Dancing dames! Marilyn Monroe (center) attends movement class in Hollywood, 1949. For more photographs from Marilyn's 'movie-star training,' check out:
Marilyn Monroe, 22, took dance lessons, Hollywood, 1949.Marilyn Monroe in ’49: A Movie Icon in TrainingMarilyn Monroe, 22, took lessons with the acting coach Natasha Lytess, Hollywood, 1949.“I’m sending only brief captions,” a LIFE magazine correspondent wrote to his editors in February 1949, in notes accompanying photographs of a little-known actress. “For one thing, time is of the essence in getting the pictures to a plane.
But the beautiful and, crucially, tenacious Marilyn pushed on. She watched, practiced and learned, and as she honed her talent her opportunities grew. A slew of small roles—a memorable walk-on in the Marx Brothers’; a luminous breakthrough in—inspired Fox, the studio that dropped her back in 1947, to sign her to a new seven-year contract. By 1953, Marilyn Monroe’s “hoped-for movie stardom” was no longer an ingenue’s dream.
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