Last glimpse of a Hollywood legend: Prints from Marilyn Monroe's final shoot, go up for auction

The last ever professional photos of Marilyn Monroe. This pictures taken just a few weeks before her untimely death have emerged for sale. The poignant pictures of the screen diva were taken by a close friend of hers named George Barris on July 13, 1962, at the time it was destined for a book about Marilyn Monroe.

But barely three weeks after Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her Los Angeles home at the age 36 - making Barris's pictures of the world's biggest star hugely valuable. Devastated by the loss of his friend, Barris scrapped plans for the book - "Marilyn: Her Life In Her Own Words" - and few years afterwards he refused to allow the images, the last professional shots ever to be taken of Marilyn Monroe, to be published.

    Twenty-five years later Barris, alongside Hollywood glamour photographer collector Edward Weston, did finally publish the 'Last Photos' from his original negatives.

They made a limited edition of 99 prints from eight photographs.

After her death, Barris moved to Paris, where he lived for the next 20 years.

 

 

I often wonder what Marilyn Monroe's Life would have looked like if she was still alive would she have been married and stayed married or maybe gotten divorced but has atleast three Beautiful Daughters and maybe a five grand kids? Questions that might never be answered. #QuestionsExisting...