“I had never made up a dead person before. Marilyn was just lying out there on a steel table. I went right over and touched her because I knew if I didn't. I'd turn around and run out. Because I was scared. I put my hand on her forehead. Soon’s I started working I got so intent on doing it right that it didn’t bother me. It was like she was asleep. I had made her up many times when she was asleep or tired,lying down. I used what we call a 20th Century Fox base, our special base, it’s a light base. I gave her a light rouge, some eye shadow, a little lipstick. Sidney Guilaroff came over and he put a fine platinium wig on her. She looked beautiful. She looked the way you wanted to remember her.”
—Allan 'Whitey' Snyder on Marilyn Monroe's final makeup