Effort to Return Marilyn Monroe’s Fluttering White Dress from "The Seven Year Itch" to New York City

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- The iconic white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in “The Seven Year Itch” may be headed back to New York City, where a gust of air from a subway grate sent it billowing upward and into movie history. A New York-based technology company is raising funds to buy the dress when it comes up for auction later this month in Los Angeles and to bring it home to New York to be placed on permanent display, possibly in a museum. Profiles in History, the auction house handling the sale, says the dress is worth between $1 million and $2 million. “The dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in ‘The Seven Year Itch’ is as much a part of her iconic image as her stunning beauty,” Darlene Newman, a co-founder of inQuicity,

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