Amateur film of Monroe auctioned

Amateur film footage of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the 1959 movie 'Some Like It Hot' has been auctioned in Australia. The two-and-a-half minute film sold for $14,700. The film which features Monroe goofing around with co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, was shot by a US naval officer who was invited to the set after Monroe visited his base in San Diego.The sailor’s daughter, who moved to Australia's Victoria state, discovered the film by chance among her late father's possessions. The footage, which was snapped up Thursday by an unnamed collector from Sydney, fell short of the pre-sale estimate of between A$20,000 (USD16,721) and A$25,000 (USD 20,896) but auctioneer Charles Leski of Leski Auctions acknowledged it "was something of a guess." "The sale price was in the ballpark but we didn't have too much to compare it with," auctioneer Charles Leski of Leski Auctions said. "Our only comparison, the only other bit of amateur footage of Monroe that changed hands at an auction, was a 47-minute film shot by an extra on another of her films, 'The Misfits,' which was sold in Las Vegas in June for USD 60,000 ($A71,745)."