The Misfits

Lot 891: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961), possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe co-stars Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$384 - Estimate: $400 - $600
  

Lot 892: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The images show Marilyn Monroe and co-star Clark Gable working a scene.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$384 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 893: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains various images of the principal cast of the film including Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$384 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 894: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961), possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, including images of Monroe seated between takes talking to a child. One image is marked with an "X" and marked "6" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$384 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 895: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 behind-the-scenes images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Eli Wallach.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 896: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of seven images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe and co-star Clark Gable.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600  
 

Lot 897: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 10 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains two images of Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. Clark Gable appears in all of the photographs. Eli Wallach is in six of the 10 images.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 898: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains five images that include Marilyn Monroe. The remaining images show the principal male stars of the film, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach, working with horses and lassos.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600
  

Lot 899: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains three images that include Marilyn Monroe. The remaining images show the principal male stars of the film: Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 900: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe. Some images include co-star Clark Gable, and two images show director John Huston speaking to both Gable and Monroe.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 901: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe from two separate scenes in the film riding in a car. In some of the images Eli Wallach is the driver, in others Clark Gable is the driver.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 902: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 11 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe riding in a car. Clark Gable is the driver in eight of the images. Monroe appears to be asleep in three of the images.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 903: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 18 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe riding in a truck with Eli Wallach and a dog. Marked "222" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$320 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 904: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 19 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe riding in a truck with Eli Wallach, two desert views, and four images of Monroe speaking with a man whose back is to the camera. Marked "221" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 905: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe from two separate scenes in the film riding in a car. In some of the images Eli Wallach is the driver, in others Clark Gable is the driver with Montgomery Clift in the car as well. Two of these latter images have a black X over Gable's face.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 906: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe riding in a car with Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Other images are portrait shots of Eli Wallach.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 907: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$75 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 908: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet has 12 images of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable during the film's swim scene.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$512 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 909: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 15 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable and two candid images of Monroe by herself. Marked "170" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$320 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 910: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961), possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains images of an intimate scene between Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$1,920 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 911: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 19 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains five images of Marilyn Monroe with Montgomery Clift. The remaining images are from a desert scene with horses. Marked "177" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 912: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe and Eli Wallach in a car together, images of Montgomery Clift lying on the ground, and two images of three unknown persons on the set.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 913: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe with Montgomery Clift. Director John Huston can be seen talking to the actors in some of the images. Marked "174" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 914: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 13 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe riding in a truck with Eli Wallach. Marked "221" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 915: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 20 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe with Montgomery Clift and horse wrangling scenes shot in the desert. Marked "177" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 916: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 20 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains behind-the-scenes images of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery Clift with other members of the cast and crew. Marked "192" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 917: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 11 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe resting between takes, Arthur Miller reclining on set, five images of Clark Gable with a dog on set, and a candid portrait of Montgomery Clift.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 918: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid and behind-the-scenes images of Marilyn Monroe, her longtime makeup artist Whitey Snyder with what appears to be a birthday cake, Arthur Miller, Eli Wallach and Clark Gable. One image of Gable seated with two other men has a red X drawn through it.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 919: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of nine behind-the-scenes images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains one image of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $200 - $400

Lot 920: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 20 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains four images of Marilyn Monroe with makeup man and friend Whitey Snyder. Other images are of the cast and crew on location. Marked "203" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 921: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 15 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains five images of Marilyn Monroe with Montgomery Clift. The remaining images are of Clark Gable pulling a rope. John Huston appears in one image with Gable. Marked "204" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 922: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 20 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains four images of Marilyn Monroe with Montgomery Clift. Other images show Clark Gable with director John Huston and Eli Wallach in a plane, among other set shots. Marked "194" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 923: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 17 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961) possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe in a truck, and images of Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery Clift in the desert. Marked "192" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 924: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 11 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable as well as three group shots of the cast and crew.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$250 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 925: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains five images of the principal characters, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach, and six images of Monroe's and Paula Strasberg's personalized chairs from the set.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 926: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 10 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe, Paula Strasberg, Eli Wallach and one image of Monroe and Wallach with Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable, with other general set images.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 927: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Eli Wallach.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11inches
Winning bid:$768 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 928: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). Marilyn Monroe appears in six of the images. Co-stars Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift can be seen in some of the images.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 929: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid and behind-the-scenes images of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 930: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 11 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable and a behind-the-scenes image.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$576 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 931: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 10 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 932: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 19 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961), possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains images of the film's principal actors: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift. Marked "193" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 933: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet from the filming of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet has 12 images of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set in candid moments.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$1,000 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 934: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach and images of Monroe on horseback.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$192 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 935: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961), possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains candid images of Marilyn Monroe on the set with crew members preparing for her swim scene in the film.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
Winning bid:$1,562.50 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 936: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 12 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961) possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe alone and with Montgomery Clift, director John Huston, and an image of the crew.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$256 - Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot 937: THE MISFITS STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTACT SHEET
 A contact sheet of 20 images from the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961) possibly taken by Eve Arnold. The sheet contains images of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, an image of Monroe with Arthur Miller, two images of Monroe alone, and other images taken on set of Monroe on horseback and in the water. Marked "176" on verso.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
14 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$512 - Estimate: $400 - $600
 

Lot 938: MARILYN MONROE MISFITS CANDID PHOTOGRAPH
 A vintage black and white image of Marilyn Monroe with Eli Wallach on the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961).
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
8 by 10 inches
Winning bid:$128 - Estimate: $300 - $500
  

Lot 939: MARILYN MONROE MISFITS CANDID PHOTOGRAPH
 A vintage black and white image of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961).
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
8 by 10 inches
Winning bid:$384 - Estimate: $300 - $500
  

Lot 940: MARILYN MONROE RELATED NOTE ON MISFITS LETTERHEAD
 A letter written to Marilyn Monroe Productions on The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961) letterhead, dated March 13, 1961. Written to May Reis, Monroe's private secretary from the comptroller of the film. The letter is dated one month following the release of the film in regard to Arthur Miller.
8 1/2 by 11 inches
 Winning bid:$375 - Estimate: $300 - $500
 

Lot 942: MARILYN MONROE'S PERSONAL COPY OF A MISFITS BEHIND-THE-SCENES FILM
 A 16mm reel of behind-the-scenes footage shot on the set of The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961). The reel comes with the original envelope that is addressed to Marilyn Monroe from United Artists. Notes on the envelope read "16mm publicity" and "The Misfits/ film for Foreign Screening." Accompanied by a document from UA titled “The Making of ‘The Misfits’/ (Narration for a 20-minute featurette)” with a personal note to Monroe affixed to the cover page.
The film begins with Marilyn Monroe arriving in Reno, Nevada, with Arthur Miller and being received at the airport, then then driving through Reno. The next scene appears to be a press conference with Monroe and co-stars Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Kevin McCarthy, Thelma Ritter, director John Huston and Monroe's husband, Arthur Miller.
The approximately 19-minute film goes on to show a variety of behind-the-scenes activities of the cast and crew beginning with the filming of Monroe and Ritter in a street scene that was cut from the final version of the film.
Other segments of the include Monroe at Harrahs Casino taking refreshment with Ritter, Houston and a dog Monroe attempts to feed; the cast on location; street filming in Reno with the cast in a vehicle followed by a parade of observers; Monroe signing autographs; Monroe greeting and get on a horse; shots of the cast being filmed riding together; aerial images of the set; a baseball game being played on set; a football being tossed on set with Miller and Houston joining in the game; and Monroe lounging with two other women on the hood of a car. The last part of the film shows the filming of a “Misfits” scene where Monroe is swimming and playing with a dog in the water. The very last image is of Monroe running from the water to embrace Gable. No audio. Accompanied by a DVD copy of the film.
PROVENANCE From the lost archive of Marilyn Monroe
8 1/4 inches
Winning bid:$4,800 - Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000

 

  Marilyn Monroe, des années de réflexion
article publié sur liberation.fr

La galerie In Focus, à Cologne, expose au Château Kolvenburg-Billerbeck, en Allemagne, huit regards de photographes célèbres sur Norma Jeane Baker de 1945 à 1962. Une chronologie de l'absolue photogénie de l'actrice américaine.
«Marilyn Monroe, in the Vew of Master Photographers » jusqu'au 4 novembre. Commissariat de l'exposition : Burkhard Arnold. Kolvenburg. An der Kolvenburg 3. 48727 Billerbeck. Galerie In Focus, Cologne. www.infocusgalerie.com

   
En 1945, elle est alors une jeune modèle de 19 ans. Andre de Dienes est photographe de mode.
Photo Andre de Dienes. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne

En 1946. Le photographe Andre de Dienes suivra la star et son évolution jusqu'en 1953.
Photo Andre de Dienes. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne

 
En 1946. Bruno Bernard, plus connu sous le nom de Bernard of Hollywood, est le photographe des pin-up et du glamour. Il réalise des séances de photo-test dans son studio.
Photo Bruno Bernard. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne

