Marilyn Monroe, Graduation Sitting, 1956

In May of 1956 Marilyn, Milton, and his wife Amy went over to Sydney Guilaroff’s mansion. He was the preeminent hairdresser at MGM and there wasn’t a star who didn’t go through Sydney’s hands. That day’s work was to try different hairstyles. This series got its name because Milton printed one of the pictures from this sitting as a 6x8 oval vignette, which looked like an old-fashioned graduation picture. Marilyn dubbed it the high school picture she never had.