Marilyn Monroe

Something Got To Give
1962
Unfinished

The Misfits
1961
Modern society collides with the fading memories of the West in Arthur Miller's The Misfits. Gay Langland (Clark Gable) and his cowboy buddies Guido (Eli Wallach) and Perce (Montgomery Clift) travel the rodeo circuit in search of temporary employment.

Gay is the last of an old breed of cowboys who feels he is caught between two eras. He falls for a young divorcee Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe), who has set out to find herself after she leaves her successful businessman husband in the dust.

Let's Make Love
1960
Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest man in the world and looking for someone who loves him instead of his money.He reads in Variety he is to be satirized in the new production and tries out for the part. The producers hire him, unaware of his real identity.

He hires Bing Crosby, Milton Berle and Gene Kelly to coach him for the role. Amanda (Marilyn Monroe) is the poor aspiring actress who lands a part in the play.

Some Like It Hot
1959
The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago. In this version, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) lose their jobs when a speakeasy owned by mob boss Spats Columbo (George Raft) is raided by prohibition agent Mulligan (Pat O'Brien). Several weeks later, on February 14th,

Joe and Jerry get a job perfroming in Urbana and end up witnessing a gangland massacre in a parking garage. Fearing that they will be next on the mobsters' hit lists, Joe devises an ingenious plan for disguising their identities. Soon they are all dolled up and performing as Josephine and Daphne in Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra. En route to Florida by train with Sweet Sue's band, the boys (girls?) make the acquaintance of Sue's lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, in what may be her best performance).

The Prince and The Showgirl
1957
The title of the Anglo-American The Prince and the Showgirl could well have alluded to the genuine stations in life of stars Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Based on the Terrence Rattigan play The Sleeping Prince, the film casts Olivier as Charles, Prince Regent of Carpathia, who is in London to attend the 1911 coronation of King George V. Monroe is deceptively dizzy American chorus girl Elsie Marina, who while performing in a West End revue catches Charles' eye.

Bus Stop
1956
Marilyn Monroe delivers one of her-best ever performances in this cinema adaptation of William Inge's Broadway comedy Bus Stop. La Monroe is cast as Cherie, a fifth-rate nightclub "chantoozie" who captures the heart of Montana rodeo champ Bo (Don Murray). He, in turn, kidnaps Cherie and bundles her off to the roadside bus stop of the title.

The Seven Year Itch
1955
Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, the lonely Ewell begins fantasizing about the many women he'd foresworn upon getting married (in one of the fantasies,

Ewell and Marguerite Chapman parody the beach rendezvous in From Here to Eternity). He is jolted back to reality when he meets his new neighbour--luscious model Marilyn Monroe.

River of No Return
1954
Not a western as has often been claimed, River of No Return is a "northern", set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. En route to his home, farmer Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) is beaten and robbed of his horse by gambler Harry Weston (Rory Calhoun). Two people witness this bushwacking: Matt's son Mark (Tommy Rettig) and Weston's wife Kay (Marilyn Monroe), a dance hall girl.

There's No Business Like Show Business
1954
Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman.

Two of the couple's three grown children -- Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor -- carry on the family tradition, while the third, Johnny Ray, decides to become a priest. There are a few tense moments when O'Connor falls in love with ambitious chorine Marilyn Monroe and loses all sense of perspective.

Gentlemen Prefer Blonds
1953
This second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes owes more to the 1949 Broadway musical adaptation than to the original Anita Loos novel. Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat trip to Paris, where she intends to marry millionaire Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan).

En route, the girls are bedeviled by private detective Malone (Elliot Reid), hired by Esmond's father (Taylor Holmes) to make certain that Lorelei isn't just another gold-digger.

How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
A remake of 1933's The Greeks Had a Word for Them, as well as a retread of 20th Century-Fox's favourite plotline, How to Marry a Millionaire was the first Hollywood comedy to be lensed in Cinemascope. Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe play three models of modest means who rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth.

It's all part of a scheme hatched by Bacall to snare rich husbands for herself and her roommates. The near-sighted Monroe is wooed by an international playboy, but ends up settling for the tax-dodging fugitive (David Wayne) who owns the girls' apartment.

Niagara
1952
Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that Rose (Marilyn Monroe) and George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) have not yet checked out. Though the Cutlers temporarily take another cabin, the lives of the two couples are bound together for the next two days.

Polly discovers that Rose is having an affair and that George, though emotionally unstable, has good reason for his jealous rage. George accurately suspects that Rose openly flaunts her sexuality to make him act crazy in front of witnesses.

Clash by Night
1952
Adapted from a play by Clifford Odets, Clash by Night is a pretentious but wellstaged "kitchen sink" drama involving love and lust in a tiny fishing village. Desperate for security and happiness, Barbara Stanwyck enters into a loveless marriage with cloddish but likeable fisherman Paul Douglas. Douglas' best pal is local movie projectionist Robert Ryan, who makes a beeline for Stanwyck. She entertains thoughts of leaving Douglas, but is dissuaded by her knowledge of his volatile temper.