En 1950, pour le magazine «Life» qui ne publiera pas cette image, estimant que Marilyn n'est pas assez connue, et attendra 1953 pour la mettre en une.
Photo Edward-Clark. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne 

 
En 1953.
Photo Bruno Bernard. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne 

En 1954. Sur le tournage de «Sept Ans de réflexion» de Billy Wilder, où de nombreux photographes ont immortalisé la scène devenue mythique.
Photo Bruno Bernard. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne 

A New York, en 1954.
Photo Elliott Erwitt. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne

Avec son mari, Arthur Miller, en 1960. Eve Arnold, photographe de l'agence Magnum décédée en 2012, rencontre l'actrice en 1952.
Photo Eve Arnold. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne

A Los Angeles, en 1960. Eve Arnold et Marilyn Monroe collaboreront plus de dix ans ensemble.
Photo Eve Arnold. Courtesy In Focus Galerie. Cologne 

 
En 1962. George Barris est un des derniers photographes à shooter la star.
Photo George Barris. Courtesy In Focus Galerie - Cologne

Le matin du 9 février 1956, une conférence de presse se tient au Plaza Hotel de New York, où Marilyn Monroe et Laurence Olivier annoncent leur intention de tourner une version cinématographique de la pièce de Terence Rattigan "The Sleeping Prince". Le film se tournera en Angleterre, où Olivier avait obtenu un succès avec la pièce originale, dans laquelle il jouait avec sa femme Vivien Leigh. Marilyn a acheté les droits du film 125 000 Dollars et paie Rattigan pour qu'il en écrive le scénario. C'est le premier projet concret de sa société Marilyn Monroe Productions: Greene en est le producteur exécutif, Olivier le réalisateur et producteur, et la Warner Bros en est le distributeur.
Environ 150 journalistes sont présents: photographes et reporters de la presse écrite et de la télévision. Comme à son habitude, Marilyn est en retard et tout le monde l'attend.

At the morning in February 9, 1956, a press conference is held at the Plaza Hotel in New York, where Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier announce their intention to shoot a film version of Terence Rattigan's play "The Sleeping Prince". The film will be turn in England, where Olivier had achieved success with the original play, in which he played with his wife Vivien Leigh. Marilyn has bought the film rights 125,000 dollars and pays Rattigan for he writes the screenplay. This is the first project of its company Marilyn Monroe Productions: Greene is the executive producer, Olivier the director and producer, and Warner Bros. is the distributor.
About 150 journalists are present: photographers and reporters from print and television. As usually, Marilyn is late and everyone is waiting for her. Finally, she appears, on the balcony, with Laurence Olivier, Terence Rattigan and Milton Greene.

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Elle apparaît enfin, au balcon, avec Laurence Olivier, Terence Rattigan et Milton Greene. Puis, Marilyn et Olivier restent un moment au balcon, laissant les photographes les prendre en photos, avant de descendre les escaliers.
Then, Marilyn and Olivier stay a while to the balcony, letting photographers taking pictures, before going down the stairs.

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Marilyn et Olivier rejoignent la table de conférence de presse.
Déclarations:
M.M.: "J'aimerais continuer à grandir de toutes les façons possibles."
L.O.: "Marilyn est une brillante comédienne et, par conséquent, une très bonne actrice."

Marilyn and Olivier joined the table press conference.
Statements:
M.M.: "I would continue to grow in all possible ways."
L.O.: "Marilyn is a brilliant actress and, therefore, a very good actress."

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Un événement, sans doute orchestrée par Marilyn, va se produire: la bretelle de sa robe noire John Moore va craquer. Olivier restera d'ailleurs convaincue qu'elle le fit exprès pour monopoliser l'attention. Lorsque la bretelle a cédé, la journaliste Judith Crist du 'New York Herald Tribune' est aux premières loges: "J'étais juste derrière elle, poussée contre elle par la cohue largement masculine de journalistes. Il y a les toilettes des dames à droite, j'ai une épingle de secours". La bretelle va être raccomodée rapidement, mais elle cédera à nouveau lors du shooting photos de Marilyn en haut des escaliers. L'incident va s'étaler dans tous les journaux et constituera une excellente publicité.
Olivier, qui, en public, ne tarit pas d'éloges sur Marilyn, est inquiet dans l'intimité. Après la conférence, il dit au producteur Saul Colin dans la limousine qui les ramène: "Saul, je me demande si je n'ai pas fait une erreur."

