Lawrence Schiller: “Marilyn Monroe was just another assignment to me.”

Lawrence Schiller has recently been quoted as saying, “Marilyn Monroe was just another assignment to me.” Schiller shot Monroe on several occasions, but perhaps most famously on the set of her final film, "Something's Got To Give" in 1962.

From a recent interview:

He sat in Marilyn Monroe’s T-Bird, drinking Dom Pérignon and watching as she took pinking shears to the shots she didn’t like in his roll of negatives. But he never thought of his subjects as icons. He had photographed Monroe several times, and instead of being in awe of her, complained that her turning up eight hours late for a shoot would infuriate his wife, stuck at home with their six-month-old baby. “We had to work till 11pm,” he remembers, “and I said, ‘Marilyn, Judy’s going to kill me.’ I go home, my wife opens the door and she has a big smile on her face: Marilyn had sent her flowers to apologize.”

More on Schiller:

Lawrence Schiller: The Great American Picture Show
www.lawrenceschiller.com
Wikipedia Page