PROMPTBOOK FOR SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, 1961. Carbon typescript, 32 pages, oblong, typed on rectos only. Bound in black paper wrappers, typewritten label "Marilyn Monroe/"Something's Got To Give" on upper cover. Marilyn Monroe's copy, with her pencil notes on 11 pages. On page 1, next to the lines "Kennedy"/"Oh...really...which one" she writes "dead pan." On page 7 she notes that the lines "let me get fixed up a little, will you" have been changed to "let me slip into something more comfortable..." At the bottom of that page she writes "I hope I hope I hope." At page 8 she comments "you are all crazy not me," and adds "dead pan" next to Bianca's lines. On page 10, next to her lines, she comments, "kidding the pants off him.". Acompanied by 415 page hardcover catalogue and original Christie's bidding paddle. Estimate $20,000-25,000
PROVENANCE: Christie''s New York, Sale 9216. The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe, Lot 50, October 27, 1999.
