EXCLUSIVE: Rare pinup photos of bride and bathing beauty Marilyn Monroe by famed photographer set to fetch thousands at auction

• Richard C. Miller took this rarely-seen series of portraits of brunette starlet Norma Jean in 1946 when she was an up-and-coming Armed Forces pinup
• Miller was one of the first photographers to work with Norma Jeane Dougherty during this early period in her blossoming modelling career with the Blue Book Modeling Agency
• Among the many images that Miller made of her, one photograph depicts Norma Jeane wearing the wedding dress from her first marriage 
• 'I had no idea when I was taking these pictures that she would become famous and that the pictures would become valuable,' Miller would later say. 'She was just a nice, sweet attractive girl with outrageous ambitions'
• The entire collection goes under the hammer at Santa Monica Auctions on Sunday, October 7 with an estimate of between $60,000 and $80,000

His pretty young muse dazzled in a lacy wedding dress, radiating innocence as she hugged a white prayer book close to her chest.

But while it would be years before Norma Jeane Dougherty blossomed into Hollywood siren Marilyn Monroe, storied photographer Richard C. Miller was in no doubt about the 19-year-old model's 'outrageous' ambitions.

Miller took a rarely-seen series of portraits of brunette starlet Norma Jean in 1946 when she was an up-and-coming Armed Forces pinup.

By the time they crossed paths more than a decade later on the set of Some Like it Hot she was a globally famous actress whose sex bomb looks transfixed generations.

Monroe called out 'Hi Dick' but the celebrated showbiz snapper was so shocked she remembered his name that he became tongue-tied.

Miller was one of the first photographers to work with Norma Jeane during this early period in her blossoming modelling career with the Blue Book Modeling Agency

'I had no idea when I was taking these pictures that she would become famous and that the pictures would become valuable,' Miller would later say. 'She was just a nice, sweet attractive girl with outrageous ambitions

Miller took a rarely-seen series of portraits of brunette starlet Norma Jean in 1946 when she was an up and coming Armed Forces pinup

Miller's prints will go under the hammer October 7  along with the original photographic model release form Norma Jean Dougherty signed on March 26, 1946

'He used Norma Jeane at four or five locations over several days,' the late photographer's daughter, Peg Miller, told DailyMail.com

Unsure whether to call her Marilyn, Norma Jean, or Nonny - the nickname Miller's daughters gave Monroe years earlier when she came to their home for dinner - he couldn't muster a single word.

'I had no idea when I was taking these pictures that she would become famous and that the pictures would become valuable,' Miller would later say. 'She was just a nice, sweet attractive girl with outrageous ambitions.'

Miller's prints will be up for auction on October 7 - along with the original photographic model release form Norma Jean Dougherty signed on March 26, 1946.

The rare collection, estimated to fetch up to $80,000, includes the white prayer book that actually belonged to Miller's wife, Margaret Dudley Miller.

'He used Norma Jeane at four or five locations over several days,' the late photographer's daughter, Peg Miller, told DailyMail.com. 'She evidently made enough of an impression that she came to dinner with us.

'I remember being told the story of how she was sat at the dinner table telling everyone that she wanted to become a star.

'Our parents thought, yeah right, sure - you and 20,000 other hopefuls. But sure enough, she made it happen.'

Norma Jeane was raised an orphan in Los Angeles, enduring an abusive, unhappy childhood before she married James 'Jim' Dougherty at 16 to escape a series of foster homes.

After dropping out of high school, the teenager turned bored housewife until Dougherty went to sea with the Merchant Marines and she took a job at a defence plant.

There, Norma Jeane caught the eye of propaganda photographers who visited the factory to take morale-boosting pictures of beautiful female workers.

She quit her job and in 1945 joined the Blue Book Model Agency who would book her for advertisements and magazines such U.S. Camera, Laff and Pageant, a rival to Reader's Digest.

Miller was one of the first photographers to work with Norma Jeane, his memorable image of her wearing her wedding dress and clutching his wife's prayer book appearing on the June 1947 cover of Personal Romances magazine.

