Reality can be stranger than fiction
The last untold story in the life of Marilyn Monroe. Selected excerpts from André de Dienes's memoirs
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Days later, I found out what was the cause of her great distress. It was her studio that had called all afternoon, and when she had finally picked up the phone, it was one of the executives at Fox who wanted her to come in at once, to explain the nude calendar which she had posed for. The story had just come out in the newspapers that she had posed nude and the executives at Fox were worried her career might be totally ruined! A few evenings later, she came over to my house to look over the photos and I showed her all the lovely shots I had taken that day. She loved all the photos, she crossed out only one, and to reassure her I took the scissors and cut that negative to bits.
The nude calendar did not ruin her career. To the contrary! The writeups about it in the newspapers coast-to-coast gave her even more publicity! And the public sympathized with her, thus her future fame was even more assured. In fact, I always suspected that all the brouhaha about the nude photo was a clever publicity stunt; Marilyn's publicity was always a stunning thing.
(c) 2002 Shirley T. de Dienes
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Days later, I found out what was the cause of her great distress. It was her studio that had called all afternoon, and when she had finally picked up the phone, it was one of the executives at Fox who wanted her to come in at once, to explain the nude calendar which she had posed for. The story had just come out in the newspapers that she had posed nude and the executives at Fox were worried her career might be totally ruined! A few evenings later, she came over to my house to look over the photos and I showed her all the lovely shots I had taken that day. She loved all the photos, she crossed out only one, and to reassure her I took the scissors and cut that negative to bits.
The nude calendar did not ruin her career. To the contrary! The writeups about it in the newspapers coast-to-coast gave her even more publicity! And the public sympathized with her, thus her future fame was even more assured. In fact, I always suspected that all the brouhaha about the nude photo was a clever publicity stunt; Marilyn's publicity was always a stunning thing.
(c) 2002 Shirley T. de Dienes
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Photo: André de Dienes