Marilyn’s Personal Possessions
Below is a list of items in this collection that formerly belonged to Marilyn Monroe. These pieces include a prescription pill bottle and eye drops, a set of drinking glasses, her personal collection of film and gossip magazines, and even a light that hung in her Brentwood home. Click on a link below for more information. Most of these pieces come directly from the Marilyn Monroe estate.
Two Phonebooks from 1962
A Solid Brass Table Lamp from Marilyn Monroe Productions
A Travel Clock
A Tan Filing Cabinet
From her home in Brentwood, a Mexican star hanging light
A Marilyn Monroe prescription pill bottle from Schwab’s Pharmacy
From her private files: Marilyn Monroe’s personal film & gossip magazine collection
An Arthur Miller Signed Title Page
From her private files: A collection of newspaper clippings featuring Marilyn Monroe
From her personal collection: A childhood photo of Marilyn’s mother, Gladys Baker
A photograph from Marilyn’s personal collection: The 1952 Miss America Pageant
From her personal collection: Two late ’40s autographed photos
A wooden travel trunk: Used by Marilyn to pack personal and childhood items
Prescription eye drops, dated May 21, 1960, issued by Schwab’s Pharmacy
Eleven tumblers, purchased in Mexico in 1962
A zippered carrying case
Two bar items: A metal can opener and a metal pouring spout
Two tissue box covers
A Marilyn Monroe Productions Matchbook
![Flashback: Meeting Amy Greene, August 5, 2012
Without question, it’s mind boggling and beyond cool to meet people who were part of Marilyn Monroe’s inner circle. During my time as a fan and collector I’ve met several people who fall into that category. In this case, its Amy Greene, wife of Milton Greene. I met her at the 2012 MM memorial where she was a guest speaker. Marilyn lived with the Greenes in their Connecticut home in 1954 and 1955.
Amy on what it was like to live with Marilyn: I’m a very secure woman, so she was fine. She never got out of line, and I never got out of line, and we became girlfriends. As Sinatra said, ‘She was a good broad.’ I love that statement. You young people don’t know what that means, but it is the highest compliment that a man like Sinatra could say about anybody.
In the past, she’s talked about how she and Milton heard of Marilyn’s passing: We were in France, in Paris. Milton was doing the collections for Life magazine, and there was a radio. I kept saying, ‘Well let’s try to get some music or something.’ All we got was news, news, news, and neither one of us could understand French that well. All of a sudden, the words Marilyn Monroe came on. We didn’t know what it was. So, we went to [Château de] Fontainebleau, had a wonderful picnic lunch, drove back to Paris, and the first thing we heard—the telephone was ringing off the wall. It was Arthur Jacobs, who was her publicist trying to get us all day. And he said Marilyn’s dead. […] I collapsed. Milton was staggering. That was the last thing we expected.
Amy on Marilyn’s public image today: The interesting thing, and I was thinking about this yesterday, was in the ’50s she was strictly candy for men, but since the feminist movement—which started around my dining room table, thank you very much—women have accepted her, they no longer make fun of her. So in the end, she’s earned respect, which is what she wanted.”
(Source for quotes: Gotham Magazine)
If I were to describe her in one word, it would be “sharp.” Her senses are keen. She was as confident when I met her as she was during the Edward R. Murrow interview. (Swipe left!)
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