Marilyn Monroe Rediscovered - The lost film of Peter Mangone
Photos: The Estate of Peter Mangone and Danziger Gallery, New York
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Marilyn Monroe continues to
beguile the world today.
And now a gallery in New York is showcasing some rediscovered photos of the
iconic movie star shot from 1955.
The Danziger Gallery has continued with the exhibition which started Jan. 10.
It runs to Feb. 9 even though the man who shot the grainy eight-millimeter
footage passed away on Dec. 11.
However, Peter Mangone lived to oversee the printing of his historic pictures
and the publication of the gallery’s catalogue.
Mangone was a high school student in New York who skipped his Grade 9 class in
an attempt to stake out the star at the Gladstone Hotel. Monroe had just
divorced Joe DiMaggio and was living at the hotel while taking classes at the
Actors Studio.
On a grey, March day, the fan used his new Revere movie camera and caught the
star as she emerged from the hotel and noticed the young fan.
Monroe beckoned him to follow and for the next few hours, the young fan
recorded the star as walked around midtown Manhattan.
Mangone had the film developed, but he remembers cleaning out his room and
throwing out the film. Then in 2002, he brother called him to tell him he had
found the Monroe film while cleaning out his father’s possessions.
They had been stored in a beaten-up cardboard box, but the film was in near
mint condition.
The film was 5-1/2-minutes long and shows Monroe blowing kisses at one moment
and looking pensive in other moments as she walked freely on the street in her
fur-trimmed black cashmere suit.
Beautiful.....
Posted by: G.Thompson | 01/16/2013 at 05:22 PM
Looking beautiful as always
Posted by: DZ | 01/17/2013 at 02:50 AM