Images and copyrights from Marilyn Monroe’s first photo shoot sold for $352,000 at an auction that included items from Lady Gaga and John Lennon.

The photos, taken in 1946 when she was still Norma Jeane Dougherty, were the highlight of the Beverly Hills auction known as “Icons & Idols,” Julien’s Auctions spokeswoman Caroline Galloway tells The Associated Press.

The photos come with negatives and the rare right to sell and distribute them. A judge in September ruled they must be auctioned to settle debts of photographer Joseph Jasgur.

A Lady Gaga dress sold for $31,250, and the prop gun used in her video for “Born This way” went for $7,680.

A 1969 caricature John Lennon drew of himself and Yoko Ono went for $90,000.

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Cosmopolitan has put together images an information on how to channel and get the right look to embody “Marilyn Monroe”. Of course no one could ever really ‘embody’ her because there is only 1 Marilyn but however you could always dress like your favorite 1950s star!

With the new film, My Week With Marilyn, opening on November 23rd, we suddenly want to make over our wardrobes and dress exactly like the sexy screen siren. Here are the key pieces to get it right.

How to Channel Marilyn Monroe

It is a role that a million actresses across the world would give their right arm – and possibly their leg – to play.

But Michelle Williams has admitted that playing Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe was daunting and terrifying and that was before she had even begun filimg.

The 31-year-old actress plays the screen siren in new film My Week With Marilyn which tells the story of Monroe’s four-month stay in the UK to film The Prince and the Showgirl alongside Laurence Olivier.

And Michelle said she almost didn’t take on the role at all, even thought she knew she wanted to the moment she read the script.

And even when director Simon Curtis flew to her New York home to offer her the part, Michelle said she wasn’t sure she could accept and begged him to audition her properly.

Speaking to Elle magazine, she said: ‘I said, “I want both of us to know that I can do this, I don’t want to be offered this role for any other reason than we know that I’m capable of it”.

‘I was so apprehensive. It was daunting living up to people’s expectations as well as my own expectations. I wanted to hop on the next train to the Alps or something and get the hell out because it was terrifying.’

And less than a month before the film is released in the UK, she admitted that the fear hasn’t left her yet, adding: ‘I’ve never been so hanging on a cliff waiting to hear what people think of a movie.’

Michelle, who has six-year-old daughter Matilda from her relationship with late actor Australian Heath Ledger, said she has always admired Monroe, who died aged 36 in August 1962.

She said: ‘Something I really appreciated about her is what a simple dresser she was. She’s really, in her personal life, completely unadorned.

‘Everything that she wore looked like she could take hr shoes off and run through a field. And I like that.’

And Michelle said she was always more interested in Monroe’s private life as opposed to her acting career.

She said: ‘I had always been more interested in the private Marilyn, and the unguarded Marilyn.

‘Even as a young girl, my primary concern wasn’t with this larger than life personality smiling back from the wall but with what was going on underneath.’

The film also stars Dame Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson and is released in the UK on November 25.

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The dress Marilyn Monroe wore in “River of No Return” has sold to a private buyer for $504,000.

Darren Julien, president and CEO of Julien’s Auctions, said Saturday that the dress was sold at an auction in China. Monroe wore the green velour dress while she sang “I’m Gonna File My Claim” in the 1954 Western in which she portrayed Kay Washington, a gambler’s wife.

Among other items that have been sold at the auction were the bustier that Madonna wore during her “Who’s That Girl” tour in 1987. It has sold for $72,000.

The famous white dress Monroe wore in “The Seven Year Itch” was sold for $4.6 million at an auction this summer.

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The Debbie Reynolds Collection auction in June far exceeded its initial estimates, and earned a place in the Guinness World Records after selling Monroe’s iconic white “Subway Dress” for $5.52 million, making it the world’s most expensive dress.

Fans and collectors of Monroe will have another chance of owning costumes worn by the late actress, priced between $150,000 and $300,000 at the Debbie Reynolds Collection Part II auction.

Monroe’s provocatively sexy costumes were known for pushing the barrier set by strict film censorship codes. The December auction will feature Monroe’s saucy showgirl leotard from the Oscar-nominated 1956 film “Bus Stop,” designed by William Travilla, auctioneers Profile in History said on Tuesday.

The screen legend’s gowns from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” the 1953 thriller “Niagara,” and the 1960 Oscar-nominated comedy “Let’s Make Love,” will also be up for auction.

Reynolds, 79, began amassing the impressive collection when she was a young actress under contract at MGM. When the studio auctioned off everything except its real estate in 1970, she turned a pastime into what she called an “obsession.”

But her dream of displaying her beloved costumes in a museum was dashed several times and she was forced to sell them to pay back creditors.

Monroe’s four costumes will be auctioned in Beverly Hills as part of the Debbie Reynolds Collection Part II on December 3.

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