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Intimate Photos of Marilyn Monroe During a Lesson With Her Acting Teacher Natasha Lytess in 1948 – C1

Born 1911 as Natalia Postmann in Berlin, German actress, writer and drama coach Natasha Lytess moved to the United States and settled down in Los Angeles. She had hoped for a great stage career, but her accent and her unfeminine appearance limited the roles she could play.

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Lytess is known best for her partnership with actress Marilyn Monroe from 1948 to 1956. During her time as a drama coach for Columbia Pictures, Lytess was shown Monroe’s screen test and convinced the head of Columbia Pictures to hire Monroe for a six-month contract.

Lytess coached Marilyn through more than 20 films before their partnership began to deteriorate. She is rumored to have had more than professional feelings towards Monroe which developed, according to Monroe and other actresses that studied under Lytess, into an overbearing obsession.

In 1956, Monroe sent Lytess a telegram saying that she didn’t need Natasha’s services anymore, and the partnership ended a full seven years after it started.

These intimate photos captured moments of Marilyn Monroe during a lesson with her acting teacher Natasha Lytess in Hollywood in November 1948.

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February 18, 2025
Pictures of Marilyn Monroe Meeting Queen Elizabeth II in London, 1956 – C1

A meeting of two matriarchs, you have to wonder what the two were actually thinking of each other.

Two of the most widely recognized women of their times who couldn’t be more different. They met in London for the Royal Film Premier to watch The Battle of River Plate. Monroe was not in the film, but it was the much anticipated true story of a naval battle, which is why it had been chosen for the Royal Film Premier.

The Queen was of course at the event, and nearly everyone who came stood in line to meet her, as naturally Monroe did as well. Back story aside, the event has given us an unforgettable picture of two seemingly incongruous characters in a congenial meeting.

At the time, both Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were just 30 years old. The Queen had ascended to the throne at the age of 25 following the death of her father, King George VI. Monroe had just finished filming The Prince and the Showgirl in London; the film premiered in June 1957.

Unfortunately, Monroe passed away just a few years later, in 1962, at the age of 36. This would be the only time these two extremely different types of royalty—a monarch and an American icon—would ever meet in front of millions of onlookers and cameras.

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February 18, 2025
Beautiful Photos of Marilyn Monroe During the Filming of ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ (1950) – C1

The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir heist film directed by John Huston. Based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, it tells the story of a jewel robbery in a Midwestern city. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen, and features James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, and John McIntire. Marilyn Monroe also appears, in one of her earliest roles.

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The film was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 2008, The Asphalt Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

These beautiful photos captured portraits of Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Asphalt Jungle in 1950.

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February 18, 2025
Marilyn Monroe Wishing You All a Happy Fourth of July – C1

Marilyn Monroe posed for Fourth of July, wearing a bikini with some oversized fireworks and a sign that reads “Beware of Danger, July 4th”. These photographs were taken by Bert Reisfeld in 1953.‬

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February 18, 2025
The Story Behind the Photo Session of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Douglas Kirkland for Look Magazine, 1961 – C1

Douglas Kirkland has been passionate about images since he was a child. Coming from Canada he started working for a small photo studio in Virginia. A few years later he met the photographer of whom he was an admirer and went to New York for the position of Irving Penn’s assistant. Despite the prominent position he obtained, Douglas Kirkland needed better salary to live, but Irving Penn refused to increase it. He then gave himself some time to make himself known, later he joined Look Magazine for which he got a first photo session with Elizabeth Taylor. This photo session was the origin of his reputation as a star portraitist. It is 1961 and it is also the year in which he photographed Marilyn Monroe.

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“The first time I met Marilyn to talk about the shoot, my colleagues and I went to her home on Doheny Drive – right on the edge where Beverly Hills and Hollywood connect. She was very disarming because she didn’t seem like a big superstar; she seemed more like the girl next door. I wanted to get some hot pictures of her, but in my shy Canadian way, I didn’t know how to say that. In the end Marilyn was the one to take charge. She said, ‘I know what we need. We need a bed, and we need white silk sheets – they must be silk. Frank Sinatra records, and Dom Pérignon champagne.’ She totally pre-empted what I wanted to go for on the shoot, and I was so relieved. We scheduled it to be done about three days later, at 7.30pm on a Friday evening.”

“The day came and I arrived promptly at the studio, which we’d we rented in Hollywood. I waited and waited, and 9.30pm came and she had not yet appeared. I said to myself, ‘If Marilyn doesn’t show up, it’s going to be a disaster. I’m still new at the publication, I’ve been sent to California, and if I don’t take back pictures it will be very difficult to explain.’ Just at that moment, at the other side of the studio, I heard the door open and in came Marilyn, with a lady carrying some clothes – ultimately she didn’t use them very much. She came in a completely different person to the girl I’d met last time – I saw the real Marilyn, the Marilyn we all think of. She seemed to move in slow motion to me; she had a luminescence about her and she didn’t step, she almost floated. That’s my memory of it, that’s the impression she left me with.”

The artist suggested to Marilyn to show how she wanted to be remembered 25 years later. It was a very delicate, sensual and joyful series that emerges. The photographer managed to produce and capture a very intimate moment between him and the star.

The most famous photos in this series are images of Marilyn taken vertically from a balcony in the photo studio. The decor is entirely white. Out of time and space, Marylin is plunged naked into a cloud of sheets. The star plays with the fabric and the cushion, with a seductive look. She rolls in the sheets, smiles and has fun, she seems happy and fulfilled. The atmosphere is bright, fresh, Marilyn’s blond hair, her fair skin and the white of the bedding, everything is immaculate and pure. Douglas Kirkland used a very special grain here.

