MARILYN MONROE
CAUGHT SHORT
1954
VINTAGE PINUP
LITHOGRAPH
PROMO SAMPLE
PHOTOGRAPHER
LASZLO WILLINGER
EXCELLENT TO NEAR MINT
VINTAGE AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL
EXTREMELY RARE!!!
AUTHENTIC: This is a vintage original litho pinup. A Very Rare Champion Line Promotional Salesman's Sample. This litho features a 1948 famous photo by photographer Laszlo Willinger titled "Caught Short". See front and back photos. Not an unauthorized cheap photo copy or worthless digital reprint. Originals continue to skyrocket in value while copies remain undesirable for investment purposes.
PINUP: Marilyn Monroe
PHOTOGRAPHER: Laszlo Willinger
PROMO: Pinup
PUBLISHER: Champion
DATE: 1954
TYPE: Lithograph Full Color
APPROX. SIZE: 8x11
CONDITION: Excellent to Near Mint
* PLEASE SEE: Cool Collectibles Condition Chart below for complete details...
* INCLUDES COA: Certificate of Authenticity issued by Cool Collectibles™ provided to winner.
SECURE PROTECTED SHIPPING: In a Polypropylene sleeve with over sized backing boards.
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* CELEBRITY INFORMATION: MARILYN MONROE - BORN NORMA JEANE MORTENSON - June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962 was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comedic characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was representative of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. Marilyn continues to be considered a major pop culture idol and is ranked #1 as the world's most famous celebrity icon.
* PHOTOGRAPHER INFORMATION: LASZLO JOSEF WILLINGER - April 16, 1909- August 8th, 1989
Laszlo Willinger was born in Budapest, Hungry, in April of 1909. He became a photographer, most noted for his portrait photography of movie starts and celebrities of the 1930s and 1940s. Taught photography by his mother, also a photographer, Willinger established photographic studios in Paris and Berlin in 1929 and 1931. During this time he submitted his photographs to various newspapers as a freelance contributor. He left Berlin in 1933 when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, and settled in Vienna where he began to photograph celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich, Hedy Lamarr, Max Reinhardt, and Sigmund Freud, among others. After establishing a studio in Hollywood, California, Willinger became a frequent contributor to magazines and periodicals, providing magazine cover portraits of some of the most popular stars. Willinger was one of the first Hollywood photographers to experiment in the use of color.
Laszlo Willinger was also a photographer in Norma Jeane’s early modeling career. Willinger was not the most complimentary person, as even after Norma Jeane became famous, as Marilyn Monroe, he said of her “Marilyn Monroe is not a raving beauty, and her legs are too short for the rest of her.”
Perhaps his best known Marilyn shot is a calendar photo of Norma Jeane as she was still known, in a gold bathing suit. He was responsible for many of her early magazine covers. In 1986 he told LA Style magazine that Marilyn responded to his inquiry as to why she had such chemistry with the camera, by answering, “It’s like being screwed by a thousand guys and you can’t get pregnant.”
PINUP CONDITION CHART
* MINT - MT: Like new, vivid colors and no markings.
* NEAR MINT - NM: Like new, vivid colors, no markings and may have minor crease, bend or dent.
* EXCELLENT - EX: Appears like new, vivid colors, may have marking(s), may have minor creases, bends or dents, edge wear, rubs and toning.
* VERY GOOD - VG: May have marking(s) with general creases, bends or dents, edge wear, rubs, scuffs, chips, tears, toning, foxing, fading and soiling.
* GOOD - G: May have marking(s) with major creases, bends, dents, edge wear, rubs, scuffs, chips, tears, toning, foxing, fading and soiling.
* FAIR: Major everything, marking(s) with major creases, bends, dents, edge wear, rubs, scuffs, chips, tears, toning, foxing, fading, soiling and repairs.
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