Months later Norma Jeane signed for 20th Century Fox where executive Ben Lyon urged her to combine the name Marilyn with her grandmother's name, Monroe.

By then she had dyed her curly brunette hair platinum blonde and had divorced Dougherty because he was opposed to her acting career.

Success was fleeting however and it wasn't until a near-penniless Monroe posed for a set of nude photos in 1949 that her career truly took off, the ensuing notoriety helping her land a series of big roles when the raunchy pics surfaced several years later.

By 1953 Monroe had appeared in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire and was well on her way to becoming a household name.

By then she had dyed her curly brunette hair platinum blonde and had divorced Dougherty because he was opposed to her acting career.

Success was fleeting however and it wasn't until a near-penniless Monroe posed for a set of nude photos in 1949 that her career truly took off, the ensuing notoriety helping her land a series of big roles when the raunchy pics surfaced several years later.

By 1953 Monroe had appeared in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire and was well on her way to becoming a household name.

When she ran into father-of-three Miller, while shooting Some Like It Hot in 1959 she was at the peak of her fame - but also problematic on set.

Highly strung Hollywood types were nothing new to Miller, who had risen to become one of Tinseltown's most celebrated photographers, shooting the likes of Clark Gable, Shirley MacLaine, James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor.

'My father said Norma Jeane was an extremely good model when she started out. She had the charismatic quality that good models have,' added Peg, 73, a retired professor of English and higher education policy.

'But he didn't like her on the set of Some Like it Hot. By that time she was really challenged. She had trouble getting to the set on time. She had trouble getting her lines out.

'He remembered the moment Tony Curtis famously finished a kissing scene then stood up and said kissing Marilyn was just like kissing Hitler.

Monroe's troubled private life received almost as much attention as her bombshell looks as she struggled with substance abuse and depression.

Her second and third marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and the playwright Arthur Miller both ended in divorce.

Monroe died from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home on August 5, 1962. She was only 36.

Although the icon's death was ruled a probable suicide her demise has been subject to countless conspiracy theories.

Many of those who worked alongside her, including Miller, harboured doubts.

'Fame was too much for her, it really was,' added Peg. 'My father was very sceptical of the idea her death was suicide.

'There were all sorts of theories about who would have made it happen. He was more inclined to believe them.'

Miller died in 2010 at the age of 98.

His work is particularly sought after because he was a leading exponent of the carbro process, a painstaking, little-known printing technique that used liquid carbon and gelatin.

Each of Miller's prints could take as long as three days to process by hand - but the resulting images were known for their saturated, vibrant colours that didn't fade like regular prints.

The portfolio going to auction next week comprises 12 archival pigment prints capturing the youthful Monroe modelling by the pool, splashing around in the sea, fishing, carrying a cute puppy and playfully hopping a fence.

As well as the prayer book and the release form, there is a vintage, gelatin silver print of the starlet posing with Miller on a beach.

The entire collection goes under the hammer at Santa Monica Auctions on Sunday, October 7 with an estimate of between $60,000 and $80,000.

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Marilyn Monroe’s Ford Thunderbird set for auction

A classic car formerly owned by Marilyn Monroe is to be auctioned in Los Angeles.

The late actress bought the black Ford Thunderbird in 1955 and media reports from the time say she drove in it with playwright Arthur Miller to their wedding in 1956, according to Julien’s Auctions, which is selling the car.

It is expected to fetch between £190,000 and £380,000 when it is auctioned on November 17, Julien’s Auctions says.

Darren Julien, president of Julien’s Auctions, said: “This wonderful black Ford Thunderbird is not only part of the automotive history but comes with an aura of glamour, romance and tragedy of a true Hollywood legend.

“Once in a while something comes along that has a powerful magic about it, a charisma, because of everything and everyone associated with it.”

Monroe owned the car for six years before gifting it to John Strasberg, the son of director Lee Strasberg, for his 18th birthday shortly before her death in 1962.

The black two-seater has been partially restored, although “special heed was given to the retention of original parts, with most driver and passenger touch surfaces left undisturbed”, according to the Beverly Hills-based auctioneer.

