Excellent news for Marilyn Monroe fans, you can know more about her intellectual side through the upcoming publication of her hitherto unseen diaries.

Anna Strasberg, the widow of Monroe’s friend Lee Strasberg had inherited the diaries, after her death in 1962. Lee was her acting instructor, too.

The book called “Fragments,” also conveys Monroe’s frustration with being cast as a sex object. Some among the clarification were jotted from as early as 1943, though the most were penned from 1951 to 1962. The diary conveys her actual inside and also reveals her intellectual and literary aspects, which many people were unaware of.

“There is a certain melancholy tone throughout the book, and what is very wonderful in some of the clarification is the way you see the association between thoughts, even if they are reasonably scattered all over the page,” says the editor at Editions du Seuil.

“They go in all directions and it can be sometimes reasonably trying to find order within the fragments,” adds the director.

When questioned about Monroe’s writing, he said, “I reckon that not only did she delight in, but she also felt the need to enter, to sort out her life and try to place down the extremely acute feelings that she could have in reaction to certain situations.”

“She was a fantastic reader and someone with real writing flair. There are fragments of poetry that are really reasonably wonderful, lines that stop you in your tracks,” says Courtney Hodell, an executive editor at the US Publishing House.

Despite the ongoing recession collectors are NOT easing up on acquiring the rare memorabilia reserves of American culture, history and sports. Celebrity autographs, rare first vintage movie posters and autographed sports memorabilia continue to sell for incredible prices at recent auctions. At auction last week was a Marilyn Monroe signed photo I expected to fetch around $10,000-12,000 since it was not one of the best photos I have seen of her. On the divergent, savvy and serious collectors competed fiercely and the final hammer price was $24,000. Another example was a Neil Armstrong signed photo that sold for an astonishing $7000! 

In the autographed sports memorabilia category a Muhammad Ali signed sketch I was personally behest on went for over $1000. It was reasonably a bit more than I expected since I bought a similar cut a link years ago for less than $500. So much for the recession!

And, even on eBay where material usually sells for less than specialized auctions, vintage movie posters have been hot! This week a lobby card from a 1947 Three Stooges Columbia small, with Shemp (NOT the more valuable Curly), in honestly rough condition sells for $1300!  WHAT??  I’ve bought lobby cards with Curly in better condition for $700 (about three years ago). So, when you reckon the American economic system has collapse and there is no place to invest, or reckon no industries are profiting during this economic downturn, reckon again!  And, if you ARE a collector of rare, wanted, first, vintage memorabilia, your world seems to always shine through the dark clouds of economic gloom and doom, irregardless of the media’s intent to make us miserable.

We’ve been collecting and selling historical, sports and American culture memorabilia for over 25 years, and have By no means seen values affected by the economy. On the divergent savvy Collectors are not hindered by traditional consumer fears. Collectors are not driven by media and economic anxiety; they are driven by a passion for life.

Kevin Conway
Conway’s Vintage Reserves
http://www.cvtreasures.com

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