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"This auction will remind the world why Marilyn Monroe remains an icon." Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, added: "That rendition has lived on for decades as one of the most remarkable events in her career and certainly one of the most storied tales in popular culture history a moment in time squarely at the centre of the 1960s, Hollywood and Camelot." Hundreds of Monroe's items are going up for auction over three days including the beaded cocktail dress worn by the actress in Some Like It Hot, which sold for 375,000 dollars (302,000)

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