Making Marilyn: Goodbye, Norma Jeane

Earl Moran/Grapefruit Moon Gallery Source: Supplied

MARILYN Monroe was a teenager just and another aspiring actress when she first posed for pin-up artist Earl Moran in 1946.

The 19-year-old Norma Jeane was paid just $10 an hour to pose and Moran would then use the photographs as the basis for his pin-up illustrations, used for calendars and posters.

Moran hired Monroe through an LA agency for the modelling assignment. The pair struck up a friendship and she posed for him several times between 1946 and 1950.

Earl Moran/Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Monroe reportedly hated her skinny legs and credited Moran with making them look better.

In 1987, Playboy magazine published topless images from the 1946 shoot. More images have now been released by the online compendium of American illustration, Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

Earl Moran/Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Even more Monroe was revealed in the days before the New Year when the FBI reissued files they kept on the star. Previously seen FBI records on Monroe had been heavily redacted, but the re-released files removed much of the censorship to show just how closely the agency was monitoring the actor's ties to communism.

They record concern over her relationship with left-leaning Frederick Vanderbilt Field, with whom Monroe apparently shared a "mutual infatuation" after meeting him in Mexico. The files state: "The situation caused considerable dismay among Miss Monroe's entourage."

Earl Moran/Grapefruit Moon Gallery

But a 1962 entry concluded the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like it Hot star wasn't considered a threat: "Subject's views are very positively and concisely leftist; however if she is being actively used by the Communist Party, it is not general knowledge among those working with the movement in Los Angeles."

The FBI started keeping tabs on Monroe in 1955, right up until her death. The files mention conspiracy theories surrounding her death (which LA authorities ruled a likely suicide), but the FBI did not investigate.

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