Bernard took Marilyn to a shoot at the Palm Springs Racquet Club, the private hideaway of the Hollywood colony in 1949 to cheer her up after she'd been dropped by 20th Century Fox. ..The photo safari would change the course of [Marilyn's] life forever... It was here that she caught the eye of Johnny Hyde, a vice president at William Morris who had important and influential connections in the film business. Hyde was instrumental in securing Marilyn's roles in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve; and in December 1950 he convinced 20th Century Fox that she had ..become a fine dramatic actress, too.. and secured her a seven year contract with them.

This was the last photo shoot in which Bernard was permitted to feature Marilyn in a two-piece bathing suit. Johnny Hyde advised him that Marilyn's pin-up image would be counterproductive to his development of her career as an actress.