MARILYN MONROE
Group of 4 internal memos concerning bootleg copies of her famous nude calendar featuring the red velvet images by Tom Kelley.
Lengths vary, 8 1/2x11 inches or smaller. Holes punched in the top margin.

with: Two newspaper clippings relating to the calendars taped to the same sheet with a memo from Harry Brand to Frank Ferguson sending them.

Monroe, pressed for cash, posed for Kelley in 1949. The images used in the calendar and later in the first issue of Playboy would come to define sex appeal for an entire generation.