Marilyn 1953:
Actually, no. Not so much. In fact, by the time she caught the eye of LIFE photographer J. R. Eyerman in early 1949, Marilyn Monroe had appeared (largely uncredited) in half-a-dozen utterly forgettable movies, and there was absolutely no guarantee that the 22-year-old’s “hoped-for movie stardom” would pan out any time soon.
How Marilyn trains herself for hoped-for movie stardom. That casual mention of Marilyn Monroe, made in the context of a struggling young actress, is hard to reconcile with the image most movie fans harbor of arguably the single most famous film star of the 20th century. In fact, more than six decades after the pictures in this LIFE.com gallery were made, it’s surprisingly tough to imagine a time before Marilyn was … well, Marilyn. Like other indisputable Hollywood icons — Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Liz Taylor, James Cagney — Marilyn’s face, her voice, her singular onscreen presence seem to have always been with us.
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