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LIPTON Harry

Harry Leo Lipton.

Date of birth : April 12, 1920.

Date of death : Janury 16, 2002, Culver City, California ().

Profession 

Artist agent.

Member of the National Artists Corporation and the Elsie Cukor-Lipton's agent (his sister-in-law).

Marilyn's first agent.

 

Portrait 

 

Address

in 1970 : 615 Kingman Avenue, Santa Monica.

Story

There are 2 versions of the meeting with Marilyn :

          - he orchestrated a higher bid between Howard Hughes and Ben Lyon, one of the heads of the Fox. He said having taking part in Norma Jeane pseudonym's choice.

          - Emmeline Snively, manager of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, would have called Lipton's immediate superior, who would have introduced the starlet to Lipton (favorite version of Fred Lawrence Guiles).

 
Marilyn signed her first contract with the  Fox on July 23, 1946.

With him, she spent a year at the Fox, 6 months at the Columbia.

On January 10, 1947 she left the National Artists Corporation and entered the Elsie Cukor-Lipton's agency 

where he worked too .

 
On December 2, 1950, inauguration of a Mexican Airlines's plane ,

 

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