'She puckered up and said, `This is just for you, George,' and blew a kiss to me. She was no phony or snob.'īarris revealed to the Daily News that the final shot he ever took of Monroe was on the beach, wrapped in a blanket. 'I was most impressed that Marilyn was always polite and friendly to everyone on the set. Barris told the Huffington Post: 'What I particularly liked about Marilyn was that she didn't act like a movie star.
'When I first saw her I thought she was the most beautiful, fantastic person I'd ever met,' Barris told the Los Angeles Daily News in 2012, ahead of an exhibition to mark what would have been the film star's 86th birthday. Army's Office of Public Relations and many of his photographs of Eisenhower were published.Īfter the war, he became a freelance photographer and readily found work in Hollywood where he met his muse Monroe.īarris had first met Monroe on the set of her film The Seven Year Itch in 1954. He is most famous for taking the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe but h e has also photographer Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and many more.Īs a young man he worked for the U.S. Barris, 90, who was collaborating on a book with Monroe before her death, will talk about his close friendship with the star and his theory of her untimely death.Īs always, we recommend that you check with the bookstores and venues listed below for any event changes/cancellations.American photographer George Barris snapped some of the biggest stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Photos from that session along with a selection of never-before-seen images, memorabilia and clothing are currently on display at the Hollywood Museum, where Barris will sign copies of his book “Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe’s Revealing Last Words and Photographs” on Saturday from 4-6 p.m. Countless books continue to be published about her life, including several coffee-table books of photographs this past year by Bert Stern, Lawrence Schiller and Andre de Dienes, who took some of the earliest photos of the aspiring model in 1945.īut it was George Barris who earned the distinction of being the last photographer to have an official photo shoot with Monroe before her death in 1962. As fans around the world pay tribute to Marilyn Monroe this week on the 50th anniversary of her death, the fascination with the tragic star is never-ending.
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