In cased you missed it: Marilyn Monroe smoking weed
A home movie showing screeen legend Marilyn Monroe smoking marijuana has surfaced, 50 years after it was filmed.
The often-troubled actress appears happy and relaxed at a small gathering of friends that likely dates back to 1958 or 1959.
“I had it up in my attic all this time,” says the woman who shot the silent home movie and confirms that the “Some Like It Hot” star was smoking marijuana. The friend of Marilyn, who doesn’t want to be named publicly, said she regularly hung out with the starlet but doesn’t have a compelling reason for why it has taken her so long to part with the footage. “Home movies, that’s all it was,” she told NBCNewYork.com Tuesday. “It was never a big deal for me.”
New York-based collector Keya Morgan bought the film for $275,000 and plans to sell it in an auction at a later date.
“People have never seen her in such a relaxed pose,” he says of the sex symbol, who died of an overdose in 1962. Morgan, a collector of historical photos, manuscripts, autographs and documents, is also working on a documentary on the death of Monroe.
