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JASGUR Joseph

Date of birth : March 23, 1919, Windsor, Canada.

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

Profession photographer.

 

Portrait ;

Addresses

* 1940 : 3075 Harrington Avenue, Los Angeles

* 1950 : 2436 West Boulevard, Los Angeles

* 1952 : 326 North Mansfield, Los Angeles

* 1959 : 3913 Roxane Avenue, Los Angeles

* 1960 : bureau au 700 North Fairfax Avenue, Room 212, Los Angeles

* 1973 : 7673 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles.

Story

His parents were Harry Jasgur (September 15, 1886, Russia-April 2, 1951, Los Angeles) and Fanny Minster (April 15, 1877, Russia-February 11, 1953, Los Angeles).

On March 18, 1952 he married Shirley Bernice Hockstein (August 30,1922, New Jersey-April 12, 2000)

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They had a daughter Cindy Beth (born on April 5, 1955, Los Angeles) and son Gary Howard, who died a few 

months after his birth (October 21, 1958, California-June 27, 1959, California)().

After their divorce, he married Elisabeth S.Tschannen in November 1976, in Los Angeles. They divorced in 1978.

Link with Marilyn

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

1946 ().

In March 1946, at the Ambassador Hotel's gardens, head office of the Blue Book Agency ,

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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, March 1946

Bathsuit "seagull" with the Drunkards 

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Striped bathsuit 

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Pink sweater   

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Checked blouse 

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Note dated December 10, 1953

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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