Bella Femme

Photographed by Fred Eberstadt

Fred Eberstadt

   I was going to meet Andy, and I went down to the street, and for a while nobody came, and then he showed up with Edie and Chuck Wein. But I didn’t know that they were going to be in the picture… Edie sort of took it over, you know?   She had the bright and the smarts and the instinct… She was going to sit in the ground and lean against it [a manhole], and put her legs up in the air. I don’t want to take credit for any kind of creativity on that… She kind of took over the whole session because Andy didn’t say a word.     I didn’t think of her as a great beauty. I thought of her as a kind of vivacious and lively woman… I think she was attractive, but the thing that made her better is that she made a room kind of come alive when she came in it because, you know, she and Andy used to go to parties kind of as a prop for a party. A party was considered a success if Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick came in. Well, when they came in Andy sort off… you never saw him at all after that, unless he was taking pictures with his Polaroid camera. Edie was the one that gobbled up the room with her energy.     She really, as somebody said, she really could say hello.    When she was with Andy, she reminded me of a Scott Fitzgerald lady, you know? She was alive, and she was able to put a party aspect on everything… So when we did this picture… She lit that thing up. She made it a picture, she made it an occasion.     It was her spirit that set that shot up.   - Burt Glinn 

Marilyn and Eli Wallach dancing in The Misfits

Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits, photographed by Inge Morath, 1960.

Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits (1961)

Edie Sedgwick by Fred  Eberstadt,1965

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Bert Stern, 1962

Megan Fox on the set of Jennifer’s Body

My mom asked me if the prayer for the wild at heart was for me or if that was something that I thought had pained me throughout my life. But it’s for everybody I know. I don’t think I know one person who I think can be completely who they are every second of the day, who feels completely free. So it’s kind of a prayer for everybody to find their happiness, to break out. And Tennessee Williams also writes that a bird or an animal feels comfortable in a cage it grew up in — it represents security as well as confinement to be in that cage. So anything that makes us comfortable, those things are cages around us. [x]