A thank you note from Marilyn Monroe for a bottle of champagne is just one of 586 of her dearest belongings that have recently surfaced. After Marilyn’s tragic 1962, death her manager hid two filing cabinets filled with her dearest possessions. The new Marilyn artifacts were photographed by Mark Anderson and will be revealed in October’s Vanity Fair . Artifacts include bar and hotel receipts, mementos, letters, jewels, Chanel no 5, lots of prescriptions for sedatives and barbiturates, a recording of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs song “Some Day My Prince Will Come”, and her lucky green dice.

The Best Links:

1. Check Out the Marilyn Monroe Photo Archives
2. Read the Article “The Things She Left Behind”
3. A Video Introduction to the Marilyn Archive

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