Marilyn Monroe By Photographer Lawrence Schiller

Photographer Lawrence Schiller worked with Marilyn Monroe on several of her films, and recalls the legendary star in his book “Marilyn & Me”. Here are some of the rare images he captured.

Marilyn’s first dip in the swimming pool while shooting “Something’s Got to Give” in May 1962. (Photo by Lawrence Schiller/“Marilyn & Me”)

Saying that she wanted to “push Liz Taylor off the magazine covers”, Marilyn gave permission for partially nude photos of her to be taken during shooting of “Something’s Got to Give”, her final, uncompleted film. (Photo by Lawrence Schiller/“Marilyn & Me”)

Marilyn’s pool scene in “Something’s Got to Give” called on her to try to playfully entice her costar, Dean Martin, into the water with her. (Photo by Lawrence Schiller/“Marilyn & Me”)

Marilyn Monroe’s final, never-completed film, “Something’s Got to Give”, included a swimming scene in which she was supposedly nude. Here Schiller captures her by the pool. (Photo by Lawrence Schiller/“Marilyn & Me”)

The 1962 shooting of “Something’s Got to Give” was troubled by Marilyn’s health problems; she showed up only 12 times out of 35 days of production. By early August she would be dead from an overdose of barbituates. (Photo by Lawrence Schiller/“Marilyn & Me”)

Over two years, photographer Lawrence Schiller developed a friendship with Marilyn Monroe, earning so much of her trust that he was able to capture candid, behind-the-scenes images like this one. (Photo by Lawrence Schiller/“Marilyn & Me”)