Posted by Fab Style Staff on May 2, 2012 in Fabulous Style-News
Vanity Fair Celebrates Marilyn Monroe June 2012 Issue
Marilyn Monre Vanity Fair June 2012
Marilyn Monre Vanity Fair June 2012
Marilyn Monroe was as much a sex icon in her day as she is today. She died unexpectedly Augusts 4,1962. The 50th anniversary of her death will be happening in a few months and Vanity Fair Magazine decided to highlight this by putting the actress on its June 2012 cover. In the magazine, there is excluvie pics and conversations Monroe did with photographer, Lawrence Schriller. She sadly died before the shoot was ever released.
The magazine the model/actress discussed her jealousy of Liz Taylor by Fox Studios. She told the photographer:
“Fox [Studios] should start paying as much attention to me as they are paying to Elizabeth Taylor.”
In an effort to make them pay the studios pay attention she scheduled a shoot and wanted to pose naked by a poolside. She jumped into the pool and emerged nude.
“Larry,” she said, “if I do come out of the pool with nothing on, I want your guarantee that when your pictures appear on the covers of magazines Elizabeth Taylor is not anywhere in the same issue.” Marilyn was making only $100,000 for what would be her last film, Something’s Got to Give, in 1962, while Taylor was receiving a million dollars for Cleopatra. She wanted to show Fox that she could get the same kind of coverage as the publicity bonanza generated by Taylor’s very public affair with her co-star, Richard Burton. When Hugh Hefner agreed to pay $25,000 for a nude shot of Marilyn—the most money Playboy had ever paid for a photograph—Schiller thanked her for creating such a big payday, joking, “See what tits ’n’ ass can do?” “That’s how I got my house and swimming pool,” Marilyn said, laughing. “There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”
To get the full scoop, you can purchase a copy when it is released.
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