{"id":1151,"date":"2015-05-08T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?page_id=1151"},"modified":"2018-03-29T03:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:38:02","slug":"photographer-allan-whitey-snyder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/photographer-allan-whitey-snyder\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLAN “WHITEY” SNYDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(August 7, 1914 \u2013 April 16, 1994)<\/p>\n

\"\"Imagine that you were lucky enough to be working on a film set with Marilyn Monroe? \u00a0Pretty special… yes? \u00a0And imagine further that Marilyn Monroe said to you, “I’m nervous and can’t relax, would you take some pictures of me.” \u00a0How special would you feel now? \u00a0Well, makeup artist\u00a0Allan \u201cWhitey\u201d Snyder was that person. \u00a0Marilyn would often get nervous during the long days working on films so she would ask Allan to photograph her which would help her relax between filming.\u00a0 Because of their close friendship, those impromptu photo shoots often showed a more natural unguarded and intimate side of the screen legend.<\/p>\n

Allan “Whitey” Snyder\u00a0(August 7, 1914 \u2013 April 16, 1994) first\u00a0met Marilyn Monroe during her initial screen-test at 20th Century Fox in 1946. The two became instant friends and Allan was her on-screen and personal make-up artist for the next 16 years.\u00a0 Working with Marilyn on most of her films through and including her last and uncompleted film \u201cSomething\u2019s Got To Give,\u201d the two developed a close friendship and working relationship that lasted until her death in 1962.\u00a0 The two had a unique and complicated relationship, as demonstrated when Marilyn asked Allan that if she died before he did, would he make her up for her funeral. Allan jokingly told her, \u201cSure, drop off the body while it’s still warm and I’ll do it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Marilyn in turn, with her own sense of dark humor, bought him a gold Tiffany money clip which she had engraved: \u201cDear Whitey, While I’m still warm, Marilyn.\u201d\u00a0 Ultimately, Allan kept his promise and did Marilyn’s makeup for her funeral.\u00a0 He was also one of her pallbearers.<\/p>\n

Allan had a long and immensely successful career as a as a make-up artist which included two Emmy nominations, the first in 1978, for his work on the TV Biopic Marilyn: The Untold Story, and in 1981, for Little House on the Prairie.\u00a0 His last project was the 1984 television series, Highway to Heaven.<\/p>\n

Allan was an avid photographer and would bring his camera with him while working on location shoot to give him something to do when not working. \u00a0Allan never intended his work to be published little less sense by anybody but close friends and family. \u00a0Recently Allan’s long lost\u00a0photographs\u00a0were discovered by Allan\u2019s estate. The collection of never-before-seen photographs of Marilyn Monroe were taken between 1953 and 1956, show a relaxed playful Marilyn while on location for some of her best-known films \u201cNiagara\u201d (1953) \u201cRiver Of No Return\u201d (1954) \u201cBus Stop\u201d (1956) and \u201cThe Prince and the Showgirl\u201d (1957). \u00a0The photos are exclusively available on Limited Runs.<\/p>\n

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(August 7, 1914 \u2013 April 16, 1994) Imagine that you were lucky enough to be working on a film set with Marilyn Monroe? \u00a0Pretty special… yes? \u00a0And imagine further that Marilyn Monroe said to you, “I’m nervous and can’t relax, would you take some pictures of me.” \u00a0How special would you feel now? \u00a0Well, makeup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1151\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}