梦露成名前所拍性爱短片将被拍卖

一支据称是已故性感女神玛丽莲·梦露成名前所拍的性爱短片将于下月公开拍卖，底价50万美元。

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A Spanish collector plans to auction what he claims is a rare film of Marilyn Monroe shot when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker.
A Spanish collector plans to auction what he claims is a rare film of Marilyn Monroe shot when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker.

Collector Mikel Barsa wants at least $500,000 (£306,500) for the sexually explicit³（明确的，清楚的） six-and-a-half-minute, grainy black-and-white film, which he says was made before 1947 when Monroe was not yet 21.

The face of the woman in the film looks considerably⁴（相当地） different from the Monroe who emerged later as a star, although she does bear a resemblance to（相像，相似） the star as she appeared in one of her first movies.

Love Happy, released in 1949, showed the actress as she was before she lost weight, added a beauty spot on her left cheek and became one of Hollywood's most enduring stars.

"The Marilyn that everybody recognises is not the Marilyn seen [in this film] because she underwent a great transformation," Mr Barsa said.

Some have expressed doubts though about the identity of the woman in the video.

A Marilyn Monroe expert said the actress in the film was someone considerably heavier and less feminine than the legendary⁵ film star.

"If you look at the chin line, at the jaw⁶ line, at the teeth of the woman in the film and compare that to Marilyn you can clearly make some distinctions," said Scott Fortner, who has a sizeable collection of Monroe memorabilia.

The film is not the only copy in existence, nor is it the first pornographic（色情的） film attributed to the actress.

A 15-minute, 16mm film, reportedly shot in the 1950s and said to show the blonde sex symbol engaged in oral sex with a unidentified man sold for $1.5 million (£920,000) in 2008.

Mr Barsa said his 8mm film was identical to a 16mm reel discovered more than a decade ago and sold to a collector for $1.2 million (£735,000) in 1997. In the 1940s, sex films were often made using side-by-side 16mm and 8mm cameras, since audiences used both formats⁸, he added.

The Spaniard has refused to identify the owner of the films who has sought his help in selling them, but said he planned to auction the unverified film on August 7 at a memorabilia collectors fair in Buenos Aires.

Monroe died in 1962, aged⁷ 36.