An event, probably prepared by Marilyn, will happen: the strap of her black John Moore dress will break. Olivier remains convinced that the purpose of Marilyn was to monopolize attention. When the dress strap has broken, the journalist Judith Crist of the 'New York Herald Tribune' is next to Marilyn: "I was directly behind her, pushed against her by the largely male crush of reporters. There’s a ladies’ room to the right. I have a safety pin." The strap is repaired quickly, but it will break again during the photo shoot of Marilyn upstairs. The incident will be spread in all the newspapers and provide an excellent advertising.
Olivier, who, in public, not raves about Marilyn, is worried in private. After the conference, he saiys to the producer Saul Colin, in the limo that brings them back: "Saul, I wonder if I have not made a mistake." 

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Souvenir de la photographe Eve Arnold: "Son attaché de presse de la côte Est, Lois Smith, me téléphona pour m'inviter à assister à une conférence de presse organisée au Waldorf, au cours de laquelle Laurence Olivier -devenu Sir Laurence Olivier- et Miss Monroe allaient parler du nouveau film qu'ils se préparaient à tourner en Angleterre. J'arrivai un peu en avance de manière à rendre visite à Marilyn dans sa loge avant le début de la conférence. Marilyn avait toujours eu du mal à amorcer les choses. (...) Consciente qu'elle aurait à galvaniser les journalistes, à rendre l'instant magique, à frapper leur imagination, elle hésitait à entrer en scène. Les minutes passaient, on l'attendait et on s'impatientait. Le temps jouait en sa défaveur, mais elle semblait paralysée et incapable d'y remédier, alors que son souhait le plus cher était de ne décevoir personne. (...) Il était onze heures du matin et elle portait une robe de velours noir aux bretelles à peine plus large qu'un spaghetti. Elle était éblouissante, le noir de sa robe faisait ressortir sa peau blanche et sa chevelure blonde. Lorsque je le lui dis, elle me fit un clin d'oeil dans le miroir et me répondit simplement: "Regarde bien". Je n'étais restée qu'une minute dans sa loge, le temps de lui dire bonjour. Elle était déjà en retard. A l'extérieur s'impatientaient Laurence Olivier et le scénriste du film Terence Rattigan, qui me fusillèrent du regard. (...) Marilyn apparut à un balcon en compagnie de Laurence Olivier, Terence Rattigan et Milton Greene. Lentement, Marilyn et Olivier descendirent l'escalier et furent engloutis par une foule de professionnels bien intentionnés; il leur fut difficile de se frayer un chemin. Ils atteignirent enfin la table de conférence et les questions commencèrent. Au début, Laurence Olivier répondait avec beaucoup de sérieux. Puis Marilyn se mit à son aise. Elle retira son manteau mais, en se penchant en avant, elle fit craquer une des fines bretelles de sa robe. L'atmosphère changea d'un coup: elle l'avait détendue en faisant rire son public; on lui proposa une épingle de sûreté. (...) Elle avait réussi à transformer cette réunion pesante, monotone et sans surprise en un véritable événement. Les centaines de journalistes étaient sous le charme. Ils appréciaient la classe avec laquelle l'actrice avait réagi lorsque sa bretelle s'était rompue. En temps normal, jamais je ne serais allée photographier une conférence de presse (...) mais depuis notre voyage dans l'Illinois, j'étais accro à Marilyn." 

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>> sources:
Marilyn Monroe, Les inédits, de Marie Clayton. 
Marilyn Monroe et les caméras, Georges Belmont 
Les vies secrètes de Marilyn Monroe, d'Anthony Summers
Marilyn Monroe, de Eve Arnold
article "The Prince, the Showgirl, and the Stray Strap" sur nytimes.com

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Marilyn Monroe’s Long Island Affair

By Spencer Rumsey
published on January 1, 2013
online longislandpress.com

 
Marilyn Monroe was already one of the most famous women in America when she posed for Eve Arnold, herself a pioneering photographer, at a Mt. Sinai playground and in a nearby marsh in 1955.  (Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos)

 When Marilyn Monroe came out to Fire Island in 1955 to spend the weekend with Lee and Paula Strasberg, who were mentoring her at their famed Actors Studio in Manhattan, she famously remarked, “What a lovely place this is—it’s got water all around it.”

But that wasn’t her first time on Long Island. In 1949 Monroe had visited the Town of Oyster Bay’s Tobay Beach with Andre de Dienes, a photographer friend who’d once been her lover in California when she was still using her real name, Norma Jeane, and struggling to get her footing in Hollywood as a model.

