Marilyn Monroe would’ve been 94 on Monday, and the photographer behind her final shoot spoke to Web page Six for the event.
Lawrence Schiller was photographing the star on the set of what could be her final mission, “One thing’s Got to Give,” in 1962. Monroe hatched a plan for some jaw-dropping images. “She mentioned someday in her residence, trying on the script… ‘What if I jumped within the swimming pool on this scene and got here out with nothing on?” Schiller recalled. However one situation of the shoot was that when Schiller offered the pics, they couldn’t seem in any magazines that additionally featured Elizabeth Taylor.
“What I got here to uncover was that she didn’t really feel that she was revered and reimbursed for her expertise,” he informed us. “Marilyn was being paid $125,000 by Fox underneath her contract, whereas on the identical time, [Taylor] was being paid one million and 10-percent of the field workplace gross for ‘Cleopatra.’”
Across the identical time, he photographed Monroe’s last-ever celebration. “No person knew she was going to get fired three weeks later,” for slipping out of city to infamously sing “Comfortable Birthday” to JFK. Both method, the pool pics had been at main hit. Quite a lot of the enduring photographs are at the moment being offered by antiques seller M.S. Rau. Months later, “I noticed her the morning she died,” Schiller mentioned.
He went on to change into an completed producer, director and writer.
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