Don't Bother to Knock
1952
Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock, and the results were far better than many critics were willing to admit. Monroe plays a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resume when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Richard Widmark, a hotel guest, tries to make time with Monroe after his own girl friend Anne Bancroft has told him to take a hike.

Monkey Business
1952
Howard Hawks hoped to capture the screwball comic fervour of his 1938 film Bringing Up Baby with his 1952 comedy Monkey Business. As in the earlier film, Cary Grant stars as an absent-minded professor involved in a research project. This time he's a chemist seeking a "fountain of youth" formula that will revitalize middleagers both mentally and physically.

Though Grant's own laboratory experiments yield little fruit, a lab monkey, let loose from its cage, mixes a few random chemicals and comes up with just the formula Grant is looking for. This mixture is inadvertently dumped in the lab's water supply; the fun begins when staid, uptight Grant drinks some of the "bitter" water, then begins cutting up like a teenager.

A harmless afternoon on the town with luscious secretary Marilyn Monroe rouses the ire of Grant's wife Ginger Rogers, but her behaviour is even more infantile when she falls under the spell of the youth formula.

O. Henry's Full House
1952
This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail, only to find that is not as easy as it used to be.

Marilyn Monroe appears in this episode as a streetwalker. We're Not Married 1952 Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star "omnibus" film,

We're Not Married
1952
The unifying factor of this enjoyable seriocomedy is provided by justice-of-the-peace Melvin Bush (Victor Moore), who learns to his horror that his license is invalid. Bush and his wife (Jane Darwell) feverishly track down the five couples whom he has married "illegally" to inform them of the fact and invite them to renew their vows.

Couple #1 is Fred Allen and Ginger Rogers, a husband-and-wife radio team whose huggy-kissy behavior on the air conceals the fact that they'd dearly love to cut each other's throats. Couple #2 consists of David Wayne and his contest-happy spouse Marilyn Monroe, who's just won the "Mrs. Mississippi" pageant.

As Young As You Feel
1951
Based on a story by Paddy Chayefsky, this is the story of a man who is being forced to retire from his job, at the age of 65, and decides to fight back. Impersonating the head of the company, he sets out to convince them to get rid of their outmoded retirement policy and gives a creditable speech on the dignity of man, gaining national attention. Good performances, but this movie will probably be remembered more for the bit part played by a young Marilyn Monroe as the boss' secretary.

Lets Make It Legal
1951
Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert) and her chronic-gambler husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey). Barbara (Barbara Bates), the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together, which proves to be a difficult proposition when Miriam's old flame Victor (Zachary Scott), now a millionaire, arrives in town.

Hugh tries all sorts of comic strategies to win his ex-wife back, but to no avail. Ultimately, Miriam must choose between the financially solvent Victor and the impishly irresponsible Hugh. This being a comedy, it isn't hard to figure who's going to be headed to the altar at fade-out time. Let's Make It Legal was partly designed to showcase two of Fox's up-and-coming contract players: Robert Wagner and Marilyn Monroe.

Love Nest
1951
Love Nest is a thoroughly likeable formula comedy with a most engaging cast. William Lundigan plays Jim Scott, an aspiring writer who, together with his wife Connie (June Haver), moves into the basement of an apartment building that they've bought. Scott's hopes to keep financially solvent are thwarted by the everyday travails of maintaining the building and ministering to the needs of the tenants.

The episodic plotline settles on the activities of charming con artist Charley Patterson (Frank Fay), who targets tenant Eadie Gaynor (Leatrice Joy) as his latest victim. When Patterson is finally arrested, he generously offers to tell his life story to Scott, thereby launching the latter's writing career in earnest. Love Nest was frequently revived throughout the 1950s and 1960s because of the supporting-cast presence of future sex symbol Marilyn Monroe and TV talk host Jack Paar.

Home Town Story
1951
At a time when Marilyn was happy to pick any roles at all. Johnny Hyde brokered her into this General Motors financed propaganda film for American industry. In her final apperance for MGM, Marilyn played a secretary named Iris Martin . In her role , Marilyn wore her own sweater-dress, a veteran of appearance in THE FIRE BALL (1950) and All about Eve (1950). Arthur Pierson who wrote and produce and directed this movie, had previously directed Marilyn in Dangerous Years (1947) , her first performance to be released.

All About Eve
1950
Based on the story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends.

Taking pity on the girl, Margo takes Eve under her wing and tries to help her get ahead in show business. Before long, it becomes apparent that naïve Eve is a Machiavellian conniver who cold-bloodedly uses Margo, her director Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), Lloyd's wife Karen (Celeste Holm), and waspish critic Addison De Witt (George Sanders) to rise to the top of the theatrical heap. Also appearing in All About Eve is Marilyn Monroe as a so-called actress, introduced by Addison De Witt as "a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic art."

