"It seems you're a very busy girl and you don't pay much attention to police summons" may sound like the opener to a second-rate skin flick, but it's actually a reprimand from a bail bond broker to Marilyn Monroe, and just one of many morsels in the selection of documents on auction today at The Swann Galleries in New York.

From the Twentieth Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood whets even further America's insatiable appetite for Hollywood indiscretion. Here, however, in a dignified spin on the ever-popular dish, tales of deal-breaking antics and notorious name changes unfold on actual legal documents--sans today's tabloid-y "according to sources" disclaimers.

Fans might well marvel at the pristinely authentic signatures of some of the biggest names Tinseltown has ever seen--Bogart, Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Judy Garland--but the letters likely to bait the highest bidders are, inevitably, those that suggest scandal.

Marlon Brando bails on The Egyptian and hops the Super Chief to New York. Judy Garland is terminated from The Valley of the Dolls. Norma Jean Dougherty is re-christened Marilyn Monroe only to trouble the studio with Lohan-esque absences and illnesses. Despite executive producer Peter Lavathes' objections, she skips a day on Something's Got to Give and goes to John F. Kennedy's birthday party. Happy Birthday, Mr. President, indeed.

Another lot offers four internal memos concerning bootleg copies of Marilyn's famous nude calendar with red-velvet images by Tom Kelley. And because no one loves their memorabilia more than Elvis fanatics, the selection also includes a set of documents relating to Love me Tender and an agreement to start work on Flaming Star, signed by the King himself.

For the higher minded, there are agreements signed by John Steinbeck and William Faulkner granting the motion picture rights to The Grapes of Wrath and The Sound and the Fury, respectively.

Whatever your own film fetish might be, it's worth taking a peek. (See more below. All images are courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.)

--LIZ McDANIEL

Cablegram to Bette Davis indicating that shooting on Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte has been suspended due to an unspecified Joan Crawford illness.

A letter to William Faulkner from Twentieth Century-Fox indicating that the studio is exercising its option on his novel, The Sound and the Fury.