“All I did was believe in her. She was a marvelous, loving, wonderful person I don’t think many understood.”
Milton H. Greene speaking in 1982.
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MEMORIES OF MARILYN: ANDRE DE DIENES
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.
https://newbridgesilverware.com/museum
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MEMORIES OF MARILYN: DONALD O’CONNOR
Donald O’Connor on working with Walter Lang, the Director of “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”
“He was a strange guy.. His claim to fame was that he wasn’t a good Director, but all of his pictures made money. To tell you what he was like, we were doing the sequence where Marilyn is rehearsing with the band. Thanks to her bouffant hair and high heels she looked taller than me — even though she was about five-foot-five and I’m five-nine– So Lang came over to me and asked if I’d stand on an apple box. I said ‘Why don’t you ask her to take off her shoes?’ and he said ‘I’m afraid to.’ I went to Marilyn and I said ‘Marilyn, this idiot’s afraid to ask you to take off your shoes, but I’d feel very strange working with you, standing on an apple box.’ She said, ‘Oh Christ! the guy’s nuts..’ So, she kicked off her shoes and everything was fine.”
Source: “Blonde Heat: The Sizzling Screen Career of Marilyn Monroe” by Richard Buskin.
