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Hollywood history worn by Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and more struts into Heritage Auctions
Marilyn Monroe The Girl Travilla Polka Dot Meet-Cute Dress From Seven Year Itch (TCF, 1955).
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.- Gene London was a storyteller first as the beloved host of a long-running children s-TV show in Philadelphia, then as curator of an astonishing collection of big-screen costumes worn by glamorous Golden Age idols. Among those whose dresses filled London s shining assemblage: Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Joan Crawford. And on and on it went, a roll call as long as the guest list to party at Frank Sinatra s Farralone home; each one, a star who only grows bigger as the screens get smaller.