Description:
This photograph is part of a suite of four color photographs of Marilyn Monroe. Photographed on the small patio behind Marilyn’s Hollywood home, this image appeared in the books, "LIFE in Hollywood" (2003) and "The Great LIFE Photographers" (2004). Marilyn Monroe enchanted the photographer when they met in 1953. She sat on his lap and so flustered him that he set up his camera incorrectly and shot color film as black & white exposures. However, Marilyn was happy with the result. She wrote, “You made a palace out of my patio.”