What Are Marilyn Monroe's Unseen Footage Unveiled?

The Seven Year Itch photo of Marylin Monroe with her puffy white dress is an all-time iconic movie moment and now the behind-the-scenes story has been revealed.

An old home video has surfaced showing the scene being filmed. It was September 15, 1964 when the film's director, Billy Wilder, and Monroe planned to film the scene on a New York sidewalk.

But the crowd of reporters and viewers, including Monroe's husband Joe DiMaggio, who hated the dress, became rowdy when the duo were forced to re-do the scene at 20th Century Fox's premises. Then in the crowd was a man named Jules Schulback who followed Monroe and captured the scene on film. The revealing footage of Schoolback has been edited into a 12 second video.

Schulback's granddaughter, Bonnie Siegler, and her husband, Jeff Scher, found the photos in a plastic bag full of old movies she shot of family outings, bar mitzvahs, and more.

The original short is 3 minutes and 17 seconds. It includes humorous title cards that Schulback had added and shows Monroe drying her hair in a second story window. The footage then cuts to the icon standing on the subway grate, preparing to film the scene.

Nearly 50 years after her death, a series of never-before-seen intimate photos of Marilyn Monroe have been released which show a more relaxed side of the star.

Photos of Monroe, who died in 1961 aged 36, show a more relaxed side of the star as she poses on the grass and pauses while reading a script.

In another candid photo, she playfully covers half her face with a make-up mirror on the set of a photo shoot.

The images are part of a collection called "Marilyn" by American photojournalist Eve Arnold, who captured Monroe at the height of her fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

"She loved my photos and was perceptive enough to realize that this was a new approach to presenting them: a more relaxed and intimate look than the studio portraits I was used to in Hollywood," said Arnold, now 98, from The Independent. from the collection

Monroe's eight limited-edition prints were taken at seemingly unconscious times in 1960 while making her final feature film, The Misfits.

Only 495 were produced, prices start at £350.

They were exhibited in galleries across the country on Saturday, including in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Nottingham and Newcastle.