The car, which has a black and white interior and has clocked 30,399 miles since having its engine rebuilt, comes with a canvas convertible roof and a detachable hard roof with distinctive porthole windows.

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EXCLUSIVE: MARILYN MONROE FACES DOWN REAL-LIFE MONSTERS IN HIGH-CONCEPT GRAPHIC NOVEL MARILYN’S MONSTERS

This is a version of the legendary Marilyn Monroe that you've never quite seen before. In the new graphic novel Marilyn’s Monsters, artist/writer Tommy Redolfi presents a surreal and hallucinatory version of events in the life of Norma Jean Baker, who rose to prominence as an actress and universal sex symbol Marilyn Monroe before tragically taking her own life at the age of 36.

The real Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, and spent her entire life there, first as Norma Jean Mortenson, then Norma Jean Baker, before eventually choosing the stage name Marilyn Monroe. In and out of foster homes and orphanages through her childhood and teen years, she was married at 16, divorced at 20, and signed to a modelling contract in 1945. She began acting after that, becoming a bona fide star in 1953 with roles in Niagara and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
She continued her box office streak with films like How to Marry a Millionaire, The Seven-Year Itch and Some Like It Hot, but also struggled with a turbulent personal life (she married and divorced baseball great Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, while also allegedly having affairs with President John F. Kennedy and others), bouts of depression and a severe addiction to barbiturates. She overdosed on the night of Aug. 5, 1962, at her home in the Brentwood neighbourhood of Los Angeles and was found lifeless the next morning, her death ruled a suicide.

In his graphic novel, Redolfi reimagines the famous Hollywood Hills as a strange, twisted forest populated with freaks and pockmarked with broken-down trailers. It's to this dark, shadowy land that Norma Jean Baker comes with dreams of making it big in Tinsel Town. But to achieve the success she desires, she will have to face all kinds of monsters in what is described by the publisher as an affecting allegory of abuse and exploitation.

But don't take our word for it: master filmmaker David Cronenberg called the book "a brilliant, hallucinatory meditation on the phenomenon of Marilyn Monroe. It will alter your understanding of both Hollywood and Marilyn." That's no faint praise coming from a director who has skewered the film business in movies like Maps to the Stars and who certainly knows how to create hallucinatory art himself.

Marilyn’s Monsters will arrive at retailers on Tuesday, Sept. 18. You may never look at a photo of Marilyn Monroe the same way again.

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The painful story behind Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic photograph.

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On 15 September 1954, Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe stood on top of a New York subway grate and an updraft of warm air caught her white dress like a parachute.

This moment – part of a scene she was filming for the movie The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder – went on to become one of the most iconic in cinematic history.

But there is a painful story behind this classic image, one that reveals one of many dark times in Monroe’s tumultuous life.

At the time, Monroe was married to baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio, and this very scene allegedly was a catalyst for their acrimonious divorce, according to the Guardian.

The couple met in 1952. A then 25-year-old Monroe was on the brink of international success having just starred in Monkey Business and Don’t Bother to Knock, while DiMaggio – 12 years her senior – had just ended his legendary career as a New York Yankee early due to injuries.

After seeing publicity shots of Monroe in which she wore a baseball shirt and heels, DiMaggio arranged a dinner date with the star.

In her memoir, Marilyn: My Story, Monroe recalled meeting the ballplayer: “I had thought I was going to meet a loud, sporty fellow. Instead, I found myself smiling at a reserved gentleman in a grey suit, with a grey tie and a sprinkle of grey in his hair… If I hadn’t been told he was some sort of ballplayer, I would have guessed he was either a steel magnate or a congressman.”

She was also intrigued by the attention DiMaggio received.

She wrote: “Sitting next to Mr DiMaggio was like sitting next to a peacock with its tail spread… No woman has ever put me so much in the shade.”

They quickly became an item, marrying – second marriages for both – two years later in San Francisco. According to the Telegraph, the American media called the event “the marriage of the century”.

Their union, while glamorous, was also explosive and fraught with difficulties.

While DiMaggio, along with millions of other men, had been drawn to Monroe's "sex goddess" persona, he had never got used to her flaunting it.

