Marilyn Monroe: Lost Photos From Her Shocking Early Years

Marilyn Monroe is one of Hollywood's most enduring sex symbols — and now amazing new photos have been unearthed from her early modeling years. California photographer Andre de Dienes showed off his eye for talent while having young Marilyn show off the fine form that would create a screen legend! Marilyn was only 19 years old when she posed for de Diene, with these lost pics only later discovered by his wife. They're now part of the display "Andre de Dienes: Marilyn and California Girls" that opened at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York City on Sept. 27 — capturing the starlet in innocent poses just as she began to sell her body!

Andre de Dienes was looking for models to do black-and-white nude photography in 1945 — but he made an exception for Marilyn as he became entranced by the face that would soon light up movie screens all over the world. Marilyn wasn't overly modest, though. She was only a year away from landing her first screen contract in August 1946 with 20th Century Fox, while still known as Norma Jeane Mortenson. But she was soon dropped by the studio, and began to survive as a sex worker!

Newly christened "Marilyn Monroe" by Fox executives, the actress later looked back at how she survived by relying on powerful men. "I kept riding in their limousines and sitting beside them in the swanky places," Marilyn later confessed. "There was always a chance a job — and not another wolf — might spot you."

Marilyn also sought out the friendship of John and Lucille Carroll. He was an actor, and she was a casting director at MGM. "She was such a cute little number," said Lucille. "I remember thinking, 'Oh, this poor little child, this stray kitten.'" Lucille, however, soon discovered how desperate her new pet was!

Marilyn spent all of her earnings from modeling on her car, her rent and acting classes. She confessed to Lucille that also had sex in cars with any man willing to feed her. "She really did this for her meals," Lucille insisted, according to Donald Spoto, author of "Marilyn Monroe: The Biography." "It wasn't for cash. She told us without pride or shame she made a deal. She did what she did, and her customer then bought her breakfast or lunch."

Marilyn's naughty knack for bringing in the bucks also included making shockingly graphic stag films. According to an FBI memorandum that was issued years later, Marilyn's tawdry talents were on full display in one 15-minute black and white porn flick that depicts her performing oral sex on an unidentified man.

Filmmaker Keya Morgan revealed that while doing research for his documentary "Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive," one FBI agent "happened to mention" the sex tape — saying that "he and nine other agents were involved in verifying [its authenticity]."

It would be four years after these photos that Marilyn finally met Johnny Hyde — the powerful film executive who would help her land breakout parts in movies like "The Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve." Once again, Marilyn paid off her debts with sex — although she would turn down Johnny's frequent marriage proposals.

"'Tell me again why you won't marry me,' he would smile at me," wrote Marilyn ofJohnny's pleas in her autobiography. "'Because it wouldn't be fair,' I'd answer him. 'I don't love you, Johnny.That means if I married you, I might meet some other man and fall in love with him. I don't want that to ever happen.'"

Marilyn's intimate arrangement with Hyde — the last that she'd ever endure while becoming a star — would still end in tragedy. As revealed in her private sex diaries obtained by The National ENQUIRER, Hyde would pay the ultimate price for taking a lover who was 31 years younger. He passed away after a wild sex romp, with Marilyn writing: "It still hurts when people whisper about Johnny Hyde. I knew he wasn't strong, but was it my fault he wanted me?"