Photographer who snapped nude image of Marilyn Monroe in the infamous Something’s Got to Give pool scene describes how the blonde bombshell performed a raunchy striptease during filming in a new documentary
- Details from Marilyn Monroe’s Something’s Got to Give nude scene have been revealed
- Photographer Lawrence Schiller said she made suggestion to take off clothes
- Between takes she would swim to the side with less of her bathing suit on
- Schiller’s daughter said it was a ‘picture that shows nothing but says everything’
- Monroe was amid a battle for the headlines with Elizabeth Taylor at the time
- The details emerged in documentary Scandalous: The Death of Marilyn Monroe, which aired on Sunday
- Extended director’s cut version containing additional footage will be available on FNC’s streaming service FOX Nation, beginning on August 25 at 8.05pm/ET.
The photographer who snapped Marilyn Monroe’s naked shots in Something’s Got to Give describes the raunchy scenes in a documentary about her downfall.
Lawrence Schiller was hired to capture moments on-set with the blonde bombshell in May 1962.
His account was revealed on part two of Fox News Channel’s documentary series Scandalous: The Death of Marilyn Monroe, which aired on Sunday and analyzes the incidents that led up to her death.
At the time of the photographs, Monroe was engaged in a battle to dominate newspaper headlines with Elizabeth Taylor, who was filming Cleopatra.
Monroe was working on Something’s Got to Give but feared the script would not help her edge in front of Taylor.
She thought the film was ‘flimsy’ at a time she needed a hit so she used her body.
Photographer Lawrence Schiller said Marilyn Monroe made suggestion to take off her clothes
One of the shots showing Monroe as she swims to the edge of the pool during the filming of Something’s Got to Give, months before her death
Schiller, who was hired for a French magazine, recalled running through the scene shot list with Monroe when she came up with the idea.
‘What if I went into the swimming pool with my bathing suit on but I came out with nothing on,’ she said, according to the photographer.
Monroe started filming with a nude colored bathing suit but each time in between takes she would head over to the edge of the pool with less of the costume covering her body.
‘Third time there were no panties on,’ Schiller said, who believed around 90 per cent of the cameramen were oblivious to the saucy scenes.
In what would later become an iconic shot of Monroe, she approached the pool side and flipped her right leg over the edge of the pool.
The photo showed Marilyn with a mischievous and shocked expression and she appeared to be naked.
Schiller explained that many years later his daughter would tell him, ‘Daddy that’s a picture that shows nothing but says everything.’
At the time, Monroe also posed suggestively in the water and on the poolside carefully draped in a blue towel that revealed select parts of her body.
At one point when posing topless, she covered herself with her hands and smiled, looking away camera.
Lawrence Schiller (above) who took the iconic photograph of Monroe and many more during her time on the set of Something’s Got to Give
Monroe (above) above was not averse to daring stunts to grab the headlines. She previously wanted to film the first nude scene in a major American film in 1961. The scene was cut from ‘The Misfits’ before it was released. Monroe (right) poses in a bikini she had just bought for ex-husband Arthur Miller. She is said to have left the tag on, waiting for his approval
This was Monroe’s last photo shoot on set before her death on August 5, 1962.
The film Something’s Got to Give, would be abandoned and re-filmed under the new title ‘Move Over, Darling,’ released the following year.
During Monroe’s time on set she only appeared for 12 of 33 shooting days. It was a difficult time for the star whose troubles have since been more widely documented.
The documentary reveals 20th Century Fox’s patience began to wear thin, reporting that while Monroe had been hours late to shoots previously, she was now days late.
It got to the point where they started to feel they were never going to get the film finished.
The tension was furthered when she took a day off during filming to sing Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden.
20th Century Fox were ‘in the process of going broke’ and unable to ‘get any control over’ either of their two films’ leading ladies – Monroe and Taylor, the documentary states.
A week after Monroe’s 36th birthday on June 8, 1962, she was photographed by Schiller on set celebrating with the crew.
Little did she know this would be her last day on the production and was released shortly after. Two months later, she was dead,
Schiller said: ‘I photographed her birthday party with the cake and all the candles and then they fired her.
‘That might have been the end of Marilyn Monroe’s career.’
The premiere of the documentary, which aired last week, revealed photos of Monroe’s naked corpse. They had remained hidden nearly six decades after her death
The film’s producer of the time, Henry Weinstein, was quoted saying ‘the studio does not want her anymore,’ according to Vanity Fair.
He added: ‘Every time she says she is ill and we have to close down the picture, 104 persons lose a day’s pay Marilyn’s absence has cost the studio more than half a million dollars.’
The show went onto suggest that Monroe had feared growing old and worried she would not be able to live up to the image she had created for herself.
They added: ‘She never faced the camera again.’
The premiere of the documentary, which aired last week, revealed photos of Monroe’s naked corpse. They had remained hidden nearly six decades after her death.
It featured an interview with the son of the photographer who captured the images of the Hollywood icon as she lay on a tray inside a Los Angeles morgue.
Devik Wiener, the son of famed snapper Leigh Wiener, reveals how his father bribed his way into the coroner’s quarters just hours after the Some Like It Hot star was found dead in her bed on August 4, 1962.
Scandalous: The Death of Marilyn Monroe aired on Sunday. The extended director’s cut version containing additional footage will be available on FNC’s streaming service FOX Nation, beginning on August 25 at 8.05pm/ET.
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