Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe

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Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

American Photographer · 1899–1968

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As legend tells it, Arthur Fellig earned the nickname *Weegee* during his early career as a freelance press photographer in New York City. His apparent sixth sense for crime often led him to a scene well ahead of the police. Observers likened this sense, actually derived from tuning his radio to the police frequency, to the Ouija board, the popular fortune-telling game. Spelling it phonetically, F

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Date
March 1955
Medium
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
672b007a-05c3-4a2e-ada0-0de6ccd916e7

Marilyn Monroe, wearing expensive jewels, riding a pink-painted elephant on opening night of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden, New York City, for a benefit for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation.

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