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TAPE: EF03/0340 IN_TIME: 14:05:46 DURATION: 4:30 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: London, 9th April 2003 SHOTLIST 1. Mid shot Exhibition poster 2. Wide shot pan exhibition room 3. Close-up single picture 4. 2 shot blurred pictures 5. Close-up detail blurred picture 6. Mid shot painting of Monroe with Elvis 7. Close-up painting of Monroe with Elvis 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Levy, Curator - giving overview of exhibition: "They had 250 to 260 artworks and they say half and half it's photo and the other half is paintings and drawings and then we have some memorabilia from Marilyn Monroe and even a full vitrine of products from after her death." 9. MS contact sheet of photos, Monroe laughing on a bed 10. Close-up contact sheet image, Monroe on a bed 11. Close-up photo Marilyn by boat 12. Close-up photo Marilyn in car with Arthur Miller 13. Close-up photo Marilyn in polo neck sweater 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Levy, Curator - on how photographs show real Marilyn: "They show all parts of her life, when she is crying, when she is laughing. But I think the result of the show is that she was not only a blonde doll but that she has a lot of humour I found out working in this show. People say that blondes are stupid, I think if you've seen this show you really know that something else happened with this person." 15. Various early pictures - as brunette 16 Various Playboy shoot images 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Levy, Curator - on early photos: "Some photos she had completely different hair, different teeth so you see how the film business changed her to an artificial person at the end. " 18. Various Monroe's final photo shoot 19. Close-up MGM style poster with Monroe's face 20. Mide shot wall of art 21. Close-up painting 22. Mid shot painting 23. Various Richard Lindner drawings (sequence of 3) 24. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Levy, Curator - on his favourite artwork in exhibition: "The last photos are from Bert Stern, they are very known because the show was going all over the world and from Kirkland. And even the last photos of Bert Stern inspired again a lot of other artists, even young artists of our time. This was done two weeks before she made suicide so we have the first photos of Norma Jean and the last photos of Marilyn Munroe." 25. Mid shot wall of Andy Warhol pop art Monroe 26. Close-up white dress photograph 27. Mid shot wall of white dress images NORMA JEAN TO MARILYN MONROE, IN PICTURES Previously unseen photographs of Marilyn Monroe are about to go on display as part of a new exhibition dedicated to the screen legend in London. The 'Marilyn Monroe -Life Of A Legend' exhibition will also include famous images by pop artists Andy Warhol, and Peter Blake, and legendary photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Richard Avedon. Early photographs of a young Norma Jean are on display, along with images from Monroe's Playboy photoshoot and the last photo session she took part in, two weeks before her death. Monroe memorabilia will also be on display, including jewellery, designer dresses and childhood momentoes. The bed in which the Some Like it Hot star slept in will also be on show. The exhibition opens on April 9 at the County Hall Gallery in central London. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortensen Baker in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her mother, widowed and insane, abandoned Monroe to a number of foster homes. Monroe was almost smothered to death aged two and nearly raped aged six. The screen icon was married three times. Her first marriage, to factory worker Jim Dougherty, lasted for four years ending in September 1946. Her second huband was baseball star Joe DiMaggio, whom she married in January 1954 and divorced in October of the same year. Her final husband was playwright Arthur Miller. The marriage lasted from June 1956 to their divorce in January 1961. The actress was also rumoured to have had affairs with President John F Kennedy and his brother, Robert F Kennedy. Monroe made her name as a blonde bombshell in the hit movies 'How to Marry a Millionaire' and 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.' She also won international acclaim in 'Bus Stop' (1956) and 'Some Like It Hot' (1959), with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. Her final film was Miller's drama 'The Misfits' (1961), with Clark Gable. She appeared in 30 films in total. Monroe was also widely photographed in sexy poses and appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953. Early in 1962, Monroe was dropped from 'Something's Got to Give' after her film company said she was always late and was dependent on drugs. Four months later, she was found dead of an overdose of sleeping pills in her Los Angeles home. Monroe left an estate valued at 1.6 million dollars. In her will, she gave 75% of that estate to Lee Strasberg, her acting coach, and 25% to Dr Marianne Kris, her psychoanalyst. A trust fund provided her mother, Gladys Baker Eley,with 5,000 dollars a year.