“She puckered up and said, `This is just for you, George,’ and blew a kiss to me. She didn’t complain, though, and she sat on the beach wrapped in a fisherman’s sweater, so I put a blanket over her,” he said. “Late in the afternoon it turned cold and Marilyn was tired. Barris recalls the final photo shoot with her on July 13, 1962. The two remained friends for the rest of her life. “When I first saw her I thought she was the most beautiful, fantastic person I’d ever met,” Barris said. “She was one-of-a-kind,” he remembers with a wistful smile.īarris, who grew up in New York City before World War II, first met and photographed Marilyn in 1954 when she was on location in New York City for the film “The Seven Year Itch.” He recently sat in a director’s chair in the Hollywood Museum, surrounded by the largest exhibit of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia in the country.Ī focus of the exhibit is a collection of Barris’ photos of Marilyn including some never-before-seen candid shots of the star.
She had a cover and 12 pages in Cosmopolitan magazine, she had many offers for appearances and films and a new contract with Fox and an increase in salary.”īarris said he always has regretted not going out to see her on that fateful weekend. She told me her career was only beginning. Suicide was the last thing on her mind, he said.
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