Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about 'the Method', a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasbergat the Actor's Studio. And Marilyn also began the long, difficult journey of psychoanalysis at this time.
By March of 1955 both Greene and Marilyn agreed that her image needed a boost. Her wish to prove herself a 'serious actress' had been roundly mocked by the press, many of whom predicted that she was destroying her own career.
In his introduction to the 1990 book, Marilyn 55, Bob LaBrasca stated that it was Milton Greene who arranged for a cover spread in Redbook. But Robert Stein, magazine editor at the time, has claimed that it was another of Marilyn's photographers, Sam Shaw, who arranged the initial contact, and one of Shaw'sportraits of Marilyn graces the resulting July 1955 cover story, 'The Marilyn Monroe You've Never Seen'.
