IN THE PAGES OF HISTORY
This glamorous collection is worth a pretty penny. Among the
most valuable items is Marilyn Monroe's personal shooting
script for Some Like it Hot, filled with her notes and elaborately
folded pages, which Nicholas (pictured above) scooped up at a
Christie's auction for $20,000. (Coincidentally, Nicholas once
provided makeup for Monroe's original costar, Tony Curtis,
when he toured a stage musical based on the film.) Nicholas
says that today the script is worth about twice that much. But,
he says, his memorabilia isn't about making money; it's about
retaining real relics of his industry's history. "We feel we need
to preserve, protect, and respect it," he says.
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