[MONROE MARILYN]: (1926-1962)

[MONROE MARILYN]: (1926-1962) American actress & sex symbol. An original printed folio copy of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper of Monday, 6th August 1962, with the headline Marilyn Monroe Found Dead and a somewhat chilling image to the centre titled Alone in the Dark and with a caption beneath stating ´This is the end of Marilyn Monroe´s fabulous career - alone in a small, dark, cluttered room in a Westwood mortuary. This grim study in pictorial journalism was obtained exclusively by William Read Woodfield, Marilyn´s personal photographer through her years of glitter and glamour´. A lead article is headed An Overdose of Sleeping Pills and begins with the paragraphs ´Blonde and beautiful Marilyn Monroe, sex symbol of the generation, died tragically yesterday from an overdose of sleeping pills. Her body was found in bed. A bottle which contained 40 to 50 pills was found empty by her bed when police arrived´. Neatly mounted and framed and glazed in a modern light wooden frame to an overall size of 19 x 27.5. VG