The Wildly Expensive Clothes That Broke Auction Records

Marilyn Monroe's 'Seven Year Itch' subway grate dress

In the 1955 film, Richard Sherman (played by Tom Ewell) ships his wife and son off to vacation in Maine and encounters a gorgeous young model who happens to move in upstairs in his New York City apartment.

The bid: US$4.5 million

The dress that was worn by Marilyn Monroe in that iconic scene where her character is struggling to keep her white dress down while standing over a drafty subway grate sold for US$4.5 million at an auction in Beverly Hills.

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