When she caught him, she cheerfully said, “I’ll take a dozen of those.” The story he always told was that he was discreetly photographing her derrière while she was leaning out a window. Barris had been friends for almost a decade, having met in New York in 1954 on the set of “ The Seven Year Itch,” in which she starred with Tom Ewell. But this project, too, was not completed.” Barris took many soft, gentle pictures of her, in bathing suit, towels, beach robe, sweater. “Through June and July, Marilyn talked and posed - and drank Champagne. Barris was obviously a sympathetic coadjutant,” Diana Trilling observed in The New York Times in her 1986 review of “Marilyn,” written by Gloria Steinem, with photographs by Mr.
She wanted to write a book, she said, and Mr. She had been fired the month before from the film “Something’s Got to Give,” reportedly because of her chronic lateness and absenteeism.Īt 36, she was only a year past her divorce from her third husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Barris shot those last pictures, on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 13, Monroe had reason to be troubled.
The death was confirmed by his daughter Caroline Barris. George Barris, who took the last professional photographs of Marilyn Monroe, just weeks before her death in 1962, died on Friday at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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