Marilyn Monore attending an Actor’s Studio benefit at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, 1961

Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis photographed by Richard Miller on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1959.

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Marilyn Monroe and Bert Stern during a photo shoot, 1962.

I rarely analyse photographs of Marilyn but this photograph is so significant. At the Actor’s Studio benefit at Roseland Dance Hall in March 1961, Marilyn is appearing at an event that she believes in but she is still out of place. The world is a blur and everything is happening around her, never truly for her.

“It’s terrible to be lonesome especially in the middle of a crowd.”

Photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1955.

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Following posts are from Adam Victor’s ’The Marilyn Encyclopedia’
Milton Hawthorne Greene (1922-1985, B. Greenholtz) Part 2

      It was Greene who had the foresight to turn Marilyn’s discontent with Twentieth Century- Fox into a carefully prepared exit strategy, and the alluring opportunity to control her own cinematic future. In late 1953 when he returned to Los Angeles with his new wife Amy, Milton encouraged her to actually do something about the insultingly low salary she was locked into and to rebel against the roles she felt demeaned her. Marilyn was keen to put into practice his suggestion that she form her own production company, and was not fazed that Milton had no background in film. It took a year of planning for Milton to set things up, during which time Marilyn married and divorced Joe DiMaggio. Then, just ten days after the big Romanoff’s party consecrating Marilyn as a big time Hollywood star, Milton flew into town to lay the plans for Marilyn’s getaway. In December 1954 she holed up in a New York hotel, and then moved in with Milton and Amy Greene at their home in Weston, Connecticut. 
       Marilyn had told Greene that in Hollywood “they rushed me from one picture into another. It’s no challenge to do the same thing over and over. I want to keep growing as a person and as an actress, and in Hollywood they never ask me my opinion. They just tell me what time to show up for work. In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can’t be myself, what’s the good of being anything at all?”

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Eartha Kitt and Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe, Karen Blixen-Finecke (aka Isak Dinesen) and Carson McCullers, February 5, 1959

Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe and Milton Greene celebrating Sammy Davis Jr.’s return to show business after his accident, 1955.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1954

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene in 1955

Marilyn Monroe by Sam Shaw, 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1954

Marilyn Monroe, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand & Arthur Miller in Montand’s Beverly Hills Hotel apartment, photographed by Bruce Davidson, 1960.