The Golden Age Of Hollywood

10 Never-Before-Seen Marilyn Monroe Photos Go Up For Auction

They've been hiding in a box for 55 years—until now.

At this point, photos of Marilyn Monroe are so commonplace that having one on your dorm room wall is something of a cliche. But a new auction from Paddle8, titled Platinum Blonde, showcases ten never-before-seen photos from the actress's last professional photoshoot.

Taken by George Barris in 1962, you've probably seen various images from this shoot before—the famous image of Marilyn frolicking on the beach with a sweater and a green blanket, for one—but not these.https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/g11659309/marilyn-monroe-photos-auction/

I can't believe I didn't see this thread; I LOVE Old Hollywood! I'm also starting "You Must Remember This", a podcast about 'secret' or 'forgotten' Hollywood history. Thanks! (also: GO SOX)

Veronica Lake
The Peekaboo Blond starlet of the 1940's
Lake was one of the most famous movie stars of the 1940s during World War II, ranking up there with the likes of Ingrid Bergman and Joan Crawford. Her gimmick for glamour, which became her trademark and a popular national trend, was a "peek-a-boo" hairdo, which had long locks cascading over her right eye. Reportedly, that hairstyle became such a hit during the war, U.S. officials asked her to change it, fearing that hairstyle, worn by women working the assembly lines in war-time factories, was causing accidents.
Kim Basinger's Oscar-winning call-girl character in 1998's "L.A. Confidential" was based on Lake.
Unfortunately, Lake's alcoholism, fading career during the 1950s and four failed marriages led to an unhappy finale, which included her having little contact with her children.

By 1960, Lake had moved from Los Angeles back to New York City and was living in The Martha Washington Hotel for Women, where she was discovered by a newspaper reporter and found working as a barmaid in a small tavern, which made headlines around the world. By 1970, she married her fourth husband, a retired British sea captain Robert Carlton-Munro, and, badly in need of money, agreed to appear as "one of three possible imposters in wigs" on CBS' "To Tell the Truth" gameshow, with panelists Peggy Cass and Kitty Carlisle and Orson Bean challenged to guess which of the women in dark sunglasses and "peek-a-boo" wigs "was the real Veronica Lake." The resulting publicity and interest once again put Lake on the cover of newspapers, and she was able to get some money by publishing an autobiography "Veronica" (1971 Citadel Press $9.95) and traveling to Florida when hired to appear in a low-budget horror film "Flesh Feast."

She died July 7, 1973, at age 53 while visiting friends in Burlington, Vt.
Her son Michael, a construction worker in Hawaii, when told of his mother's death, borrowed money to fly to Vermont to arrange for his mother's cremation, as she had wanted.

Fast forward to Oct. 12, 2004, to this  headline: "Veronica Lake's Ashes for Sale: Hollywood star's remains turn up in ornate urn at Catskills antique store."
Rather than the ashes being scattered off Florida's coast as Lake had wanted, reportedly the urn with the ashes sat locked up at the attending funeral home because of nonpayment.

Finally, it was Lake's writer friend Donald Bain, the ghostwriter for the star's autobiography, who paid the necessary $200 in 1976 to have the remains sent to his Park Avenue apartment in New York.Bain, 72, said the urn and ashes were given to one of Lake's other New York friends, William Roos, who was planning to visit Florida and promised to scatter the ashes.

However, as the story goes, off-Broadway producer Ben Bagley, who had been visiting Roos, admired the ornate urn and later was surprised to have the ashes arrive to him, which he then gave to his graphic designer friend Larry Brill. Brill, 68, happened to spend his weekends up in the Catskills, which is how the urn and remains then ended up in the curio shop owned by Laura Levine.