While ogling photographs of the beautiful, talented, always mesmerizing Marilyn Monroe sits high on our "things we love to do" list, we also enjoy a good shot of Monroe before the name and hair color changes. And apparently so does the rest of the world. A rare high school photo of a brunette Norma Jeane Baker at age 15 will be sold by a private collector at auction by Bonhams , and the auctioneer expects the black and white image to sell for $9,000, according to Pacific Coast News. In a "Where's Marilyn" moment, the smiling teen is shown among fellow students at L.A.'s Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in the summer of 1941. What makes the photo extra special is the inscription on the back, written by Baker to her friend Georgie: "To 'Georgie'. A super, swell fellow, in fact really keen! (I really mean it Geo.) Norma Jeane Baker." Lucy Carr, a specialist in entertainment memorabilia at Bonhams, told PCN, "Marilyn had a famously ...

Class photograph was taken at Ralph Wardo Emerson Junior High School in 1941 when Norma Jeane was just 15 Auctioneer Bonhams expect photo, which the future actress inscribed on the back, to sell for $9,000 (5,900) in May By Harriet Arkell PUBLISHED: 09:52 EST, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 13:45 EST, 23 April 2013 With her mouse-brown curls and shy grin, the pretty girl in the seventh row of the black and white school photo bears little resemblance to the pouting blonde bombshell she would become. But she does have a glint in her eye that suggests she knew she was heading for greater things. In 1941, when the class photograph was taken, the future Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jeane Baker; just another pupil at Ralph Wardo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles. Can you spot her? Norma Jeane Baker appears in this 1941 Ralph Wardo Emerson Junior High School class photograph. The 15-year-old was just a shy brunette at the Los Angeles school. She would go onm to become Marilyn Monroe - the mo...

Screen siren Marilyn Monroe has been named as having the best celebrity curves of all time, beating modern pin ups such as Kelly Brook, Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian. More than 50 years after her death, the Hollywood star has topped a poll of men and women, with four out of ten (40.8%) people voting Monroe's body to be the best. And the survey showed that old school glamour rules as Monroe is joined in the top five by actresses Raquel Welch (24%), Sophia Loren (23.30%) and Jayne Mansfield (18.40%). Model Kelly Brook is the only current household name to make the top five, with a quarter (25.8%) of the votes putting her in second place. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian trails behind with just 7% while actress Christina Hendricks has 5%. The poll of more than 2,000 men and women across the UK found that curves are favoured by six out of 10 people, with men finding women's bottoms (35.9%) the most attractive curve, followed by their busts (24.5%) and waist (17.7%). Meanwhil...

Monroe also beat Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian Four out of ten people voting Monroes body as the best By Stephanie Condron PUBLISHED: 16:31 EST, 20 April 2013 | UPDATED: 01:54 EST, 22 April 2013 Modern celebrities are all too ready to show as much flesh as possible but the relatively demure Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe has topped a poll for the best celebrity curves of all time. She beat British model Kelly Brook, Christina Hendricks of TV hit Mad Men and US reality star Kim Kardashian, with four out of ten people voting Monroes body as the best. Brook came second, but old-school glamour rules as Monroe, who died more than 50 years ago, came out on top. Glamorous: The relatively demure Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe, left, has topped a poll for the best celebrity curves of all time. She beat British model Kelly Brook, right, who came second She was joined in the top five by Raquel Welch, now 72, in third place, Sophia Loren, 78, fourth, and Jayne Mansfield, who died in...

Screen siren Marilyn Monroe has been named as having the best celebrity curves of all time, beating modern pin ups such as Kelly Brook, Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian. More than 50 years after her death, the Hollywood star has topped a poll of men and women, with four out of ten (40.8%) people voting Monroe's body to be the best. And the survey showed that old school glamour rules as Monroe is joined in the top five by actresses Raquel Welch (24%), Sophia Loren (23.30%) and Jayne Mansfield (18.40%). Model Kelly Brook is the only current household name to make the top five, with a quarter (25.8%) of the votes putting her in second place. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian trails behind with just 7% while actress Christina Hendricks has 5%. The poll of more than 2,000 men and women across the UK found that curves are favoured by six out of 10 people, with men finding women's bottoms (35.9%) the most attractive curve, followed by their busts (24.5%) and waist (17.7%). Meanwhil...

