"The Misfits" would be Marilyn Monroe's final film. The 1961 modern-day psychological Western was ravaged by her physical troubles on-set and the collapse of Monroe's marriage to the movie's screenwriter, Arthur Miller. And the emotional devastation of the movie's plot was reflected by what went on during its making, as Miller, director John Huston, and co-star Eli Wallach hatched a plan to rewrite the movie. The resulting adjustments would have had major consequences, changing the plot to raise Wallach's heroic profile and diminish Monroe's.
Wallach was an old friend of Monroe's from the Actors Studio in New York. According to Les Harding's "They Knew Marilyn Monroe," he credited the actress with getting him cast in "The Misfits," but by the time the movie was being made, something in their friendship had shifted. Beyond the rewrites, he used the movie to execute a couple of practical jokes on her,...
Wallach was an old friend of Monroe's from the Actors Studio in New York. According to Les Harding's "They Knew Marilyn Monroe," he credited the actress with getting him cast in "The Misfits," but by the time the movie was being made, something in their friendship had shifted. Beyond the rewrites, he used the movie to execute a couple of practical jokes on her,...
- 12/18/2022
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" may be Audrey Hepburn's most iconic film, but her character was ironically based on another Hollywood starlet, Marilyn Monroe. The film was adapted from a 1958 novella of the same name by famed author Truman Capote. The writer was a close friend of Monroe's, The Guardian reports, and his first choice for the part.
The main character of Capote's story, Holly, bears an uncanny resemblance to Monroe. A small town girl trying to break into show biz, she changes her name from Lulamae to Holly, just as Monroe changed her name from Norma Jeane. Both Monroe and Holly spent time in orphanages during their depression-era childhoods. Monroe was sexually abused at a young age, according to the New York Post. Holly also alludes to being molested as a child, dismissing "anything that happened before I was 13, because, after all, that just doesn't count." The author...
The main character of Capote's story, Holly, bears an uncanny resemblance to Monroe. A small town girl trying to break into show biz, she changes her name from Lulamae to Holly, just as Monroe changed her name from Norma Jeane. Both Monroe and Holly spent time in orphanages during their depression-era childhoods. Monroe was sexually abused at a young age, according to the New York Post. Holly also alludes to being molested as a child, dismissing "anything that happened before I was 13, because, after all, that just doesn't count." The author...
- 9/30/2022
- by Shae Sennett
- Slash Film
At the height of her stardom, Marilyn Monroe took an 18-month hiatus from Hollywood. The screen icon, who would have turned 95 on June 1, was battling ill health, which was linked to her barbiturate dependency and fragile psyche, and she was recovering from a miscarriage. So Monroe turned her back on movies for a time, and sought refuge with Arthur Miller, her playwright husband, holing up in their homes in New York City, Connecticut and Long Island.
In April 1958, Monroe was finally ready to return to the medium that had made her globally famous, with Variety proclaiming “Monroe to Do ‘Hot.'” The Hollywood trade went on to report that after a “two-year absence” Monroe was slated to play “a band singer in the 20s period comedy,” which would be directed by Billy Wilder and was entitled “Some Like It Hot.” Monroe’s two male co-stars had yet to be cast...
In April 1958, Monroe was finally ready to return to the medium that had made her globally famous, with Variety proclaiming “Monroe to Do ‘Hot.'” The Hollywood trade went on to report that after a “two-year absence” Monroe was slated to play “a band singer in the 20s period comedy,” which would be directed by Billy Wilder and was entitled “Some Like It Hot.” Monroe’s two male co-stars had yet to be cast...
- 6/1/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Hepburn goes Lightly: Breakfast at Tiffany's is returning to Cineplex theatres!Hepburn goes Lightly: Breakfast at Tiffany's is returning to Cineplex theatres!Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine1/13/2017 2:57:00 Pm
Truman Capote was very upset.
When it came time to make the movie version of his novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, he desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe to star as the fun-loving escort Holly Golightly, who refuses to let go of her partying ways until she meets a struggling writer (George Peppard).
Monroe wanted the role but turned it down because her acting coach Paula Strasberg said it would be a mistake to play a lady of the night. Enter Audrey Hepburn, who Capote felt was utterly wrong for the part.
