瑪麗蓮•夢露吸大麻錄像曝光
A home movie showing a relaxed Marilyn Monroe apparently smoking marijuana has surfaced, retrieved from an attic some 50 years after it was filmed.
The reel-to-reel silent, color film taken at a private home in New Jersey was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for $275,000 from the person who took the film, who has asked to remain anonymous.
Morgan and the person who shot the film gave Reuters permission to use it in shortened form. The copyright of the image will be put up for sale on eBay later this week, Morgan said.
At one point Monroe is passed a cigarette and takes a puff but does not appear to inhale deeply. The person who made the film confirmed that the cigarette contained marijuana, saying: "I got it (the pot). It was mine. It was just passed around."
"It was not a party. It was just a get-together. You know, come over and hang out," the person said.
Morgan, a collector of historical photos, manuscripts, autographs and documents, is also working on a documentary on the death of Monroe in August 1962.
He learned of the film during his research and tracked down the owner, who kept it as part of an archive that was moved between various homes over the years. The Monroe film had been stored in an attic for three years before Morgan tracked it down.
The actress appears happy and relaxed at a small gathering of friends that Morgan dates to 1958 or 1959, based on her appearance.
"This is the late '50s so she is already very famous, but this is a personal side of her we've never seen before. People have never seen her in such a relaxed pose," Morgan said.
日前，瑪麗蓮·夢露的一段被“雪藏”在閣樓50年的家庭錄像曝光，從錄像中可以看到瑪麗蓮·夢露貌似正吸食大麻，看上去非常放鬆。
這部拍攝於新澤西州一個私人家中的無聲彩色影像帶近日被收藏家凱亞•摩根以27.5萬美元的高價從錄像拍攝人手中買下。該影片的拍攝者不願透露自己的姓名。
摩根和錄像拍攝者允許路透社使用片中的部分內容。摩根說，該影像的版權將於本週晚些時候在易趣網上拍賣。
從錄像中可以看到，當時夢露接過一支菸，吸了一口，但看上去沒有猛吸。影片拍攝者證實那支香菸含有大麻，並說：“大麻是我搞到的，是我的，當時我們只是互相傳着吸。”
這位拍攝者說：“當時我們並沒有開派對，只是一個朋友聚會，就是大家過來，一起玩玩。”
摩根專門收藏曆史照片、手稿、親筆簽名和文獻。目前他正參與制作一部關於夢露之死的紀錄片。夢露於1962年8月去世。
摩根在調查中得知這部影片，繼而找到影片的所有者。儘管影片所有者數年來多次搬家，但一直將它保存得很好。摩根找到它時，它已經在閣樓中被存放了三年。
夢露在這次小型朋友聚會上看起來很開心，也很放鬆。據摩根鑑定，從夢露的容貌來看，這次聚會應該是在1958年或1959年。
摩根說：“那是在50年代末，那時她已經非常出名了，不過這是我們從未見過的她私下的一面。人們從未見過她這麼放鬆的樣子。”
Vocabulary:
reel-to-reel: using magnetic tape wound from one reel to another, as opposed to cassettes 盤式的
track down:追捕到
archive:a repository for stored memories or information 記錄
