Marilyn Monroe film footage found in Australia
An amateur film of Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Some Like It Hot” has surfaced in Australia almost 50 years after it was shot and is being put up for auction.
Auctioneer Charles Leski said the 2.5-minute-long, 8mm film shows Monroe and co-star Tony Curtis on the set ahead of shooting a beach scene in which the actress is bouncing balls to get the actor’s attention.
The footage, which also shows director Billy Wilder, was taken in early 1959 by a U.S. naval officer who was invited to the set of the movie after Monroe visited his base in San Diego.
The film, in its original Kodak box, was passed on to his daughter who lives in Melbourne, Australia, when he died and she decided to put it up sale, thinking it may be of some significance to the film world.
“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,” Leski told Reuters.
- from Reuters