Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ Gown Sold for $4.8 Million

November 18, 2016 By publisher

The figure-hugging gown Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade President John F.Kennedy for his 45th birthday smashed its guide price to sell for $4.8 million at auction on Thursday. The flesh-colored dress, adorned with 2,500 hand-stitched crystals, had been expected to fetch between $2-3 million, Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills said. The dress was so tight on Monroe that the legendary actress wore nothing underneath and had to be sewn into it at the last minute before stepping on stage at Madison Square Garden in 1962 to sing to JFK in her trademark sultry voice, according to the auction house.

View post:
Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ Gown Sold for $4.8 Million

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: auction, birthday, fashion, fetch-between, happy-birthday, held-on-january, legendary, luxury-daily, marilyn, marilyn-monroe, milan-fashion, president, president-john, wore-nothing

Trove of Marilyn Monroe’s personal belongings to go up for auction

May 10, 2016 By publisher

A collection of personal items including handwritten notes and jewelry that belonged to film star Marilyn Monroe will go up for auction in November at Julien’s Auctions.     Monroe, one of the most iconic stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age of cinema, left numerous items in her will to her acting mentor, Lee Strasberg. More than 500 lots of Monroe’s belongings will be at auction in Los Angeles on Nov. 19 and 20, and they are expected to fetch between $2 million and $4 million. Julien’s Auctions said the items had never been on the auction block and are being offered for sale by the estate of Strasberg, who taught stars such as James Dean, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Jane Fonda.

Read more from the original source: 
Trove of Marilyn Monroe’s personal belongings to go up for auction

Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: acting, are-expected, auction, estate, fetch-between, marilyn-monroe, personal-items, said-the-items