Marilyn Monroe's Personal

Screen Actors Guild Membership Card

 

A Screen Actors Guild membership card for 1959-60, with Marilyn's SAG membership number and social security number annotated. 


 

Important activities in Marilyn's life around this time include:

 

  1959

-Premiere of Some Like It Hot - March 29

-Marilyn receives the David diDonatello statuette from Italy for her performance in The Prince and the Showgirl - June

-Marilyn meets Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev at a luncheon in his honor at Fox studios - September 18

-Marilyn officially begins work on Let's Make Love - November 9

  1960

-Marilyn receives a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy, Some Like It Hot - March 8

-Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson begins seeing Marilyn on a daily basis (June)

-Filming begins on the Misfits - July 18

-Arthur Miller and Marilyn officially separate - November 11

-Clark Gable dies of a heart attack - November 16


 

Interesting Point of Note: 

The 1959-60 Screen Actors Guild membership card in The Marilyn Monroe Collection immediately precedes the 1960 Screen Actors Guild membership card sold at the now world famous 1999 Christie's auction:  "The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe." 

 

Lot 337

 

Estimate:  $1,000-1,500

Selling Price:  $25,300

 

 

 


 

Related Collection Pieces / Links:

- Marilyn Monroe's Screen Actors Guild Membership Receipt

 


 

Provenance:  Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles:  Entertainment Memorabilia Auction, June 4, 2007


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