Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe
A pair of sheer seamed nylon stockings - given by Marilyn Monroe to Marianne Geltner, the cook at Parkside House, Englefield Green, Surrey, where Monroe resided with her husband Arthur Miller during the shooting of the film The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956; accompanied by a copy of a press still showing Marianne Geltner, standing beside her husband Franz Geltner, butler at Parkside House, and Elizabeth Stiles, the housemaid, waiting for the arrival of Monroe from London airport, July 14th, 1956 [printed later] -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.); a photocopy of a press cutting of the time; a note from Mrs Geltner stating that ...Marilyn Monroe gave me several things from her wardrobe including these stockings...she told me that she always bought her stockings from Saks on Fifth Avenue...; and a linen table napkin signed for Frank and Marianne Geltner by approximately fifty visitors to Parkside House between 1956-1958 including Susan, Lee and Paula Strasberg, Jack Cardiff, Mrs Milton H.Greene, Jean Stein, Barbara Hutton von Gramm, Sachary Scott and Charles Coburn -- 22x23½in. (55.8x59.7cm.) (4)
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Lot Essay

Marianne Geltner has very fond memories of working for Marilyn Monroe in 1956. She recalled that Monroe would frequently ask her to sit with her if she was dining alone after filming. On one occasion she told Geltner, the cook, that she only needed a light dinner confessing that she had been 'naughty' on the set of the Prince and the Showgirl that day, deliberately making mistakes during the shooting of a scene which required her to eat caviar, so that she had the excuse to repeat the caviar sampling again and again. Marilyn apparently asked Mrs Geltner and her husband Frank, to return with her and her husband Arther Miller to work for them in the States. Commitments at home however prevented the Geltners from doing so.

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