According to biography, The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli, DiMaggio didn't like Monroe's career. He thought she should be a traditional 1950s housewife and he was jealous of the attention she generated from other men.

In the same book, DiMaggio is described as controlling and even violent, furious that Monroe refused to give up her career for him.

And allegedly the iconic Seven Year Itch scene was the final straw for the marriage.

The scene was filmed in public to generate publicity for the movie, and DiMaggio was among the crowd. Director Billy Wilder described the "look of death" on DiMaggio's face as Monroe's skirt flew up and onlookers cheered, as reported by The Telegraph.

George S. Zimbel, one of many photographers on set, recalled DiMaggio becoming irate and storming off, riled up by the uproarious press and onlookers who were gathered to watch the scene.

According to Taraborrelli's biography, DiMaggio returned to the couple's hotel room and waited for his wife. He later allegedly took out his rage by 'slapping her around the room'. In the book, Gladys Witten, the studio hairdresser recalls finding bruises on Marilyn's shoulders.

"But we covered them with makeup," she said.

Just a month later, in October 1954, Monroe divorced DiMaggio on the grounds of 'mental cruelty'.

On 15 September 1954, Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe stood on top of a New York subway grate and an updraft of warm air caught her white dress like a parachute.

This moment – part of a scene she was filming for the movie The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder – went on to become one of the most iconic in cinematic history.

But there is a painful story behind this classic image, one that reveals one of many dark times in Monroe’s tumultuous life.

At the time, Monroe was married to baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio, and this very scene allegedly was a catalyst for their acrimonious divorce, according to the Guardian.

The couple met in 1952. A then 25-year-old Monroe was on the brink of international success having just starred in Monkey Business and Don’t Bother to Knock, while DiMaggio – 12 years her senior – had just ended his legendary career as a New York Yankee early due to injuries.

After seeing publicity shots of Monroe in which she wore a baseball shirt and heels, DiMaggio arranged a dinner date with the star.

In her memoir, Marilyn: My Story, Monroe recalled meeting the ballplayer: “I had thought I was going to meet a loud, sporty fellow. Instead I found myself smiling at a reserved gentleman in a grey suit, with a grey tie and a sprinkle of grey in his hair… If I hadn’t been told he was some sort of ballplayer, I would have guessed he was either a steel magnate or a congressman.”

She was also intrigued by the attention DiMaggio received.

She wrote: “Sitting next to Mr DiMaggio was like sitting next to a peacock with its tail spread… No woman has ever put me so much in the shade.”

They quickly became an item, marrying – second marriages for both – two years later in San Francisco. According to the Telegraph, the American media called the event “the marriage of the century”.

Monroe and DiMaggio together on the beach. Image: Getty

Their union, while glamorous, was also explosive and fraught with difficulties.

While DiMaggio, along with millions of other men, had been drawn to Monroe's "sex goddess" persona, he had never got used to her flaunting it.

According to biography, The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli, DiMaggio didn't like Monroe's career. He thought she should be a traditional 1950s housewife and he was jealous of the attention she generated from other men.

In the same book, DiMaggio is described as controlling and even violent, furious that Monroe refused to give up her career for him.

And allegedly the iconic Seven Year Itch scene was the final straw for the marriage.

The couple's wedding in San Fransisco. Image: Getty 

The scene was filmed in public to generate publicity for the movie, and DiMaggio was among the crowd. Director Billy Wilder described the "look of death" on DiMaggio's face as Monroe's skirt flew up and onlookers cheered, as reported by The Telegraph.

George S. Zimbel, one of many photographers on set, recalled DiMaggio becoming irate and storming off, riled up by the uproarious press and onlookers who were gathered to watch the scene.

According to Taraborrelli's biography, DiMaggio returned to the couple's hotel room and waited for his wife. He later allegedly took out his rage by 'slapping her around the room'. In the book, Gladys Witten, the studio hairdresser recalls finding bruises on Marilyn's shoulders.

"But we covered them with makeup," she said.

Just a month later, in October 1954, Monroe divorced DiMaggio on the grounds of 'mental cruelty'.

