Marilyn Monroe The Legend

Veteran American actor, Mickey Rooney has revealed that he had given all-time sex symbol Marilyn Monroe her star name by explaining to her that Norma Rae wasn’t a Hollywood type. "I said, `something tells me you have a wonderful chance - but you gotta change your name: There was a wonderful star named Marilyn Miller, and nobody`s used it (name). You should be Marilyn, ‘ ContactMusic quoted him, as telling Premiere magazine. During their discussion, he received a call from a scriptwriter by the name Tom Monroe and it was then he decided that Monroe would be a suitable last name. "Then the phone rang and it was a guy I used to write scripts with whose name was Tom Monroe... She said, `Who were you talking to?` `I was talking to your last name... You`re Marilyn Monroe, “ he said.

Photo of the Day: Beautiful Smile in Pink

Motion Picture , November 1975

Picture Roto Magazine , July 27, 1952

Movieland's Annual , 1954

True Romance , September 1951

True Experiences , May 1950

Personal Romances , July 1947

Norma Jeane's first magazine cover is the January 1946 issue of Douglas Airview . Source for this image: Marilyn Monroe unCovers .

Norma Jeane Dougherty was a popular model at the Blue Book Modeling Agency from the mid- to late-1940s. These pictures show the young Norma Jeane right after photographer David Conover discovered her working in a wartime factory, the Radioplane Corporation, in June of 1945.     marilyn canvas prints

Marilyn on the back cover of Pageant magazine, March 1952.

Photographer Eve Arnold, grande dame of Magnum agency, was one of Marilyn’s few confidantes, watching (over) her for long periods of time and from close distance. Arnold’s pictures present Marilyn at her most relaxed, natural and unstyled, her written memories provide a private look behind the scenes. Together they convey the special trust and friendship between both women. German text.

Bert Stern/Marilyn Monroe The Complete Last Sitting Bert Stern was the last photographer to be granted a sitting by Marilyn Monroe, six weeks before she died. In a three-day session yielding nearly 2600 pictures, they produced photographs that forever shaped our Marilyn image. Our lavish volume presenting the complete series is now available again in an unchanged reprint. English text. 

Photo of the Day: Another photo by Frank Rizzo. Photographer: Frank Rizzo for Paris Match , Spring 1962

Photo of the Day: Marilyn Monroe and the Camera Photographer: Frank Rizzo for Paris Match , Spring 1962

Marilyn in Hollywood Studio Magazine