Show Business: MM: Still Magic

Since her death ten years ago this week, Marilyn Monroe has attained the pop pantheon of nostalgia. Books have been written about her, poems have apostrophized her and artists from Andy Warhol to Claes Oldenburg have portrayed her in painting and sculpture. Now, to celebrate—and cash in on—her legend as the last of the movie sex goddesses, Los Angeles Journalist Larry Schiller has collected 185 photographs of Marilyn by 15 top photographers for an exhibition at Los Angeles' David Stuart Galleries.

As the samples on this page indicate, the photographs trace Marilyn's growth from teen-ager to star, catching her in all of her many moods. "I wanted to show how she changed," says Schiller, "from pimples and pigtails, in and out of baby fat as she went through traumas." Schiller is preparing 30 copies of the exhibition to tour other U.S. cities, and he is also negotiating with several book publishers to reproduce it in a hard-cover memento of the Monroe magic.