Monroe, DiMaggio items being auctioned at Witherell's

Personal items that belonged to famed movie star Marilyn Monroe, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and his niece, actress June DiMaggio, will be offered to fans November 4 to 18, 2015 by Witherell’s global auctions.

“Marilyn and Joe were iconic figures--their marriage was the love story of the century,” said Brian Witherell, “Antiques Roadshow” appraiser and Witherell’s chief operating officer. “They were—and still are—American royalty.

“With the auction, people have a chance to own a personal memento from one of these larger-than-life figures.”

DiMaggio’s niece was close friends with Monroe until Monroe’s death in 1962.

Di Maggio moved to Campus Commons when she retired from Hollywood and lived there until her own death this past year.

TV and radio personality, Mary Jane Popp was a close friend of June DiMaggio for more than 35 years.

Popp was given items belonging to Monroe, the DiMaggios and friends from Hollywood for holidays and other occasions during that time.

“I still have many items June gave me,” said Sacramento resident Popp. “But there are so many fans of Marilyn and Joe out there, I wanted these family treasures to go to others who would also appreciate them.”

Many of the items can be seen in the 2006 book, “Marilyn, Joe & Me,” written by June DiMaggio and Mary Jane Popp.

A number of personal photos of Marilyn taken during DiMaggio family gatherings will be auctioned.

A flowered, Japanese-style kimono that Monroe kept at DiMaggio’s mother’s home to wear when there as well as a coral-colored, long-sleeved Joy Stevens blouse.

A mirror from Sakes Fifth Avenue and other personal items Monroe carried in her purse the day she married DiMaggio should do well in the sale.

The memorial pamphlet from Monroe’s August 8th funeral at Westwood Memorial Park also is part of this very unusual collection.

Because of the uniqueness of the items, there are no comparables and no estimates are being placed on the 50-some lots.

June DiMaggio Estate Featuring Family Collection of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggioNovember 4-18, view more at Witherell's.

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Marilyn Monroe reportedly rejected Frank Sinatra's wedding proposal

Marilyn Monroe rejected Frank Sinatra's wedding proposal, a new biography about the singer claims.

The Come Fly With Me crooner is believed to have asked the actress - who died of a drugs overdose, aged 36, in 1962 - for her hand in marriage in 1961, a year before her death, but she reportedly turned him down to get back together with her estranged husband Joe DiMaggio.

Sinatra's closest aide Jilly Rizzo told Sinatra: The Chairman author James Kaplan: "Yeah, Frank wanted to marry the broad. He asked her and she said no."

Sinatra's feelings were so strong for the iconic Hollywood star that the book reveals DiMaggio and him became rivals and, as a result, he was not allowed to attend her funeral.

Talent agent Milt Ebbins added: "There was no doubt that Frank was in love with Marilyn."

A year later, in 1962, Kaplan wrote how Monroe accompanied Sinatra to his resort in Cal Neva, Lake Tahoe, to try and protect her from her downward spiral.

However a week later she took her own life.

The New York New York singer and Some Like It Hot actress first met in 1954, while Sinatra was still with his second wife Ava Gardner but after their divorce in 1957, the couple started courting for several months.

Sinatra: The Chairman is released on 27 October.

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Where the Jump Pose Got Its Start: Philippe Halsman’s Mid-Century, Midair Photos of Stars and Royals

                                               

                                              Photo: Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos


Marilyn Monroe bent her knees, threw her legs backward, and leaped into the air, so that it looked as if she had lost her legs altogether. The photographer, confronted with what appeared to be a truncated Marilyn, demanded a retake.

“Marilyn,” Philippe Halsman later recalled telling her, “try to express your character a little more.”

“You mean that my jump shows my character?” Monroe responded hesitantly and then froze, unable to move. They continued with other pictures, including one in which Halsman held hands with Monroe and jumped in tandem, the actress tucking her legs underneath her again. Only later, Halsman remembers in Jump(Damiani), his 1959 photo book reissued this week, would he recognize the singularity of Monroe’s jump.