Yet Hepburn instilled Holly with a blend of elegance, daffy narcissism and comedic flair that director Blake Edwards then corralled into his bubbly comedy that paved over Capote’s darker...
Truman Capote was very upset.
When it came time to make the movie version of his novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, he desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe to star as the fun-loving escort Holly Golightly, who refuses to let go of her partying ways until she meets a struggling writer (George Peppard).
Monroe wanted the role but turned it down because her acting coach Paula Strasberg said it would be a mistake to play a lady of the night. Enter Audrey Hepburn, who Capote felt was utterly wrong for the part.
Yet Hepburn instilled Holly with a blend of elegance, daffy narcissism and comedic flair that director Blake Edwards then corralled into his bubbly comedy that paved over Capote’s darker...
- 1/13/2017
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
She might have been one of the world's premier sex symbols, but Marilyn Monroe was plagued with well-documented personal insecurities -- among them the possibility she might be a lesbian, a new book alleges.
Author Lois Banner describes Monroe's doubts about her sexuality in her new book, "Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox," an extract of which has been published in The Guardian.
"She had affairs with many eminent men –- baseball great Joe Dimaggio, playwright Arthur Miller, director Elia Kazan, actor Marlon Brando, singer Frank Sinatra, the Kennedy brothers –- and she married Dimaggio and Miller," Banner writes. "Yet she desired women, had affairs with them, and worried that she might be lesbian by nature."
She continues, "How could she be the world's heterosexual sex goddess and desire women? How could she have the world's most perfect body on the outside and have such internal imperfections? Why was she unable to bear a child?...
Author Lois Banner describes Monroe's doubts about her sexuality in her new book, "Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox," an extract of which has been published in The Guardian.
"She had affairs with many eminent men –- baseball great Joe Dimaggio, playwright Arthur Miller, director Elia Kazan, actor Marlon Brando, singer Frank Sinatra, the Kennedy brothers –- and she married Dimaggio and Miller," Banner writes. "Yet she desired women, had affairs with them, and worried that she might be lesbian by nature."
She continues, "How could she be the world's heterosexual sex goddess and desire women? How could she have the world's most perfect body on the outside and have such internal imperfections? Why was she unable to bear a child?...
- 7/26/2012
- by Curtis M. Wong
- Huffington Post
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...
It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...
- 3/17/2012
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
Join us from 7.40am when we'll be liveblogging the nominations in the second round of voting for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards
7.40am:
Tim Curry is teeing things up …
We're going to star those longlist contenders that make the shortlist:
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Extra Potiche 1
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Attack The Block
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus...
7.40am:
Tim Curry is teeing things up …
We're going to star those longlist contenders that make the shortlist:
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Extra Potiche 1
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Attack The Block
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus...
- 1/17/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Eddie Redmayne in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn The Artist, My Week With Marilyn, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Lead BAFTA Longlists Leading Actor Antonio Banderas (Robert Ledgard) – The Skin I Live In Brad Pitt (Billy Beane) – Moneyball* Brendan Gleeson (Gerry Boyle) – The Guard Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist) – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Eddie Redmayne (Colin Clark) – My Week with Marilyn Gary Oldman (George Smiley) – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* George Clooney (Matt King) – The Descendants* Jean Dujardin (George Valentin) – The Artist* Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar Hoover) – J. Edgar Michael Fassbender (Brandon) – Shame* Owen Wilson (Gil) – Midnight in Paris Peter Mullan (Joseph) – Tyrannosaur Ralph Fiennes (Caius Martius Coriolanus) – Coriolanus Ryan Gosling (Driver) – Drive Ryan Gosling (Stephen Meyers) – The Ides of March Leading Actress Bérénice Bejo (Peppy Miller) – The Artist* Carey Mulligan (Sissy) – Shame Charlize Theron (Mavis Gary) – Young Adult Emma Stone (Skeeter Phelan) – The Help Helen Mirren (Rachel Singer...
- 1/8/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The full list of contenders in the first round of voting for this year's British Academy Film Awards
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus
The Guard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin...
Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Film Not in the English Language
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
Outstanding British Film
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus
The Guard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Monroe and Thatcher might seem to have played opposite roles. But the biographical films My Week with Marilyn and The Iron Lady suggest that their similarities outweighed their differences
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, impersonation is fast becoming our culture's favourite form of acting. At least since Nicole Kidman's nose won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, famous actors have been applauded for pretending to be other famous people: Helen Mirren as the Queen, Michael Sheen as David Frost, Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, the list of actors nominated for Oscars for impersonating famous people goes on and on. Now we have two more to add to the list, in star turns already accumulating predictions of Oscar nominations: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, impersonation is fast becoming our culture's favourite form of acting. At least since Nicole Kidman's nose won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, famous actors have been applauded for pretending to be other famous people: Helen Mirren as the Queen, Michael Sheen as David Frost, Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, the list of actors nominated for Oscars for impersonating famous people goes on and on. Now we have two more to add to the list, in star turns already accumulating predictions of Oscar nominations: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
- 12/10/2011
- by Sarah Churchwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Columns, This Week in Movies
How much of the backstage drama depicted in the new Michelle Williams film 'My Week With Marilyn' -- which chronicles the tumultuous shoot of the 1957 Marilyn Monroe/Laurence Olivier romantic comedy 'The Prince and the Showgirl' -- actually happened? Quite a bit, according to various Monroe and Olivier biographies. If anything, the new movie understates the turmoil surrounding the notoriously insecure and unreliable yet charismatic and witty sex goddess, her frustrated co-star/director Olivier, her overwhelmed new husband Arthur Miller, her manipulative drama coach Paula Strasberg, and star-struck gofer Colin Clark (on whose memoirs 'My Week with Marilyn' is based). It's no wonder that the action behind the camera is better remembered today than the finished product, which plays like a pleasant but inessential trifle, a footnote in the careers of two of the greatest performers in film history.
How much of the backstage drama depicted in the new Michelle Williams film 'My Week With Marilyn' -- which chronicles the tumultuous shoot of the 1957 Marilyn Monroe/Laurence Olivier romantic comedy 'The Prince and the Showgirl' -- actually happened? Quite a bit, according to various Monroe and Olivier biographies. If anything, the new movie understates the turmoil surrounding the notoriously insecure and unreliable yet charismatic and witty sex goddess, her frustrated co-star/director Olivier, her overwhelmed new husband Arthur Miller, her manipulative drama coach Paula Strasberg, and star-struck gofer Colin Clark (on whose memoirs 'My Week with Marilyn' is based). It's no wonder that the action behind the camera is better remembered today than the finished product, which plays like a pleasant but inessential trifle, a footnote in the careers of two of the greatest performers in film history.
- 12/1/2011
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Long after the death of Marilyn Monroe, the old Etonian Colin Clark, documentary film-maker and son of Lord Clark of Civilisation, published a diary about the time he spent as a naive 23-year-old working as third assistant director to family friend Laurence Olivier on the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. He later published a shorter book about his chaste romantic affair with Monroe during the course of shooting. This latter part, which forms the core of this film (with Eddie Redmayne as Clark), is amusing but fanciful and ultimately lacks the ring of truth. The rest, as knowingly scripted by Adrian Hodges, an experienced screenwriter and former showbusiness journalist, carries conviction. There is a real feeling for British cinema in its moderately prosperous, constantly crisis-dogged, ever-aspiring days in the 1950s, the period detail seems right, Kenneth Branagh's Olivier is just this side of caricature, Judi Dench is a moving,...
- 11/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
"In 1976," notes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, "the year that Marilyn Monroe would have turned 50, Larry McMurtry wrote that she 'is right in there with our major ghosts: Hemingway, the Kennedy brothers — people who finished with American life before America had time to finish with them.' Almost a half-century after her death, the world, or at least its necrophiliac fantasists, still haven't finished with Monroe and try to resurrect her again and again in movies, books, songs and glamour layouts featuring dewy and ruined ingénues. Maybe it's because it's so difficult to imagine her as Old Marilyn that she has become a Ghost of Hollywood Past, a phantom that periodically materializes to show us things that have been. The latest attempt at resurrection occurs in My Week With Marilyn, with Michelle Williams as the Ghost."
"The 'my' is Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a wet-eared assistant director on...
"The 'my' is Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a wet-eared assistant director on...
