A nude scene long believed lost featuring Marilyn Monroe in John Huston’s The Misfits has been re-discovered. The footage, cut from the film by Huston, was previously believed to have been destroyed.
Author Charles Casillo made the discovery during the research for his book, Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon, out via St. Martin’s Press on Tuesday.
Casillo interviewed Curtice Taylor, son of Misfits producer Frank Taylor, and learned that he has kept the footage in a locked cabinet since his father’s death in 1999.
In a love scene with Clark Gable, Monroe dropped the covering bed-sheet and exposed her body. It would have been one of the first – if not the first – nude scenes by an American actress in a major production in the sound era of film if it had made it into the final version.
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]]>The movie icon died from an apparent drugs overdose in 1962 aged just 36.
But a new film of her life is in the pipeline using a Marilyn lookalike and the cutting-edge technology featured in Hollywood blockbusters.
Actress and model Suzie Kennedy was turned into a Marilyn ‘avatar’ at the world famous Pinewood Studios, home of Star Wars and James Bond.
Suzie, 41, spent hours having her face and body scanned to produce a ‘digital double’ which will play the part of the troubled star in the movie.
The project is the brainchild of Buchkirchen producer and writer Chris Ongaro.
He teamed up with writer Kim Fuller, who penned the Spice Girls movie Spice World, produced by his brother Simon, the band’s manager.
To make the digital Marilyn, Suzie had more than 3,000 photos of her face and body taken, working with Amanda Darby, head of Pinewood 3D.
She had to stand on a platform surrounded by 181 cameras snapping every inch of her.
Markers were drawn on her face and another 60 cameras were used to pick up her facial expressions.
She then had a motion capture session with Phil Stilgoe of Centroid, experts in the field, in which she moved about in a bodysuit with a helmet and camera attached to map all her movements.
Suzie, who appeared in a cameo as Marilyn in Bladerunner 2049, said: ‘’I love the bravery of using the technology to make a film like this. It will be brilliant to have her on screen again.’’
Kim, 66, said: ‘’Marilyn Monroe is a an iconic figure and we’re giving her a 21 century digital makeover.
‘’This is a very exciting project and it will be as much Marilyn as it is possible to be without her actually being there.
"As she’s digital, you can do anything. You have a lot of license dramatically.’’
He added: "We want to do a movie which re-interprets her in a modern context and shows she is still relevant.
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]]>The lock of hair -- approximately 35 strands worth -- is from the collection of Kenneth Battelle, who served as the icon's hairdresser from 1958 until her death in 1962.
Monroe's mane comes in a specially designed glass frame, along with a framed photo of her. It's all presented in a flat paper box with Battelle's customized calling card under the lid ... which he dated June 14, 1959.
We're told the hairdresser had several of these pieces featuring Marilyn's hair made as gifts for his closest friends.
This one in particular, though, can be yours -- if you got the dough. The "Some Like It Hot" star's hair is available at Moments In Time for $16,500 ... get it while it's hot.
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Her name by birth would also echo 11 years after her death, in Elton John’s memorable ‘Candle in the Wind’ honoring the late American icon. The song was re-released in 1997, then in memory of Princess Diana.
During the first part of her life, before she gained such huge popularity, Monroe endured a lot of struggles and suffering.
For instance, she never came to really know her father, and she didn’t have fond memories of her mother either. Monroe allegedly recalled that Gladys, her mother, tried to choke her as a baby while she was laying in a cradle, using a pillow.
Gladys was later admitted to a mental institution.
Monroe spent a great deal of her childhood with foster parents. In fact, she was relocated to 11 different couples.
She spent probably a full year at the Children’s Aid Society Orphanage in L.A. Later on, Monroe would also testify she was the victim of sexual abuse and rape at the age of only 11.
At the beginning of World War Two, Marilyn, still a teenager, was a Christian Scientist and had already married her first husband, James Dougherty. Therefore, she was Norma Jeane Dougherty for a while.
She would later change religions, and husbands, and names… and obviously jobs.
During the war years, the shy-looking girl was employed in a military factory. One of her tasks was to spray down aircraft with fire retardant.
Photographer David Conover was lucky enough to take some of the first intriguing photos of the future actress, singer, and model. In the photos, she can be seen working in the factory.
This early set of images of Norma Jeane reveal how she looked before she became a star (and before starting to use peroxide too): a natural brunette with curly hair. Her smile is as beautiful as ever.
Conover would be commended for discovering Monroe. He was assigned to the factory where she worked in 1944 and on behalf the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit. The commanding officer of this unit was none other than Ronald Reagan, the future president of the United States.
Conover eventually pushed young Norma Jeane on a new life journey with his photography work. After this session, he recommended her to Bill Carroll, another photographer who was looking for a model.
Carroll was reportedly looking for a girl who is “kind of kid you’d like to live next to.”
Norma Jeane looked like the perfect fit. She agreed to a session, and this generated her first income ever as a model; Carroll paid her 20 bucks.
It is also interesting that Carroll didn’t realize who he had really photographed for some four decades. He reportedly came across a news story in Time magazine explaining about Conover’s pictures. Only then did he recognize this was Monroe before she became famous.
After Carroll, young Norma Jeane sought out other opportunities to model. She also used different names during this period, including Mona Monroe and Jean Norman.
Until she officially took Marilyn Monroe as her legal name in 1956, she also used names like Zelda Zonk, Jean Adair, or Faye Miller. The latest of these three she used when admitted to a psychiatric clinic.
Perhaps her game-changing year was 1953 when she starred in the Technicolor musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Around the same time, she also married her second husband, Joe DiMaggio. She completed two trips to Korea, where she was invited to entertain U.S. Marine forces deployed there for the Korean War.
On one of the journeys, she traveled to the distant Asian peninsula alone. Her audience was a group of 13,000 army men. Monroe would later praise her trips to Korea as a life-changing experience, and describe this was the first time she felt was a real star.
Indeed, by that point, the star–the blonde bombshell–was born.
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