, 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches
Estimate: $800 - $1,200

lot n°552: MARILYN MONROE AND JOE DIMAGGIO SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS
A black and white publicty photograph of Marilyn Monroe from Home Town Story (MGM, 1951) inscribed by Monroe "To Bernice, Love and Kisses Marilyn Monroe." Paired with a black and white photograph of Joe DiMaggio signed by DiMaggio. Both are housed in a large frame with additional printed photographs of the pair and a copy of their wedding certificate. Photos not examined out of frame.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
 

lot n°553: MARILYN MONROE INSCRIBED PICTURE
A color page of an unknown magazine inscribed to child star Linda Bennett. Inscription reads "To Linda,/ Love & Kisses/ Marilyn Monroe." 141/4 by 17 1/4 inches, framed
PROVENANCE Lot 106. "Julien's Summer Sale," Julien's Auctions, Beverly Hills, June 16, 2007 
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

lot n°554: JOE DIMAGGIO SIGNED MARILYN MONROE PHOTO
A black and white glossy photograph of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe leaning in to kiss on their wedding day signed in lower left in blue felt pen, "Joe DiMaggio." DiMaggio was often reluctant to sign photos of him and Monroe.
Estimate: $200 - $400
 

lot n°555: MARILYN MONROE AIRLINE TICKET
A United Air Lines ticket numbered 162D 543059, dated March 18, 1954 in the name of Mrs. Joseph Di Maggio for a flight to San Francisco.
PROVENANCE Lot 185, "Property From the Estate of Marilyn Monroe," Julien's Auctions, Los Angeles, June 4, 2005
Estimate: $600 - $800

lot n°556: "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" SET DESIGN SKETCH
Watercolor on illustration board, signed by Joseph Wright. Image shows Jane Russell's character, Dorothy Shaw, on stage in a blue evening gown. Wright was the art director on 86 films, including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century Fox, 1953).
PROVENANCE Lot 739, "Julien's Sum
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
  

Le 1er juin 1955, a lieu la première du film The Seven Year Itch (Sept ans de réflexion) au Loew's State Theater à Times Square, New York. Pour célébrer l'événement, une immense pancarte de seize mètres de hauteur est affichée devant le théâtre, représentant Marilyn avec sa robe blanche qui virevolte, qui reste l'une des plus célèbres scènes du cinéma. Les journalistes ont à leur tour interviewé les passants pour leur demander leur avis: certains new-yorkais étaient agréablement surpris ("I think it's correct!", "I think it's very nice!", "I think it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful !"), alors que d'autres jugeaient cette photo de Marilyn indécente! Pour la soirée de la première, Marilyn Monroe est accompagnée de son ex-mari Joe DiMaggio, avec qui elle vient pourtant de divorcer. D'autres personnalités étaient présentes: Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power, Margaret Truman, Eddie Fisher, Judy Holliday et Richard Rodgers; ainsi que plus de 3000 fans et des journalistes de la presse et de la télévision. l'arrivée de Marilyn et de Joe a même été filmée pour figurer dans les news des cinémas.

>> Le théâtre
 

>> L'arrivée de Marilyn et Joe DiMaggio
 
 
    

> Margaret Truman et Harold Arlen
 

> snapshots de la collection de James Collins, un fan des 'Monroe Six'
 
    
     
  

> snapshots de la collection de Frieda Hull, une fan des 'Monroe Six'
  
 
 
   

>> Carton d'invitation de Peter Leonardi 
  

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Ce jour était aussi celui de l'anniversaire de Marilyn, qui fêtait ses vingt-neuf ans. Joe organisa une soirée au restaurant Toots Shor's, après la représenation du film. Mais angoissée par son désir de reconnaissance de Lee Srasberg, avec qui elle a suivi des cours à l'Actor's Studio, Marilyn était nerveuse et se disputa avec Joe. Elle quitta la réception et le photographe Sam Shaw la raccompagna.

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Marilyn Monroe et Joe DiMaggio
se promène sur une plage de Floride, le 28 mars 1961.

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Marilyn Monroe et Joe DiMaggio
à Redington Beach en Floride, le 22 mars 1961.

>> Marilyn en maillot de bain avec Joe
 

>> Marilyn en veste et pantalon avec Joe

 
   

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>> Marilyn en short, fuit les paparazzis

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L'ancien éditeur George Sweers apporta de la couleur aux pages du "the St. Petersburg Times".

article publié sur tampabay.com
le 3 septembre 2010

George Sweers rencontra Marilyn Monroe en Corée où elle se produisait sur scène pour soutenir les troupes et où il travaillait pour l'agence AP. En 1961, Mr. Sweers a eu le tuyau que Marilyn Monroe et son ex-mari Joe DiMaggio logeaient au Redington Beach. Sweers se présenta et Marilyn se souvint de lui. Le couple le laisse prendre cette photo.

