We imagine this is a vintage piece about Marilyn Monroe that all collectors would want to possess.
A newly discovered 8-mm version of a film purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker, will hit the auction block soon.
Spanish collector Mikel Barsa, who owns the 6 1/2-minute, grainy black-and-white film, is hoping for it to fetch at least $500,000 (RM1.5 million).
He revealed that the film was made before 1947, when Monroe was not yet 21.
However, Scott Fortner, a Marilyn Monroe expert contradicted the claim, explaining that the person featured in the film is not Monroe.
"That's not Marilyn. The chin is not the same, the lips are not the same, the teeth are not the same. Marilyn was a tiny little thing. And I know that for a fact. I own her clothing," he said, adding that he has a belt that belonged to the legendary actress.
Barsa responded: "People with romantic notions have denied that it's Marilyn Monroe, and have invented stories" to raise doubts about the film, Barsa said in his Buenos Aires office, which is lined with pictures from his days as a concert promoter. "This film shows the real Marilyn Monroe – it was only later that the studios discovered her and transformed her."
It was said that though the woman featured in the film was unlike the glamourous Monroe we all know and love, she bore striking resemblance to the movie icon in one of her early movies, Love Happy in 1949, before she shed some weight and added what would later become her trademark – a beauty spot on her left cheek.
