Bruno Bernard with Marilyn Monroe

 Norma Jean before she transformed into Marilyn

 
Jeanne Crain become the face of Redhead matchbox

 Bruno Bernard's most famous photo of Monroe holding her white pleated skirt down from a blast of steam from a New York sidewalk grate in Billy Wilder's
  The Seven Year Itch 1955

In 1938 Bruno Bernard settled in  and set up his first photo studio in the basement of his apartment in Los Angeles. Agent Paul Kohner, who helped many Jewish Europeans flee after the rise of Adolph Hitler and re-establish themselves in Hollywood, who took notice of Bernard’s work when Bruno Bernard opened his first studio in 1940 on Robertson Boulevard. Kohner sent him clients, thus bringing him to the attention of the motion picture industry