Marilyn was an amazing creature......She's like top's on my list of famous people I would have loved to photograph
😀 ~ Those are such lovely photos of her too, best of luck to the bidders!
I have been a Marilyn Monroe fan since I was young and I personally talked to Milton Greene's son
Joshua about her,
(after inquiring about some Romy Schneider photos from his dad's archive)
........and as he was just a little boy then, from what he remembers, he said she was always so gracious, pretty and a funny lady, she babysat with him several times, giving him baths and tucking him into bed, telling a story etc.
*Lucky Kid.......I told him I wouldn't have forgotten something like that either*
(ohh and she was nothing like the character of crazy babysitter Nell Forbes in "Don't Bother To Knock" ~ which BTW is one of my favorite Marilyn films)
*Joshua Greene and Marilyn in a photo taken by his Father ca. 1954*
In my opinion she didn't get to express her full potential in Hollywood.....bad choices of scripts and directors and often cast as a bubbleheaded blonde, pushing the sexpot thing
(which sadly was the 1950's thing/kick at that time).
I think movies like "DBTK", "Niagara", "Some Like It Hot" and the "Misfits" show that she was really able to act in all types of roles, serious as well as funny, but what ruined her along with some great French actresses of the time were bad relationships with men, she was all mixed up, Joe didn't let her be sexy in public
(and two famous people in one household is a strain for anyone) and the Kennedy thing didn't help her either, she died in the prime of her life................... I have always thought her death was no accident as well, but we'll never know the whole story.
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I wish I'd had the chance to Photograph her, I think she really loved to be photographed when she was content and happy and even though when you look at Milton's photos taken after she became known, you see all her natural beauty, but you also see a little bit of a troubled little girl coming out as well.
She was a Phenomenon of an age of Hollywood and movies long gone by, when actor's and actresses could really act and they had a presence, I don't think we'll ever see anything quite like her ever again.
*A very casual Marilyn poses for LIFE magazine in 1950*
Tom
