Happy Birthday to Audrey Hepburn on what would have been her 89th birthday on May 4th. Truman Capote wanted Marilyn to play Holly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The role went instead to Audrey Hepburn and it became a signature role for her. Today Marilyn and Audrey are among the most beloved Hollywood actresses of all time.
Arthur Miller’s last play, “Finishing the Picture,” gets it’s European premiere at the Finborough Theatre in the UK. It is based on the making of “The Misfits.”
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Andre De Dienes:
“I asked her to flirt with my camera, to entice me with her sex appeal and to move as fast as possible, without any posing, while I was clicking the shutter over and over. And I spoke to Marilyn about she being a ne Lillian Russell and I began teaching her to walk onto a stage. She was holding the parasol and I told her she as Lillian, the great stage actress and over and over again I made Marilyn walk towards me with more and more self assurance and sex appeal, pretending she was walking on stage! I took at least two dozen shots of her like that.
Marilyn was extremely co-operative, patient, eager to please me and eager to learn! Out of a little idea and imagination I created an enormous enthusiasm for both of us that afternoon, and repeatedly we told each other that we were going to make history! And I told her my pictures of her would last forever. It was a happy afternoon for us both.”
The very same umbrella that was used for this photo shoot, still exsists today. It is on display at the “Museum Of Style Icons” in Ireland.
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Remembering the great Harold Lloyd on his birthday (20th April 1893.) After retiring from a very successful career in silent movies, Harold became a renowned Hollywood photographer. Among his subjects was none other than Marilyn!
Taken from “The Marilyn Monroe Encyclopedia” by Adam Victor:
A star of gravity-defying silent slapstick, one of the most famous comedians of the silent age, Lloyd had become a photographer by the time Marilyn became a big star. He was snapping away in 1952 during the photo shoot for Marilyn’s first LIFE cover, and he arranged several more sessions over the following year. His photographic speciality was colour stereo pictures. Seven pictures of Marilyn appeared in a 1992 book of his 3-D photographs, with text by Lloyds granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd Hayes.
