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Eve Arnold Biography Foreword by Anjelica Huston Prologue Marilyn: a Brief Résumé Creating Marilyn Launching Marilyn Marilyn and the Still Camera Stardom Miller Place, Long Island, 1952 Mount Sinai, Long Island, 1952 Bement, Illinois, 1955 The Prince and the Showgirl, 1956 The Misfits, 1960 – Part One The Misfits, 1960 – Part Two Los Angeles, 1960 Editing Session, 1960 Marilyn with Kenneth, 1961 Epilogue Afterword by Michael Arnold Full Photographic Captions Acknowledgments

Pages 2/3: Marilyn traveling to Bement, 1955 Pages 4/5: Marilyn in the mirror, public bathroom, Chicago, 1955. This previously unseen, uncropped image also shows Eve as well as a woman surprised to find herself next to superstar Marilyn Monroe 2

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Eve Arnold Biography Foreword by Anjelica Huston Prologue Marilyn: a Brief Résumé Creating Marilyn Launching Marilyn Marilyn and the Still Camera Stardom Miller Place, Long Island, 1952 Mount Sinai, Long Island, 1952 Bement, Illinois, 1955 The Prince and the Showgirl, 1956 The Misfits, 1960 – Part One The Misfits, 1960 – Part Two Los Angeles, 1960 Editing Session, 1960 Marilyn with Kenneth, 1961 Epilogue Afterword by Michael Arnold Full Photographic Captions Acknowledgments

Pages 2/3: Marilyn traveling to Bement, 1955 Pages 4/5: Marilyn in the mirror, public bathroom, Chicago, 1955. This previously unseen, uncropped image also shows Eve as well as a woman surprised to find herself next to superstar Marilyn Monroe 2

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Norman Mailer never met her, but wrote about her.

Elton John sang about her after her death, and Norman Mailer, obsessed with her, wrote two books and a play.

She married two American heroes: one sports—Joe DiMaggio; one literary—Arthur Miller.

She was presented to four heads of state: Elizabeth of Great Britain, to whom she curtsied; Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR, who crushed her hand so hard in greeting that her fingers hurt; Jack Kennedy of the United States, to whom she sang “Happy Birthday”; and Sukarno of Indonesia, who kept his eyes glued to her décolletage.

More ink, paper, film and developer were lavished on her than on anyone else of her generation, and more books have been written about her (there is a man in Florida who claims he owns 604 different ones); there have been stories, television shows, documentaries, an opera, a ballet, unnumbered magazine and newspaper articles, and films about her. Lucille Ball played a Marilyn skit with a blonde wig in an I Love Lucy episode.

(Perhaps her only rival in the popularity sweepstakes is Elvis.) Marilyn acted in twenty-eight films.

She has come into the psychoanalytic literature.

Even if we allow for the flacks’ apocrypha, it still is an impressive list of achievements during her lifetime and a measure of her hold upon the public imagination after her death.

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Pages 11, 13 and 15: On the set of The Misfits, Nevada, 1960.

Written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston, this was the last movie Marilyn completed 15

Norman Mailer never met her, but wrote about her.

Elton John sang about her after her death, and Norman Mailer, obsessed with her, wrote two books and a play.

She married two American heroes: one sports—Joe DiMaggio; one literary—Arthur Miller.

She was presented to four heads of state: Elizabeth of Great Britain, to whom she curtsied; Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR, who crushed her hand so hard in greeting that her fingers hurt; Jack Kennedy of the United States, to whom she sang “Happy Birthday”; and Sukarno of Indonesia, who kept his eyes glued to her décolletage.

More ink, paper, film and developer were lavished on her than on anyone else of her generation, and more books have been written about her (there is a man in Florida who claims he owns 604 different ones); there have been stories, television shows, documentaries, an opera, a ballet, unnumbered magazine and newspaper articles, and films about her. Lucille Ball played a Marilyn skit with a blonde wig in an I Love Lucy episode.

(Perhaps her only rival in the popularity sweepstakes is Elvis.) Marilyn acted in twenty-eight films.

She has come into the psychoanalytic literature.

Even if we allow for the flacks’ apocrypha, it still is an impressive list of achievements during her lifetime and a measure of her hold upon the public imagination after her death.

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Pages 11, 13 and 15: On the set of The Misfits, Nevada, 1960.

Written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston, this was the last movie Marilyn completed 15

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I was among the last of the Magnum people to go out. My two weeks were to stretch into two months, until the film was finished. It had been decided that it would be easier on Marilyn to have me, whom she knew and trusted, stay on so she wouldn’t have to adjust to new people every fourteen days. She was in a very fragile state. She had taken an overdose of sleeping pills and been removed to a hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been under treatment for a week

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I was among the last of the Magnum people to go out. My two weeks were to stretch into two months, until the film was finished. It had been decided that it would be easier on Marilyn to have me, whom she knew and trusted, stay on so she wouldn’t have to adjust to new people every fourteen days. She was in a very fragile state. She had taken an overdose of sleeping pills and been removed to a hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been under treatment for a week

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Being a woman helped me understand her moods and responses. Also, my being another woman avoided the male-female byplay that my male colleagues tell me is necessary in their sessions to produce intimate pictures. The myth has always been that it is necessary to go to bed with the subject. I have no way of testing this claim, but, knowing a little about the state of Marilyn’s psyche during the filming of The Misfits, I would guess that such a relationship would only have added to the problems

Marilyn going over lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clark Gable in the Nevada desert, 1960 154

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Being a woman helped me understand her moods and responses. Also, my being another woman avoided the male-female byplay that my male colleagues tell me is necessary in their sessions to produce intimate pictures. The myth has always been that it is necessary to go to bed with the subject. I have no way of testing this claim, but, knowing a little about the state of Marilyn’s psyche during the filming of The Misfits, I would guess that such a relationship would only have added to the problems

Marilyn going over lines for a difficult scene she is about to play with Clark Gable in the Nevada desert, 1960 154

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As the film moved to its end, the most difficult scenes were still ahead and the weather, as it progressed toward winter, made the matching of the film increasingly difficult to achieve

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As the film moved to its end, the most difficult scenes were still ahead and the weather, as it progressed toward winter, made the matching of the film increasingly difficult to achieve

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