Then she was a budding starlet and she’d come east to promote the Marx Brothers’ forgettable last film, Love Happy, in which she tells Groucho that she needs his help because “some men are following me” and he lasciviously replies, “Really. I can’t imagine why.”

In de Dienes’ pin-up photograph, Monroe was 23 and full of promise. Her troubled childhood in orphanages and foster homes were long behind her. A bright future lay still ahead.

By the summer of 1955 Monroe had become one of the most famous women in America. Her marriage to Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee Clipper, was over, and she’d left Hollywood in a contract fight with 20th Century Fox. Her studio bosses had wanted her to do The Girl in Pink Tights. She balked and formed Marilyn Monroe Productions in New York.

The image of her skirt billowing in the breeze from the Lexington Avenue subway—a still from the 1954 movie The Seven Year Itch—had become “the shot seen ’round the world.” Adding to the attraction was her 1953 appearance as the nude centerfold in the first issue of Playboy magazine, because the enterprising publisher Hugh Hefner had paid $500 for the rights to Tom Kelley’s nude photos that he’d taken of her in 1949, paying her $50 to pose on a swath of crushed red velvet.

The news that the Hollywood star had been fully exposed broke in 1952 when Kelley’s photos turned up in a calendar illustration. Monroe showed her genius for self-publicity—and earned even more money for 20th Century Fox—by owning up to it. In answer to reporters’ breathless queries about what she’d been wearing during the shoot, she said she only had on “the radio.”

At the Strasberg’s place on Ocean Beach, Monroe was sharing a bedroom with their teenage daughter Susan, who was about to appear on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank. There were “a lot of theater people” at that part of the island, Susan Strasberg recalled. “They were sophisticates, which meant they stared at Marilyn Monroe from a distance instead of staring up close.”

Over the Labor Day weekend in 1955 Monroe was on the North Shore, staying at Norman and Hedda Rosten’s cottage in Port Jefferson. They were artistic college friends of Arthur Miller’s, who’d Monroe had been seeing since she moved to Manhattan even though they were both still married at the time. Late that September afternoon she left to do a photo shoot with famed photographer Eve Arnold, the second woman to join Magnum Photos, the world-renowned agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Arnold, who was then living in Miller Place, took Monroe to a playground in Mt. Sinai. Monroe brought along three bathing suits and a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, which she kept in her car.

“She said she loved the sound of it and would read it aloud to herself to try to make sense of it,” Arnold recalled, “but she found it hard going.”

Monroe had performed Molly Bloom’s sensual soliloquy to much acclaim at a small workshop at the Actors Studio. While Arnold was changing film, Monroe got the book out to read.

“So, of course, I photographed her,” Arnold explained. Soon it was 5 o’ clock, the golden hour, photographers say. “The timing for the marshes was just right,” Arnold wrote, “the light soft and shadowless and ranging from pale yellow through deep saffron.”

Monroe changed into a one-piece bathing suit with a leopard-skin print and waded in.

“She was intrepid,” Arnold enthused later. “She stood in [it], sat in it, lay in it until the light started to go and I called a halt. She climbed out, covered in mud, but she was exhilarated—and giggling.” Later, Arnold would insist that Monroe told her “she had loved the day and kept repeating that these were the best circumstances under which she had ever worked.”

An effervescent Marilyn Monroe manages to get a laugh out of her serious husband, Arthur Miller,
in this series of candid black and white photographs taken in July 1956 when they were the most curious couple in the country. (AP Photo/Julien’s Auctions)

Monroe’s career was nearing its apogee. In the summer of 1957 Monroe was married to Miller, who’d won a 1949 Pulitzer for his tragic play Death of a Salesman. They were living in a weather-worn farmhouse in Amagansett near the Rostens, who were renting a cottage in Springs. Also nearby was the abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, who painted Monroe for his series Women. The image, which Monroe biographer Lois Banner likened to “a cross between a grinning child and a screaming fury,” did not appeal to Monroe’s playwright husband but she didn’t mind. The married couple was in a hopeful phase: He was writing in his studio near the main house and she was cooking and tending her garden. And she was pregnant.

But on Aug. 1, 1957 she cried out in pain. An ambulance rushed her to Manhattan where Monroe hoped that her own doctor could save her baby. He could not. Suffering from a painful uterine condition called endometriosis, she had an ectopic pregnancy, and it had to be terminated. She spent 10 days in the hospital, Miller by her side.

The loss was devastating. When the season was over, they moved back to Manhattan, he ensconced himself in a book-lined study at one end of the apartment struggling over a screenplay that would eventually become The Misfits while she was at the other end, strumming a ukulele and crooning, “I Wanna Be Loved By You.”

