Marilyn Monroe’s Dress

The dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch sold for the amazing price of $5.5 million (including the 20 percent buyer’s premium). It was worn in the scene where she stands over a subway vent and the dress blows up to her shoulders. It was part of Debbie Reynolds’s collection of movie memorabilia housed in her now-bankrupt Las Vegas museum. The “Itch dress” breaks the 1999 record of $1,267,500 for the dress Monroe wore when she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John Kennedy in 1962.