Marilyn Monroe aficionados are flocking to a Warsaw auction house to see pictures of the American blonde bombshell and other Hollywood stars snapped by acclaimed celebrity photographer Milton Greene. Juliusz Windorbski, who heads the Dom Aukcyjny Desa Unicum auction house in the Polish capital, said a total of 240 photos were up for bid on November 8, making it the largest ever sale of Greene's photos. "Until now, Greene's photos were sold one by one or in lots of no more than a few, but never so many at once," Windorbski said. The sale will also be Poland's biggest ever art auction, he added. In the black-and-white pictures, Monroe is captured dressed in jeans, fixing her lipstick and hair, eating a meal and coyly chatting on the phone. Such images will have a fixed minimum price ranging from 120-3,300 euros ($156-3,498). "Prices will certainly spike on auction day, but I hope I'll be able to buy my favourite photo, one with Marilyn Monroe holding a cup ...

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 21:40 EST, 30 October 2012 | UPDATED: 22:04 EST, 30 October 2012 Long before todays paparazzi chased images of starlets, the Magnum photo agency snapped images of future Hollywood legends going about their daily routines. Marilyn Monroe tidies up and Paul Newman has a shave in the classic black and white images released from the Magnum archive. Beauty: Marilyn Monroe tidies up after dinner while shooting the Misfits in 1960 The Hustler: Jane Woodward watches her husband Paul Newman shave in 1963 Far from modern tabloid images of stars shot from afar as they leave the grocery store, the Magnum images are intimate portraits of the stars far from the film set. Images from the Magnum span almost two decades, covering the mid-1950s to the 1970s as film and art evolved with the turbulent culture. James Dean playing with his young cousin, actress Julie Christie decorating her London flat, and Ann Landers in a bathtub surrounded by copy are all in the archi...

October 27, 2012 9:52 AM Douglas Kirkland had the rare honor of photographing Marilyn Monroe one evening in 1961. He's turned his experience and intimate images into a book, which he discusses with Rebecca Jarvis and Anthony Mason.

Small Text Medium Text Large Text REUTERS/The Estate of John Vachon/Dover Publications, Inc/Handout RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - A Marilyn Monroe biographer will speak at the Rancho Mirage Public Library tonight. Lois Banner, a feminist historian and professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California, will appear as part of the library's "Meet the Author'' series at 7 p.m., library spokeswoman Susan Cook said. Banner published a biography of Monroe, "Marilyn: The Passion and Paradox'' in July. Monroe died 50 years ago last August at age 36. "Dr. Lois Banner brings a scholar's unique and fresh perspective to Miss Monroe, utilizing ignored and previously undiscovered materials. The result is what Booklist ! calls `a profoundly redefining bombshell biography' of this troubled but incredibly talented actress,'' Cook said. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Seating is first-come, first...

October 27, 2012 9:52 AM Douglas Kirkland had the rare honor of photographing Marilyn Monroe one evening in 1961. He's turned his experience and intimate images into a book, which he discusses with Rebecca Jarvis and Anthony Mason.

Rare Marilyn Monroe photographs immortalising the American blonde bombshell will be auctioned November 8 in Warsaw, an auction house in the Polish capital announced Wednesday. Poland's state treasury obtained the candid shots of Monroe -- taken by a friend, Milton Green -- in a collection of nearly 4,000 photographs it received as part of a 1995 foreign debt settlement. Monroe is snapped dressed in jeans fixing her lipstick and hair, eating a meal and coyly chatting on the phone in several photos. The "Some Like It Hot" actress died on August 5, 1962 from a barbiturate overdose at her Los Angeles home. The Dom Aukcyjny Desa Unicum auction house is placing a total of 240 photographs on offer in the November bidding, which will have a fixed minimum of 72 euros ($93) per photo. A woman walks past photos of Marylin Monroe by late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene at an exhibition in Warsaw in August 2012. The collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe was obtained by t...

The Americana at Brand is a favorite stopover for the shoppers amongst us, but it's also about to be a destination for art aficionados: This week, the outdoor mall will feature a photography exhibit from the Duncan Miller Gallery called "American Icons," with photos of legendary artists, musicians and sports legends. It runs from October 25 to October 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. (so...mall hours), and is open to the public. We got a sneak preview of some of the images.

Rare Marilyn Monroe photographs immortalising the American blonde bombshell will be auctioned November 8 in Warsaw, an auction house in the Polish capital announced Wednesday. Poland's state treasury obtained the candid shots of Monroe -- taken by a friend, Milton Green -- in a collection of nearly 4,000 photographs it received as part of a 1995 foreign debt settlement. Monroe is snapped dressed in jeans fixing her lipstick and hair, eating a meal and coyly chatting on the phone in several photos. The "Some Like It Hot" actress died on August 5, 1962 from a barbiturate overdose at her Los Angeles home. The Dom Aukcyjny Desa Unicum auction house is placing a total of 240 photographs on offer in the November bidding, which will have a fixed minimum of 72 euros ($93) per photo. A woman walks past photos of Marylin Monroe by late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene at an exhibition in Warsaw in August 2012. The collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe was obtained by t...

