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In December 1950, Hyde negotiated a 7-yr contract for Monroe with 20th Century-Fox. After an unsuccessful interview at Paramount Pictures, she was supplied a display-examination by Ben Lyon, a twentieth Century-Fox govt. The first identify was picked by Lyon, who was reminded of Broadway star Marilyn Miller the previous was Monroe's mother's maiden name. Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit to the factory to shoot morale-boosting photos of female employees. Her popularity with audiences was also growing: she been given quite a few thousand admirer letters a week, and was declared "Miss Cheesecake of 1951" by the army newspaper Stars and Stripes, reflecting the preferences of soldiers in the Korean War. She was functioning in a manufacturing unit throughout World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and started a thriving pin-up modeling job, which led to limited-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures.