"This is just for you." She leant forward and blew a kiss to the camera. As the day went on, it became increasingly cold. In other shots she was swathed in a large green towel, or clad in a thick-knit woollen jumper that emphasised the smallness of her wrists. One session took them to Santa Monica beach, where she enjoyed champagne and paddled in the sea. "She never looked more beautiful, nor was she ever so talkative." "She was wonderful to work with the entire time," Barris recalled. A well-heeled friend in the North Hollywood Hills lent them his house for longer conversations and elaborate backdrops. From June 9 until July 18, therefore, he and Marilyn Monroe began a series of interviews, shoots and shopping sprees.īarris went to Beverly Hills to buy Monroe some slacks, a beach jacket and a bikini. The title of her latest film, Something's Got To Give, struck Barris as apt readers, he told the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, would be anxious to know what the future held. Her marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller had collapsed. She had spent six months of the previous year being treated for health problems including severe depression. Credit: Baronīarris was aware that not all the headlines had been positive.
Actress Marilyn Monroe poses for George Barris in 1954 in Palm Springs, California.
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