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‘What if I come out with nothing on?’ Marilyn Monroe and the defiance of her final photoshoot
For the star’s 100th anniversary, Lawrence Schiller relives the nude photoshoot that showed, far from being a ‘messy’ blond bombshell, Monroe was a shrewd controller of her image A few days after doing a nude swimming pool shoot on the set of the 1962 comedy Something’s Got to Give , Marilyn Monroe jumped into her raven black T-Bird and drove her photographer, Lawrence Schiller, to Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard. Schiller had brought his negatives, now ready to be turned into prints. And in her purse Monroe had brought her scissors, which she now reached for – and, under the glow of the now legendary Hollywood hangout’s streetlights, began to cut the colour film into pieces. “ Ziiiiiip – the ones she didn’t like,” says Schiller, animating the sound. “Z iiiiiip .” She destroyed them? “Oh yeah, but that came with the territory,” laughs the now 89-year-old, the last living photograph
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘What if I come out with nothing on?’ Marilyn Monroe and the defiance of her final photoshoot, For the star’s 100th anniversary, Lawrence Schiller relives the nude photoshoot that showed, far from being a ‘messy’ blond bombshell, Monroe was a shrewd controller of her image A few days after doing a nude swimming pool shoot on the set of the 1962 comedy Something’s Got to Give , Marilyn Monroe jumped into her raven black T-Bird and drove her photographer, Lawrence Schiller, to Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard. Schiller had brought his negatives, now ready to be turned into prints. And in her purse Monroe had brought her scissors, which she now reached for – and, under the glow of the now legendary Hollywood hangout’s streetlights, began to cut the colour film into pieces. “ Ziiiiiip – the ones she didn’t like,” says Schiller, animating the sound. “Z iiiiiip .” She destroyed them? “Oh yeah, but that came with the territory,” laughs the now 89-year-old, the last living photograph
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- ‘What if I come out with nothing on?’ Marilyn Monroe and the defiance of her final photoshootThe Guardian - 2026-06-01T11:18:01+00:00
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