Monroe picture sale proves gentlemen prefer blondes

Hundreds of photographs of blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, including famous ones of Monroe in bed and as a ballerina, were sold for more than €588,000 at an auction in Poland.

Bidders and spectators packed the Desa Unicum house in Warsaw, where 238 pictures by the late American fashion and celebrity photographer Milton Greene were up for sale. Only one remained unsold, among about 500 bidders.

The auction house said the 2.4m zlotys obtained made it the nation’s biggest photo auction to date.