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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer and model.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early roles were...
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Bus Stop
Bus Stop, also known as The Wrong Kind of Girl, is a 1956 motion picture directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray and Hope Lange. The film was...
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Clash by Night
Clash by Night (1952) is a black-and-white film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Ryan. The movie was based on the play by Clifford Odets, adapted by writer Alfred Hayes. This...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, and...
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How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 romantic comedy film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Jean Negulesco and produced and written by Nunnally Johnson. The screenplay was based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It by Zoe Akins and Loco by...
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Niagara
Niagara (1953) is a dramatic thriller, film noir directed by Henry Hathaway. Unlike other films noir of the time, Niagara was shot in Technicolor and was one of 20th Century Fox's biggest box office hits of the year. The drama features Marilyn...
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River of No Return
River of No Return is a 1954 American Western film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film The Bicycle Thief.
Set in the Northwestern United...
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Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was adapted by...
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Something's Got to Give
Something's Got to Give is one of the most notorious unfinished films in Hollywood history. The light bedroom comedy was a remake of My Favorite Wife (1940), a screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne and released by RKO Radio Pictures....
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The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) is an Academy Award nominated film noir directed by John Huston. The caper film is based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis...
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The Misfits
The Misfits (1961) is a American drama film, written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, and Eli Wallach. It was the final film appearance for both Gable and Monroe....
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The Prince and the Showgirl
The Prince and the Showgirl is a 1957 film produced at Pinewood Studios starring Marilyn Monroe and co-starring Laurence Olivier who also directed and produced it. The film was released on 13 June 1957.
It was written by Terrence Rattigan who based...
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The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 film based on a three-act play by George Axelrod. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role. It contains one of the most iconic images of...
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There's No Business Like Show Business
There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the musical Annie Get Your Gun. It stars Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan...
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Monkey Business
Monkey Business is a 1952 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Hugh Marlowe. To avoid confusion with the famous Marx Brothers movie of the same name, this film is...
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Love Happy
Love Happy (1949) was the 14th (including Humor Risk), and virtually the last, Marx Brothers movie (they would return to the big screen in 1957 for brief, separate appearances in The Story of Mankind).
The film stars Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and, in...
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Don't Bother to Knock
Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American thriller film starring Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes, a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) is staying. He sees her through his window and...
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Ladies of the Chorus
Ladies of the Chorus is a 1948 Hollywood film produced by Columbia Pictures. It stars Marilyn Monroe in an early role as Peggy Martin a dancer who falls in love with a wealthy man. Her mother, May (Adele Jergens) worries about the class difference...
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As Young as You Feel
As Young as You Feel (1951) is a film starring Monty Woolley, Constance Bennett, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne, Jean Peters and Russ Tamblyn with Marilyn Monroe in small role.
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Love Nest
Love Nest (1951) is a comedy / drama genre film, directed by Joseph Newman, starring June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay, Marilyn Monroe, and Jack Paar.
The post-World War II comedy featured an early supporting role for Monroe. It was one of the...
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Let's Make It Legal
Let's Make It Legal (1951) is a comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Richard Sale and produced by Robert Bassler from a screenplay by I.A.L. Diamond and F. Hugh Herbert, based on a story by Mortimer Braus entitled "My Mother-in-Law...
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Let's Make Love
Let's Make Love (1960) is a comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller. It starred Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand and Tony...
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Home Town Story
Home Town Story is a 1951 drama film starring Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, and Alan Hale, Jr. Directed by Arthur Pierson, the film features Marilyn Monroe in a small, early role.
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Dangerous Years
Dangerous Years is a 1947 film produced by Sol M. Wurtzel, directed by Arthur Pierson, starring Billy Halop and Ann E. Todd. Marilyn Monroe makes a cameo appearance as Evie the waitress in the restaurant scene.
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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! is a 1948 comedy film which is generally considered to be Marilyn Monroe's "film debut" (although most of her footage was cut and she only has a brief one-line scene).
The film tells the story of a farm hand who tries to tame...
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Marilyn Times Five
Marilyn Times Five (1973) is an experimental film by Bruce Conner, that is an exploration of how a film’s form can influence the way an audience perceives the film's content.
Conner took some footage that is a little over a minute, from a film that...
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We're Not Married!
We're Not Married is a 1952 romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, and Marilyn Monroe.
When elderly Mr. Bush (Victor Moore) is appointed justice of the peace, he starts marrying couples on Christmas Eve. However, his appointment is...
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A Ticket to Tomahawk
A Ticket to Tomahawk is a 1950 comedy/western film directed by Richard Sale and starring Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter and Marilyn Monroe.
In 1876 Dawson wants to prevent a train from getting to Tomahawk, Colorado on time, so to keep it from competing...
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O. Henry's Full House
O. Henry's Full House (1952) is an anthology film made by 20th Century Fox, consisting of five separate stories by O. Henry. The film was produced by André Hakim and directed by five separate directors from five separate screenplays. The music score...
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All About Eve
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr.
The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne...
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