Name: Marilyn Monroe - Temptress
Brand: Lawrence Schiller
Price: 5500.0 USD
Availability: InStock

This piece is part of the Marilyn 12 Collection which was released in conjunction with Lawrence Schiller's book Marilyn 12, published in 2007.

Part of a limited edition set

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20 x 24" . Edition 47/75

$5,500.00

Lawrence Schiller photographed Marilyn Monroe on the set of Something's Got to Give in May and early June (for her birthday) of 1962. Due to multiple conflicts and publicity issues, Marilyn was soon fired from the film. Her co-star Dean Martin then refused to work with anyone else, and she was eventually rehired, given a raise, and returned to the set. Sadly, Marilyn died only a few weeks later, still in the process of shooting her scenes, and the film was never completed.

This scene, had it been released, would have been the first time a major Hollywood star appeared nude on screen in a mainstream film. Marilyn initially planned to wear a bodystocking for the shoot, but instead simply wore only a flesh-toned bikini bottom. After the necessary filming was completed, she posed for the still shots shown here - which she knew would cause a media sensation when published, and ensure her lasting value to the Hollywood studios.

Select images from this session were published in LIFE Magazine in the June 22, 1962 issue.

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14 × 11" / 35.6 × 27.9 cm . Edition 47/75
Archival Digital Print.

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Lawrence Schiller

Though a childhood accident left him with impaired vision in one eye, Lawrence Schiller became an obsessive photographer; even while attending Pepperdine College, his pictures had already appeared in Life, Sport, Playboy, Glamour, and the Saturday Evening Post. Schiller’s interests and ambitions soon developed into a profession in print journalism, documenting major stories for glossy magazines all over the world, including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and the London Sunday Times. His iconic images of Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, and Madame Nhu, among others are tributes to his doggedness, ingenuity, and charm as well as to his technical proficiency.

In November 1963, while on assignment for the Saturday Evening Post, he reached Dallas in time to photograph Lee Harvey Oswald. Later, he landed Jack Ruby’s final interview. After extensive interviews with the widow of Lenny Bruce, Schiller and the writer Albert Goldman published Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce (1974); and, with the photographer W. Eugene Smith, he produced Minamata (1975), the epic pictorial chronicle of mercury poisoning in Japan.