David Conover
Film director
1919 – 1983
Who was David Conover?
David Conover was an author and documentary photographer who is credited with discovering Marilyn Monroe while taking photos for Yank magazine. While attached to the U.S. Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, his commanding officer was future U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who had sent Conover to the Radioplane Munitions Factory where he discovered Monroe.
His published writings include:
Once Upon an Island Publisher: San Juan Publishing
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 74 - Summer 1968 Publisher: Reader's Digest
Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books - 1970
One Man's Island Publisher: General Pub. Co
Sitting on a Salt Spring Publisher: Paper Jacks
Finding Marilyn: A Romance Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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- Born
- Jun 26, 1919
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 1, 1983
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on July 23, 2013
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