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Marilyn Monroe photographed at the premiere of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams’ latest play, held at the Morosco Theatre in New York City.

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"They put it on for me, every day because I have to wear my hair with a bun in the back and there's not enough of it. Now I like it long, so at the end of the day, I just let it down and parade around as if it were my own. When I get some time off between pictures I'm going to sit around and grow my own." - Marilyn Monroe to Modern Screen Magazine (1953).

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Frank Livia in 1952.

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"All I can say about it (filming Somethings gotta give) is that perhaps it was too soon for Marilyn to go back to work. Her confinements in those New York hospitals had been a bad experience for her. And then there'd been a gall bladder operation. She was really in the depths when I started to work with her. She was very sad about the firing and didn't know what to do about it. However, the firing didn't destroy her. She was still very occupied with the house. We had lots of alterations to make, changes that just couldn't be done overnight. We had workmen there for weeks at a time electricians, plumbers, men working in the kitchen; others were putting down carpeting and fixing the fireplace.
The Saturday before she passed away, we went to the Mart on Santa Monica Boulevard and had a delightful day. She had bought many things from the owner, Bill Alexander, but he never knew who she really was. That Saturday he discovered she was Marilyn Monroe. She was giggly when she came out to the car. Then we drove to a nursery where Marilyn bought something like $200 worth of plants for her garden. She wanted a Mexican garden and had studied a book I had bought in Mexico about Mexican flowering trees and plants. She pored over that book by the hour. I'm trying to indicate the vitality and interest she put into projects. She was not just marking time; she was doing something, creating." —Eunice Murray.

Marilyn Monroe photographed at El Taquito restaurant in Mexico, February, 1962.

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"She gave me self-confidence, she taught me how to dance and stuff like that. So, it was a two-way street. It was sort of like having a very bizarre sister that I never had. It was always complex-partly because she was complex, her moods up and down, but also because of her fame: everything became complicated." —Joan Greenson.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton H.Greene in 1954.

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"I asked her if she'd pose for Modern Screen and she was pleased. I even went over to the gallery to watch the job being done. The posing started at twelve-thirty and was still going on at a little past four p.m when I left. I was tired just from watching.
Marilyn brought along her favorite hairdresser, Gladys, and her make-up man, Whitey. She wanted to look her best and these efficient people understand her. Marilyn made several costume changes to get exactly the right pose for Modern Screen's cover!" —Sidney Skolsky.

Marilyn Monroe photographed at an event in 1953, she was elected “Miss Press Club.” She had previously won the same title in 1948.

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"I can't understand why some of them [journalists] print just the opposite of what I say. I think some of the things they write tell me more about them than they tell other people about me." —Marilyn Monroe to John Wilcock in 1955.

Marilyn Monroe on the set of 'There's No Business Like Show Business', 1954.

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"She confused learning with intelligence and was pained all her life by her lack of formal education. She was unlettered, but learned quickly from people she met. Her curiosity was a void to be filled, and she ingested information and experience. She had an instinctive understanding of people that enabled some of us to come close, but she always withheld part of herself. Every book, every class, every new person from whom she could learn was a step up and out of the misery of her background.
Her critics thought her reading a pose because during her starlet days, she would walk about the commissary with a book under her arm." - Eve Arnold (photographer).

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton H.Greene in 1955.

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Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by James Joyce, photographed by Eve Arnold in September 1955.

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72 years ago today February 16, 1954 Marilyn Monroe arrived in Korea.
Just weeks after the armistice ended active fighting in the Korean War, Marilyn traveled to Korea to perform for U.S. troops stationed there. At the time, she was at the height of her rising fame following the success of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire.
Over four days, she performed ten shows for more than 100,000 service members. Temperatures were freezing sometimes below zero yet she went on stage in evening gowns, determined not to disappoint the troops.

“The highlight of my life was singing for the soldiers. I stood out on an open stage that was cold, but I swear I didn’t feel a single thing but good.”- Marilyn Monroe.

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"I wish Marilyn could be as happy always as she was when she came home from her honeymoon. Although she was suffering from a heavy cold and actually have pneumonia in Korea. She was happier than than I have ever seen her." —Louella Parsons, Puffalo Evening News, 1954.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene in October 1953.

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