March 16, 2012

Marilyn Monroe at the Getty Images gallery – in pictures

A new exhibition at the Getty Images gallery charts Marilyn Monroe's rise from aspiring actress to Hollywood icon

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Marilyn Monroe on the balcony of the Ambassador hotel in New York, March 1955
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Photograph: Action images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Sporting a two-piece polka dot bathing suit and heels, January 1951 Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Monroe photographed by Ted Baron at her home in Palm Springs, January 1954
Photograph: Baron/Getty Images Photograph: Baron/Action images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Monroe in Hollywood agent Johnny Hyde's backyard in Beverly Hills, 1950
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Photograph: Action images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — At the Ambassador hotel, preparing to see the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, March 1955
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Photograph: Action images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Monroe posing on a rooftop about three years before her rise to international stardom
Photograph: Getty Images Photograph: Action images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Monroe cycles alongside her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, in August 1956 Photograph: Harold Clements/Getty Images

Marilyn Monroe exhibition — Arriving at the premiere of There's No Business Like Show Business, 1954 Photograph: Murray Garrett/Getty Images

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