Tournée promo pour "La pêche au Trésor"
"Love Happy" Tour Promo

Comme chaque année (de 1946 à 1965), la chaîne de journaux Hearst a parrainé des événements de rencontres de base-ball dans 13 villes, aboutissant à la Hearst Sandlot Classic annuelle entre le New York Journal-American All-Stars et les United States All-Stars.
Dans la ville de Chicago, les matchs se déroulent soit au stade Wrigley Field ou au Comiskey Park.
Le samedi 9 juillet 1949, au stade de Wrigley, un triple match était prévu: le premier avec des anciennes stars de base-ball (Rogers Hornsby, Gabby Hartnett, Lefty Gomez, Red Faber, Charlie Grimm, et Ted Lyons), le deuxième avec des stars de cinéma et du spectacle, et le troisième avec des jeunes talents du base-ball. Quelques 15 000 personnes étaient présentes et, en raison d'un changement de temps (l'arrivée de la pluie a rendu le terrain impraticable), les événements ont été écourtés et le match des jeunes a été reportés au lundi 11 juillet.
Des stars de cinéma participent ainsi à une grande tournée à travers les Etats-Unis, en participant à des matchs de base-ball "Movie Stars World Series".
C'est dans le cadre de la promotion du film La pêche au trésor que Marilyn Monroe est envoyée à ce match de base-ball caritatif pour l'association "City of Hope" opposant les "tragédiens" face aux "comédiens" au stade de Wrigley. Les participants sont: Eddie Bracken, Lloyd Bridges, Roddy McDowell, War Bond, Sid Caesar, Sonny Tufts, Alan Mowbray, William Boyd, Albert Dekker, Buddy Rogers, Joel McGuiness, Kirk Alyn, Laura Elliott. Le rôle de Marilyn à ce match est celui de la "batgirl", l'une des filles avec une batte de baseball.
En ville, d'autres festivités prennent place: au Palmer House Hotel, le disc jockey de Chicago Dave Garroway et le chanteur Vic Damone se produisent.

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As every year (from 1946 to 1965), the Hearst newspaper chain sponsored baseball matchmaking events in 13 cities, culminating in the annual Hearst Sandlot Classic between the New York Journal-American All-Stars and the United States All Stars. In the city of Chicago, games are played at either Wrigley Field or Comiskey Park.
On Saturday, July 9, 1949, at Wrigley Stadium, a triple game was scheduled: the first with former baseball stars (Rogers Hornsby, Gabby Hartnett, Lefty Gomez, Red Faber, Charlie Grimm, and Ted Lyons), the second with movie and entertainment stars, and the third with young baseball talent. Some 15,000 people were present and, due to a change in the weather (the onset of rain made the field unplayable), the events were cut short and the kids match was reported to Monday 11 July.
Movie stars thus participate in a major tour across the United States, taking part in "Movie Stars World Series" baseball games.
Marilyn Monroe is sent to this charity baseball game for "City of Hope" organization between "tragedians" and "comedians" at Wrigley Stadium as part of the promotion of the film Love Happy. Participants are: Eddie Bracken, Lloyd Bridges, Roddy McDowell, War Bond, Sid Caesar, Sonny Tufts, Alan Mowbray, William Boyd, Albert Dekker, Buddy Rogers, Joel McGuiness, Kirk Alyn, Laura Elliott. Marilyn's role in this match is that of the "batgirl", one of the girls with a baseball bat.
In town, other festivities take place: at the Palmer House Hotel, Chicago disc jockey Dave Garroway and singer Vic Damone perform.

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Par ordre d'apparition dans la vidéo: les acteurs Eddie Bracken, Sonny Tufts (signe des autographes), Marilyn Monroe, Alan Mowbray, William Boyd (en Butch Cassidy), Albert Dekker (avec un béret), Buddy Rogers (marque un coup), Joel McGuiness (marque un point), Kirk Alyn (en Superman), Eddie Bracken et Laura Elliott, Albert Dekker.

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Boston Evening American
 

Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 03/07/1949 - 17/07/1949 - 20/07/1949
      

Le soir, Marilyn Monroe est accompagnée de l'acteur Roddy McDowall pour passer la soirée au club Ricketts (au 103 East Chicago Avenue).

The evening, Marilyn Monroe is accompanied by actor Roddy McDowall to spend the evening at the Ricketts club (at 103 East Chicago Avenue).

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En studio

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Chicago Sunday Tribune, 09/08/1950 - USA
  

 Photographies promotionnelles pour promouvoir le match dans la presse
Photos prises la veille ou quelques jours avant

Promotional photographs to promote the match in the press
Photos taken the day before or a few days before

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Une du Chicago Herald American, 09/07/1949 - USA
 

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article "Chicago Herald-American All-Star Game: a tripleheader of future stars" sur sabr

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Le programme télé Télé Loisirs paru le 5 juillet 2010, pour la semaine du 10 au 16 juillet 2010 (numéro 1271) est vendu avec le DVD du film Sept ans de réflexion avec Marilyn Monroe et Tom Ewell, vendu au prix de 4,95 Euros en plus dumagazine qui coûte 1,05 Euros. 