The next year they moved to a new house they had built in Connecticut, but they never could recreate the idyllic summer they’d shared on the South Fork. And Monroe’s happy times on Long Island faded into memory.

*photographe.

Quel effet cela faisait-il de photographier Marilyn ? C'était comme quand on voit une photographie apparaître dans un bac de révélateur. L'image latente était là, le moment et les conditions de sa révélation dépendaient de Marilyn. L'effet était stroboscopique, et le photographe n'avait qu'à suspendre le temps un instant pour avoir une nouvelle image de Marilyn.

Le soir ayant précédé le dernier jour de tournage des "Désaxés" sur place (au Nevada), John Huston offre une fête d'anniversaire commune à Montgomery Clift et Arthur Miller (tout deux nés un 17 octobre) dans un restaurant du Fairmont Hotel, à North Beach, à San Francisco le 16 octobre 1960. La soirée est joyeuse car elle marque le soulagement de la fin du tournage.
The evening before to the last day of filming "The Misftis" on location (in Nevada), John Huston organizes a common birthday party for Montgomery Clift and Arthur Miller (both born on October 17) in a restaurant in North Beach, San Francisco, on October 16 1960. The evening is joyfull as it marks the end of the filming. 

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Après le dîner, les invités vont au bar pour jouer au craps. Pendant que John Huston donne les dés à Marilyn Monroe, elle lui demande:
-"Que pourrais-je demander au dés John ?", il répond:
-"Ne pense pas, chérie, lance simplement. C'est ta destinée. Ne pense pas, agis."
Pendant le tournage, John Huston a passé de longues heures, parfois des nuits entières, à jouer dans les casinos de Reno.

After dinner, guests are going to the bar to play craps. While John Huston gives the dice to Marilyn Monroe, she asks him:
-What shall I ask the dice for John?", his answer was:
-"Don't think honey, just throw. Don't think, do it".
While on location in Nevada, John Huston spent long hours, sometimes nights, at the gambling tables in Reno.

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> source:
Livre "Marilyn Monroe, Eve Arnold", Edition de La Martinière.

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 lot n°715: MARILYN MONROE 1941 SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPH
 A vintage original Marilyn Monroe school photograph from Ralph Waldo Emerson High School. Titled "Class of Summer,1941." Monroe appears in the seventh row from the bottom and is the 15th person from the right. Inscriptions on verso are written to a student named Barbara. The then named Norma Jean Baker was 15 years old.
Estimate: $2 000 - $3 000
 

  lot n°716: MARILYN MONROE DAVID CONOVER PHOTOGRAPH
 A contemporary photographic print of Marilyn Monroe taken by David Conover circa 1945. The black and white photograph shows a smiling curly haired Monroe. The photographs were made from the digitally restored original negatives.
Estimate: $150 - $300  

lot n°717: MARILYN MONROE DAVID CONOVER PHOTOGRAPH
 A contemporary photographic print of Marilyn Monroe taken by David Conover circa 1945. The color photograph shows Marilyn Monroe in a blue and white striped shirt and white romper. The photographs were made from the digitally restored original negatives.
Estimate: $150 - $300 
 

lot n°727: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
  A color photograph of a young Marilyn Monroe dipping her toe in a swimming pool. Printed later. Stamp on verso marked "Silver Screen."
Estimate: $200 - $300  
 

lot n°728: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
  A black and white photograph of a young Marilyn Monroe in a floral bathing suit standing in a swimming pool. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Stamp on verso marked "Silver Screen."
Estimate: $200 - $400 
 

lot n°735: MARILYN MONROE NEGATIVES AND COPYRIGHTS
  A group of six original negatives of Marilyn Monroe. Four images are of Monroe's radio debut on August 31, 1952, playing a murderess in a segment called "Statement in Full" on NBC Radio's Hollywood Playhouse. Two images are of Monroe exiting a helicopter to attend a party at the home of bandleader Ray Anthony in 1952. Accompanied by a print of each image and a signed letter transferring the rights to these images to the winning bidder.
Estimate: $1 000 - $2 000  
  

lot n°736: MARILYN MONROE IMAGE WITH COPYRIGHT
  Two prints of a black and white image of Marilyn Monroe accompanied by a signed letter transferring the rights to this image to the winning bidder.
Estimate: $1 000 - $2 000 
 

 lot n°737: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe.
Estimate: $200 - $300
 

