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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Anther way for you to own a little piece of your favorite celebrity.

Daily Variety has reported that next month, movie studio 20th Century Fox will auction off more than 200 documents signed by stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando.

The auction will take place in New York on January 25 through auctioneer Swann Galleries.
Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a charity for Hollywood actors and other employees.

Among the offerings are a 1946 internal memo advising that Norma Jean Dougherty was changing her professional name to Marilyn Monroe; a contract allowing Presley to violate strict grooming codes and wear his hair however he saw fit for "Love Me Tender," his 1956 feature film debut; and Brando's 1951 contract for "Viva Zapata," which paid him almost $125,000 for the film.

According to the Swann Galleries website, other contracts on the block have been signed by the likes of Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, Will Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Lana Turner, Dean Martin, John Steinbeck, Natalie Wood, the Three Stooges, and Judy Garland.

These papers are so cool that, as a fan of that history, I will have to restrain myself from bidding," Daily Variety quoted studio co-chairman Tom Rothman as saying.

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