Until the likes of Princess Diana and her fairytale wedding dress came along in the '80s, Monroe's iconic dress was, arguably, the most famous dress in history.
The dress made its debut to Hollywood and the rest of the world in 1955's 'The Seven Year Itch', in which it became famous for its 'Subway Scene'. Since then the dress has become more famous for the iconic woman who wore it than for its quality or for the fact that it was in a classic '50s Hollywood movie.
Debbie Reynolds, a fellow '50s Hollywood star, managed to obtain the dress in 1971 when 20th Century Fox off-loaded Monroe's wardrobe. She was said to be "very emotional" when the deal finaly closed on the dress and other items including Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat and a dress and pair of ruby slippers used in the screen test for 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939).
Reynolds tried for years to get a
museum to take the whole collection but failed. The amazing Hollywood
memorabilia collection is not split up and scattered across the world, most items are now in Japan and Saudi Arabia.
