Vanity Fair

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Marilyn Monroe “The Last Sitting,” 1962.

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Don DeFore & Marilyn Monroe playing cards on a train from New York City to Warrenburg, New York

"In 1949, Photoplay Magazine sent DeFore, actor Lon McCallister and a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe on a train trip to Warrensburg, New York to present Photoplay's "Dream Home" contest winner with the key to her new home. Surviving photos dated June 1, 1949 show Don DeFore playing cards with Marilyn on the train trip (below), and also in front of the home during the event. When Photoplay recruited the group for this, Marilyn Monroe had been in New York to promote her new film Love Happy (1949). It is believed that Don DeFore was in New York to shoot My Friend Irma (1949), the film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis."