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Tom Kelley Sr. (December 12, 1914 – January 8, 1984) was an American photographer who photographed Hollywood celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his iconic 1949 nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe, which were distributed widely as calendar art—one of which was featured in the inaugural issue of Playboy magazine in 1953. He paid Marilyn Monroe only $50 for the shoot. Biography Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned photography as an apprentice in a New York photo studio, and then worked for the Associated Press and Town & Country magazine. After moving to California in 1935, Kelley established a photography studio in Hollywood and produced promotional photographs of motion picture stars. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Kelley to take promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine covers and advertising. Later, Kelley's business shifted to commercial and advertising photography. Some of Kelley's most famous photo subjects have included Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, David Bowie, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yma Sumac and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. Tom Kelley had a way of making his subjects feel comfortable behind the camera. He would bring his wife with him to his shoots to create a more soothing and relaxed atmosphere. Kelley served on the panel of judges at the Miss Universe 1952 and Miss Universe 1956 pageants. Kelley was one of the judges for the famed annual Cavalcades of Jazz beauty contests from 1955 to 1958 which was held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and the last one at The Shrine Auditorium. These concerts and beauty pageants were produced by an African-American Leon Hefflin, Sr. Kelley appeared in the 1966 documentary film The Legend of Marilyn Monroe. The Red Velvet photos When Kelley originally approached Marilyn about the nude shoot, she turned him down. Monroe was concerned initially about the potential negative effects that such publicity could bring her young career. She was aware that at that time it was not considered traditionally "appropriate" to be nude. Nonetheless, a few days later she gave in and decided to pose for the photos, signing them ' Mona Monroe'. Kelley believed that it was in part because she owed him a favor, having lent her a few bucks for a cab ride home. But Monroe herself said several times that she really just needed the money when she was hungry and needed to make a payment on her vehicle. She joked, however, that she was glad she wasn't eating much at the time because it gave her "a real washboard stomach" in the photos. Upon doing the shoot, Kelley stated "all of her constraints seemed to vanish with her clothes", and that she seemed to be more "herself" in the nude. He even went as far as to say that she was "graceful as an otter". Kelley gave Marilyn fifty dollars for the shoot and, despite its aggressive popularity, she never received any additional remuneration. Playboy Past The photos of Monroe also succeeded in building a relationship between Tom Kelley and Hugh Hefner. In 1953 Hefner was getting serious about introducing his new sexually charged magazine, Playboy. Featuring Kelley's now-classic photo of Marilyn Monroe on the cover of its very first issue significantly factored in Playboy's launch into popularity, selling over 50,000 copies. Continuing to partner with Hefner for future editions, Kelley always seemed to make his models more relaxed in order to obtain uniquely appealing and popular photos. One model, Neva Gilbert, Miss July 1954, remembered the experience in a 2016 Associated Press interview, again recalling how he would always bring his wife with him to the shoots. Kelley had her lay on a tiger rug with red painted nails for $20 an hour. Neva said of the photos, "I didn't think it was dirty. I felt they were in good taste. I thought nudes were lovely." Legacy Tom Kelley Jr. attempted to auction off not only his father's photographs of Marilyn Monroe, but also their intellectual property rights such that the buyer could remarket them in any way they so chose. Kelley Jr. set the price high, but when the bid reached only $840,000, he decided not to sell. References External links Tom Kelley Studio Tom Kelley at archive of celebrity photography Tom Kelley at IMDb. Discover the Tom Kelley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tom Kelley books.
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Here
Richard McGuireFrom one of the great comic innovators, the longawaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision: the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space...
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Against the Water
Owen WrightThe gutwrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright entered...
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The Best of Tom Kelly Volume II
Tom KellyIn 2008 Tom Kelly Inc produced an "all turkey" book of essays, which included 34 chapters devoted to turkey hunting. These chapters came from Tom Kelly's early books. Tom continued...
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Tenth Legion
Tom KellyTenth Legion has long been considered the greatest and most hilarious book on turkey hunting. Yet until now it was only available in a privately published edition. Many peop...
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The Art of Innovation
Tom KelleyIDEO, the widely admired, awardwinning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's IZone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cuttin...
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The ASMP Guide to New Markets in Photography
Susan CarrAs a result of changes in technology and the economy, every successful photography career today is unique, and each imagemaker needs to build a career that matches his or her talen...
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Life Inside My Mind
Jessica Burkhart“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” Booklist (starred review)“[A] muchneeded, enlightening book.” School Library Jo...
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W mroku Korei. Agent Kelly. Tom 3
Monika Magoska-SucharPełna tajemnic Korea Północna, niebezpieczna gra na śmierć i życie oraz miłość, której nic nie powstrzyma.Agent CIA Peter Kelly budzi się w szpitalu. Niestety nie pamięta, kim jest...
