Marilyn Monroe's Annotated Scripts, Bank Book, and Recipe for Stuffing to Auction

Never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe, her annotated scripts, and her handwritten recipes are among items going under the hammer at Julien's Auctions' June 4 sale.

As well as many items featuring Monroe's own handwriting, there will be a number of lots directly from her Estate comprising items she personally owned, touched, and used, including pieces from her last residence in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
 
Leading the sale is an annotated script from her last unfinished film, Something’s Got to Give (estimate: $5,000-$7,000) marked “Final/Confidential/For Planning Purposes Only” and dated March 29, 1962. It includes extensive notes penciled in Marilyn's hand, with her character's name 'Ellen' circled throughout in orange wax pencil, and additionally there are a number of penciled notes throughout in her acting coach Paula Strasberg's hand.

Other highlights include:

• an early 1949 signed contract from the William Morris Agency (estimate: $4,000-$6,000)
• Monroe's c. 1954 handwritten recipe for stuffing (estimate: $2,000-$3,000) on a single sheet of memo paper from 'City Title Insurance Company', entirely penciled on both sides by her as she outlines ingredients and instructions for what looks like a traditional stuffing/dressing for a "chicken or turkey / ...or phesant [sic]", the first note in the upper left corner reading "No Garlic"
• a 1961 bank book from City National Bank of Beverly Hills with a single blue ballpoint ink annotation reading “Marilyn Monroe / Dep 40,000.00” next to a black ink date stamp of “Nov 17 ’61” (estimate $100-$200)
• a 1951 lightly annotated script from Clash by Night (estimate: $2,000-$3,000), marked “Final Script” with Monroe's ownership signature penciled in the upper right corner of the cover as well as her other brief notes
• a rare 1954 black and white original print photograph of Monroe with her make-up team Allan 'Whitey Snyder and hairdresser Gladys Rasmussen on the set of The Seven Year Itch (estimate: $300-$500)
• Monroe's 1951 handwritten notes on acting (estimate: $2,000-$3,000), a single lined page removed from a datebook, with “notes to self” outlining acting methods and exercises, reading in part “I can never say it with my voice / if I don't say it with my body / always go back to moans / and groans - hums, grunts / all those animal sounds / which the only way we / can do it is naturally"
• A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee (Oxford University Press, New York/London, 1947) listed on the official 1962 inventory of Monroe's Estate (estimate: $200-$300)