Marilyn Monroe's never seen before photographs exhibited in New York

Several never seen before photographs of Marilyn Monroe, are being featured in a new exhibit devoted to the legendary actress.

The exhibition titled ‘Picturing Marilyn’, opened on Thursday at the Milk Gallery in New York and is set to run through the weekend.

According to the organisers, it spans Monroe’s life in front of the camera lens, starting with her teenage years, when she was photographed on the beach by Andre De Dienes,

It was timed to coincide with the release of the film ‘My Week with Marilyn,’ which stars Michelle Williams as Monroe.

The exhibit is made up of more than 60 images of the actress, shot by some of the most famous photographers, including her photo shoot with Philippe Halsman for the Life magazine cover when she was 26 years old.

Co-organiser Bert Stern’s photograph of Monroe in a black Dior dress shot for Vogue magazine is the centrepiece of the show.

He also shot Monroe’s final portraits, a series known as “The Last Sitting,” in 1962.

In total Stern shot more than 2,500 images of Monroe, but has released only a few for public viewing.

Among other previously unseen images is a De Dienes shot taken of Monroe when she was 23 in a rare moment, where she was without make-up, the Telegraph reported.

Another picture from 1954, by Bruno Bernard, shows Monroe casually stretched out across rows of movie theatre seats and dressed in head-to-toe white.

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Marilyn Monroe's 49th death anniversary

Yesterday, marked the 49th death anniversary of Marilyn Monroe, a model, actress and singer, who has an everlasting room in the mind of millions of movie lovers around the world. The magnificent artiste ended too early on August 5, 1962.

However, the earlier life of Marilyn Monroe was not as splendid as her artistic career. The great artiste was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angles, California.

She never knew her father, and her mother Gladys, developed psychiatric problems and was eventually placed in a mental institution. Therefore, Monroe spent much of her time in foster care and in an orphanage.

In search of self dependency, Monroe went to work in a munitions factory where she was discovered by Army photographer David Conover. Her life was about to change when David encouraged her to apply to The Blue Book Modeling Agency. Eventually she became as one of the most renowned models of that agency.

Her successful modeling brought her close to Hollywood. But she only got a minor role of role as a telephone operator in her debut film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim.

The break through in Monroe’s career came in 1948, when she signed a six-month contract with Columbia Pictures, where she would act in movies like Ladies of the Chorus, The Asphalt Jungle and Love Happy. These movies were not so successful in terms of box office gains but they gave her the chance to sing a one year contact with 20th Century Fox.

The career of Monero was in full swing and in next few years she offered her fans some block buster films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, River of No Return, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Let’s Make Love, There’s No Business like Show Business and many more.

Marilyn Monroe did not confined herself in modeling and acting only; as a singer, she rendered some timeless songs Every Baby Needs a Da-Da-Daddy, Ladies Of The Chorus, Kiss, Bye Bye Baby and many more.


Monroe’s career was glorious four time photography award, Henrietta Award, David di Donatello and many more. Moreover, she got Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination for once each.

The great artiste left her millions of her fans behind, when at the age of only 36, she was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. The cause of her death is still a mystery though what is absolute is her ever lasting legacy.

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Marilyn Monroe subway dress sells for $4.6m

Marilyn Monroe's subway dress from The Seven Year Itch fetched $4.6 million (£2.8 million) at an auction of Hollywood costumes that took place over the weekend.

Considered one of the most recognisable costumes in movie history, the iconic ivory gown far exceeded sales expectations, according to Reuters. The dress was originally estimated to sell for only $1 million to $2 million (£618,000 to £1.2 million).

Monroe wore the dress in a scene in the 1955 movie in which the actress stands above a subway grate as a passing train raises it around her head.

The auction was held by actress Debbie Reynolds, who began collecting movie costumes in earnest in 1970. Reynolds planned to display the outfits in a museum, but was eventually forced to sell them in order to pay back creditors.

"Now everyone has the opportunity to own them," Reynolds said.

Other costumes that were sold included Monroe's red-sequinned dress from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Audrey Hepburn's Ascot dress from My Fair Lady, Judy Garland's blue cotton dress from The Wizard of Oz and Mike Myers's orange suit from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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Megan Fox removing her Marilyn Monroe tattoo

Actress Megan Fox is removing her Marilyn Monroe tattoo, which is inked on her right forearm.

"I really admire Marilyn Monroe, but I would never try to emulate her. I got the tattoo as a warning. It warns me not to let myself be treated so badly by the film industry so that it breaks me down," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Monroe as saying.

