Speaker 2] And then her hair were all one color. She seemed like the perfect blonde angel. - [Speaker 1] Well, I don't even think it was the name Marilyn Monroe. It was more - the person.

Touching up her make-up on a flight to Chicago, the Marilyn Monroe of this off-guard image is a world apart from her look in the publicity shots released by the Hollywood studios. Taken in 1955 ...

Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold' (out Sep. 30) collects the photographer's intimate and candid images of the Hollywood icon John Russell is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. He joined the PEOPLE team in 2024.