Carey purchased Monroe's white piano at the 1999 Christie's Auction "The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe," Lot 21. The piano is shown here in Carey's New York City apartment.
Marilyn with the piano in her own New York City apartment, 1958.
A Marilyn Monroe letter handwritten to Joe DiMaggio, probably 1962.
A Marilyn Monroe signed 'United States of America Department of Defense' identification card, 1954.
Recently added to The Marilyn Monroe Collection...an invoice for furs and accessories repairs, maintenance and storage, together with a Marilyn Monroe Productions cancelled bank check paying for the bill, signed by Milton Greene. The invoice is an exciting piece of ephemera as it references Marilyn's white fox muff, which is also part of the collection. Other furs inventoried on the invoice include Marilyn's full-length white ermine coat, her ranch mink coat, and a sweater with a sable collar. More information about these newly added pieces can be viewed here.
36 gelatin silver prints (8 hand colored, 4 hand tinted, 9 platinum-toned) and 23 chromogenic prints, printed 1991each signed, dated and numbered sold for almost $150,000 at Christie's New York. These images, taken by Bert Stern, are referred to by many as the 'Last Sitting.'
Though Marilyn Monroe does not sashay in from the wings until two-thirds of the way through the book, her effect is no less explosive. The pair met at a Los Angeles party in 1951 and made an instant and dangerous connection. Returning to New York, Miller 'felt like a man who had escaped the fire'. Elia Kazan recalls receiving letters that were ostensibly about script revisions but that ran 'on in the most rapturous tone about certain feelings he'd been having, awake and asleep, dreams of longing'. In Kazan's estimation, Miller 'didn't read like the constricted man I'd known'.
Their sensational and sudden marriage unravelled almost as soon as it began when the writer realised he would be swamped by the actress's insecurities. 'I wasn't prepared for what I should have been prepared for, which was that she had literally no inner resources,' Miller said later, while Monroe commented that she felt she had let down her new husband - who believed her an 'angel' - by showing the 'ugly' side of herself.
Victor Carranza is designing a much-anticipated new line of clothing in the spirit of our favorite female icon, Marilyn Monroe. Her sense of style is almost as iconic as the name itself.
What can be expected from the designs? Hopefully Carranza will stay true to Marilyn’s body, making his designs accessible to women of all sizes. Envision a line that varies from fashionable everyday wear to evening gowns that you could sing to a president in (when is Obama’s birthday?).
Marilyn Monroe may already be a fashion inspiration to many (Lindsay Lohan's leggings, perhaps?), but now, she's about to have a renaissance: designer Victor Carranza (who created many custom designs for Monroe herself) is launching House of Monroe, a luxury collection inspired by the icon. The brand's licensees have obtained the master license from the Marilyn Monroe estate, and are the only companies with the actual rights to reproduce Monroe's image. In addition to House of Monroe, which will be sold at upscale retailers like Bergdorf Goodman, a contemporary line of jeans and tees called Norma Jeane is being launched, and will be carried at stores like Atrium.
An ad in this magazine channels Marilyn Monroe:
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