lot n°749: MARILYN MONROE "A NEW WRINKLE" CALENDAR
  A calendar with a Marilyn Monroe "A New Wrinkle" image. The 1953 calendar reads "Collector's Item ... Compliments of Tom Kelley Studio." Photographer Tom Kelley took the revealing image of Monroe in 1949; it later went on to appear in the first issue of " Playboy " magazine. Housed in a frame.
Estimate: $600 - $800   
  

lot n°759: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE ARNOLD
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe, by Eve Arnold (American, 1912-2012) circa 1955. Gelatin silver print. Stamped on verso "Eve Arnold - Magnum" and "Magnum Photo Library Print / New York;" annotated on verso with printing directions.
Estimate: $400 - $600  
  

lot n°760: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
   A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe, seated with a fur. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Stamped on verso "The Silver Screen / 35 East 28th Street , New York , NY 10016."
Estimate: $200 - $400 
 

lot n°761: MARILYN MONROE VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH
   A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe in a jeweled gown preparing to sign her signature, taken by Bernard of Hollywood. Vintage gelatin silver print. Photographer's copyright stamp on verso.
Estimate: $200 - $400  
  

lot n°764: MARILYN MONROE MILTON GREENE SILKSCREEN PRINT
   A limited edition silkscreen print of a Milton Greene photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken during the famed "Black Sitting" photo session in New York in 1956. Printed later. Signed by the artist in pencil lower right, AP lower left.
Estimate: $600 - $800 
 
 

 lot n°768: MARILYN MONROE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD AVEDON
   A color photograph of Marilyn Monroe in black sequin dress and fur, taken by Richard Avedon (American, 1923-2004) in New York, May 6, 1957. Printed later. Unsigned. Stamp on verso marked "Silver Screen."
Estimate: $400 - $600
 

lot n°787: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH WITH ARTHUR MILLER
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe and her husband, playwright Arthur Miler, circa 1960. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Stamp on verso marked " Silver Screen ."
Estimate: $200 - $300
 

lot n°793: GROUP OF MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPHS
  A group of five photographs of Marilyn Monroe: three taken by George Barris in 1962 and signed in ink by the photographer; one of Monroe and Jane Russell putting their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 1953; and one of Monroe singing on stage. All prints are mounted to black mount board.
Estimate: $500 - $700  
  

lot n°813: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken by Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980), 1956. Gelatin silver print. Unsigned. Stamps on verso marked "Valuable Original / Must Be Returned" and stamps prohibiting reproduction.
Estimate: $1 000 - $1 500 
 

lot n°783: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE ARNOLD
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken in 1960 by Eve Arnold (American, 1912-2012) during the filming of The Misfits (United Artists, 1961). Stamped on verso "Magnum Photo Library Print / New York."
Estimate: $400 - $600 
 

lot n°784: MARILYN MONROE AND CLARK GABLE PHOTOGRAPH
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe and her " Misfits " (United Artists, 1961) co-star, Clark Gable, at a dinner circa 1961. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Stamps on verso marked " Silver Screen ."
Estimate: $200 - $300  
 

lot n°785: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe at a breakfast table, circa 1960. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Stamp on verso marked " Silver Screen ."
Estimate: $200 - $300 
 

 lot n°786: MARILYN MONROE "MISFITS" ERA AMATEUR FILM
  An amateur film of Marilyn Monroe shot around the time of filming " The Misfits " (Seven Arts, 1961). In this film, Monroe wears the cherry printed dress she wears in the motion picture. The first two minutes of the 8mm film are family scenes; the last two minutes appear to be on set with Monroe, Arthur Miller and other actors in " The Misfits ." The reel has been transferred to DVD, which accompanies this lot.
Estimate: $1 000 - $1 500
  

lot n°790: MARILYN MONROE "MISFITS" PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE ARNOLD
  A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe and co-stars Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach, taken in 1960 by Eve Arnold (American, 1912-2012) during the filming of " The Misfits " (United Artists, 1961). Stamped on verso " Eve Arnold - Magnum ."
Estimate: $300 - $500

lot n°791: MARILYN MONROE "THE MISFITS" STREET SCENE FILM REEL
 An 8mm film reel shot, in part, during filming of " The Misfits " (Seven Arts, 1961) in July 1960 by an amateur filmmaker. The one-minute, 40-second segment of the reel shows Marilyn Monroe and Thelma Ritter working a scene together. This scene was not included in the final version of the film. This film is sold with copyright. It is accompanied by a copy of a  hand drawn map provided by the filmmaker showing the location of the event and two DVD transfers of the film, one that includes only the Monroe portion of the reel and the other that includes the entire contents of the reel, much of which is a family vacation.
Estimate: $1 000 - $2 000 
   