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A Few Loose Chapters
Tom KellyThis book is sort of like the pile of oakum left over after the boat is fully caulked. All of it good material, sometimes even well made, but unfortunately not applicable to the pi...
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Absent Companions
Tom KellyABSENT COMPANIONS, is about Wild Turkeys, lost Humming Birds, lost friends, and about the loss of an entire circus. You will just have to read the book to understand. "After your a...
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Life Is A Rollercoaster
Ronan Keating'Brilliant' OK! 'Engagingly warm' Heat 'Sensational' The Mirror'Ronan Keating demolishes his 'Mr Perfect of Pop image in a new wartsandall book of his amazing ride to stardom.' ...
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Better on a Rising Tide
Tom KellyBetter On A Rising Tide contains 22 humourous articles from Tom Kelly's magazine past. Tom wrote for all the great blood sport magazines in the 1970s and up to the 1990s when artic...
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The New Allergy Diet
Dr John Hunter, Elizabeth Workman & Jenny WoolnerMany people are unaware that they suffer from food allergies or intolerance. Inexplicable rashes, a persistent runny nose, bloatedness, headaches or pronounced weight gain for no a...
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Payback
Tom KellyRobert Burns, he of sainted memory, in his ode, “To a Mouse,” wrote a line that is quoted again and again in all sorts of circumstances, the one about the plans of mice and men and...
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The Best of Tom Kelly
Tom KellyColonel Tom Kelly, author of the Tenth Legion, is proud to announce the release of THE BEST OF TOM KELLY. This collector's edition contains 34 chapters of Tom's best Wild Turkey hu...
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The Other Seven
Tom KellyUnlike the .300 hitter in baseball who fails seven times out of ten and is a howling success and becomes a millionaire because of it, I cannot tell what your percentage in turkey h...
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The Boat
Tom KellyTom wrote this book about his desire to travel by boat to hunt Wild Turkeys, in his own damn boat. However, as in all Tom Kelly narratives, there is more to the story than just bui...
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Executive Action
Richard DoyleJack Meade wakes in a hospital bed. The doctors tell him he has been in the sea for two days that he is lucky to be alive. His face is so salt ravaged he barely recognises himself...
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Living In Perhaps
Julia WiddowsCarol has always resented her family her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his obsession with next door's encroaching garden hedge, and her brother, ever silent and schem...
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The Doll Princess
Tom BennWinner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year AwardIt's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two ...
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Faces in the Crowd
Tom KellyIn 2002 Tom Kelly self published his 7th book, Faces in the Crowd. We sold out of hardcover copies in 2005. This reprint is a Special Signed Edition with a few pictures and a silk ...
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My Name Is Nobody
Matthew Richardson'PROOF THAT THE SPY GENRE IS FLOURISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY' Guardian'I know for certain that there is a mole somewhere within the intelligence services . . . His codename is Nobo...
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Their Old Inhabitants
Tom KellyAs far as the Southeast is concerned, I am only familiar with the conditions that were in effect after 1900. The old inhabitants I refer to were those people and their descendants ...
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A Year Outside
Tom KellyThere is an area, within the continental limits of the United States, that does not exhibit the conditions that appear to be prevalent in much of the rest of the country. It has mo...
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ALIEN Thinking
Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux & Michael WadeHow do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the boxway outside. For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, JeanLouis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, pr...
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OMG Posters
Mitch PutnamTHE ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF GIG POSTERS FROM TODAY’S TOP ROCK AND INDIE BANDSLaunched in 2007, OMGPosters.com has become one of the world’s favorite art blogs, showcasing thousands ...
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Around the Edges 2
Tom KellyOver the years Colonel Kelly has written short stories, titled, Short Spurs for the final pages of the National Wild Turkey Federation's magazine, Turkey Country. Now we are happy ...
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The Season
Tom KellyA spring turkey season in Alabama starts on March 20 and ends on the last day of April...it can begin with wisp of snow and end with a heat wave. For those who are no longer in the...
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Take Back in Fancy
Tom KellyTom Kelly's 9th book takes us back to Tom's turkey hunting roots. He brings you another 14 chapters of fair chase, great human observation and frustrating Wild Turkey situations. E...
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Moving Target
Ross KempFormer Special Reconnaissance Regiment Sergeant Nick Kane always stands by his friends. So when an old comrade is leaned on by gangsters, Nick's only too happy to help. But Nick qu...
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Instinct
Ben KayHidden in a remote corner of the South American jungle is a clandestine research facility known simply as MEROS. Here, working in laboratories buried a thousand feet underground, m...
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A Fork in the Road
Tom KellyWild Turkey hunters will be amazed to read and learn about Tom's techniques, equipment and tactics. I know I was. When Tom and I produced the DVD, it became clear to me that Tom hu...