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Los Angeles Times, 2004 - He hung out with James
Dean on the "Giant" set, shot Liz Taylor's first wedding and made love to Marilyn Monroe -- or so he told friends years later. During Hollywood's golden age, photographer Frank Worth saw its biggest stars as few mere mortals ever have: lounging in their boudoirs, killing time between shoots, brooding over open liquor bottles. The beautiful people liked Worth's straight-up, Brooklyn-bred personality and trusted him to keep their tawdriest secrets.  KEYPORT —
When Stuart Harris arrived in California to pack up his late cousin
Frank Worth’s belongings, he waded into an apartment that hadn’t been
cleaned in 30 years."He kept house like a 14-year-old kid," Harris said.
"He kept pizza boxes. The drapes were falling apart. I went through that
apartment with a mask and rubber gloves."
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As a freelance photographer during Hollywood's Golden Age, Frank Worth befriended many of the stars he snapped at parties, on movie sets and at play. But he stored away many of his best shots as private mementos until the day he died. Only now are this largely unknown artist's remarkable images finally coming to light.
Before
Frank Worth became the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first official photographer,
he made a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s first paparazzi. Unlike
today’s celebrity shutterbugs, Worth got close to his subjects; he dated
Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. He also shot Elizabeth Taylor’s first
wedding, to Nicky Hilton. Worth, who died in December 2000 at age 77,
worked for the Dodgers into the 1990s, augmenting his photographer’s
salary by selling tickets at Dodger Stadium.
