Marilyn Monroe Strikes a Regal Pose During the Black Cape Sitting

Milton took this image of Marilyn Monroe in 1955 while she living with the Greene family for a year in New York. It was during this time that Milton, Jay Kanter, and Irving Stein sued 20th Century Fox to release Marilyn from her ‘slave’ contract. They won . . . and a month after this image was taken, she appeared in public for the first time in a year. Appropriately entitled the ‘Black Cape’ sitting, this image portrays Marilyn’s newfound freedom and confidence. The rest you might say, is history, and this image appears on the cover of "But That's Another Story".