- 11/26/2011
- MUBI
The stand-off between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier while making The Prince and the Showgirl is recreated wonderfully in this entertaining film
In 1956, Marilyn Monroe came to Britain to make a movie at Pinewood Studios with Laurence Olivier. This was the tense and ill-fated light comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, scripted by Terence Rattigan, a film that became a legend for the lack of chemistry between its insecure and incompatible stars. One was a sexy, feminine, sensual and mercurial diva. The other would go on to make Some Like It Hot.
The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody. The whole thing is seen from the standpoint of the film's star-struck third assistant director, Colin Clark, son of the great art historian Kenneth,...
In 1956, Marilyn Monroe came to Britain to make a movie at Pinewood Studios with Laurence Olivier. This was the tense and ill-fated light comedy The Prince and the Showgirl, scripted by Terence Rattigan, a film that became a legend for the lack of chemistry between its insecure and incompatible stars. One was a sexy, feminine, sensual and mercurial diva. The other would go on to make Some Like It Hot.
The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody. The whole thing is seen from the standpoint of the film's star-struck third assistant director, Colin Clark, son of the great art historian Kenneth,...
- 11/25/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Bringing the popular culture past back to life in a movie is always a tricky proposition. No matter what, there are always inevitable comparisons to the real thing. They don’t come any more really famous than Marilyn Monroe, and Michelle Williams takes on a portrayal that exemplifies, honors and humanizes the iconic star in “My Week with Marilyn.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Credit also should be given to director Simon Curtis – working with an adapted screenplay by Adrian Hodges – who establishes an accessible narrative to show all sides of Monroe, at a crucial juncture in her life. Kenneth Branagh also is on his game as Sir Lawrence Olivier, cursed with a crossroads of his own that clashes ironically with the mercurial Marilyn. This is a film that will put a smile on the face of any movie fanatic, but is also fun for the generations not as familiar with the old stars,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Credit also should be given to director Simon Curtis – working with an adapted screenplay by Adrian Hodges – who establishes an accessible narrative to show all sides of Monroe, at a crucial juncture in her life. Kenneth Branagh also is on his game as Sir Lawrence Olivier, cursed with a crossroads of his own that clashes ironically with the mercurial Marilyn. This is a film that will put a smile on the face of any movie fanatic, but is also fun for the generations not as familiar with the old stars,...
- 11/23/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s gems like filmmaker Colin Clark’s memoir of his personal experience with an icon that make the best screen stories, the ones that delve deeper into the celebrity’s persona to prove, disprove or enlighten our knowledge further and make for a more honest and intimate affair. My Week With Marilyn, the name of said memoir and debut feature-film director Simon Curtis’ new film, is one such example that much like the Marilyn Monroe it portrays, is an instant heart warmer that you can’t help but be charmed by.
In the summer of 1956, Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe (played by Michelle Williams) arrived on British soil to produce and star in The Prince and the Showgirl, co-starring and directed by acting legend and British acting royalty Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). On that same shoot was then-23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an Oxford graduate from a well-established...
In the summer of 1956, Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe (played by Michelle Williams) arrived on British soil to produce and star in The Prince and the Showgirl, co-starring and directed by acting legend and British acting royalty Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). On that same shoot was then-23-year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an Oxford graduate from a well-established...
- 11/23/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Despite how well made Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn is, from the acting all the way down to the production design, it feels like such a small piece to a much larger story that I had a hard time remaining all that interested. It serves more as an introduction to Marilyn Monroe rather than a piece that really has anything to say.
Curtis sets out to tell the story of one week of the actress' life as she takes on a role in Sir Laurence Olivier's latest feature. Michelle Williams does an excellent job depicting Monroe from her captivating elegance to her borderline neurosis, but I couldn't help but feel as if I was only seeing an extended piece of a much larger story. And for anyone that knows anything about Monroe, you already know there is much more to tell.
The titular "my" the title is referring to is Colin Clark,...
Curtis sets out to tell the story of one week of the actress' life as she takes on a role in Sir Laurence Olivier's latest feature. Michelle Williams does an excellent job depicting Monroe from her captivating elegance to her borderline neurosis, but I couldn't help but feel as if I was only seeing an extended piece of a much larger story. And for anyone that knows anything about Monroe, you already know there is much more to tell.
