An excerpt from the Book
"Marilyn: The Ultimate Look at the Legend"
by James Haspiel in which he describes Marilyn wearing this mink
collar:
 On a mild mid-morning...I was walking
towards the Gladstone and as I arrived at the entrance I came upon a
teenager standing outside with an 8-mm camera aimed directly at the
hotel's revolving door, which was already in motion. Marilyn
came awhirl through the door and literally performed a 360-degree
turn for his home-movie camera. She was dressed in an elegant
black suit with a fur collar, her lustrous hair shoulder
length, and was fully made up. Dazzling! She was about
to walk from 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue over to the fifth
Avenue beauty salon of Elizabeth Arden. So I walked side by
side with her; naturally, to the utter frustration of this kid who
was walking backwards with his movie camera pointed at us, because I
was now unavoidably in all of his wonderful footage of Marilyn.
In fact, although I sought him out over the following years, he
never allowed me to see the candid film he took of Marilyn and me
walking across town that day.
As she walked her famous walk in her
very high black stiletto heels, cars and trucks just pulled over to
the curb and drivers emerged from them shouting "Marilyn! Marilyn!"
When we finally got the three blocks over to Fifth Avenue, we then
had to walk uptown to 54th-55th Streets. As we arrived at the
doorway to Elizabeth Arden's salon, I heard the nearby sounds of an
automobile crashing, and looked over to see a taxicab driver whose
head was bobbing out of the passenger-side front window of his cab,
the vehicle itself now embedded in the back end of a delivery truck!
He had a gleeful smile on his face and was hollering, "Marilyn!"
I tapped her on the shoulder and exclaimed "See what you did!"
She gave me a very "Marilynesque" laugh and swept rather grandly
into the salon.
The video footage described by Haspiel
in this excerpt can be seen
here.
Related Collection Pieces / Links:
-Marilyn's Monroe's
Personal Elizabeth Arden Make-Up
-Elizabeth Arden Salon
Receipt, signed by Marilyn Monroe, dated 27 April 1961
-Marilyn
Monroe's Personal White Fox Muff, worn to the Premieres of "How To
Marry A Millionaire" and "Some Like It Hot"
-Marilyn
Monroe's White Fox Fur Cuffs, Worn to the 1953 Premiere of "The
5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T."
-Marilyn
Monroe's Personal Baum Marten Collar
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