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime--or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Sam Jaffe, with funding from crooked attorney Louis Calhern, gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a Big Caper.

Among those involved are Sterling Hayden, an impoverished hood who sees the upcoming jewel heist as a means to finance his dream of owning a horse farm. Hunch-backed cafe owner James Whitmore is hired on to "fence" the stolen goods; professional safecracker Anthony Caruso assembles the tools of his trade; and bookie Marc Lawrence acts as Calhern's go-between. The robbery is pulled off successfully, but an alert night watchman shoots Caruso. Corrupt cop Barry Kelley, angry that his "patsy" Lawrence didn't let him in on the caper, beats the bookie into confessing and fingering the other criminals involved. From this point on, the meticulously planned crime falls apart with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.

Two of the principals fall victim to their own personal weaknesses: Calhern commits suicide rather than be publicly humiliated, while Jaffe muffs an opportunity for escape because of his pedophilic preoccupation with a buxom teen-aged girl. As for Hayden, he is mortally wounded by a private eye in cahoots with Calhern; with his wife Jean Hagen at his side, Hayden dies just outside of the Kentucky horse farm he'd hoped to own. Way down on the cast list is Marilyn Monroe in her star-making bit as Calhern's sexy "niece"; whenever Asphalt Jungle would be reissued, Monroe would figure prominently in the print ads as one of the stars.

The Fireball
1950
Actors:Mickey Ronney, Pat O'Brien, Marilyn Monroe,Beverly Tyler, Glenn Corbett,James Brown, Ralph Dumk,Bert Begley, Milburn Stone, Tom Flint, John Hedloe, Larry Holden

Right Cross
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Right Cross stars Dick Powell as cynical sportswriter Rick Gavery and Powell's wife June Allyson as boxing manager Pat O'Malley. Subbing for her incapacitated father (Lionel Barrymore), Pat grooms prizefighter Johnny Monterez (Ricardo Montalban) for the championship. Johnny holds a grudge against the world because he feels that his Mexican heritage has made him an outcast, though curiously the audience never sees any prejudice levelled against him.

Gradually, Pat falls in love with the tempestuous Monterez, while Gavery, who's always carried a torch for Pat, observes from the sidelines. The film wisely avoids the usual boxing-flick cliches, most commendably during the climactic Big Bout. Marilyn Monroe appears unbilled in the opening scene as Dick Powell's dinner companion.

A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than anything else--not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Dan Dailey plays a travelling medicine show entrepreneur who comes to the aid of fast-shootin' Anne Baxter, daughter of a railroad man. Stagecoach line representative Rory Calhoun is doing everything he can to prevent a new train service from winning a Colorado territory franchise.

The whole affair boils down to a race between the train and Calhoun's coaches. The film's never-take-a-breath action scenes are played out against some of the most gorgeous Colorado scenery ever captured on Technicolor. A Ticket to Tomahawk has achieved latter-day fame due to the unbilled presence of Marilyn Monroe as one of Dan Dailey's chorus gals.

Love Happy
1950
The Marx Brothers' final starring feature Love Happy began life as a solo vehicle for Harpo. The financiers wouldn't go for this, insisting that all three Marx boys appear on screen. Thus, Chico was hastily written into the proceedings, while Groucho made what amounted to a guest appearance as narrator and last-minute problem solver The story concerns a group of aspiring actors who are putting together a musical review called "Love Happy" Harpo, the troupe's mascot, keeps the actors from starving by cleverly filching canned goods from a local grocer. On one such excursion, he accidentally gets hold of a sardine can containing a fortune in stolen diamonds.

This makes Harpo the target of icy adventuress Madame Egilichi (Ilona Massey) and her henchmen (Melville Cooper, Raymond Burr, Bruce Gordon). When he isn't fending off the villains, Harpo is making life a little brighter for "Love Happy"'s leading lady Maggie (Vera-Ellen). Chico shows up sporadically as Faustino the Great, an itinerant musician, while Groucho plays private eye Sam Grunion, who does the best he can with some pretty weak dialogue. Groucho's best scene is his one-minute confrontation with a gorgeous blonde client, played by a decidedly pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe.

Ladies of the Corus
1949
In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a rich young man (Randy Brooks), an action that strains her relationship with her mother

Scudda Ho - Scuddaay
1948
Marilyn’s first (uncredited) film role was in this Technicolor feature about a family of farmers feuding over how best to handle mules. Two scenes were filmed with Marilyn In one she and another starlet were in a rowboat; in the other which did not survive the cutting room, she stood in the background and called out a hello to leading lady June Haver. Although this was the first film on which Marilyn worked, it was not the first film to be released- Dangerous Years(1947) actually came out four months earlier.

Dangerous Years
1947
During her initial contract at TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, Marilyn first speaking part was in this movie, shot in May 1947. Marilyn played a waitress who could look after herself, working at a local hangout for badly behave teenagers. Although this was not Marilyn’s first movie, it was the first movie in which she acted to be released nationally.