📚 MARILYN MONROE
Marilyn Monroe reads Ulysses in this 1955
📷 Eve Arnold
Marilyn reads Michael Chekhov's To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting, at the Ambassador Hotel, New York
Photo: Ed Feingersh, 1955
Marilyn reads Irving Shulman's novel The Big Brokers at a bookstore on Sunset Boulevard
Photo: Andre de Dienes, 1953
Marilyn reads Leaves of Grass at the Beverly Carlton Hotel
Photo: John Florea, c. 1952
“Walt Whitman was her favorite poet, even more than Carl Sandburg. She loved him from the moment a New York friend gave her Leaves of Grass years earlier.”
- Sam Staggs
Another photo by John Florea, from 1951
Marilyn reading How to Develop Your Thinking Ability, by Kenneth Keyes
Marilyn reading Death of a Salesman. Not sure of the date, so I don't know if she's doing research before her marriage to Arthur Miller, or doing homework assigned by him.
Marilyn reading, by Alfred Eisenstaedt
It could be *anything*