On July 15, 16 and 17 in Beverly Hills, Julien’s Auctions puts up for sale more than 1,400 lots of memorabilia from different movie legends, from jewelry, dresses, photographs, handwritten notes, archives and other relics of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, among other legends of the seventh art.
The auctions will not come close to the $4.8 million that was paid in 2016 for the champagne-colored dress made in Hollywood by Jean Louis with which Marilyn congratulated President Kennedy on his 45th anniversary on May 19, 1962 and that Kim Kardashian just ruined by trying to cram it into her lush anatomy.
A bra that the actress wore
Nor will they reach the 4.6 million in which the dress that the actress wore in Temptation lives above (1955). For between $75,000 and $95,000 you can get the sequined black satin suit designed by William Travilla that he wore in 1953 at Gentlemen prefer blondes and of the same price is the sexy outfit with which she seduced the audience in the musical number of footlight lights.
This year the iconic blonde would have turned 96 and that is why the auctioneers celebrate this anniversary by making her the main protagonist of their auction by also offering her pale pink silk blouse that she wore in The Billionaire in 1960, when he was partner of Yves Montand.
Some shoes used by the actress that are auctioned these days
You will also be able to bid on a 19th-century-style bodice from a Jack Cardiff photo shoot in 1956, financial and tax documents, dated between 1957 and 1960, during her marriage to Arthur Miller, as well as an ivory-handled umbrella used in a photographic day of 1949 and negatives of snapshots prior to 1953 valued between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars.
However, and without denying Marilyn’s leading role in this auction, there are other outstanding presences that are looking for buyers such as Draco Malfoy’s 2001 Nimbus broom and Voldemort’s magic wand from one of the films that started the popular Harry Potter saga, the hammer used by Chris Hemsworth in Thor, a dark world, the shield of Captain America…
A bra worn by Monroe and marked with her name
The list continues with a Givenchy two-piece set worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast with diamondsJules Winnfield’s wallet in Pulp Fiction, one of the six helmets that were used during the filming of Star Wars in Tunisia and that was restored by Gino Sabatino, as well as a sequined jumpsuit that belonged to Elvis Presley and the original scripts for the films The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) and A Dangerous Romance (Steven Soderbergh, 1998).
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Costume jewelry objects have also been put up for sale, at very affordable prices so that they can be acquired by collectors without great economic resources used in different films starring Marilyn, Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland and Olivia de Havilland, among other stars of the era. Hollywood gold.
A series of negatives portraying Marilyn Monroe at an unspecified date before 1953 and now going up for auction
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