 
 

Les désaxés
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Après la fin du tournage des Misfits (10 jours supplémentaires avaient été prévus en studio, du 24 octobre au 4 novembre 1960), Marilyn Monroe fixa la date pour des prises de vues en studio avec Eve Arnold; la séance photos eut lieu à Los Angeles le week-end suivant le tournage de la dernière scène du film -soit le 5 ou 6 novembre 1960. Bien qu'une multitude de photos avaient été prises sur le tournage des Misfits, les producteurs avaient besoin de portraits en studio de Marilyn Monroe pour les couvertures de magazines qui les sollicitaient. La photographe Eve Arnold avait reçu la permission des studios d'utiliser leurs locaux, ainsi qu'un technicien éclairagiste pour l'aider. Le producteur avait envoyé une caisse de champagne et un kilo de caviar; et Eve Arnold avait apporté des fleurs et des disques de Sinatra.

Marilyn Monroe arriva une heure en retard (ce qui était plutôt un exploit, car ses retards étaient souvent bien plus longs).
Marilyn était venue accompagnée de sa 'bande': Agnès Flanagan (sa coiffeuse), Bunny Gardel (maquilleur corps), May Reis (sa secrétaire), Pat Newcomb (son attachée de presse), Shirlee Strahm (costumière), Rudy Kautsky (son chauffeur) et 'Whitey' Snyder (son maquilleur).
Pendant que Snyder finissait son maquillage, Marilyn jeta un regard sur tout ce qui avait été prévu pour lui faire plaisir (le champagne, la caviar, les fleurs...) et elle dit à Whitey: "Whitey, tu te souviens de notre première séance photo? Il n'y avait que toi et moi, mais nous étions à l'époque pleins d'espoirs."
On apporta à Marilyn les bouteilles de champagne, et tout le monde se joignit dans sa loge pour lui porter un toast. En regardant dans le miroir, Marilyn leva son verre de champagne.

La mode était au 'jax slacks', des pantalons moulants avec une fermeture éclair dans le dos. Marilyn prenait plaisir à aller et venir dans sa loge avec la fermeture ouverte. Lorsque Eve Arnold s'apprêtait à photographier Marilyn de cette manière, son attachée de presse Pat Newcomb surgissait pour refermer la fermeture éclair puis elle repartait et Marilyn redescendait alors la fermeture et Pat revenait à nouveau. Cela dura un moment, sans que personne ne prononça de paroles.

La costumière Shirlee Strahm avait apporté des costumes du film The Misfits, mais aussi des vêtements personnels de Marilyn. Pour les photos, Marilyn pose avec un bikini à 300 Dollars et une combinaison à 700 Dollars, qu'elle porte tous les deux dans le film. 
Le corps de Marilyn a été entièrement maquillé. Le maquillage est long et fastidieux car le maquilleur ombre certaines parties du corps et met d'autres en lumière. Eve Arnold raconte que lorsque Marilyn sorta enfin de sa loge: "Tout était impeccable: les cheveux, le visage, le corps, les ongles des mains et des pieds. Son entourage applaudit."
Il avait fallu à Marilyn entre trois et quatre heures pour se préparer. Mais le travail photographique se fit ensuite rapidement.
Il y avait une bonne ambiance dans le studio et une bonne humeur faite de joie et de rire.

Avant de commencer la séance, Eve Arnold demanda à Marilyn: "A quoi aimerais-tu ressembler? Qu'aimerais-tu être ?",
et Marilyn de répondre: "La Vénus de Botticelli". 

> The Venus Sitting
 


 
 

> The Black Boa Sitting 
 

 > The Bed Sitting


  

“I remember we laughed a lot, particularly at the end, when I found that although I had had a white paper cone built around us for greater privacy and concentration, the crew had cut eyeholes in the paper and had been watching us all afternoon, supporting her with approving eyes. She had, of course, seen them, and was performing for them, making love to my camera–or really making love to herself–but playing to her public. Being photographed was being caressed and appreciated in a very safe way. She had loved the day and kept repeating that these were the best circumstances under which she had ever worked.”
– Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation (Knopf, 1987)

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> The Chair Sitting (gown)



  

> The Armchair Sitting
  




 

>> couvertures de magazine 

>> source:
livre "Marilyn Monroe Eve Arnold", Ed. La Martinière

*photographe

Etre photographiée,
c'était pour elle être caressée et aimée sans danger.