ST. PETERSBURG — George Sweers was a risk taker who lived to tell the world about his adventures.

The former Associated Press and St. Petersburg Times photographer and editor ducked rocks and bullets in Japanese riots. He glided down the Mekong River in Vietnam with an American regiment. He buzzed military bases in Florida in a rented plane to see how closely they were being guarded.

No one seemed to notice the plane, and his photos embarrassed generals.

In a long and ground-breaking career, Mr. Sweers also aimed his lens at simmering East-West tensions along the Berlin Wall; anxious preparations at Guantanamo Naval Base during the Cuban Missile Crisis; and hundreds of Cuban citizens fleeing that country in 1965.

His peers acknowledged the superior work with numerous awards. In 1969, the National Press Photographers Association named Mr. Sweers its editor of the year.

But his greatest risks and accomplishments might have come within the walls of the Times, where Mr. Sweers helped incorporate regular color into the newspaper at a time when many in the industry thought that feat was impossible.

Mr. Sweers, a 33-year employee and director of news illustration for the Times, died Aug. 27 of multiple illnesses, including cancer. He was 82.

"George was an excellent photographer who also was able to manage photo staffs and develop a photo system that helped the St. Petersburg Times become a leader in the world of color in newspapers," said Hal Buell, the retired head of the Associated Press photo service.

Before he came to the Times in 1959, Mr. Sweers was the AP's photo editor for Asia. He liked a good party — and a good martini — at the Toyko press club.

In 1959, Donald Baldwin, a former AP colleague in Tokyo and then-managing editor of the Times, hired Mr. Sweers as a photo editor. It was more than a matter of playing traffic cop to a few photographers. The paper, led by editor Nelson Poynter, wanted to break out of black-and-white pages all day, every day.

"Life was in color. Television was in color," said former managing editor Mike Foley, who now teaches journalism at the University of Florida. "And so the paper should be in color."

But how? Decades before the digital revolution, it took skill, patience and time to get color onto a page.

"There were naysayers all around," said Jack Belich, a former Times editor. "There was resistance in the newsroom and on the production side."

The paper shelled out more than $1 million for new equipment, and the Times overtook the Milwaukee Journal and the Miami News as the standard setter for color photography and graphics in newspapers.

"We were the talk of the country," Belich said. "It literally took years for the other papers to catch up."

Because no one else was supplying the kind of color photographs he wanted for the Vietnam War, Mr. Sweers decided to go to Vietnam himself. He spent a year with the Army's 231st Transportation Company and filed lengthy dispatches about what he saw.

Back home, as director of news illustration, Mr. Sweers managed art and photography, reporting to Poynter and then to his successor, Eugene Patterson. During the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1972, when Patterson ordered front-page color photos in the next day's paper, Mr. Sweers hopped on the back of a motorcycle, gripping the driver's waist as he zipped between traffic to a chartered plane at Miami International Airport.

He helped process and edit the film in a makeshift, in-flight darkroom, then returned to Miami Beach before dawn with hundreds of fresh newspapers for convention guests.

"He remained calm in the face of incredible news," Foley said.

Mr. Sweers was born and brought up in Kansas City, Kan. He got a job out of high school as a wire photo operator for the AP. He worked his way up to photographer and volunteered to cover the Korean War when it broke out in 1950.

His first marriage, to the former Ruth Bean, lasted 22 years and produced three children. Mr. Sweers had been married to his second wife, Marie, for 33 years.

Though his cancer caused concern, his sudden downturn and death took his family by surprise. The last day of his life, at Palms at Pasadena Hospital, Mr. Sweers announced, "I'll sure be glad to get out of here and get a martini."

Biography
George Edward Sweers
Born: Jan. 25, 1928.
Died: Aug. 27, 2010.
Survivors: wife Marie; sons, Mike and David and his wife, Debbie; daughter Susan Manley and her husband, Mike; stepdaughter Marea Ronshausen; and one granddaughter.
Service: None, according to his wishes.

Marilyn Monroe et Joe DiMaggio, en Mars 1961,
sortent de leur hôtel Tides Motor Inn à St Pete en Floride.

Marilyn Monroe et Joe DiMaggio, en Mars 1961, à Saint Petersburg, une ville de Floride, située entre la baie de Tampa et le Golfe du Mexique. Marilyn a rejoint Joe qui s'occupe de l'entrainement de l'équipe de base-ball les Yankees.

> photographie de Arthur Rickerby
 

Marilyn Monroe et Joe DiMaggio
dans les rues de Floride, Mars 1961.