The Lost Marilyn Nudes from Her Last On-Set Photo Shoot

It was the assignment of an ambitious young photographer’s dreams: capturing Hollywood’s sexiest star for Look magazine in 1960. Lawrence Schiller’s chemistry with Marilyn Monroe seemed promising, and their professional relationship deepened when he photographed her on the set of her final, never-finished movie, Something’s Got to Give. The breathtaking nude shots from that shoot, some unpublished till now.

Monroe, in a never-before-published picture, shot during the pool scene in Something’s Got to Give, May 1962

A previously unseen selection of nudes, taken three months before the actress’s death

A previously unseen selection of nudes, taken three months before the actress’s death

Monroe on the 1962 set

Yves Montand peers into co-star Monroe’s dressing room while shooting Let’s Make Love, 1960

Montand, Monroe, and Paula Strasberg

Monroe, with Strasberg, on the Something’s Got to Give set, 1962

Monroe outside Dean Martin’s trailer

On her 36th birthday, with Wally Cox and Martin, in his dressing room

A touch-up from makeup man Whitey Snyder

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Something’s Got to Give, May 1962

Taking it off for director George Cukor

Taking it off for photographer Lawrence Schiller’s camera, 1962

(via Vanity Fair)