Previously unpublished photos of 24-year-old Marilyn Monroe, 1950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