“She called me on Friday, and I was in New York, and she wanted to know if I could come to see her that weekend and that it was urgent,” he recalled. Monroe telephoned him two days before her death, he told The Los Angeles Daily News in 2012. 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. Each image is signed by Barris, and are estimated to go for between $8,000 and $24,000.George Barris’s last photo of Marilyn Monroe, taken on Santa Monica beach on July 13, 1962George 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.
The photos will be presented in their original groupings of three and will be auctioned off in Barris’ original photobox. There are a number of candids that you can just see that he’s catching her kind of in an off-guarded moment.”īarris became somewhat of a confidante for Monroe at that later stage of her career – she was 36 and had just gotten fired from the set of Something Gotta Give – and the photographer even collaborated with the actress on a book about her life. These photographs that Barris took are really amazing because she could really feel at ease with this photographer. “Marilyn was one of the most photographed women of that age or any age … She loved the camera, the camera loved her. “You can tell in these photographs, which are so open and honest, that she really trusted George Barris,” Dean Harmeyer, overseer of Paddle8’s entertainment and special collections, told Vanity Fair.
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