Alone in a Crowd: Marilyn Sings 'Happy Birthday' to JFK, May 19, 1962

             

                          Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday" to JFK, New York, 1962. © Bill Ray

You can't see her face. The angle from which the photograph is taken is unconventional, and almost vertiginous. The hair, when considered dispassionately, looks absolutely weird.

But Bill Ray's celebrated picture of Marilyn Monroe onstage at the old Madison Square Garden, singing "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy during a May 1962 birthday gala in his honor, remains one of the all-time great celebrity portraits. It has drama (a lone figure, spotlit, on a dark stage). It has sex (a skintight, sequined dress that conceals very, very little). And, of course, in retrospect, it also feels absolutely charged with pathos: Marilyn, after all, would be dead within months of the picture being made, while JFK's assassination in November 1963 was less than a year and half away.

To read the rest of Ben Cosgrove story & see the video, follow the link.   http://time.com/3879885/marilyn-monroe-sings-happy-birthday-to-jfk-may-19-1962/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=life&utm_content=2018080615pm&xid=newsletter-life-weekly&eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%22tVfhVGIM7QPPwR49xDAjtFRYfqTVf7fO%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22TD%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22TD_LIF_7F3C6332-333B-4861-BFEB-5B055851BF6C%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2284261034%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22845647%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22LIFE%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d

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