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Marilyn Monroe Lighting Firecracker

(Original Caption) As spectators look on mirthfully actress Marilyn Monroe registers shocked surprise as she ignites a "Super" firecracker touching off inaugural ceremonies at the reactivated Rockefeller Center Sidewalk Superintendents Club here, July 2nd. The mechanical firecracker was triggered to an actual dynamite blast in a excavation pit at the site of the new 47-story Time & Life building nearby. True to from, Marilyn arrived more than two hours late for the ceremony and thereby missed seeing Laurence S. Rockefeller, a member of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, who had been waiting to greet her. Rockefeller left moments before for a lunch date. Marilyn flew into town aboard a helicopter from her summer home in Amagansett, L.I.
(Original Caption) As spectators look on mirthfully actress Marilyn Monroe registers shocked surprise as she ignites a "Super" firecracker touching off inaugural ceremonies at the reactivated Rockefeller Center Sidewalk Superintendents Club here, July 2nd. The mechanical firecracker was triggered to an actual dynamite blast in a excavation pit at the site of the new 47-story Time & Life building nearby. True to from, Marilyn arrived more than two hours late for the ceremony and thereby missed seeing Laurence S. Rockefeller, a member of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, who had been waiting to greet her. Rockefeller left moments before for a lunch date. Marilyn flew into town aboard a helicopter from her summer home in Amagansett, L.I.
Marilyn Monroe Lighting Firecracker
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Credit:
Bettmann / Contributor
Editorial #:
517249466
Collection:
Bettmann
Date created:
July 02, 1957
License type:
Rights-managed
Release info:
Not released. More information
Source:
Bettmann
Object name:
u1135242.jpg
Max file size:
4432 x 2839 px (14.77 x 9.46 in) - 300 dpi - 3 MB