The titular "my" the title is referring to is Colin Clark,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The effortlessly versatile Zoe Wanamaker is basically unrecognizable as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach, cheerleader and confidante Paula Strasberg in the upcoming "My Week with Marilyn." The American-born, English-raised actress is well-known for her extensive work in TV and film and on stage, but American audiences probably remember her best for playing Madame Hooch in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
Wanamaker chatted with The Huffington Post about the buzzed-about film, growing up in England and her chance of snagging an Oscar.
What's your take on the relationship between your character, Paula Strasberg, and Marilyn Monroe?
It's a mother-daughter relationship; it's dependence. Paula went on to do a lot of Marilyn's films after that. It was a time when the method -- or at least [Paula's husband; actor, director and acting coach] Lee Strasberg's method -- was prevalent. I think it was something that Marilyn needed as well, it gave her confidence.
But wasn't their relationship...
Wanamaker chatted with The Huffington Post about the buzzed-about film, growing up in England and her chance of snagging an Oscar.
What's your take on the relationship between your character, Paula Strasberg, and Marilyn Monroe?
It's a mother-daughter relationship; it's dependence. Paula went on to do a lot of Marilyn's films after that. It was a time when the method -- or at least [Paula's husband; actor, director and acting coach] Lee Strasberg's method -- was prevalent. I think it was something that Marilyn needed as well, it gave her confidence.
But wasn't their relationship...
- 11/21/2011
- by Nicki Gostin
- Huffington Post
Weinstein Company Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn.”
To get into the character of Marilyn Monroe, actress Michelle Williams decided she first needed to master the iconic bombshell’s signature moves.
“That little dance that she does in ‘Prince and the Showgirl,’ that was the way in for her,” says Simon Curtis, the director of the new film “My Week With Marilyn,” in which Ms. Williams offers a complex portrait of Monroe at the height of her stardom. “She...
To get into the character of Marilyn Monroe, actress Michelle Williams decided she first needed to master the iconic bombshell’s signature moves.
“That little dance that she does in ‘Prince and the Showgirl,’ that was the way in for her,” says Simon Curtis, the director of the new film “My Week With Marilyn,” in which Ms. Williams offers a complex portrait of Monroe at the height of her stardom. “She...
- 11/18/2011
- by Rachel Dodes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Photo by: Laurence Cendrowicz/ The Weinstein Company
See Michelle Williams dance and sing in one of Marilyn Monroe’s quintessential musical numbers in a new clip from My Week With Marilyn.
Synopsis:
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of .The Prince And The Showgirl., the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe, who, whilst shooting, was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.
Nearly 40 years on, his diary account .The Prince, The Showgirl And Me. was published, but one week was missing, and this is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of working. When Arthur Miller makes a brief trip to Paris,...
See Michelle Williams dance and sing in one of Marilyn Monroe’s quintessential musical numbers in a new clip from My Week With Marilyn.
Synopsis:
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of .The Prince And The Showgirl., the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe, who, whilst shooting, was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.
Nearly 40 years on, his diary account .The Prince, The Showgirl And Me. was published, but one week was missing, and this is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of working. When Arthur Miller makes a brief trip to Paris,...
- 11/4/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I've just added 16 new images from Simon Curtis's upcoming feature My Week with Marilyn giving you new looks at virtually every member of the cast including Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark, Emma Watson as Lucy, Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh, Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike, Toby Jones as Arthur Jacobs, Derek Jacobi as Sir Owen Moreshead, Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller, Zoe Wanamaker as Paula Strasberg and Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene. The film depicts one week in the life of Marilyn Monroe (Williams), which she spends with 23 year-old Colin Clark (Redmayne), an assistant to Sir Laurence Olivier who is directing Monroe's latest film, The Prince and the Showgirl. The film focuses on the time Clark spent with Monroe when her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, leaves England and Colin is able to introduce Marilyn to...
- 10/26/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Michelle Williams is so good as the title character in Simon Curtis‘ My Week with Marilyn that watching the film is like watching Some Like it Hot for the first time — or whichever film it was that made you fall in love with Marilyn Monroe at first sight. It’s like falling in love with the icon all over again, and at the end, you have to remind yourself that you were watching somebody else. It would be superb if this film — an absolute crowd-pleaser — makes a commercial splash, because Williams, so often appearing brilliantly in little-seen projects (Wendy and Lucy, Blue Valentine, Meek’s Cutoff), deserves a much bigger audience.
