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The family of photographer Sam Shaw, who befriended Marilyn Monroe, released unseen images and letters

Shaw details how the iconic Monroe subway grate image during The Seven Year Itch really came to be

The film's director and producer were "anxious to see how far one could go against censorship"

The man who snapped the career-defining windswept photograph of Marilyn Monroe above a subway grate in the iconic white dress is posthumously detailing exactly how that image came to be.

Photographer Sam Shaw befriended the iconic actress in the early 1950s and soon became her de facto personal photographer. Although he died in 1999, his family unearthed a trove of unseen images and correspondence between the two, which are included in “Dear Marilyn: The Unseen Letters and

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