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Private and premiere pictures of Marilyn Monroe heading for auction

A treasure trove of Marilyn Monroe photographs taken by Manfred Kreiner are heading to the auction block for the first time.
Photos and negatives from the celebrated photojournalist’s estate will go under the hammer at Julien’s Auctions Legends sale in Beverly Hills later this month (Jun19), and they include shots Kreiner took at the Some Like It Hot premiere and private work with the screen icon.
“Born in Speyer-am-Rhine, Germany in 1929, the late photojournalist who worked as the bureau chief in New York for the Bauer Publishing House in Hamburg, Germany, captured some of the most famous and iconic images of Hollywood’s greatest screen legend and sex symbol during some of her career-defining appearances, as well as her most candid and incandescent moments,” an auction house spokesperson says.
Among the highlights of the sale are a series of black and white negatives of Monroe with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, at the 1959 premiere of the film, and a group of 10 black and white contact sheets of images of the actress taken by Kreiner while Monroe was in Chicago, Illinois promoting the film.
The Kreiner collection also features shots taken of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Venezuela and New York, Muhammad Ali, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda, Sophia Loren, Charles Manson, and Ursula Andress.
In addition, the 700 Legends lots will include items which once belonged to Marlon Brando, John Belushi, Steve McQueen, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Quentin Tarantino, Princess Diana, Johnny Depp, Laurel & Hardy, and Buster Keaton, as well as never-before-seen photographs and negatives from classic movies Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

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