“She had a robe on, and she took that robe off and got in under the white silk sheets. I just want to tell you, I was 27, but I was mentally 17. As I say, I’d had a very small town background and here, the superstar of all superstars was five feet away from me; I could reach out and touch her, and as she slipped into the bed I saw parts of her body that I couldn’t believe I’d ever see.

“Marilyn was so sexual, very sensual. At one point she suggested that we should do something more than just talk, in other words, embrace each other. This is where my small town boy came in, I acted like I didn’t understand, I was embarrassed. I looked down into my camera and just kept shooting pictures, over and over, as quickly as I could. I think that’s why the pictures are so strong, because that sexual desire was channeled into the camera instead of into action.

“I got overhead so I could shoot directly down on her. I started to take pictures, but I didn’t need to direct her – I just talked with her. It was like flirting, both ways, it became very hot, the charge in the air. I had one assistant, and she had her woman who worked with her. We took a break, and then she said, ‘I want to be alone with this boy, I find it usually works better that way’. So everybody left the room, I heard the door close, and I realised I was alone with Marilyn. Then I came down from up above, and she said, ‘why don’t you come down and do some close-ups down here’. I came down from the stairs that I was up on, and I was a little over one metre away from her.”

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February 18, 2025
Rare Vintage Photographs of Marilyn Monroe Doing Yoga in 1948 – C1

Marilyn Monroe, best known for being a mid-century sex symbol, is rarely thought of as a fitness icon, but during a 1952 interview with LIFE magazine, she revealed that she exercised regularly.

Monroe was a devotee of yoga and enjoyed practicing. It was a fact she didn’t publicize much and there are few photographic records of her doing yoga. However, in 1948 there were are handful of black and white photos taken by Ed Cronenweth, and a couple there after. Marilyn learned yoga from Indra Devi, who many consider to be the “The First Lady of Yoga”.

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February 18, 2025
Photos of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell at Their Imprint Ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 1953 – C1

As part of publicity for the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which was soon to be released, Marilyn, along with co-star and friend Jane Russell, immortalized themselves in a very Hollywood way by adding their signatures, handprints, and footprints to the courtyard at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on June 26, 1953.

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This is a special moment for any celebrity, following other greats who have their place in that famous courtyard. But for Marilyn, it was extra special, because among her favorite childhood memories were those of going to movies at the Chinese and trying out the handprints and footprints of her favorite stars. She said in an interview that she was often disappointed because her feet were usually bigger than those she tried to fit into.

Marilyn’s block of cement at Grauman’s is, without a doubt, the most popular of all of those in the courtyard. The hands are discolored from so many people fitting their hands into hers when they visit Hollywood.

These vintage photos captured beautiful moments of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell at their imprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on June 26, 1953.

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February 18, 2025

Before She Was Famous, Marilyn Monroe Was Paid Just $10 an Hour to Pose for Pinup Artist Earl Moran in the Late 1940s – C1

When Marilyn Monroe posed for Earl Moran in the first of their sessions that took place between 1946 and 1950, she was just 19 and an aspiring actress, while Moran had established himself as a leading illustrator of beautiful women; his work for magazines and calendars placed him in the company of Alberto Vargas and George Petty.

Earl Moran hired a young model named Norma Jean Dougherty through the Blue Book Agency in Los Angeles, in 1946. This was one of Marilyn’s earliest regular modeling assignments, to help pay the rent while she fought for an entree into the movie business. She posed for him off and on for the next four years. He usually took photos of her, which he used as reference for his pinup illustrations. He paid Marilyn ten dollars an hour to photograph her in various costumes and states of toplessness from 1946 to 1949.

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Marilyn Monroe posed for Earl Moran – Bus Stop. One of his most famous photo’s/paintings of Marilyn done in 1946, titled ‘Bus Stop’. It featured Marilyn in a cheesecake pose, standing next to a bus stop, with skates in her hand.

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Moran posed with Marilyn Monroe ‘Spanish Girl’ pastel.

Moran’s Marilyn work was used, among others, by major calendar company Brown & Bigelow. Forty years later, in January 1987, Playboy magazine published some of Moran’s 1946 nude photos of Marilyn.

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February 18, 2025

Rare Photos of a Young Marilyn Monroe on the Set of the 1948 Comedy “Sitting Pretty” – C1

Here’s a collection of rare photos of a young Marilyn Monroe in 1948, when she was just 21, with another then-aspiring actress, Laurette Luez, and Hollywood veteran Clifton Webb on the set of a comedy called Sitting Pretty.

Neither Marilyn nor Luez were in that movie. But Luez was under contract to Twentieth Century Fox — the studio that released Sitting Pretty — and Marilyn had once been under contract to Fox, and eventually would be again, so the presence of the two women on the set, whether as young actresses looking for pointers, or for publicity purposes — isn’t all that surprising. In fact, as Marilyn and Laurette Luez change seats at one point, it’s highly unlikely that these are purely impromptu shots of the trio.

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February 17, 2025
Marilyn Monroe Making Up in the Columbia Studios for ‘Ladies of the Chorus’, 1948 – C1

Ladies of the Chorus is a 1949 American musical romance film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe and Rand Brooks. The screenplay, written by Harry Sauber and Joseph Carole, was based on a story by Sauber.

Released by Columbia Pictures, Ladies of the Chorus features Marilyn Monroe in the first major role of her career. Considered a B film at the time of its release, it quickly disappeared from theatres, and Monroe’s contract with Columbia Pictures was not renewed.

Upon its original theatrical release, Adele Jergens was credited first while Marilyn Monroe was billed second. After Monroe became a star in the early 1950s, Ladies of the Chorus was reissued to capitalize on Monroe’s fame. Her name was placed before the title, not only in advertising but on the film itself, which remains today.

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February 17, 2025

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Little-known facts about Marilyn Monroe will leave you stunned! See more here: Marilyn Monroe

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