MARILYN MONROE JFK & RFK SECRETS RARE PHOTOGRAPH 1962
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8X10 GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPH RECENTLY PRINTED FROM NEGATIVE . A REALPHOTOGRAPH "NOT A DIGITAL PRINT". Rare image.This photograph is at the after party at Arthur and Mathilda Grimm's apartment,after she sang Happy Birthday to the President.Taken on May 19,1962 ,just nine weeks before her death.This was her last public apperance. Earl Blackwell wrote in his Book "Mr Celeberty" 1991.I was asked to assist with President Kennedy's Birthday Party at Madison Square Garden.My duty was to invite celebrites to appear.Jack Benny and Jimmy Durante were tMaria Callas came in from Paris.When I called Marilyn in Hollywood and asked her if she'd come sing "Happy Birthday,Mr President," her first question was "Is Bobby Going To Be T?" Obviously,she had a school girl crush on him before she ever met him.After the big celebration at Madison Square Garden,t was a small intimate dinner given at the town house of Matilde and Arthur Krim.That was w Marilyn met Bobby for the first time.They sat together in a corner and laughed and joked all night.It was the begining of their friendship.Many photographs were taken that evening of Marilyn with the President and also with Bobby,but I later learned that orders from the White House said they must be destroyed.This is the only known photograph of the three of them together that has survived. Monroe made her entrance
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