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List of the agencies having represented Marilyn

As a model : 

Blue Book Modeling Agency, headed by Emmeline Snively.

As an actress : 

    - National Concert Artists Corporation, West Coast Office (9059 Sunset Boulevard), dealt with Norma Jeane's first movie in 1946, after Emmeline Snively had contacted her friend Helen Ainsworth who was helped by Harry Lipton.

    - the William Morris Agency (202 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills) took care of Marilyn in 1949 after its vice-president Johnny Hydehad fell in love with her. Although Marilyn officially remained there for four years, she tried to be represented elsewhere after Johnny Hyde's death, at the end of 1950.
At this time the President of the agency was Abe Lastfogel.

Contract signed on December 7, 1948 :

Contract signed on March 2, 1949 : ,,,

Letter from the William Morris to Harry Lipton, February 6, 1950 :

     
    - the Famous Artists Agency signed a two years contract after Charles Feldman had helped her to negociate her second contract with the Fox in 1951. On Marilyn's order, Charles Feldman was helped by Hugh French and Jack Gordean. When Marilyn left Hollywood in 1955 to found the Marilyn Monroe Productions with Milton Greene, she stopped any relation with this agency.

Contract with RCA, September 1, 1953 : ,,

    -the MCA, Music Corporation of America, followed the Famous Artists Agency in order to re-negociate Marilyn's contract with the Fox.
Marilyn and Milton Greene both agreed with the fact that the best way to guarantee the Marilyn Monroe Productions' independence, was to ask Lew Wasserman's contacts, himself head ofthe MCA, to assure the distribution.
The MCA stopped representing her during the last year of her life, when she asked the lawyer Milton Rudin to take charge.
Jay Kanter also worked at the MCA, at the New York agency. He was married with Judy Balaban, daughter of the founder of the Balaban and Katz Theater, who would become one of the leader of the Paramount.

He attended at Marilyn and Arthur Miller's wedding on July 1, 1956 ().
He went with her at the premiere of "East of Eden" on March 9, 1955, in New York (

  );and also during the visit of the USS Bennington ship in 1955

().

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