London, April 21 ( ANI ): Marilyn Monroe has been named as the most attractive curvy celebrity of all time. The screen siren, who beat modern models like Kelly Brook , Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian , topped a poll more than 50 years after her death, with four out of ten voting for her, the Daily Star reported. The Hollywood star was joined in the top five by actresses Raquel Welch , Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield. Meanwhile, 33-year-old Brook is the only current celeb to make the top five. Reality TV star Kardashian received just 7 percent of votes, while actress Hendricks got 5 percent. The study marked the launch of the "curvaceous" 'Peugeot RCZ Sports Coupe.' The car's designer Boris Reinmoller said told the publication that the appeal of the curve and old-school Hollywood glamour will never go out of fashion. Reinmoller said that there is no one to match the curvaceous wonder of late actress Monroe. (ANI)

Screen siren Marilyn Monroe has been named as having the best celebrity curves of all time, beating modern pin ups such as Kelly Brook, Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian. More than 50 years after her death, the Hollywood star has topped a poll of men and women, with four out of ten (40.8%) people voting Monroe's body to be the best. And the survey showed that old school glamour rules as Monroe (above) is joined in the top five by actresses Raquel Welch (24%), Sophia Loren (23.30%) and Jayne Mansfield (18.40%). Model Kelly Brook is the only current household name to make the top five, with a quarter (25.8%) of the votes putting her in second place. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian trails behind with just 7% while actress Christina Hendricks has 5%. The poll of more than 2,000 men and women across the UK found that curves are favoured by six out of 10 people, with men finding women's bottoms (35.9%) the most attractive curve, followed by their busts (24.5%) and waist (17.7%). ...

A man of many muses, photographer Bert Stern shot Marilyn Monroe, made vodka sexy and shocked Middle America with his Lolita movie poster of 15 year old actress Sue Lyon with red lollipop and heart-shaped sun glasses. But when Sterns marriage to ballerina Allegra Kent fell apart in the early 70s, the self-taught wunderkind, hopped up on amphetamines, suffered a personal meltdown, became briefly institutionalized and quit working. Opening in April in New York, Bert Stern: Original Mad Man , directed by Shannah Laumeister in her feature-length debut, documents the overlap between visionary professional work and messy personal life in gripping detail. "Bert is the most interesting person Ive ever met," says Laumeister, who first modeled for Stern when she was 13 and now lives with him in Sag Harbor part of the year when shes not residing in Los Angeles. "His life has a perfect three-act structure: poor kid growing up in Brooklyn during the depression, becoming famous at ag...

Dubai: A coffee shop named after Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe in a Saudi city was shut down and its owner asked to change its name following a successful online campaign by the residents. Saudis in Al Jouf in northern Saudi Arabia said that they did not want a shop carrying the name of the actress in their city and pressed their demands in a campaign to call for its boycott. The anti-shop drive was launched on microblogs and social networks and bloggers criticised the management of the mall where the coffee shop was located for approving the name. However, the campaign did not specify the reasons for refusing the Marilyn Monroe name, particularly as Saudi Arabia is home to several shops carrying the names of famous US and other Western entertainment figures. In November, US celebrity and hotel heiress Paris Hilton expanded her handbags and accessories franchise to the holy city of Makkah, opening her fifth store in the Saudi kingdom. The campaign this week convinced the mall managem...

Dubai, Apr. 11 ( ANI ): A coffee shop named after Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe in a Saudi city was shut down and its owner asked to change its name following a successful online campaign by the residents. Residents of Al Jouf in northern Saudi Arabia said they did not want a shop carrying the name of the actress in their city and pressed their demands in a campaign to call for its boycott. The campaign was launched on microblogs and social networks and bloggers criticised the management of the mall where the coffee shop was located for approving the name, reports Gulf News. The campaign, however, did not specify the reasons for refusing the name, particularly as Saudi Arabia is home to several shops carrying the names of famous US and other Western entertainment figures. Meflah Al Klaid, the Jawf Plaza Mall manager, said they had to seal off the coffee shop after they were "surprised" by its name. The entrepreneur, who rented the shop, did not brief them on the name,...

Dubai: A coffee shop named after Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe in a Saudi city was shut down and its owner asked to change its name following a successful online campaign by the residents. Saudis in Al Jouf in northern Saudi Arabia said that they did not want a shop carrying the name of the actress in their city and pressed their demands in a campaign to call for its boycott. The anti-shop drive was launched on microblogs and social networks and bloggers criticised the management of the mall where the coffee shop was located for approving the name. However, the campaign did not specify the reasons for refusing the Marilyn Monroe name, particularly as Saudi Arabia is home to several shops carrying the names of famous US and other Western entertainment figures. In November, US celebrity and hotel heiress Paris Hilton expanded her handbags and accessories franchise to the holy city of Makkah, opening her fifth store in the Saudi kingdom. The campaign this week convinced the mall managem...

By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:28 EST, 6 April 2013 | UPDATED: 23:29 EST, 6 April 2013 One of the largest collections of old Hollywood photographs has been gone up for auction this week. Guernsey's auction house in New York is holding a two day sale from April 6-7 to sell the Movie Star News Collection of three million photographs and negatives that capture the history of Tinseltown. The pictures were captured by Irving Klaw, a Manhattan photographer who was the first to tap into the public's insatiable demand for movie photographing. Mr Klaw, a candy shop owner by trade, branched into the photography business in 1939 and negotiated a deal with movie studios to capture scenes of famous faces on movie sets. He captured the most celebrated figures from old Hollywood including Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Paul Newman. The collection of pictures of Marilyn Monroe includes more than 600 photographs of the screen siren. Some...