Previously unpublished photos of 24-year-old Marilyn Monroe, 1950

Recently found in LIFE archives. Was not published before because they were deemed "over-developed and poorly printed."

Photographer: Ed Clark (LIFE photographer)
Place: Griffith Park, Los Angeles
Date: August 1950

At that time, she was still relatively unknown, and changed her name from Norma Jeane Dougherty only 4 years earlier.





















Even older photos of Marilyn Monroe (1946)

Iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold (1912 – 2012) was an American photojournalist.

She began working as a photographer in the 1940s and took pictures for Life magazine during a golden age of magazine photojournalism.

The following images of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the actress's last film, The Misfits (1961) were iconic, but she had taken many photos of Monroe from 1951 onwards.

Monroe died on 5th August 1962 aged 36.