Marilyn is one of many stars featured in Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood, a new book of portrait photography. The cover shows a young Bette Davis in ‘platinum blonde’ mode, nearly two decades before All About Eve.
“Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood brings some of the greatest portraits taken by leading Hollywood portrait photographers during the motion picture industry’s golden years of 1920 to 1960. Little-seen negatives, long buried in the remarkable and internationally renowned archives of the John Kobal Foundation, have been unearthed and printed to reveal some of Hollywood’s favourite stars at the height of their careers. Full-page images of Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, as well as lesser lights including Anna May Wong, Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez and Ramon Novarro, will remind long-time movie fans why these important 20th-century icons will forever remain the fabulous faces of the movie world.
Selected by best-selling author Robert Dance and writer and award-winning film producer Simon Crocker, over 200 photographs are presented alongside an essay by Dance, describing what it takes to become a fabulous face and an international icon.”
Marilyn is pictured in a publicity still for Clash By Night (1952), part of a series by photographer Rod Tolmie. The image comes from the collection of John Kobal, the Austrian-born film historian and photo archivist whose 1974 book, Marilyn Monroe: A Life On Film, was an international bestseller.
Marilyn has also graced the covers of several other Kobal titles…
And another photo from the Clash By Night set was featured in the touring exhibition, Glamour of the Gods (aka Made in Hollywood.)
And finally, Fabulous Faces publisher ACC Art Books has two Marilyn-themed titles due later this year – including an Eve Arnold monograph, and Marilyn Monroe Style.
The Marilyn Report 
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