One of only two known copies of the short course Marilyn Monroe porn filmed before she shot to fame will be auctioned on 7 August in Buenos Aires, with a starting price of $ 500,000, although its developer expects to finish at least twice.
The auction will take place during the first International Fair of Buenos Aires film collection, organizers said the event, which showcased some of the short that was supposedly shot in 1946 or 1947.
The material to be auctioned is the only known copy of the film in 8 mm, said the promoter of the auction, Spanish Mikel Barsa.
The short, black and white and about six minutes long, was held by a Spanish collector who died recently.
Who were heirs to classify its important collection and found this gem was contacted some months ago with Barca, who had already sold the only copy of this film until now had seen the light, shot in 16 mm.
When she know that piece in 1997 sparked a controversy over the veracity of the short, as many put into question the protagonist was really Norma Jean, who later became known as Marilyn Monroe.
At the time the film was shot Norma Jean was not yet 21, so it was a minor in your country.
According to Barca, although there are still those who doubt its authenticity, it was found that the myth of Hollywood's who appears in the film.
To support his argument was the letter that in 1996 he sent the director of the American Film Institute, who pointed out that if she was not, "was his mate." He also referred to the FBI documents in which the film was investigated at the time, plus it was determined that the jewelry looks in the film, in which the alleged Marilyn appears masturbating with a vibrator and having sex with a man, also took in films and photographs of the era.
That first copy in 16 mm was designed in 1997 and sold several times with several magazines, one the Spanish Interviu before it was sold to a private collector in 2001 for $ 1.2 million.
Barsa said it was an American officer who took the films to France, where they remained forgotten for decades in an antique shop in Paris, until the two Spanish collectors, who were friends, "accidentally" bought them along with other films without knowing at that time the value of what they had acquired.
