Marilyn Monroe, "Red Velvet," Nude Pose #2, for "Golden Dreams" Calendar, 1949, 9.5" x 6.25" Original Press Photograph by Tom ...

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Marilyn Monroe, "Red Velvet," Nude Pose #2, for "Golden Dreams" Calendar, 1949, 9.5" x 6.25" Original Press Photograph by Tom Kelly Studios. Vintage gelatin silver glossy borderless 9.5" x 6.25" press photograph (originally produced from 8" x 10" format camera with Kodachrome color film transparency) of Marilyn Monroe, 1949, of "Red Velvet," Nude Pose #2, for "Golden Dreams" Calendar, by Tom Kelly Studios, with Europa - Report wet stamp and typewritten caption on the verso. Later reproduced for "Golden Dreams" calendar, 1952, and in 1st issue of Playboy magazine, December 1953, pp. 17-18. Rare vintage print produced later from the original internegative. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Kelley to shoot promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine content and advertising. Monroe posed nude for Kelly on red velvet and was paid $50, signing the release as 'Mona Monroe.' Kelley received only small payments when he sold the reproduction rights to two shots to the Baumgarth Calendar Company and Western Lithograph Company. In 1953, Hugh Hefner purchased the rights from Baumgarth to reproduce the "Golden Dreams" photograph of Pose #1 as the first centerfold in the first issue of Playboy magazine, which launched the franchise. The 8" x 10" transparency remains in the Playboy Archives. Fine/Very Fine, with light crease at the corner tips, and handling. Comes with a COA from heritage Auctions.

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on." (Marilyn Monroe quoted in Time magazine, 1952)
Am oben - ohne - klischee zerbrochen: Marilyn Monroe. Sie nahm sich 1962 das Leben.
"Topless cliché shattered: Marilyn Monroe. She took her own life in 1962."

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