Today would have been her 85th birthday.
CBS News reports that Anton Fury, photographer from New Jersey, found the photos at a garage sale for $2. Along with Marilyn Monroe there were photos of Jayne Mansfield.
New York Daily News had a personal interview with the 52-year-old:
“When I found them, there was no Internet,” he said. “There were limited resources to research them.”
Fury came across a collection of negatives in an envelope in the early 1980s and paid $2 for them. It wasn’t until he got into his dark room and developed a few of the images that he realized just what he’d stumbled upon.
It has been suggested that CNN could possibly publish some of these photos.
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