Marilyn Monroe script — with her notes on how to act sexy — sells for $25,000

Turns out that even Marilyn Monroe needed tips on the art of seduction.

The screen legend’s handwritten notes to herself on her script from “Something’s Got to Give” — a bit of memorabilia that fetched five figures Thursday night at auction — offer insight into how the actress approached her craft. The never-finished film was the last one Monroe worked on before her death.

“Let me get into something more comfortable” and “leeding him on,” she wrote next to a stage direction that says her character and the guy played by Dean Martin should, at that point, “kiss with deepest love.” Hey, Marilyn was never celebrated for her excellent spelling.

All it took was one bid to secure the script dated March 26, 1962, which had an opening price of $20,000 and, with the buyer’s premium paid to the auction house, sold for $25,000, Nate D. Sanders Auctions said Friday.

“In other room throwing out pieces of clothing,” another notation reads, and “1 - Gayity, 2 - excitment, 3 - Then Dazed” is scribbled in another margin.

Monroe, who was frequently out sick during production and rumored to be disruptive when she did show up, was fired from the George Cukor-directed film in June 1962. The movie was never completed; on Aug. 6 of that year, the actress was found dead.

Monroe memorabilia has made much bigger marks at auction, of course. A month ago, the dress she wore when she sang “Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy sold for $4.81 million, and the dress she notoriously wore above a subway grate in “The Seven-Year Itch” brought in nearly that much in 2011.

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