Amazing Find!! These sketches turned up in at the Idaho State University Library. From the movie "The Stripper" originally created for Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was being considered for the role of Lila, a small town stripper with Hollywood dreams and aspirations. Bill Sarris remembers "Travilla was excited about returning to Twentieth Century Fox and working with Marilyn again after six years." Unfortunately, Monroe's untimely death prevented their reunion from occurring. Actress Joanne Woodward filmed the role wearing other costumes designed by Travilla, for which he received his fourth and final Academy Award nomination. The estate has only two sketches of Marilyn from that time, so finding these is thrilling. Thankyou to Natasha from the Copley Centre for Costume Design, UCLA for finding them and to Karen from the Idaho library for giving me the background on how the images made it to Idaho. We would like to thank Five Dollar Shake for creating the most incredible collection of cards from Travilla's sketches. They are now available for purchase here.
