Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting in a Gif

SIX weeks after Bert Stern took these pictures in June 1962, Marilyn Monroe died.

The set became known as The Last Sitting. Sten and Monroe spent three-days at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles. He took 2,500 photos.

Said Stern, who died in June 2013:

“It was a one-time-in-a-lifetime experience to have Marilyn Monroe in a hotel room…”

In the point-click-and-publish digital age,  Monroe would never have looked so good:

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Posted: 3rd, July 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment