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Monroe painting, phone book net $150,000
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-06 10:41
A painting by Marilyn Monroe was auctioned off with her personal phone book
with numbers for Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny and scores of other celebrities for
more than $150,000.
A painting of a red rose by actress Marilyn
Monroe, left, meant to be a birthday gift for President John F. Kennedy
and dated June 1, 1962, and a program from Kennedy's birthday celebration
that took place on May 19, 1962, where Monroe sang her famous rendition of
'Happy Birthday,' are displayed at Barclay Butera Tuesday, May 31, 2005,
in Los Angeles, in preparation for the Marilyn Monroe Estate Auction to be
held live and online on June 4th. Monroe died before she was able to give
the painting to Kennedy. [AP] | The 1962 painting
by the actress of a red rose was initially inscribed to President Kennedy, but
she never gave it to him, said Darren Julien, president and chief executive of
Julien's Auctions, which organized Saturday's auction of Monroe memorabilia.
She later wrote a second inscription over the first: "Happy Birthday Marilyn
Monroe."
Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New
York subway grating while in character for the filming of 'The Seven Year
Itch' in Manhattan on September 9, 1954.
[AP] | The small, brown leather phone book contains hundreds of typed numbers and
addresses for everyone from her dry cleaner and doctor to famous friends such as
Peter Lawford, Henry Fonda, Desi Arnaz and Jean Kennedy Smith, as well as
ex-husbands Joe Dimaggio and Arthur Miller. Five phone numbers are listed for
Sinatra.
Her estate sold the phone book for $90,000 to GoldenPalace.com, Julien said.
The painting went for $78,000 to collector David Davis, who runs an art gallery
in Rhode Island.
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