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GEORGE BARRIS (1928-2016): MARILYN - LAST PHOTO SESSION.

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GEORGE BARRIS (1928-2016): MARILYN - LAST PHOTO SESSION.

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George Barris shot the last pictures, on the beach in Santa Monica, California of Marilyn Monroe in June and July 1962. Through June and July, Marilyn talked and posed and drank Champagne. Mr. Barris took many soft, gentle pictures of her, in bathing suit, towels, beach robe, sweater. But this project was not completed.

Monroe and Mr. 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. The story he always told was that he was discreetly photographing her derrière while she was leaning out a window. When she caught him, she cheerfully said, “I’ll take a dozen of those.”


Monroe telephoned George two days before her death, he told The Los Angeles Daily News in 2012.
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. But he had plans to see his family that weekend, so he begged off and promised to visit her on Monday instead. Her body was found by her housekeeper early Sunday morning.

A beautiful C print of Marilyn Monroe drinking champagne on the beach in Santa Monica in 1962, measuring approx 16x12 inches, however mounted to show 11x11 inches. Some minor scratches are behind the mount. Framed. Copyright stamped by George Barris in 1986.