Best Marilyn Monroe Biography
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- DirectorSimon CurtisStarsMichelle WilliamsEddie RedmayneKenneth BranaghColin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
- DirectorAndrew DominikStarsAna de ArmasLily FisherJulianne NicholsonThe story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.
- DirectorEmma CooperStarsLauren BacallGladys BakerRay BullExplores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsGary BuseyTony CurtisTheresa RussellFour 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
- DirectorRob CohenStarsRay LiottaJoe MantegnaDon CheadleThe public and private lives of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.
- DirectorTim FywellStarsAshley JuddMira SorvinoJosh CharlesThis film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her superstar pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
- DirectorLarry BuchananStarsMisty RoweTerence LockePatch MackenzieAspiring actress Norma Jean Baker lives in squalor in the early '40s as she works at the munitions plant and dreams of being a movie star. Abused as a child and an adult, she lacks self-confidence, but photographer Ralph Johnson takes some publicity shots and convinces her to try for her dream, and supports her as she's bounced from casting couches to sleazy photo shoots. She befriends once-powerful producer Hal James, who tries to steer her toward her dream of stardom, to where she will eventually be known as Marilyn Monroe.
- DirectorLarry BuchananStarsPaula LaneMisty RoweJeremy SlateThe supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashbacks from "Goodbye Norma Jean" as it leads up to the night when Marilyn Monroe died.
- DirectorJack ArnoldJohn FlynnLawrence SchillerStarsCatherine HicksRichard BasehartFrank ConverseThe story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom, to her marriages and untimely death.
- DirectorJohn PattersonStarsSusan GriffithsJesse DabsonTerry MooreAn alternative look at the screen icon's early years. Fantastically portrayed by Susan Griffiths, Marilyn lives and loves with Robert 'Bobbie' Slatzer, possibly her only true love.
- DirectorBradford MayStarsMelody AndersonJames F. KellyJonathan BanksWhen Marilyn Monroe fell in love with Bobby Kennedy sparks flew. He, the charismatic politician and she, the beautiful movie star jilted by his brother. She thought he would leave his wife, but that was not to be.
- StarsPoppy MontgomeryPatricia RichardsonPatrick DempseyA fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
- StarsSusan SarandonKelli GarnerEmbeth DavidtzA chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an invasive world.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsKim StanleyLloyd BridgesSteven HillA woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.This movie use aliases for MM in order to prevent legal entanglements.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsConnie StevensShelley WintersJack CarterA thinly disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributes to her deteriorating career.This movie use aliases for MM in order to prevent legal entanglements.
- StarsHenry SchipperGene AllenWalter BernsteinAn account of Marilyn Monroe's last days as she worked on the uncompleted film, "Something's Got to Give", told through interviews with her co-workers.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsMarilyn MonroeRock HudsonLauren BacallAnthology of excerpts from Marilyn Monroe's 20th Century-Fox output, narrated by Rock Hudson, and created as a cinematic eulogy to Monroe, who died the year before.