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:34 EST, 21 October 2012 | UPDATED: 03:30 EST, 22 October 2012 Photographer Tim Mantoani has turned the artist into the subject in a collection of pictures that feature famous shutterbugs displaying their most famous pieces. Mantoani included all genres from paparazzi, to fashion and nature photographers to Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalists to portraitists in his book, Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. The book reveals the faces who captured some of history's most memorable images like the wind blown hair of Jackie Onassis in a 1971 street shot, the chilling sight of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11 and Muhammad Ali's victorious fist in his momentous win over Sonny Liston in 1965. Scroll down for video. Iconic: Ron Galella captured this candid and stunning shot of Jackie O in 1971 in New York. 'This was my lucky day!' the photographer said, calling the picture 'offguard, spontaneous, unrele...

London, October 21 ( ANI ): Marilyn Monroe , who's 26ft high bronze and stainless steel statue is drawing thousands of fans to the nearby resort of Palm Springs , has been turned down by Hollywood 50 years after her death. Hollywood authorities felt the 48,000-pound fee for renting the 15-ton sculpture for one year would not attract enough tourists to be "cost effective". Now 34 other US cities are vying to hire the towering tribute to the screen icon, based on her dress-billowing pose from the 1955 film 'The Seven Year Itch'. "Hollywood's loss is the rest of America's gain. People are lining up to have their photos taken with the statue," the Daily Express quoted Palm Springs tourism chief Hillary Angel as saying. (ANI)

Marilyn Monroe has been dead for more than 50 years, but her image lives on and her estate made $27 million last year, according to Forbes which placed her at number 3 on its Dead Celebrities Rich List in 2011, right behind Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. AP Marilyns continued success is no fluke the screen legend was a savvy businesswoman in her own right, according to Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus. Her new documentary Love, Marilyn which is screening at the BFI London Film Festival is based on two boxes of newly found documents that Marilyn Monroe left to her acting coach Lee Strasberg. Love Marilyn crafts a picture of Marilyn Monroe as a woman in control of her image. You dont create a figure that is that enduring if you are stupid she was a very well crafted In the movie we show a lot of her press conferences and you see the way that she talks to the press she is so clever and she handles the press so well. They all try to ask her these little zingers and she d...

LONDON (Reuters) - From Charlie Chaplin to Marilyn Monroe , more than 130 silver screen costumes covering a century of cinema are on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in an exhibition that celebrates the role of the designer in film-making. "Hollywood Costume", which opens on October 20 and runs until January 27, offers a chance to see many of the most famous movie get-ups on public display for the first time. "This is the first exhibition on this scope and scale", Keith Lodwick , one of the exhibition's curators told Reuters in an interview at the show's preview. "We really wanted to raise the profile of the costume designer", he said, explaining that their job "is not all about the glamorous clothing". Instead the costume "has to fit exactly with the concept of what the director would like to do". The exhibition presents some of the most memorable syntheses of costume and character, including Audrey Hepburn...

In 1952, Marilyn Monroe gave an interview to the now-defunct Pageant magazine . To the gimlet eye of a serious journalist (not mine), it probably leaned too heavily on pictorials and subsections entitled "How to Feel Blonde All Over." But it did have something interesting to report: Marilyn Monroe's daily diet. "I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre," she confessed, right next to a picture of her dancing on an ottoman while wearing a Hawaiian shirt. "But I don't think so." So, what were these famous habits? For breakfast, she would have two raw eggs whipped in warm milk: "I doubt any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry." She would skip lunch, and then for dinner, she would broil liver, steak, or lamb and eat it with five carrots: "I must be part rabbit." And then she would have a hot-fudge sundae for dessert. Does this sound "bizarre"? Maybe it is. But af...

Marilyn Monroe has been dead for more than 50 years, but her image lives on and her estate made $27 million last year, according to Forbes which placed her at number 3 on its Dead Celebrities Rich List in 2011, right behind Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. AP Marilyns continued success is no fluke the screen legend was a savvy businesswoman in her own right, according to Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus. Her new documentary Love, Marilyn which is screening at the BFI London Film Festival is based on two boxes of newly found documents that Marilyn Monroe left to her acting coach Lee Strasberg. Love Marilyn crafts a picture of Marilyn Monroe as a woman in control of her image. You dont create a figure that is that enduring if you are stupid she was a very well crafted In the movie we show a lot of her press conferences and you see the way that she talks to the press she is so clever and she handles the press so well. They all try to ask her these little zingers and she d...