Monroe immediately after signing divorce papers. Image: Getty

According to Time, in the courtroom, a tearful Monroe told the judge that her husband was "cold" and "moody".

DiMaggio begged for forgiveness but Monroe was done with him.

The couple was married for just 274 days.

Monroe went on to marry playwright Arthur Miller in 1956, divorcing five years later. DiMaggio never remarried and allegedly pursued a second chance with Monroe for many years.

According to People magazine, after Monroe died of a suspected drug overdose in 1962, DiMaggio arranged her funeral and had six long-stemmed red roses sent to her grave every week until his own death in 1999.

original article https://www.mamamia.com.au/marilyn-monroe/

‘Marilyn in Manhattan’ gives readers a look at Monroe’s yearlong love affair with New York

‘Marilyn in Manhattan’ gives readers a look at Monroe’s yearlong love affair with New York

Marilyn Monroe was done with life as a ditz.

Late in 1954, Hollywood’s hottest new star pulled a dark wig over her famed flaxen locks, renamed herself Zelda — and fled from the past.

The not-so-dumb blonde forged a secret alliance with Look photographer Milton Greene to seize power from her studio, 20th Century Fox, and its tyrannical head, Daryl Zanuck.

The two formed a production company, and the star of “How To Marry a Millionaire” spent the next year living in Manhattan.

Her 1955 stay in the city became little more than a pretentious footnote in the tragic Monroe saga. Zanuck, and everyone else, sneered when she revealed her ambition was to play Grushenka in Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.”

But in a new book, “Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy,” respected biographer Elizabeth Winder reveals months of triumph as Monroe conquered both her fears and city’s elite.

Monroe initially bolted for the picture-perfect Connecticut farmhouse shared by Greene, wife Amy and baby son Josh. Amy handled the impossible duty of convincing Marilyn not to order clothes one size too small.

One night, Marilyn returned the favor to Amy with the perfect gift. Frank Sinatra was incensed when a table appeared mid-song before the Copacabana stage as he performed.

But Sinatra saw it was Marilyn and all was good. Amy tagged along to the afterparty at the 21 Club — and later shared a nightcap at Marlene Dietrich’s apartment.

Monroe soon made her next big move. For the first time she was going to live alone, albeit in a shabby suite at the Gladstone Hotel, at 52nd and Lexington Ave., near Greene’s photo studio.

Everyone noted how intense the relationship was between the two. Greene and Monroe shared a brief affair in Hollywood, but now their passion was for her future.

At the Gladstone, Monroe was taken up by the waifish Southern writer Carson McCullers, whose fearsome literary talent (“The Member of the Wedding”) was offset by her ferocious alcoholism.

Monroe started to hang with the literati. She became friendly with Tennessee Williams, but Truman Capote was a true buddy. They’d take long walks, get silly, and have pillow fights, but she refused to listen to his sordid gossip about top-tier Manhattan socialites.

He insisted Babe Paley, the beauty who ruled the social scene, was convinced her powerful husband, William, the head of CBS, was sleeping with Marilyn.

But Monroe wanted giggles, not sordid asides.

McCullers introduced Monroe to the woman who would make Monroe’s New York dreams come true, powerful theater producer Cheryl Crawford.

There was no reason for the hard-bitten Crawford to take the blond bombshell seated across from her at dinner seriously — but she did.

Crawford was a founder of the Actors Studio, and the next morning she slipped Monroe in through the back door on West 46th St.

Marlon Brando, Jack Lord, Kim Stanley and Anne Jackson were already inside, immersed in their dark lord Lee Strasberg’s exhortations on The Method, an internalized style of acting despised in Hollywood.

Strasberg was almost unseemly in his eagerness to take Monroe under his wing, agreeing to coach her three nights a week in his Central Park West apartment until she worked up the courage to show her face onstage at the Studio.

Brando, still immersed in his white T-shirt and leather jacket phase, smoldered on their evenings out on the town. But he was also someone she could call in the wee hours to work through a difficult scene.

