'Hot' Monroe footage under hammer
Amateur film footage featuring Marilyn Monroe on the set of the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot is being put up for auction in Australia.
The two-and-a-half minute 8mm colour film was taken by a US naval officer who was invited to the movie set after Monroe visited his base in San Diego.
Still in its original Kodak box, the film was passed on to his daughter who lives in Melbourne, Australia.
The footage features Monroe, co-star Tony Curtis and director Billy Wilder.
"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," Auctioneer Charles Leski told Reuters.
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The two-and-a-half minute 8mm colour film was taken by a US naval officer who was invited to the movie set after Monroe visited his base in San Diego.
Still in its original Kodak box, the film was passed on to his daughter who lives in Melbourne, Australia.
The footage features Monroe, co-star Tony Curtis and director Billy Wilder.
"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," Auctioneer Charles Leski told Reuters.