The Monroe pictures hidden for 50 years

[emad]

April 06, 2005
The Monroe pictures hidden for 50 years
By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent




PREVIOUSLY unseen images of Marilyn Monroe, taken by Eve Arnold during their ten-year friendship, are published for the first time in The Times today. Portraits of the Hollywood goddess as a vivacious young starlet attending a premiere and as an established actress struggling to learn her lines for her last film are among 28
previously unknown photographs that Arnold has made available.

They capture Monroe’s coquettish yet sensitive side, rarely portrayed through the lens. At the start of her career with Twentieth Century Fox she was attending the 1950s premiere of East of Eden when she caught Arnold’s eye. Spotting her across a crowded room, Arnold was so captivated by Monroe’s beauty, she took a picture — and then asked who she was.

Arnold, 94, recalled: “She walked slowly and turned her head as if she were a queen.” The shot was to be Arnold’s first portrait of a star who went on to make Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot.

It is among 100 or so photographs that the Halcyon Gallery in London is publishing and exhibiting next month. The show begins in Bruton Street on May 12 and continues at Harrods from May 30 until June 18.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1556586,00.html

[blue neen]

1. That article has a gorgeous picture of her.

Unbelievably stunning.

[elehhhhna]

2. She was never more luminous than in her very short appearance

in All About Eve. What a stunner.



Publicity shot for AAE, 1950

[indepat]

3. Wow!

[elehhhhna]

4. That pic is Nothing---you should see her in the film. Unreal.

[Blue Belle]

5. What a great photo....

I miss the old Hollywood glamor. You'd never see a photo of any of Today's Starlets looking like that - they'd think they were too fat. It's sad.

[Bridget Burke]

6. Yup. The current style is skeleton thinness & fake boobs.

She was the real thing. She was also bright & an excellent actress, when her demons weren't acting up.