Monroe was now a New York insider, making the scene at Broadway premieres, attending events with the diamond-bedazzled Gloria Vanderbilt, having a laugh with the guys at the 21 Club, or kicking off her shoes to samba at El Morocco deep into the night.

The city was in love with her. The folks at 20th Century Fox were not.

The studio plotted revenge against their runaway star. Sheree North, an “ersatz Monroe” according to a columnist, was cast in two pictures rejected by Marilyn. The headlines were huge.

Monroe was not intimidated. She was contractually barred from making paid appearances, so Greene had her slow-ride an elephant around the ring in Madison Square Garden for a Ringling Bros. charity gala.

Her outfit was more cleavage than costume, the fishnet stockings were pure sex. The crowd went wild and the pictures went worldwide.

When Monroe finally steeled herself to take classes at the Studio, her fellow students — including Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Ben Gazzara, and Ellen Burstyn — were less than eager to welcome Strasberg’s celebrity pet.

“She saw her classmates as colleagues — they saw her as a vampy pinup girl,” Winder writes.

Marilyn, dressed down in men’s crewneck sweaters and no makeup, tackled the work. Strasberg drew her even closer, making her part of his family with the approval of his wife Paula.

On nights when Monroe slept over, their son Johnny resentfully surrendered his room. “He was the only boy in America not happy to have Marilyn Monroe sleeping in his bed,” his teen sister Susie later joked.

Susie and Monroe bonded almost as girlfriends. One night the pair practiced positions from a dusty copy of the Kama Sutra they found on the shelf. Monroe was the male.

Boy, this is a switch,” she said.

Monroe soon upgraded to a three-room Waldorf-Astoria suite. She was blossoming and seemed to finally believe in herself, scribbling encouraging notes on the creamy hotel stationary. One read, “Not a scared little girl anymore.”

Then along came Arthur Miller, again.

In 1951, the 36-year-old writer first met Monroe in Hollywood. Their encounter of a few days was intense, but Miller had a wife and three children in Brooklyn Heights.

This time he wasn’t in such a hurry to get home. Amy Greene failed to see exactly what Monroe did in the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright.

“I have never been so bored with a human being in my life,” Amy said later.

But Miller became Monroe’s new guide to life. Through him she discovered Brooklyn, announcing it was her “favorite place in the world.”

In June, “The Seven Year Itch,” the last movie Monroe made before bolting Hollywood, premiered. Her white skirt billowed upwards over the subway grate and Monroe was the biggest star in the world.

It took a long summer for things to fall into place, and Monroe was once again digging deep into her stash of pills.

Then Miller’s wife finally threw him out, and Fox offered Monroe an $8 million payday. She was to play Cherie, the broken-down “chanteuse,” as she called herself, with Hollywood dreams in “Bus Stop,” a prestige project by playwright William Inge.

On Dec. 31, 1955, Monroe signed a new contract with Fox giving her approval over directors. Los Angeles loomed in her future.

Her final landmark New York moment came just before she headed west. Monroe made her debut as Anna Christie onstage at the Actors Studio.

“She achieved greatness in that scene,” Ellen Burstyn said later. “It was some of the best work they’d ever seen at the Studio, and certainly the best interpretation of ‘Anna Christie’ anyone ever saw.”

“Bus Stop” was another triumph, the reviews glorious. On July 1, 1956, Monroe returned to New York to marry Miller. In the moments before the ceremony, she begged Milton and Amy Greene to tell her if she was making a mistake.

“Oh what the hell,” Monroe finally decided. “We can’t disappoint the guests.”

But Miller always resented Greene’s influence over Monroe. After the disastrous “The Prince and the Showgirl” shoot, where Laurence Olivier raged at Marilyn throughout, Miller got his way and Greene departed.

At the final meeting, a phalanx of lawyers stood by to protect Monroe’s interests. But Greene only asked for half of his $100,000 initial investment.

“Take more,” Monroe whispered to him across the table.

“No,” Greene said firmly. “Let me be the one in your life to never take more.”

With that, Monroe was free to face her future. Soon enough, she was a scared little girl once more.

“Marilyn in Manhattan” is on sale March 14.

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