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It's as if we've walked in on something private.
The story these images of Marilyn Monroe
and the man who took them may be as revealing as the pictures themselves.
“Hold it, here comes the girl who put, uhm, in the movies, Marilyn Monroe!”
In 1960, Monroe was shooting "Let's Make Love" with Yves Montand,
and photographer Lawrence Schiller was on assignment for Look magazine.
“What was it like the first time he met Monroe?”
"Well, I was 23. And I was scared - am I allowed to say scared but I was scared"
And who wouldn't be?
After all, she was one of the biggest stars on the planet.
Schiller was a relative newcomer, with more guts than experience.
"I start shooting her from the dressing room,
and she says, you're not going to get a good picture from there.
But if you go over there, you're going to get something really nice.'
I go over there and she turns over her shoulder,
and she looks at me and she's Marilyn Monroe.
And I shot just one frame. It's just an extraordinary first real portrait I ever did of her."
The Xs on Schiller's proof sheet are from Marilyn's own hand.
Of all of his shots that day,
this is the only one she approved.
"That was the moment which I knew Marilyn knew more about photography at that moment than I did."
But he would learn.
By 1962, Elizabeth Taylor was riding a global tidal wave of publicity,
and Schiller says Marilyn Monroe worried that her own star was fading.
“Marilyn was getting a 100,000,
Elizabeth was getting, I think, a million dollars plus percentage of the gross.
That drove Marilyn crazy!
Because she thought she was as good an actress as Liz Tailor was.”
At the time, Monroe was shooting the never-finished film "Something's Got to Give" with Dean Martin.
Schiller, again on assignment,
says Marilyn had an idea for the pool scene
that would make waves and magazine covers.
"She was thinking about jumping in the swimming pool with a bathing suit on, but coming out with nothing on.
We didn't know if she was really kidding.
And I realize that she's kind of serious.
And I say, 'But Marilyn, you know, you're already famous. You know, now you're going to make ME famous!'
And I was very cocky자만심에 찬 in those days."
"And what did she say to that?" "Well, she just looked at me and said,
'Don't be so cocky, Larry. Photographers can easily be replaced.”
While shooting this scene, the star wore a skin-tone suit.
But between takes, she slipped it off.
Standing poolside, Schiller caught it all on film.
Risque, yet somehow still innocent.
The images, as Schiller put it, show nothing - and say everything.
“She actually set conditions for your using those photos”
"She said, 'If you release those pictures,
I want to make sure in the same issue I don't see Liz Taylor anywheres,'
And there was no mention of Liz Tailor in the issue of Life.
"Did you feel like you were exploiting her?"
"Well, let me say this: Marilyn needed the exploitation for her own purposes.
And I was the instrument. She wanted to deliver a message to that studio.
Therefore I don't think I was exploiting her.
Because in essence, you might say you were in partnership with her, an unspoken contract."