The star wore the dangling earrings to the 1955 Hollywood premiere of 'The Rose Tattoo', which she attended with Marlon Brando. 

Monroe did not appear in the film based on a Tennessee Williams play.

They were part of a Hollywood auction that included a lighter owned by Humphrey Bogart which sold for $19,200 or €14,000 and a 1986 Pontiac Firebird owned by David Hasselhoff which was purchased for $152,600 or €111,000.

The rhinestone jewelry went to an undisclosed foreign buyer.