![]() ![]() ![]() Through June and July, Marilyn talked and posed-and drank Champagne. Barris was obviously a sympathetic coadjutant. For Gloria Steinem’s 1986 book on the actress, simply titled Marilyn, illustrated with Barris’s iconic shots of Monroe, New York Times literary critic Diana Trilling wrote, “Mr. Barris and Monroe had been friends for nearly ten years, meeting in 1954 in New York on the set of the film The Seven Year Itch (1955). It was, however, his pictures of Marilyn Monroe that brought him lasting attention. He was also the set photographer for Twentieth Century Fox’s infamous Cleopatra (1963), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. ![]() Later, he worked for many publications, such as the newspaper supplement Parade, Cosmopolitan magazine, and the pulpy Real Detective magazine. George Barris, a Hollywood photojournalist known for his portraits of Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, and Frank Sinatra, but famous for his pictures of Marilyn Monroe-the last professional shots ever taken of the actress, just weeks before her death on August 5, 1962-has died, writes Anita Gates of the New York Times.īarris served as an army photographer during World War II. ![]()
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