Based on a pair of Colin Clark memoirs, each piece of writing contributes to the film’s storyline. Clark is played in the film by Eddie Redmayne as a boyish, wide-eyed 23-year-old who dreams of working in the entertainment industry.
Based on a pair of Colin Clark memoirs, each piece of writing contributes to the film’s storyline. Clark is played in the film by Eddie Redmayne as a boyish, wide-eyed 23-year-old who dreams of working in the entertainment industry.
- 10/9/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The 49th New York Film Festival has announced their main slate which takes place September 30th thru October 16th at Lincoln Center. The closing night selection is Alexander Payne’s The Descendants which joins the gala screenings of opening night’s Roman Polanski’s Carnage, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, and the Almodóvar/Banderas reunion The Skin I Live In. Check out the lineup below along with a synopsis of each film:
Opening Night Gala Selection
Carnage
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: France/Germany/Poland
Centerpiece Gala Selection
My Week With Marilyn
Director: Simon Curtis
Country: UK
Special Gala Presentations
A Dangerous Method
Director: David Cronenberg
Country: UK/Canada/Germany
The Skin I Live In
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Country: Spain
Closing Night Gala Selection
The Descendants
Director: Alexander Payne
Country: USA
Main Slate Selection
4:44: Last Day On Earth
Director: Abel Ferrara
Country: USA
The Artist
Director: Michel Hazanavicius...
Opening Night Gala Selection
Carnage
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: France/Germany/Poland
Centerpiece Gala Selection
My Week With Marilyn
Director: Simon Curtis
Country: UK
Special Gala Presentations
A Dangerous Method
Director: David Cronenberg
Country: UK/Canada/Germany
The Skin I Live In
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Country: Spain
Closing Night Gala Selection
The Descendants
Director: Alexander Payne
Country: USA
Main Slate Selection
4:44: Last Day On Earth
Director: Abel Ferrara
Country: USA
The Artist
Director: Michel Hazanavicius...
- 8/19/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Press Release:
New York, August 17, 2011 -The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that Alexander Payne.s The Descendants will be the Closing Night Gala selection for the 49th New York Film Festival (September 30-October 16). Nyff.s main slate of 27 feature films was also announced as well as a return to the festival stage of audience favorite, On Cinema (previously titled The Cinema Inside Me), featuring an in-depth, illustrated conversation with Alexander Payne.
The 2011 edition of Nyff will also feature a unique blend of programming to complement the main-slate of films, including: the Masterworks programs, additional titles added to the previously announced Ben-hur, Nicholas Ray.s We Can.T Go Home Again and Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses: Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial, as well as Views from the Avant-Garde, and several special event screenings, all of which will be announced in more detail shortly.
.In many of the films in this year.s Festival,...
New York, August 17, 2011 -The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that Alexander Payne.s The Descendants will be the Closing Night Gala selection for the 49th New York Film Festival (September 30-October 16). Nyff.s main slate of 27 feature films was also announced as well as a return to the festival stage of audience favorite, On Cinema (previously titled The Cinema Inside Me), featuring an in-depth, illustrated conversation with Alexander Payne.
The 2011 edition of Nyff will also feature a unique blend of programming to complement the main-slate of films, including: the Masterworks programs, additional titles added to the previously announced Ben-hur, Nicholas Ray.s We Can.T Go Home Again and Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses: Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial, as well as Views from the Avant-Garde, and several special event screenings, all of which will be announced in more detail shortly.
.In many of the films in this year.s Festival,...
- 8/17/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The New York Film Festival have officially announced their main slate, including the closing night film. The latter will be Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants starring George Clooney, which will also bow at Toronto. Their line-up includes a lot of Cannes holdovers including new films from the Dardenne brothers, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Joseph Cedar, as well as buzzed-about hits like The Artist, Le Havre, Once Upon a Time in Antatolia and Miss Bala. Out of the new films, we’ll be getting Martin Scorsese‘s George Harrison doc, Steve McQueen‘s Hunger follow-up Shame, as well as Abel Ferrara and Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky films. I was also glad to see Sean Durkin‘s utterly excellent Martha Marcy May Marlene as part of the slate. Check out the full line-up below.
