A home movie showing leisurely Marilyn Monroe with her friends surfaced after being packed away for 50 years, according to foreign media Wednesday. This silent, color 4-minute film taken at a private home in New Jersey, showing Monroe puffing on a cigarette, laughing and drinking wine on a couch, was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for 275,000 U.S. dollars from a woman who took the film. She asked media to use only her first name, Gretchen, to protect her identity. Morgan, a collector of historical photos, manuscripts, autographs and documents, is also working on a documentary on the death of Monroe in August 1962. "It's a side of Marilyn that no one has ever seen before," he said. "You see the private Norma Jeane, the girl. You don't see Marilyn Monroe, the movie star." Monroe changed her name from Norma Jeane Baker to Marilyn Monroe early in her acting and modeling career. The film was made in the late 1950s, Gretchen said she could not recall the exact year. She kept it in an attic for 50 years, except for loaning it to FBI investigators, she said. Gretchen retained the copyright, which Morgan is helping her sell through an online auction expected to begin Thursday. Sources: Xinhua
