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Marilyn Monroe: Movies
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Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962) is a dead Hollywood movie star whose movies you've never seen. You only know her from television clips, photography in restaurants, and Andy Warhol paintings. Some people argue she is the perfect woman.
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Certainly, he is the only musician to occupy the transcendent cultural space that Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean move in. Yet even that pantheon sells him short. Of all of these figures, only Elvis inspires such an obsessive level of fandom, only Elvis fuels an ongoing industry reported to be worth about $100 million a year, only Elvis has an image as widely reproduced, only Elvis keeps as many academics in business. Do Ali, Dean and Monroe have 600 active fan clubs cherishing their memories, or 3000 professional impersonators?
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In 1962, Marilyn moved into a new home, a Mexican style bungalow in Brentwood, California. She purposely moved to be close to the Lawford home and her psychiatrist, Greenson, whom she saw on a daily basis. Marilyn's depression and anxieties began to worsen, despite the therapy. On several occasions she accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills and had to be revived. In fact, her stomach had been pumped for drugs frequently over the last few years.
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The same year 20th Century-Fox signed her to a contract, and she became Marilyn Monroe. Her first bit part in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) wound up almost entirely on the cutting room floor. The studio dropped her as did Columbia for whom she played a lead in the Grade B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948). Then, in need of money, she posed nude for a calendar that upon her ascent to stardom became famous.
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In 1960 Marilyn appeared in George Cukor's Let's Make Love (1960), with Tony Randall and Yves Montand. Again, while it made money, it was critically panned as stodgy and slow-moving. The following year Marilyn made what was to be her final film. The Misfits (1961), which ... proved to be the final film for the legendary Clark Gable, who died later that year of a heart attack. The film was popular with critics and the public alike.
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MARILYN AT THE MOVIES: This DVD presents a detailed history of Monroe Monroe through her 30 movies. Watch trailers and details behind the film legacy she left behind. As an added bonus you get THE LEGEND OF MARILYN MONROE, a vintage documentary narrated by famed director John Huston.
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