30 original 2.25 x 2.25 in. negatives of Marilyn Monroe, photographers unknown, 25 of which were taken in September 1953 at a St. Jude Children's Hospital benefit at the Hollywood Bowl. Monroe wore a Travilla-designed orange gown from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and was photographed with other celebrities such as Danny Thomas (founder of St. Jude's), Danny Kaye, the Ames Brothers, and Robert Mitchum; no one, however, was looking at anyone but Marilyn, whose luminosity that night as she…