Before you Instagrammed your leap off that boat dock, before you watched that YouTube video instructing you exactly how to attractively achieve said fleeting, gravity-defying moment, before Arthur Elgort captured a generation of models and actors exuberantly midair in what would become a classic fashion pose, there was Philippe Halsman, self-described “jumpologist.” For magazines like Life,Look, and The Saturday Evening Post, he photographed royalty, scientists, society dames, industry captains, poets, presidents, CEOs, singers, and movie stars. At the end of every portrait session, he had a special request. He asked them all to jump.


Halsman considered this a psychological tool, his Rorschach test. Concentrating on the physical act of jumping, however large or small, necessitated a loss of inhibition and control and composure. (Halsman analyzes this at length in an endearingly overthought essay that accompanies his book on the “science” of jumping: “The jump does not always express what the jumper is. It can also express what he wants to be.”) It was the moment at which Halsman’s subjects, some of the most buttoned-up and venerated and recognizable figures in the world, were unmasked, briefly exposing their real selves, while still elegantly attired for their photo session. It did, as Monroe rightly, fearfully predicted, show one’s character. Does the act of jumping for the camera—now a well-documented, hashtagged trope—still produce such charmingly unpredictable results?

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor clasped hands and gamely jumped, she in her double strand of pearls. The street photographer Weegee kept his own camera around his neck and his cigar in his mouth. A pre-presidential Richard Nixon, neck crammed into his tight-collared suit, somehow appears to be floating. Jayne Mansfield brandished a sword, and Brigitte Bardot seemingly, joyously, took flight off a cliff. One of the most remarkable jumps, Salvador Dalí’s, was accomplished in no less than 28 takes (which meant 28 thrown cats and 28 splashes of water). He photographed John Steinbeck, Audrey Hepburn, Dean Martin, Marc Chagall, Groucho Marx, Eartha Kitt, all somewhere between the ground and the sky. When Halsman said jump, they did.

How to Steal Marilyn Monroe's Trick for Super Sexy Eyes

Having recently unearthed the secrets of Marilyn Monroe's makeup artist, the inimitable Allan "Whitey" Snyder, there's one trick of his we're thoroughly obsessed with—and apparently, we're not the only ones who've honed in on it.


Monroe's latter day, most-famous-woman-in-the-world counterpart Kim Kardashian has, too, taken a liking to Monroe's signature eyeliner: a double cat eye accented with white eyeliner. We first saw her donning the look at her bridal shower last year, then again during her trip to Armenia on a recent episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.





The technique isn't just a cool twist on the cat eye, but was also Monroe's trick to making her eyes appear larger and wider by extending the upper and lower lashlines. Here, we recreated the look by striking the perfect between Monroe's slept-in bedroom eyes and Kardashian's Instagram-perfect precision.



1. Draw on a classic cat eye





Using a tapered eyeliner pen, draw on a classic cat eye, starting in the middle with small and smooth strokes. Doing this will help determine how thick you want your line to be, says makeup artist ​Miguel Lledo​.


"​To make the wing, follow the line of your bottom lashes going outward with the brush, then bring the line back in, make a triangle shape, and fill the wing in,​" he explains.



2. Create a lower feline flick





Kathryn Wirsing


Using dark brown shadow and a small tapered brush, create a smoky lower feline flick that's like an extension of your lower lashline. You want the tip of the wing to point downward, creating a triangle-like space in between both flicks.
3. Fill in the white triangle




Kathryn Wirsing




With a white eye pencil, fill in the triangle on the outer corner of the eye—​in between the top and lower liner wings​—​as it will make your eyes look bigger and wider. Be sure to smudge out the pigment as you don't wait it to look *too* matte.
The Finished Look




Kathryn Wirsing




And just like that, you're channeling both Monroe and Kardashian in one fell (double) swoop.

Makeup by Miguel Lledo at Artlist NYC. Photography by Kathryn Wirsing.

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