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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Marilyn Monroe's Hollywood

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

There seems to be no end to rare and unpublished photographs of Marilyn Monroe.  Here we go ... again.

Fifty years after her death, rare, unpublished photographs of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe have been put on display at a gallery in Warsaw.

Marilyn Monroe is still a style icon, even half a century after her untimely death
Marilyn Monroe is still a style icon, even half a century after her untimely death

The collection of 3,780 photographs by Milton H. Greene, which had been stored for over a decade, was transferred to the Polish government in 1995 as part of a settlement in an embezzlement case involving a US businessman.

The exhibition titled 'Marilyn Monroe's Hollywood' shows only 60 photographs, taking up a few rooms of the Association's gallery in Warsaw's old town, and will be on display until the whole collection is sold at an open auction.

'This exhibition is the result of amazing different coincidences. Sometimes they were difficult, but they led Marilyn Monroe to Poland, so for us it's a happy end.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2184790/Rare-unpublished-photographs-Marilyn-Monroe-display-Warsaw-fifty-years-death.html#ixzz22ugdAQyJ

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