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New Monroe footage to be auctioned... |
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New Monroe footage to be auctioned
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Film/Movie
Posted 1 year ago by
Queenoftab
 An amateur film of Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot has surfaced in Australia almost 50 years after it was shot and is being put up for auction.Auctioneer Charles Leski said the 2.5min, 8mm film shows Monroe and co-star Tony Curtis on the set ahead of shooting a beach scene in which the actress is bouncing balls to get the actor`s attention. The footage, which also shows director Billy Wilder, was taken in early 1959 by a US naval officer who was invited to the set of the movie after Monroe visited his base in San Diego. The film, in its original Kodak box, was passed on to his daughter who lives in Melbourne, Australia, when he died and she decided to put it up for sale, thinking it may be of some significance to the film world. Mr Leski said: "It`s been a significant part of the family folklore for many decades but it has been sitting in her drawer for about a decade as she didn`t know what to do with it or if it had some broader interest." Earlier this year, a 47-minute amateur film of Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of the 1961 film The Misfits sold in the US for $60,000 (£30,000) after it was put up for sale by the family of an actor who had a small part in the movie. Mr Leski said this latest find was older and likely to attract private and public interest with Some Like It Hot listed by the American Film Institute as the greatest American comedy film of all time. He said: "From a documentary point of view there is still great interest in any Marilyn Monroe image, moving or still, or any recording of her voice, as she has been such an iconic presence in the 20th century. Her influence on fashion, film and comedy and many other areas still continues."
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