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In easier recountings of the tale, Hughes supposedly noticed Norma Jeane as a result of she appeared on 4 or 5 journal covers in a single month, prompting him to track her down. Over all I like it, but one factor bothers me--out of the 4 finalists, only one's a girl? Shamroy later said, "This girl had something I hadn't seen since silent pictures. She had a type of implausible beauty like Gloria Swanson . . . she acquired intercourse on a bit of movie like Jean Harlow. . . . She was displaying us she may sell feelings in footage." The Harlow comparison would floor once more in the years to come. Lyon supervised her display screen check, which was shot by veteran cinematographer Leon Shamroy. Actually not more than an newbie screen check, the footage exhibits a smiling, curly-haired younger mannequin with the title "Norma Jean Dougherty" in block letters beneath her. Women difficult their feminine roles was a device more simply accepted than males difficult masculine ones. A significant quantity were geared toward men. Norma Jeane posed for various photographers who sold their work to pinup magazines.