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JASGUR Joseph

Date of birth : March 23, 1919.

Date of death : March 21, 2009, Orlando, Florida.

Practise: photographer.

 

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On Emmeline Snively's request, this photographer of the celebrities agreed to take Norma Jeane in pictures in March 1946.

 
He was known for his collaboration with magazines as Silver Screen, Photoplay and Hollywood Citizen News.

He was surprised to find at his Hollywood studio's door, a shy young girl, who had nothing to do with usual models, anxious and panting. She was also more than an hour late, which surprised him, because it seemed to him that it was incompatible with the serious she had for starting her career.

They continued the picture sessions during March, at Zuma Beach, near Point Dume, after Malibu, near the Hollywood letters, on the hilltop. He made pictures in black and white and color, fixing on the film her spontaneity while she was drawing hearts on the wet sand.

 Zuma Beach, California

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With Joseph Jasgur : 

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In the book he devoted to her, he claimed that she had 6 toes.

He also claimed that Norma Jeane asked him to marry her but he refused.

He was also the official photographer of the legendary Hollywood Canteen, where the movie stars served coffee and entertained the American soldiers on leave during the Second World War.

Bibliography

"The Birth of Marilyn : the Lost Photographs of Norma Jeane", Joseph Jasgur, New York, St Martin's Press, 1991.

 

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