4:44: Last Day On Earth
Abel Ferrara, 2011, USA, 82min
How...
4:44: Last Day On Earth
Abel Ferrara, 2011, USA, 82min
How...
- 8/17/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
My Idiot Brother
Opens: 2011
Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan
Director: Jesse Peretz
Summary: Ned is a well-meaning idealist just released from prison for dealing cannabis. In succession, he disrupts the lives and homes of his three sisters: a career-driven journalist about to get her big break; a bisexual hipster whose lies are disrupting her relationship; and a married mother who hasn't noticed that her marriage is falling apart.
Analysis: Scoring a good response over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, this broad light comedy with a sweet heart charmed the pants off The Weinstein Company to the tune of around $6 million for distribution rights. That covers most of its sub-$10 million budget, a number that it could potentially outgross by several factors if the good-natured tone hinted at in the reviews were correct. If anything, the few negatives tended to be because this...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan
Director: Jesse Peretz
Summary: Ned is a well-meaning idealist just released from prison for dealing cannabis. In succession, he disrupts the lives and homes of his three sisters: a career-driven journalist about to get her big break; a bisexual hipster whose lies are disrupting her relationship; and a married mother who hasn't noticed that her marriage is falling apart.
Analysis: Scoring a good response over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, this broad light comedy with a sweet heart charmed the pants off The Weinstein Company to the tune of around $6 million for distribution rights. That covers most of its sub-$10 million budget, a number that it could potentially outgross by several factors if the good-natured tone hinted at in the reviews were correct. If anything, the few negatives tended to be because this...
- 1/28/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Chicago – Whenever we hear the term “Slacker,” it does harken back to a certain movie called “Back to the Future.” And the actor that interpreted that famous invective is none other than veteran actor James Tolkan, portraying Principal Strickland.
Tolkan has played villains and authority figures throughout a career that began with a role on the TV show “Naked City” all the way back in 1960. Throughout that early era, Tolkan was splitting time between character parts in TV, film and the Broadway stage. At the same time, he was part of the famous Actor’s Studio during the high point of that legendary thespian school.
He became recognized for all time with two key roles in the 1980s. Principal Strickland, both 1985 and ‘55 versions, in the Back to the Future series, and as Commander “Stinger” Jordan in the unforgettable “Top Gun.”
Slackers Beware: James Tolkan Projects His Inner Strickland from ‘Back to the Future...
Tolkan has played villains and authority figures throughout a career that began with a role on the TV show “Naked City” all the way back in 1960. Throughout that early era, Tolkan was splitting time between character parts in TV, film and the Broadway stage. At the same time, he was part of the famous Actor’s Studio during the high point of that legendary thespian school.
He became recognized for all time with two key roles in the 1980s. Principal Strickland, both 1985 and ‘55 versions, in the Back to the Future series, and as Commander “Stinger” Jordan in the unforgettable “Top Gun.”
Slackers Beware: James Tolkan Projects His Inner Strickland from ‘Back to the Future...
- 3/10/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Tony Curtis is getting good mileage out of his memoir American Prince, co-authored by Peter Golenbock and published this month by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House. Featured as the October selection at Turner Classic Movies’ Book Corner; I’ve not yet received my copy but have enjoyed a hefty excerpt published in the November 2008 issue of Vanity Fair. That excerpt primarily concerns itself with Curtis’s brief but sweet love affair with Marilyn Monroe and their reunion on the set of Some Like It Hot, and follows Sam Kashner’s revelatory Vanity Fair article on Monroe published last month.
Billy Wilder’s 1958 comic masterpiece of gender shenanigans screened at the Pacific Film Archive as part of their Spring 2007 “A Thousand Decisions in the Dark” program, hosted by David Thompson. Thompson offered considerable insight into Some Like It Hot, both through a pre-film lecture and a post-film Q&A.
Billy Wilder’s 1958 comic masterpiece of gender shenanigans screened at the Pacific Film Archive as part of their Spring 2007 “A Thousand Decisions in the Dark” program, hosted by David Thompson. Thompson offered considerable insight into Some Like It Hot, both through a pre-film lecture and a post-film Q&A.
- 10/18/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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