 For the next four years, Marilyn Monroe posed for Moran and the two became friends.She always credited him with making her legs look better than they were as she felt they were too thin.Moran's work during this time period is now his most valuable; a Moran "Marilyn" pastel sold for $83,650, nearly doubling the previous record for one of his works, when the Craig MacMillan collection was sold at Heritage Auctions in February 2011.