Année: 1954
Produit: Savon de toilette
Marque: Lux
Pays: Argentine

  
 

Année: 1950
Marque / Produit: Westmore / fond de teint liquide "Tru-Glo"
Pays: USA
Photographie: prise en 1948 par Laslo Willinger
- promotion pour le film "Quand la ville dort"
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 Year: 1950
Brand / Product: Westmore / Liquid make-up "Tru-Glo"
Country: USA
Photography: taken in 1948 by Laszlo Willinger
- promotion pour le film "Asphalt Jungle" -
Advertising poster

 Photographie originale

- Blog: 1948, Portraits Studio - Séance bikini jaune par Laszlo Willinger

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Interview With Marilyn Monroe Photographer Bill Carroll
Article published on June, 27, 2010
by LaDale Anderson
online canyon-news.com

BEVERLY HILLS—A historic exhibition is opening at the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Beverly Hills on Friday, June 25.  Rare never before seen photos of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe will be on display for the first time to the public.  Pictures by photographers Bill Carroll, George Barris and Bert Stern will be on display at the exhibition known as "Becoming Marilyn," which shows an in depth collection of Marilyn Monroe photos from her first pictures taken in 1945 to the very last in 1962.  Canyon News recently had the pleasure of speaking to famed photographer Bill Carroll about his career and rare photos of Ms. Monroe.

Q: When you hear the word photography what is the first thing that comes to mind ?

A: “When I hear the word photography I think I need to (laughing) get the lead out of my butt and take more pictures.”

Q: At what age did you realize this is my passion and this is what I want to do ?

A: “I fell into photography by mistake.  I was washing dishes earning $1 a day when I saw this magazine [called] Camera-Craft in San Francisco.  I was looking through the magazine where I saw you can sell pictures for $2-$5 a piece.  So for Christmas I saved my money and bought a camera, took pictures and began selling them, it was a way for me to earn extra money.”

Q: What was it like working with icon Marilyn Monroe?

A: “I knew her when she was Norma Jeane.  I didn’t have to do too much I would just push the camera button.  The pictures that I took were her pictures, not my creation.”

Q: Are there any celebrities today you’d love to photograph?

A: “I do very little photography today.  I am continuing a long-time career in book publishing.”

Q: Is there anything you can tell us about Marilyn Monroe people would be surprised to hear about?

A: “I never saw Marilyn Monroe or pictures when she became an actress, I knew her as Norma Jeane.”

Q: When you’re getting ready to photograph a person what’s the first thing that pops into your mind?

A: “Get in that person’s head.  I tell them my objections, what I want to create and the use the picture will be to the public.  I must be on the same track as the participant or we won’t get good pictures.”

Q: What do you consider the most valuable piece of art?

A: “The message that it creates on the observer, whether it is an emotional or intellectual response.”

Q: What’s the secret to living a long and healthy life?

A: (Laughing) “It came with right genes. My mother lived to be 100.  I stay active and busy and these things work.”

Q: If you weren’t a photographer, what career path would you have chosen?

A: “I have had more careers than many can imagine.  I worked as a journalist; I worked at a bus company in management as well as book publishing.”

Q: Can you describe one photograph that you saw during your lifetime that stirred strong emotion in you?

A: “A picture of the Berlin Wall where people were standing and looking at it and hoping it would come down.”

Q: You took one of the very first portraits of Marilyn Monroe when she was Norma Jeane.  Did you know back then she would become this huge star?

A: “No idea at all.  I was trying to take pictures of a girl next door.  I had no idea of where she would go.  This was her first modeling job, I wasn’t sure if she could model or not.”

Q: Would you say the camera loved Marilyn Monroe?

A: “She was a natural in front of the camera. She was doing what she thought was right.  I just pressed the button. The pictures were her creations.”

Q: What advice would you give to aspiring photographers who would like to get into the business?

A: “I would tell them to look at photography backwards.  Start with the public.  What does the public want to see?”

Mr. Carroll is living a vibrant and healthy life at the age of 94.  Pictures by Bert Stern’s “Last Sitting,” Tom Kelley’s “Red Velvet” and Marilyn Monroe’s personal confidant and business partner Milton Greene will be on display at the gallery.
The “Becoming Marilyn” exhibition opens to the public on Friday, June 25, at 11 a.m.  The event will end on September 18.  The Andrew Weiss Art Gallery is located on 179 South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills.  The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Marilyn Monroe Photographer Bill Carroll Talks About Working with a Young Norma Jeane
Article published on June, 28, 2010
by Ivan Fernandez
online laweekly.com

Marilyn Monroe's legacy as the personification of the Hollywood lifestyle and glamour (along with its tragedies) is just one reason why the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Beverly Hills is running its current exhibit "Becoming Marilyn." The show features a collection of photos that span her 17-year career from the young and unknown girl-next-door named Norma Jeane to the blond bombshell remembered today.

Bill Carroll

Many famous photos line the walls of the gallery, as well as a number of never-before-seen shots of Monroe by Bert Stern, Tom Kelley, Milton Greene, David Conover. The latter is credited with launching her career.

Photographer Bill Carroll, Monroe's last living photographer of her pre-Marilyn years, shared his portraits of a nineteen-year-old Norma Jeane at the exhibit and made a personal appearance at the private reception on June 24.

"It was right after World War II," reminisced Carroll who took some of the first photos of the future icon. "I opened a laboratory, processing w hat was called Ansco color film. It was a film that the Americans had expropriated from the Germans where it was called Agfacolor. There were two laboratories processing that film. One in New York called Favelle and my laboratory in Los Angeles. Eventually, it grew into quite a good-sized business and I needed a cover card for the drug stores so they could see what I was doing."

He continued, "About that time, a man by the name of David Conover, an Army photographer based in the Santa Anita racetrack in an Army photo center commanded by Captain Ronald Reagan, finds this pretty little girl and spends a couple of weeks running around California with her and drops off a roll of film to process. Well I was looking for a girl for my counter card who was a girl next door. I didn't want a model. I wanted a good-looking Plain Jane, the kind of kid you'd like to live next to."

Carroll asked Conover for her phone number and scheduled a shoot.

"It was her first modeling job," he said. "In fact, she got paid 20 dollars!"

After that day, Norma Jeane eventually signed on with a modeling agency and Carroll never saw her again nor did he ever know that she blossomed into Marilyn Monroe until 1985 while on a backpacking expedition through Yugoslavia.

"I was bitten by ticks and I came down with lyme disease," he said. "That's a bitch, I gotta tell ya. One day I woke up and my whole body collapsed. So I'm sitting in a doctor's office and I'm leafing through Time Magazine. There's a story about a photographer named David Conover. There's a picture in there, which I recognized as one of the pictures I had processed!"

Carroll spent the next six months digging through boxes of negatives filled with photos dating back to his first gig in 1934 until he found his buried treasure: photos of a young Marilyn Monroe posing on Castle Rock (which no longer exists) in Santa Monica in her own outfits.

"I sincerely believe that my pictures present a different woman than the one they know. I had no idea who Monroe was until I read that Time magazine 40 years later. I had no idea I had photographed the same woman."

Bill Carroll, gallery owner Andrew Weiss, curator Lily Yu 

Tournée promo pour "La pêche au Trésor"
"Love Happy" Tour Promo

Début juillet 1949, Marilyn Monroe se rend à Milwaukee (dans le Wisconsin), avec d'autres starlettes, pour se faire photographier dans les studios du journal de la ville 'The Milwaukee Journal' et y donner une brève interview au journaliste Raymond E McBride qui se souvient qu'elle était très à l'aise entourée des hommes. La ville se trouvait sur la route de promotion pour le film 'La pêche au Trésor'. Photographies de John Ahlhauser qui a pris sept clichés, conservant les négatifs dans une boîte toute sa vie.

Beginning of July, 1949, Marilyn Monroe goes to to Milwaukee (in Wisconsin), along with other starlets, to be photographed in the studios of the local newspaper 'The Milwaukee Journal' and to give in a brief interview with journalist Raymond McEbride who remembers that she was completely at ease around men. The city was on the road to promote 'Love Happy'.
Photographer: John Ahlhauser who took seven shots that he keeps in a box all his life..

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Milwaukee Journal , 15/07/1949 - USA
Milwaukee Journal , 17/07/1949 - USA
Milwaukee Journal , 06/08/1962 - USA

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La radio des poumons de Marilyn Monroe vendue 45.000 dollars

Article publié le 29 juin 2010,
en ligne sur nouvelobs.com

Lors d'une vente aux enchères d'objets de stars d'Hollywood, un lot de trois radiographies de l'actrice a été adjugé à 36.800 euros.

Une vente aux enchères d'objets ayant obtenus à des people s'est déroulée à Las Vegas, dimanche 27 juin. Trois radiographies de Marilyn Monroe ont été vendues pour 45.000 dollars (environ 36.800 euros). La radio de poumons de l'actrice, prise le 11 octobre 1954 à l'hôpital Cedars-Senai, attirait toutes les convoitises puisque laissant deviner sa poitrine.

D'autres objets ont été vendus comme le fauteuil utilisé pour la dernière séance photo de Marilyn, adjugé 35.000 dollars (28.650 euros), le costume de Superman IV porté par Christopher Reeves, parti pour 32.500 dollars (26.600 euros), ou encore les boucles d'oreilles de Kate Winslet du film Titanic, vendues 25.000 dollars (20.500 euros).