At a recent party, the 24-year-old showed off her arm and some of the tattoo has disappeared already and all of it seemed a lot lighter than normal.

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Marilyn Monroe's letter fetches USD 52460 in auction

The reign of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe still persists and this was proved once again as hand-written letter of the yesteryear actor fetched USD 52,460 in an auction conducted recently.

The letter was written by a newly married Monroe in the year 1942 to her foster mother Grace Goddard and narrated her life as a married woman.

The newly-married 16-year-old Monroe described that how her husband James Dougherty used to keep her busy with the regular house hold chores, but pampered her a lot as well.

The envelope of the eight-page letter with ‘Norma’ signed on it had a postage stamp which mentioned that the letter was sent by Monroe from Van Nuys area of California.

Monroe had later married Joe DiMaggio and renowned author Arthur Miller.

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Naomi Watts"playing Marilyn Monroe in biopic"

Naomi Watts has revealed that she's extremely scared about playing Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic.

The actress is set to play the iconic screen siren in an adaptation of Andrew Dominik''s ''Blonde'' and she admitted the nerves about the part are getting to her.

"It''s a huge pressure. We all feel we know her. I''m very, very scared about that," Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

Watts is not the only star to be portraying Marilyn in a movie about her life - Michelle Williams is also set to play her in ''My Week With Marilyn''.

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Marilyn Monroe's chest x-ray on sale

Fans of the late actress Marilyn Monroe will be able to bid for an intimate snap of the Hollywood icon at an upcoming auction - an X-ray of the star's chest is set to go under the hammer.
The medical photograph was taken at a Florida hospital in 1954 when the actress was being treated for womb condition endometriosis, reports contactmusic.

Other items that are on sale are Monroe's couch used during therapy sessions.

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Unseen Marilyn Monroe pics to be auctioned

Never before seen pictures of Marilyn Monroe relaxing on the set of her classic comedy film ‘Some Like It Hot’ are set to go under the hammer in Las Vegas.

The sale of 11 coloured snaps from 1959 will take place at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on June 25 this year, organised by US specialist Julien’s Auctions.

"In the slides Marilyn appears to relax between takes on the beach. She is wearing the revealing dress in which her character attempts and succeeds to seduce Curtis’s character," The Telegraph quoted Boss Darren Julien as saying.

Other items to be auctioned at the two-day event include an Italian-style carved chair with green velvet upholstery used for Marilyn’s last ever photo shoot.

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Eternity With Marilyn Monroe: Sold for $4.6M

The L.A. Times and others are reporting that a woman auctioned off a particularly valuable but small piece of California real estate today. Elsie Poncher sold the crypt where her husband is currently interred, which happens to be directly above the final resting place of Marilyn Monroe.
Bidding started at $500,000 and closed today around noon EDT for $4,602,100.

That seems a bit high to us. We could understand paying that much if you wanted to be placed in the same crypt as Marilyn, but above her? There’s probably at least a few inches of metal and concrete separating you and your love goddess. You’d be spending eternity so close yet so far. Pure torture.
Not to mention the fact that Hugh Hefner is supposed to be buried right next to her, which means you’re probably going to have to endure frequent visits from a stream of buxom, platinum blonde, aging centerfold/bad reality show stars.

But you know who really gets the raw deal here? Ms. Poncher’s husband.
Richard F. Poncher was such a fan of Marilyn’s that he went out of his way to secure the crypt above hers (he bought the plot from Joe DiMaggio when he was in the middle of divorcing the diva in 1954). Furthermore, it is said that at his funeral in 1986, a group of his friends waited for everyone to leave and then turned his body over, so that for all eternity he would be lying face down on top of his idol.

Elsie Poncher confirmed the legend in the LA Times today.

“She said that when her husband was dying, he made a request. ‘He said, ’If I croak, if you don’t put me upside down over Marilyn, I’ll haunt you the rest of my life.’ Right after the funeral, Elsie said, she conveyed her husband’s wish to the funeral director. ‘I was standing right there, and he turned him over,’ she said.”

Elsie Poncher decided to sell the crypt to pay off a $1.6 million mortgage on her Beverly Hills home. She’ll move her husband to the crypt next to his current resting place (which he also bought from DiMaggio) and when the time comes she’ll be cremated.

It’s easy to understand why she doesn’t want to be buried with her husband under the circumstances. Not only would she have to play second fiddle to Marilyn, but Richard is bound to be plenty ticked off about being moved and who wants to spend eternity arguing? Although we understand his beef. He paid for eternity. All he got was 23 years.

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