Many of these are favorites that have been digitally restored from the original transparencies and negatives. Rick Rinehart and I selected the pictures for this edition, and I want to thank Rick for his assistance in this project. Before leaving California for New York to live with the Greene family, Marilyn had dictated her own words and Hecht put them to paper. Marilyn and Ben Hecht spent time together over the next few months, and they began working on her biography. Besides doing a series of candid pictures, still considered favorites, the four spoke of Marilyn doing a book about her life story, the result of which is the book in your hands.

Schenck’s home offered expansive views with wonderful props for Milton and Marilyn to play off, as seen on page 148. Also present was screenplay writer Ben Hecht. The following year, Milton met up with Marilyn at the Los Angeles home of producer Joseph Schenck, with whom Marilyn was involved at the time. A close and endearing friendship quickly grew. They had an immediate, relaxed rapport and, like two children in a sandbox, began to create images together with playful abandon. Milton met Marilyn in the fall of 1953 on an assignment for Look magazine. Though he was a successful New York–based fashion and portrait photographer, credited with over 150 covers and thousands of editorial pages, he’s remembered best for the body of work he created with Marilyn Monroe from 1953 to 1957.

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