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World’s Largest Exhibition of Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia
on View at the Hollywood Museum June 1 – Aug. 31
Glamorous dresses and jewelry worn by Marilyn Monroe plus her personal film scripts for "Niagara," "There’s No Business Like Show Business" and "How to Marry a Millionaire" are among the 250 items on display in the largest exhibition of Marilyn memorabilia ever assembled — "Marilyn Remembered: An Intimate Look at the Legend." The exhibit opens June 1 – Marilyn’s 84th birthday – and continues to Aug. 31 at the Hollywood Museum in the historic Max Factor Building.
The exhibition combines the museum’s private collection of Marilyn memorabilia with the collections of Scott Fortner, Greg Schriener, Lois Banner, Brian Johns, Jill Adams and Heidi Hansen. On view will be the dress Marilyn wore on the USO tour during her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio as well as costumes she donned in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes," "How to Marry a Millionaire," "Niagara," "The Prince and the Showgirl," "Let’s Make Love" and "There’s No Business Like Show Business."
The exhibit also showcases the full-length beaver coat given to her by third husband Arthur Miller, the evening cape she wore to the New York premiere of "East of Eden" and the green silk Pucci blouse she donned in the last photos taken of Marilyn before her death. From her death scene, the exhibit includes an empty pill bottle discovered on her bedside table.
"This exhibit offers the best chance ever to get to know Marilyn Monroe intimately," says museum president and founder Donelle Dadigan. "It includes some of her most glamorous possessions like the white fox fur muff she wore to the premiere of ‘How to Marry a Millionaire,’ but there’s a special emphasis on displaying the personal items that reveal the real, everyday Marilyn up close. You can see the film and gossip magazines she liked to read, her makeup accessories, eyedrops, telephone bill, her SAG card, her University High School year book and even an invoice from her psychiatrist.
"We display the furniture from her last home in Brentwood, including the refrigerator she painted blue when she felt quite blue herself one lonely Hollywood night," Dadigan adds.
See Costumes from ‘Glee,’ ‘Twilight: New Moon,’ ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie,’ ‘High School Musical 2′ and ‘The Hurt Locker’
The Hollywood Museum now features costumes from the hit TV show "Glee." Also on view is Miley Cyrus‘ white and blue dress from "Hannah Montanta: The Movie" plus Rob Pattinson’s, Kristen Stewart’s and Taylor Lautner’s costumes from "Twilight: New Moon." Also on view: outfits from "High School Musical 2," including Zac Efron’s prom tuxedo and his basketball jersey and blue jeans.
Oscar season is over, but many costumes from Gold Derby’s exhibition of awards-winning films can still be seen, including uniforms of the bomb-defusing team in "The Hurt Locker," which won best picture at the Academy Awards. The museum continues to feature displays of other items from Gold Derby’s past Emmy Awards exhibitions like James Gandolfini’s and Edie Falco’s outfits from "The Sopranos."
Also see the dresses worn by Beyonce Knowles and Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls" (winner, best musical/comedy picture at the Golden Globes). See items from "The Sopranos," "Harry Potter," "Baywatch," "Oceans 11," "Sweeney Todd," "Gone with the Wind," "I Love Lucy." Also — Rocky’s boxing gloves, Marilyn Monroe’s dresses, Elvis Presley’s favorite bathrobe, Indiana Jones’ whip, Pamela Anderson’s "Baywatch" swimsuit, Cary Grant’s Rolls-Royce, the shark seen in "Jaws," the church pews from "The Exorcist," Tom Cruise’s eyeball-switcher from "Minority Report" (and the eyeballs), Nicole Kidman’s’ sexy outfits and swing from "Moulin Rouge!"
IF YOU DARE: Visit Hannibal Lecter’s jail cell from "The Silence of the Lambs." It’s in our basement — along with other shocking items in the Hollywood Museum’s Chamber of Horrors. Go face to face with the masks of Jason and Mike Myers from the "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" movie series and see up close the corpses, mummies and masks from Boris Karloff’s, Lon Chaney Jr. and Brendan Fraser’s "The Mummy" films. Get cozy with the Dead Man in the Basement from "Hell Night." See the guillotine and severed heads from "Quills." See costumes worn by Vampira and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark plus Sarah Michelle Gellar’s "corpse" fished out of the lake in "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
The Hollywood Museum also features costumes and memorabilia from films and TV shows starring Antonio Banderas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Carrey, George Clooney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Reese Witherspoon, Russell Crowe, Will Smith, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Joan Crawford, Bob Hope and many more!
The Hollywood Museum is located in the historica Max Factor Building where the cosmetics pioneer made showbiz’s beauty queens glamorous. Visit the private beauty salons where Marilyn Monroe became a blonde and Max Factor transformed Lucille Ball into a redhead!
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The Hollywood Museum is housed in the world famous historic Max Factor Building, where Max Factor, wizard of movie make-up worked his magic on motin picture stars since 1935. The lobby, has been restired to its original grandeur. A polished Art Deco gem - a white & rose-colored oasis of lavish marble, recreated historic chandeliers, pastel hues, antique furniture, trompe l’eouille, faux finishes with 22kt. gold and silver leafing. On the ground floor, you’ll find many original displays from the old Max Factor Make-Up Studio.
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The Hollywood Museum Museum features four floors of exhibits (two floors above the lobby and a basement below), offering more than 35,000 square feet of exhibit space. To put that in perspective, it is seven times the size of the nearby Guinness World of Record Museum (5,200 square feet), almost four times the size of the neighboring Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum (10,000 square feet), and five times larger than the Warner Bros Museum (at 7,000 square feet). Yet that still isn’t really room enough to do justice to the thousands of items on exhibit here!
Relax, the museum is a self-guided tour, so you can spend as long as you like admiring any exhibit.
The ground floor is made up of the historic Lobby, plus Max Factor’s restored make-up rooms, a vintage B&W photo gallery featuring more than 1000 B&W photos. Cary Grant’s Rolls Royce, Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park, a tribute to Judy Garland and the "Red Shoes"!
The second and third floors are devoted exclusively to costumes worn by famous stars in famous films, corresponding props, photos, memorabilia and posters. wealth of Hollywood memorabilia, ranging from the earliest Technicolor film ever shot, to a Roman bed from "Gladiator", to the dog from "There’s something about Mary" to the gold Cadillac from "Dreamgirls".
Don’t forget to visit the Lower Level - what once was a bowling alley and speakeasy during Prohibition days is now where we house "all things creepy and scary"! Walk down the same jail cell corridor that Jodie Foster walked in "Silence of the Lambs". See Hannibals cell and a fantastic array of props from the film including Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s mask!
Taken floor by floor, here are just some of the highlights of the many exhibits:- Click Here
