December 3, 2009.A home movie showing a relaxed Marilyn Monroe who might or might not be smoking marijuana has hit the Internet, retrieved from an attic 50 years after it was filmed. The reel-to-reel, silent, "color" film taken at a private home in New Jersey was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for $275,000 from the person who took the film, who has asked to remain anonymous, according to Reuters.
Morgan and the person who shot the film gave Reuters permission to use it in shortened form. The copyright of the image will be put up for sale on eBay later this week, Morgan said.
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Video capture photo of Marilyn Monroe sucking on a cigarette. Is it grass? It doesn't look like it to me, although her actions intimate otherwise!At one point Monroe is passed a cigarette and takes a puff but does not appear to inhale deeply. The person who made the film insists the cigarette contained marijuana, saying: "I got it (the pot). It was mine. It was just passed around."
"It was not a party. It was just a get-together. You know, come over and hang out," the person said.
Photo of Marilyn Monroe reclining on a sofa. She always seemed to be having a good time, at least while the public was watching.Morgan, a collector of historical photos, manuscripts, autographs and documents, is also working on a documentary on the death of Monroe in August 1962. He learned of the film during his research and searched for the owner, who kept it as part of an archive that was moved between various homes over the years. The Monroe film was stored in an attic for three years before Morgan tracked it down.
The actress appears happy and relaxed at a small gathering of friends that Morgan dates to 1958 or 1959, based on her appearance. "This is the late '50s so she is already very famous, but this is a personal side of her we've never seen before. People have never seen her in such a relaxed pose," Morgan said.
Marilyn Monroe purportedly lived a tortured life, as her melancholy expression in this black and white photo of her would attest. If she got a little joy out of smoking pot, I say more power to her!
Although she appears stoned judging from the way she’s smiling and laughing, I don’t think she smoked anything other than tobacco, after watching how she hardly inhaled the thing. But then it was a real pleasure to see the beautiful legend having fun once again, fifty years after her death left us all in pain!
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