Happy Birthday Marilyn
Jun 2, 2009
To commemorate the 83rd birthday of Marilyn Monroe this past week, Life magazine has unveiled a newly discovered set of photographs of the movie icon taken nearly 60 years ago.
The photos, taken in 1950 by Life magazine photographer Ed Clark, were shot in L.A.’s Griffith Park three months after Monroe’s first on-screen role in The Asphalt Jungle.
Marilyn was born June 1st 1926, in Los Angeles, California. See the rest of the photos at Life.
